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8
Aug 09

Lightroom Plug-Ins

If you a lightroom lover your about to love it even more! Thanks to Jeffery Friedl we have some amazing lightroom export plug-ins. If your like everyone else in the world you have a Facebook page and there is a export plug-in for that, all you have to do is click “HERE” and it will take you to his lightroom goodies page.

Now this is where it gets even better there not just a facebook plug-in there is a blogger, flickr, photobucket, and a few others. Just select the ones you want and download them.

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Screen shot of Jeffrey’s blog, as you can see in the upper left corner there is a list of all the plug-ins. Just click to download.

Then your going to want to go to your lightroom catalog, while in the library mode your want to click the export button or hit (Command+Shift+E). This will bring up the export dialog then go to the bottom left where it says plug-in manager and hit the “add” button to add a plug-in. Go to your download folder and import your plug-in. Once it is added there should be a green dot to the side of the plug-in name, which means “I’m ready to rock!”

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This is what you should see in your plug in manager

Hit done, now your back to the regular export menu. So go up to the top of the menu and by default it will say files on disk or something to that affect. Click on it and select your plug-in from the drop down menu. Now your a boat load of options for that plug-in. All I did was verify my account by putting in my user name and password for facebook and I also set up which folder it would export my images to. (for the facebook plug-in it will swap you to facebook and you will have to allow the plug-in to export to facebook. Sounds complex but your see what I mean) Once you set all that fun stuff up your going to want to go to the left of your menu and hit “add” and name it something useful like Facebook.

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Now all you have to do is hit that magic button called export and it should automatically swap to your browser into a new facebook tab and all you have to do is select the images you want to add and confirm and its just that easy!

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Just to note all the plug-ins are basically the same set up.

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28
Jul 09

Auto Mask in Lightroom

I was just using the auto mask feature in Adobe Lightroom on one of my recent New York shots. I was using it to select the sky behind the statue of liberty, and this photo looked like the perfect photo to use the auto mask feature with the local adjustment brush.

Auto Mask

I put on a red over lay so you can see exactly where my brush painted. As you can see it did a fantastic job of just selecting the sky and not the statue. Saving me hours of time selecting it myself. All I had to do was turn on auto mask and paint away and it avoided cutting into the statue. Then all I had to do was tweak with the setting making the sky darker. I was trying to get more detail out of the sky you can kind of see that I did in the bottom right corner. But most of the sky didn’t have any detail at all so I just lowered the brightness of the sky to make the statue stand out a little more.

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Before and after auto mask and darkening of sky

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8
Mar 09

Lightroom Red-Eye Correction

I found this image of my lovely Kari. I thought I would try out the red eye reduction in lightroom and it worked fantastic and I thought I should share that with you the world.

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You can find the red-eye removing tool in the developing tab. Its right next to all the other local adjustment tools.

Kari redeye

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6
Feb 09

Loving the Lightroom

I love lightroom so much I’m going to be there spokes person for a minute. So I took an image from a shoot I did the other day and decided to only do lightroom adjustments (no photoshop) just to see how much I could get out of it while it was still a raw file. and Here ya go. I took out the fill light catchlight, made it softer, softened the shadows just a bit. Lightened the eyes and kept them sharp, gave a little bit more shine to hair and did a little white vignette.

www.gagethompson.com

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15
Dec 08

Framing in Lightroom

If you like to put a frame around your images I got the perfect export plug-in for you. Its called Lightroom Mogrify, and its made by Timothy Armes from Photographers Toolbox, and you can click “HERE” to download the plug-in for Lightroom. He also has a bunch of other plug-ins that are pretty cool. So be sure to look at those while your there. Anyways you install the plug-in like any other. If you don’t know how to do that please read my Lightroom plug-in post, it will show you how “HERE”.

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Here is a screen shot of what the plug-in looks like in your exporter. You can add up to five borders but just keep in mind that the borders are going to add to your image size. As you can see below that what happened to my photos below I told them to all export at 610 px tall and they did but the borders added up on the edges making it bigger.

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So as you can see there are a bunch of combination’s you can achieve with this plug-in without ever having to go into Photoshop and doing it manually or with an action. So if you like putting frames around your image complex or not I hoped this helps you do it faster.

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