Julieanne Kost's Blog

• When exporting files, in the Metadata section, you can choose to Remove Location Information. Note:  this option is only available when choosing either “All” or “All Except Camera and Camera Raw Information”  as it doesn’t make sense with the other options.

• It is now possible to export images directly to Adobe Revel to be used on your mobile phone or tablet device. Use the “Export To” pull-down menu at the top of the Export dialog.

• Export to DVD is now available on 64-bit Windows machines.

In the External Editing Preferences, you can now choose to “Stack with Original”. Or not. : )

• Settings in the output modules (Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web) are “sticky”. When you leave a module and come back to it – even if you change the folder of images – the settings will remain as they were the last time you visited the module. This is an excellent addition if you’re working with one set of photographs and then move to another set of photographs and want the same output settings.

• In order to save output settings with a set of photographs, click the Create Saved Book, Slideshow, Print etc. button in the bar at the top of the creation’s preview area.

• Flash Galleries in the Web Module are now color managed.

Focus on Nature has just updated their website so I thought it might be a perfect time to post the details for my workshop again!

I’m thrilled to be returning to Iceland July 8th – 14th 2012, to spend a week with some of the most delightful people on the planet – and I’d love for you to join me and our wonderful hosts from Focus on Nature. This workshop is an incredible opportunity to give yourself permission to unplug from your daily life and reenergize your photography, your mind, and your soul.

The time we spend together: Pursuing Your Personal Project in Iceland, will be a graceful balance between creating stunning imagery in the field and learning the tools necessary to finish the images in Lightroom and Photoshop adding your personal style. The first day will be spent at the Grand Hotel in Reykjavik where we will cover the Lightroom workflow in depth to provide you with the workflow you’ll need for the rest of the week.

Then, the class will shift gears: participants will be challenged to communicate their own personal photographic project as they explore and expand upon their photography skills while traveling through the Icelandic landscape. During the field work, we will have technical and creative discussions regarding photographic conditions we encounter. The last day will be spent at the Grand Hotel processing selected images (using both Lightroom and Photoshop) before sharing work with the group.

This really is a unique opportunity to experience Iceland and all that it has to offer – glacier lagoons, Icelandic horses, waterfalls, and mud flats  are just a few of the things we may see on our excursions.  We will follow the weather and the light, photographing Iceland’s ever changing landscape with long hours of exquisite sunrise and sunset while the Focus on Nature team takes care of every little logistical detail  so that we can photograph in a relaxed, low pressure, and unhurried environment. We will come home not only with improved technique, but reenergized and inspired as a result of making the images that fulfill us as creative and passionate photographers and artists.

If you are looking for a location that will ignite your passion for photography, there is no better place than Iceland to photograph and no better workshop to participate in than Focus On Nature. Join the Focus On Nature family  as photographers, collaborate together as artists and depart with friendships that will last a lifetime.

Creative people need to exercise their creative muscles, and this is the perfect opportunity to do so! I hope you will join us!

-julieanne

• Snapshots now auto name with a time/date stamp.

• The White Balance Selector Tool’s sample area is dependent on zoom level. (Zoom in to sample a smaller area.)

• Noise reduction adjustments are always displayed (regardless of the zoom viewed).

• The Navigator panels in both the Library and Develop Module  have two new options for zooming 1:8 and 1:16.

• This one isn’t new, but when using the Adjustment Brush, clicking on the disclosure triangle to the right of “Effect” displays an amount slider to increase/decrease all of the adjustments applied to that adjustment at one time.

• In the Folder panel, you can now move and/or delete multiple folders at one time.

• In the Collection panel, Option -drag (Mac) | Alt -drag (Win) a collection to duplicate it. More specifically, if the collection is loose (it’s not in a Collection Set), Option -drag (Mac) | Alt -drag (Win) until a thicker line appear between two items (indicating that the collection will be duplicated), and release.  To duplicate a collection within a Collection Set or to duplicate the collection into a different Collection Set, Option -drag (Mac) | Alt -drag (Win)  the collection on top of the Collection Set icon (watch for the highlight) and release.

• Stacking is now available in Collections.

• At the top of the Filmstrip bar, the selected image’s folder or collection is displayed. (This is really handy when in other modules.)

