This is the first official update to the LRG Complete Advanced User’s Guide. Several new items have been added including a chapter on using Digital Image Downloading. Highlights include: A Chapter on using and testing Digital Image Downloading Using Google GMail directly with SMTP Email Updates and New Worksheets in…
In my searching the past week I found many articles about how using VMWare and trying to synch a Blackberry using the Blackberry Desktop Manager failed. Many of these articles were 2006 and before – nothing more current. Well, I found the solution and present it here for others that…
In the southeast we have mild winters compared to the north and cold winters compared to the deep south. The advantage is we get a little bit of both weather patterns. Yesterday we had high humidity at night with temperatures right at the freezing mark. The result was a fantastic…
In my continuing efforts to create an easily customizable Smart Collection Workflow, I come across some inconsistencies in Lightroom 2 (and 2.1) with what one would expect to happen. I am calling these inconsistencies ‘Bugs,’ but since extensive documentation on the functionality of Regular and Smart Collections does not exist,…
I have been terribly remiss in some of my maintenance here, so please forgive me! I have added two new links to the sidebar under Images & Adobe Lightroom. You may have the links, but I wanted everyone to have quick access to using them when the thought strikes. Here…
This article covers the Overview section of the Smart Collections Workflow and is part of the complete Smart Collection Workflow for Lightroom. The Overview section of the Smart Collection Workflow is labeled at placeholder zero (0) so that it will appear first in the list. The overview contains, as you…
Simply presenting a file for downloading with a smart collection workflow will not help anyone actually use it. Because smart collections are customizable, I want you to understand each section and how it works. Then you can further customize it for your specific workflow. Here is a list of each…
This is an introduction to Smart Collections and is part of the complete Smart Collection Workflow for Lightroom. With the advent of Smart Collections in Lightroom 2, the web is abound with uses for them. Many of the uses presented are fancy filtering concepts. I ran across a great adaptation…
There are many cases when you need to boot from a CD or DVD with VMWare Workstation machine. Booting is easy when you have a brand new machine with no operating system. However, when you have a live operating system, how do you keep the machine from booting the OS…
I have been using the beta version of Lightroom 2.1 for the last month or so with great success. Well, now Lightroom 2.1 is ready for release! You can get the downloads for Windows here and for Macintosh here. The readme file can be Downloaded here. A few things to…