While working in Develop mode, you may want to see a quick before & after
to judge the effects of your adjustments. Simply press the BACKSLASH key (\) and
it displays the before photo (with the word “Before”,appearing in the bottom
right corner of the image), press it again and it shows the after photo. Very useful to judge whether adjustments are having the desired result.
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Going through some old CD Backups, I found some images I took at the Jazz and Blues Festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica on January 15th, 2004. Among them were some of Alicia Keys performing. They were taken with a Canon Powershot G3.
It was just in time for me to test out some Lightroom presets I downloaded. These presets proved very handy as they drastically reduced the time I took to process the images. After using each, I only had to make minor adjustments. These are just a few of the sites from which you may download presets:
85 presets from ONe On ONe Software
Free Lightroom Presets and where to find them
To install, simply go to Develope Module, find the User Presets subfolder; right click and select Import then navigate to the presets folder and choose presets.
The 85 Presets from One On One Software are self-installing, just click on the .exe file.
The full Alicia Keys set can be viewed here
Check out the full photo set.
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The March-April 2008 issue of Layers magazine has a valuable article entitled “create stunning black-and-white images” by Chris Orwig.
It offers a step by step tutorial of 13 stages to convert beautiful black and white images from colored ones.
The norm in Lightroom is that when converting from color to grayscale, most people use the Grayscale Mix. The writer suggests instead using the Saturation sliders.
This is aptly described in step 3 on page 57: “If you press V to Convert to Grayscale, Lightroom displays the Grayscale sliders, but…the more superior option is to ‘stay in color’ and remove the saturation manually. Just go to the Develop module’s HSL panel and lower the Saturation slider for each color.”
This opens new possibilities in black and white. The first conversion is illustrated below, using my daughter’s color photo showing off her medal won on Sports Day. I was able to leave the green color intact, highlighting the ribbon around her neck to place emphasis on the medal.
The original color photo is on the left. The second is after de-saturation. I turned up the green channel and turned down all other colors. The third is after using the Split Toning feature to add color tint.
To reduce the processing time, the article also shows how you can save a De-saturation Preset so you won’t have to repeat the process each time you convert to black and white. After de-saturating to convert to black and white, the author makes this suggestion: “Next, click on the plus icon in the Presets panel. In the New Develop Preset dialog, enter the Preset Name (Desaturate), choose the folder (User Presets), and click Create. Now you’re set for the next time you want to convert an image to black and white.”
It can be fairly time consuming but if you really want to get it right, it is well worth it. It is an excellent tutorial.
See also “Inside Lightroom” , Split toning in Lightroom and Camera Raw 4 (CS3), Photoshow - Creative Development In Lightroom.
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Adobe Lightroom has a nice web gallery option for posting to online photo sites. You can edit your photos in a really great adobe application and just upload (by Ftp) to straight to your site. In the updated version of Lightroom 1.3, they have included some neat Flash-based templates, namely: Airtight Auto Viewer, Airtight Postcard Viewer, and Airtight Simple Viewer along with Lightroom Flash Gallery.
Airtight Auto Viewer presents the photos like an old 35mm film roll where each picture is side by side. You have to scroll laterally to view each. You can view them as a slideshow. After a while however, the slideshow dazzles the eye with the lateral sliding.
Airtight Postcard Viewer presents the thumbnails on one page and when you click the large image zooms towards you. It is very similar to Pic Lens. The problem I find with this is that the large images are almost always leaning to one side. It would be perfect for someone wanting to showcase some family photos.
Airtight Simple Viewer shows the thumbnails on the left and the large picture on the right. Clicking on the thumbnail will simply bring up the respective large image on the right. No slideshow included.
Lightroom Flash Gallery presents thumbnails as a vertical scrollbar on the left and clicking on them brings up the large image on the right. You may view a slideshow with or without the thumbnails showing.
In addition, Lightroom still carries several html web gallery templates.
Lightroom Web Gallery is perfect for persons who just want to put up a site with no hassle and who don’t want additional work after spending their precious time editing the images. The only thing you will have to know is how to upload your gallery using the included Ftp option (server name, username, password, etc.). However, there are a couple of things missing that would make it more acceptable to demanding users.
If these options aren’t important and you already have Lightroom as your photo editing software, then this is for you. If not, try one of the many open source photo blog/gallery software.
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