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If you are moving from Aperture to Lightroom, this article and the comments should prove helpful

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The "Lightroom Plan"?

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10 tips for new users

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Moving from Aperture to Lightroom

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If you have to use multiple catalogues

Keywording – a 3 phase approach

Panel end markers

Essential keyboard shortcuts

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Lightroom 13 – if you read anything….

If you read anything about the newly-released Lightroom 13, put aside any of your thoughts about HDR and read this article High Dynamic Range Explained by Adobe's senior engineer Eric Chan. To me Adobe's prioritising HDR editing is an educated bet on where we are going to be in the not-too-distant future, it's Adobe trying to get ahead of the game, and only time will tell - no matter how useless I find it.

Capture Time to EXIF updates


I've recently added a couple of new features to my Capture Time to EXIF plugin both requested by users - you can now set much older dates, and when updating multiple images, you can now add various intervals to each image in the batch.

Opinions on Microsoft One Drive?

Adobe have recently said that they're discontinuing the Creative Cloud Synced files service by February 2024. As the Microsoft 365 account for Office includes 1 TB of free storage, what do you think about it as an alternative?

Linked Photoshop smart objects

Is there an option to create a linked smart object instead of an embedded one when exporting a photo to PS? No, sadly LR cannot directly create a linked smart object, so you have to do something like this: First in LR select the image and do a Save Metadata to File (CmdS on Mac, ...read more

Search and Replace 2.2

I've just released version 2.2 of my Search and Replace. The main changes are in the Workflow Filters area where I've added more fields which can be displayed in Library Filter or smart collections. I've also added a command to delete JPEG sidecars for selected raw files, and Caption Builder can now write to title, headline, instructions and to the plugin's 16 custom fields.

Open Directly 2.1 released

I've just released version 2.1 of my plugin Open Directly which allows you to send raw files directly to other programs. I must admit, it should have been released three years ago.

Photoshop’s beta Generative Fill


Like many people I've been giving Adobe's AI-based Firefly and now Photoshop's beta Generative Fill a good workover and thought I'd share a few words and examples. While there's a lot of hype - and fear - about Generative AI, I'm still not sure I've been able to use it to produce anything that could fool anyone.

Search and Replace 2.1

It’s a pretty good principle that if one person complains or can’t figure something out, there will be many more that I never hear from. Soon after I released Search and Replace 2.0 a few people contacted me with concerns about copying from the four IPTC Location fields, and I had to admit that my ...read more