Go Lightroom

The folks over at the Presetting Lightroom Flickr group have compiled a collection of 180+ Free Lightroom Presets with sample before and after images for anyone who’s interested. Included in the collection of links are Wonderland Lightroom Presets and Presets Heaven.

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Yesterday was announced by Scott Kelby as a “Lightroom Maintenance” Thursday!

In his article he gave 4 valuable tips how to backup and optimize you Lightroom catalogs.

So if you missed it – do it right now!

Original article – http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2007/archives/718

Here’s something that you’ll do quite often – deleting photos. At least I do it very often.

Assuming that not every photo you take is a keeper (well, may be it is just me who takes bad photos sometimes) you’ll inevitably need to delete photos.

There’s two ways in Lightroom:

1. Deleting from your catalog but leaving them on your computer.
2. Removing them from your computer all together.

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If you can connect your digital camera directly to the computer, you can import image files to Lightroom directly from the camera.

Photographs can be automatically imported into Lightroom, bypassing the need for a camera card and having to configure the Import settings every time you import a batch of images.

This is also referred to as ‘tethered shooting’ and Lightroom has the ability to do this, but Lightroom will need to rely on other software that can communicate with your camera and put image files to a specified folder location.

This way, Lightroom can be configured to automatically import these images into the library using ‘watched folders’.
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