Lightroom Solutions - John Beardsworth

List View 1.66

John — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:29:34 +0000

I've just released version 1.66 of my ListView plug-in which displays images in a list style just like in most other DAM programs and lets you export metadata to Excel or other apps.

To be or not to be?

John — Sat, 11 May 2013 08:03:01 +0000

The Financial Analyst Briefing Slides from last week's Adobe Max conference are interesting. Yes, you read that right....

Subscribe or else?

John — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:05:35 +0000

Adobe are making Photoshop and other Creative Suite products subscription-only

Unsorted keywords

John — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:23:26 +0000

Is it possible to stop Lightroom from re-sorting keywords alphabetically?

Presets with catalog?

John — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:47:06 +0000

Is it better to uncheck the box that says “store presets with catalog”

Lighroom 5 beta

John — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:43:03 +0000

Adobe have release a public beta of Lightroom 5

Modified HTML gallery

John — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:56:51 +0000

Want an upgraded version of the built-in HTML web gallery? Here it is.

Filenames

John — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:50:05 +0000

A free script which lets you make a quick list of filenames

Mac vs Win 2013

John — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:10:13 +0000

Out of curiosity I revisited my analysis of visitors to this site which I last did in June last year.

Since you’d have to be crazy to visit this site for anything other than Lightroom, such stats are about as good . . .

Changing the case of text

John — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:47:25 +0000

I’ve just uploaded version 1.41 of my Search and Replace plug-in.

It has a bit of tidying up, more language support, and also adds a button to change the case of text. Each time you click the button, it cycles on . . .

For “simpletons” everywhere

John — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:00:08 +0000

My computer’s got Lightroom, can you tell me a good very basic guide for simpletons (his word not mine)?

OK, let’s say you’re starting out and don’t have a lot of confidence. You could do a lot worse than watching these . . .

Syncomatic 1.44

John — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 08:51:28 +0000

I’ve just released version 1.44 of my Syncomatic plug-in which synchronizes the metadata of files with matching names.

The change is a “Merge Keywords” checkbox which replaces one called “total keyword sync” which sneaked into 1.43 but didn’t do anything except . . .

Should I save as PSD or TIF?

John — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:02:05 +0000

Should I save as PSD or TIF?

TIF. There are no quality differences, and there’s almost nothing that a PSD can do that a TIF can’t do just as well, just obscure things like saving Duotone mode images (hat tip Victoria . . .

Book notes

John — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:07:18 +0000

Over the last week Adobe has said a couple of interesting things about the books module.

Share your catalogues

John — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:38:37 +0000

Can you share Lightroom catalogues over Adobe’s Creative Cloud?

Simultaneous exports

John — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:56:37 +0000

Imagine you are doing a large export. What's faster, selecting all the images and hitting export - or breaking the export down into a few batches and exporting each batch individually?

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John — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:17:50 +0000

I’m a great fan of Lightroom’s Auto Sync feature which allows you to adjust multiple images simultaneously – it’s the most efficient way to work. But I always add that if you use Auto Sync you’ve got to keep your . . .

Book to iPad via Blurb

John — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:16:38 +0000

On Blurb’s site, go to Your Blurb > Your Books

For a while Blurb’s site has let you convert books created with their BookSmart software into eBooks for the iPad. That wasn’t possible with books uploaded from Lightroom’s Book module, . . .

Integrating with InDesign

John — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:58:45 +0000

Published Folders can group related images and make it easier to find pictures when you’re in InDesign.

If you want to create a book in InDesign using raw files adjusted in Lightroom, the way I recommend it to use a . . .

Dropbox for web galleries

John — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:36:20 +0000

Here’s an idea that I came across yesterday. What made it more interesting was that I very confidently expected it wouldn’t work!

You need to copy the public link for the index.html file

If you use Dropbox, you may know about . . .