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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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14
Nov 08

Renaming Lightroom Catalogs

If you decide you want to rename a Lightroom catalog you can either have it open or closed but when you do rename it you need to rename the lightroom catalog in the finder and the preview file as well at the same time!

How they should look after you rename them

If you don’t rename the preview and the catalog at the same time before you launch lightroom again and you just name one of them. The next time you launch lightroom its going to make a new preview file that is blank but your still see all your volumes but all the pictures will be gray, useless, and missing…

You will try and fix this problem by going back trashing the newly created previews and renaming the old one the same name but it will be too late it wont work and you will have to re-import all your images again!

So when your going to rename your catalog rename the previews as well before launching lightroom again and it should work just fine.

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