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Lightroom 3 Learning Center!

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The news is just out the door from the folks at Adobe, and Kerry Garrison from Camera Dojo asked me to help out with preparing some completely free videos and first look tutorials on how to use everything that Lightroom 3 has to offer.  It’s a pretty kick butt content area, and I’ve covered 3 or 4 of the 12 videos we’ve put out so you can get insights from the both of us.  We’re pretty excited about this new resource that Kerry has set up, so make sure you stop over to Camera Dojo and check it all out.  Kerry even has shared the videos through YouTube too, so you can share the content with others from there too!

We cover everything new in LR3, including:

  • Tethered Shooting
  • Exporting to Video
  • Lens/Perspective Correction
  • Adding Grain
  • Sharpening and Reducing Grain
  • Multi-image Print Layouts
  • Enhanced Watermarking
  • Vignettes
  • The new and improved Import Tool
  • The newly improved and feature rich Develop Module and Pre-sets
  • The features of the Local Adjustment Brush

…and more!  So, stop in, enjoy the tutorials, and let us know what you think – what’d you like?  What do you want to see more of?  Sound off with your own thoughts in the comments on his site and here!  Enjoy the brand new Lightroom 3 Learning Resource Center, and tell your friends!

Against my better judgement…

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For those of you that have been following the blog for a long time (and let me know who you are, because I want to ask why!), you may recall that I used to put out video tutorials on how to do various things inside of Photoshop. After plodding around with that for a while, I came across the gurus of NAPP and realized that several were already doing it, and doing it much better than I ever could.  So, rather than re-inventing the wheel, I abandoned the video tutorials in favor of just sharing my “wisdom” in the form of the written word (blog posts and articles) and audio tips (which are now part of the Learning Digital Photography podcast).

Well, when I recently twittered with excitement over the newly released calendar of some of my favorite images for 2010, someone asked me about the template I used to create those images.  I honestly answered that I didn’t really use a template as the website www.lulu.com just let me upload the images and they handled the rest.  On realizing that they were talking about the images on my Photography Website, I recalled that a template was used for those images.  I could have done a written post about this, but those take a lot of time to put together (lots of screen grabs, lots of writing, and lots of uploading), so I instead decided to put together a new video on how to create a template for your photos inside of Photoshop.  The video may take some time to load, so please be patient as this is a self-hosted video production! 🙂

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Keep in mind – this is just one way – in Photoshop there are always many ways to reach similar results, and as the old adage says, there’s more than one way to skin a cat!  Anyway, this is for you @mitz!  Enjoy, happy shooting, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow!  Oh, and lest we forget, there are very few days left in the January giveaway!  For your chance to win a free copy of Photomatix Pro from the folks at HDR Soft, get your Circle-themed photos in the Flickr Contest Thread by midnight on Friday (Mountain Time – GMT-7).

P.S.  For those that like my videos and want to see the archives, check out the Learning Resource Page from the sidebar for more materials.  And as an additional side note, this is post #600.  No fuss, no muss, no fanfare, but yet somehow I landed back on video tutorials – which is kind of how it all started!  Somehow, ,ind of poetic, eh? 🙂

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