I don’t know about your experiences, but in mine I have lost digital images due to hard drive failure. Now to be fair, it has only happened once. I lost a NAS drive in the late 1990’s – of course it had 2 years of pictures of my eldest son….
This article covers the Metadata section of the Smart Collections Workflow and is part of the complete Smart Collection Workflow for Lightroom. While it has been awhile since I have added more content to the workflow, time has helped the cause. Adobe Lightroom has continued to improve the workflow characteristics…
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…
Backups continue to be a widely written about topic. One of the issues with this is that all backups are treated the same. In fact, some backups are important and some may not be so important. Here we discuss these finer points and try to apply the old 80/20 rule….
This is part of my Scanning Images Workflow and the settings used on my negative to digital image scanner. Film Grain and GEM Film grain is similar to noise present in a digital image from a CCD. Film grain isn’t as noticeable in slower speed films and small print sizes….
How many times have you finished a shoot, uploaded your many images and then sighed because you knew it was time to go through and pick the images to keep and the ones to reject. Let’s get on with it already! I want to start using my images, fix them…
This is part of my Web Workflow using Adobe Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom is such an efficient tool, I developed a method for managing the web sites I create so that updates are available with minimum fuss and little manual work. The hard part is creating the first page or gallery….