• The Flag attribute is now global.

• You can filter and/or search images based on their Metadata status. Images will be assigned one of several different statuses including Changed on Disk, Conflict Detected, Has Been Changed, Unknown and/or Up to Date).

• You can also search/filter on Map Locations and GPS Data (GPS Location or No GPS Location).

• That folder structure that you carefully crafted in the Develop module to hold your presets is now maintained both in the Import dialog box as well as the Quick Develop panel.

Here are a few of my favorites images from last month.

I seem to be focusing on vast landscapes from the window seat or miniature details of eroding pipes.  : )

I am pleased to announce that I was awarded the prestigious Gerhard Bakker award  this year at Imaging USA. This award “may be presented annually to an individual, school, company or organization that best epitomizes outstanding service through education in the field of photography and visual communications” and I am honored to be the recipient. I am incredibly blessed  to have met, and become friends with so many exceptional photographers through Professional Photographs of America and I can’t even  begin to tell you how much I have learned from you throughout the years. So thank you, my extended family, for such a memorable evening.

Thanks to all of you who attended my Lightroom seminar at Imaging USA! Here are the links to the Develop module presets (for Lightroom 3) that I mentioned in class as well additional preset sources:

Single Color Split Toning

Selective Color Removal

Post Crop Vignette and Grain

Lens Correction

As well as additional great sources for additional Develop Module presets.

 

If you make changes in the Develop module in the LIghtroom 4 Beta and then choose to edit that image in Photoshop you will want Lightroom 4 Beta to render the PSD/TIFF file, not Photoshop. In order to do this, first choose Preferences > General and click the “Reset all warnings dialogs” button. Then, choose Photo > Edit In > Edit in Photoshop. A warning should appear: “This version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in version 7 for full compatibility”. Since LR 4 is in beta, this version of ACR is not available for Photoshop so choose the “Render using Lightroom” option. Now LR4 Beta will render the file and hand it off to Photoshop with all of the changes you have made in LR4 Beta.

Here is a list of new shortcuts that were introduced with the Lightroom 4 Beta.

The Library Module

• Command + Shift + M (Mac) | Control  + Shift + M displays the Email Photo dialog.

The Develop Module

• “S” toggles Soft Proofing on and off.

• Shift + S toggles the destination gamut warning on and off.

The Map Module

• Plus/minus ( +, – ) zooms in/out.

• Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) + drag to zoom in on the map.

• Delete (Mac) | Backspace (Win) deletes GPS coordinates.

• Command + Delete (Mac) | Control + Backspace (Win) deletes  all Location metadata.

• Command + K (Mac) | Control + K (Win) locks markers.

• Command + F (Mac) | Control + F (Win)  highlights the Search Map field.

• Command (Mac) / Control (Win)  Left / Right arrow move from previous/next track log.

• “I” toggles the Map information overlay.

• “\” (backslash) toggles Location filter bar at the top of the map.

• “O” toggles Saved Location overlay.

Map Style shortcuts:

• Command  + 1 (Mac) | Control + 1 (Win) displays hybrid view.

• Command  + 2 (Mac) | Control + 2 (Win) displays Roadmap view.

• Command  + 3 (Mac) | Control + 3 (Win) displays Satellite view.

• Command  + 4 (Mac) | Control + 4 (Win) displays Terrain view.

• Command  + 5 (Mac) | Control + 5 (Win) displays  Light view.

• Command  + 6 (Mac) | Control + 6 (Win) displays Dark view.

 

The Book Module

• Left/right arrow keys move between pages (or spreads depending on view).

• Shift + left/right arrow keys moves to the first or last page.

• Plus/minus ( +, – ) increases/decreases thumbnail size.

Viewing Pages

• Command + E (Mac) | Control + E (Win) views Multiple Pages.

• Command + R (Mac) | Control + R (Win) views Spread.

• Command + T (Mac) | Control + T (Win) views Single Page.

• Command + U (Mac) | Control + U (Win) zooms single page. Or, use Command + plus/minus ( +, – )  (Mac) | Control + plus/minus ( +, – )   (Win)

Making Selections

• Command + Option + A (Mac) | Control + Alt +A (Win) selects all text cells on page.

