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Adobe Comp and Lightroom
Adobe Comp is another newly-released iOS app that can access your Lightroom Mobile photos and is quite a clever iPad app for creating layouts shapes, photos and add text, then save the composition to the cloud. What’s quite startling is how it sends the composition from your iPad directly to your main computer, launching Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator.
Adobe Slate
Adobe Slate is a new iPad app that makes it very easy to “tell a story”. But what makes it interesting for Lightroom users is how this service integrates with Lightroom Mobile. The first of many?
Import raw files into LR Mobile?
You can’t really do this. Mobile is not designed as a laptop replacement for travelling. But did you know dragging and dropping into a browser window uploads photos to Adobe’s cloud?
LR Web – clients don’t have an Adobe account?
How can a friend or client review and comment on a shared LrWeb collection if they don’t have an Adobe account? It’s possible, by setting up a dummy account.
Lightroom Mobile 1.3
You can now copy adjustments from one image to another, there’s a new Segmented view in Collections, and Presentation Mode lets you hand your iPad over without worrying about someone changing your flags, ratings and adjustments.
Lightroom Mobile now on Android phones too
Adobe always prioritised Lightroom Mobile’s iOS version – iOS is disproportionately dominant among Lightroom users – but they’ve always said Android was planned. It’s just been released for Android phones.
Aperture-like projects and Lightroom
You can have an Aperture-like project structure providing you don’t make the mistake of thinking Lightroom folders are Aperture projects.
Traffic
Visitor statistics in the wake of Aperture’s demise
Goodbye Mr Damocles?
Lightroom 5.5 brings a hugely-surprising – and very welcome – change to how Lightroom behaves once you stop subscribing or after a trial ends.
Apple kills Aperture
Even before yesterday’s announcement about the end of Aperture, consistently the most-visited page on this site was Moving from Aperture to Lightroom.
Syncomatic and LrMobile
I’ve updated Syncomatic to facilitate an interesting new workflow involving LrMobile. Shoot Raw+JPEG in the field, import the JPEGs and adjust them in LrMobile, and then sync that work to the raw files with Syncomatic.
One big folder?
Scott Kelby says put all images in one folder first. I want to stay with two folders. Is LR still appropriate?
Long term thinking
Roger Martin asks if Adobe’s switch to subscription-limited software is a bold, creative customer-friendly management decision, as The Economist suggests? Or could it be a desperation move in the form of a financial gadget that is aimed at covering up a lack of innovation?
Lightroom for the pub?
Adobe have now released Lightroom Mobile. What do I think of it?
Is there an easier way to get text into Lightroom?
Coming soon to my ListView plug-in, automatic updating from Excel to Lightroom. Have you ever seen an easier way to get text data into Lightroom?
Does it look OK?
I’m going to post something rather interesting later – a video showing Excel writing directly to Lightroom without any text files – but the other week I read an article on the BBC web site’s responsive redesign and so before recording the video I thought I’d do a quick bit of site redesign. And when …read more
Making a photograph
Chuq Von Rospach’s post Photography Before and After — Sunrise at Merced National Wildlife Refuge. As Ansel Adams said “you don’t take a photograph, you make it”.
Running a Photoshop action
Is it possible to run a Photoshop action from LR? Yes, by running a droplet. I’ll assume you know how to make a droplet – if not, see this example – and then you can approach it a couple of ways. One way is to save the droplet anywhere on your computer. You then set …read more
More numbers
Adobe announced its FY2013 Q4 results yesterday and I suppose that the headline is that they have met their target of 1.25 subscribers by the year end. And who is surprised?
How to use Caption Builder
Anyone want to try a new feature that’s coming in my Search and Replace plugin? The new feature is called “caption builder” and lets you build up captions from other fields.