• Command + Option + Shift + A (Mac) | Control + Alt + Shift + A (Win) selects all photos on page.

Showing and Hiding Guides

• Command + Shift + G (Mac) | Control  + Shift + G toggles all guides on and off.

• Command + Shift + J (Mac) | Control  + Shift + J  Page Bleed.

• Command + Shift + U (Mac) | Control  + Shift + U  Text Safe.

• Command + Shift + K (Mac) | Control  + Shift + K Photo Cells.

Working with the Targeted Adjustment tool for Text

Drag left/right to decrease/increase size.

Drag up/down to decrease/increase leading.

Command -drag up /down (Mac) | Control -drag up /down (Win) increase/decrease Baseline Shift.

Command -drag left/right (Mac) | Control -drag  left/right (Win) increase/decrease Tracking.

Working with Video

• Shift + I sets the in-point of a clip.

• Shift + O sets the out-point of a clip.

And finally, the following develop settings can be applied to video clips:

• White Balance

• Basic Tone – Exposure, Contrast, White Clipping, Black Clipping, Saturation and Vibrance

• Tone Curve

• Color Treatment (HSL)

• Black and White

• Split Toning

• Process Version and Calibration

I’m excited to present 8 new videos on Lightroom 4 Beta!

• Introduction to Lightroom 4 Beta- Join Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost as she discusses what will be covered in this series of Lightroom 4 Beta tutorials.

• Develop Module Advancements- This episode covers some of the new features in the Develop Module and Basic Panel of Lightroom 4 Beta including major improvements to image processing.

• Soft Proofing and DNG Enhancements - Learn some of the great ways  Lightroom 4 Beta allows you to soft proof your images. Also in this episode, Julieanne covers improvements to the way Lightroom handles the Digital Negative Format.

• Working with DSLR Video - Learn how the new Lightroom 4 Beta will work with and share video clips.

• Mapping Your Photos - Discover how Lightroom 4 Beta allows you to sort and manage your images based on where the pictures were originally taken via the new map Module.

• Book Module Basics - In this first of 3 videos, Julieanne Kost gives an overview of the new Book Module in Lightroom 4 Beta release, which allows you to layout and print books from Lightroom.

• Modifying Book Layouts - This episode shows you how you can customize your book layout in the new Lightroom 4 Beta.

• Advanced Book Features - This episode covers more features of the Book Module in the Lightroom 4 Beta including different ways to work with captions and templates.

To download Lightroom 4 Beta, click here.

To participate in the forums, click here.

If you prefer a simple list of new features, click here.

Enjoy!

Well, I seem to be a bit tardy already.

I’m sure that most of you have started on your new year’s resolutions and yet I am still reflecting on the images  from the past 6 months. I enjoy revisiting these “moments in time” as I always find it fascinating to try to find connections between events that I would miss if I relied only on my memory. The snapshots that I take are my visual journal, and at the end of the year, they allow me to  identify the obvious information – such as the events that I have attended as well as the locations that I have visited. Yet they do much more than that, and  I am always surprised at the number of memories and emotions that are triggered by seeing the photographs again.

Certainly  I would not expect the images to hold the same significance to you, the viewer, as they did for me. But that is not the point. I am sharing this slideshow (Passing Time) to encourage every image-maker to begin a visual journal for themselves – as a personal project. I am a firm believer that you have to exercise your creativity and you have to practice in order to improve.  So when I found myself in a rut last year, I started capturing images that were meaningful to me –  purely because I wanted to, for my own reasons – not because I think someone else is going to “like” it. And I had a delightful time.

I hope you enjoy the video, but more importantly, I wish everyone a healthy, prosperous and happy new year.

-julieanne

 

 

 

Recently I received a question from a customer asking why some of his panoramas would import into Lightroom yet others did not. As it turns out, if you are working with panoramas (or any images) that are greater than  65000 pixels (on the long side) they are too large for Lightroom.

To deselect all images and only select the one clicked on, click in the gray slidemount area around the photo’s thumbnail in Grid view. Click here for more information about Mastering the Mysterious Multi Select in Lightroom. This video was first published on 2011-02-08.