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I’m happy to announce that I’ve launched a new podcast titled All Things Photo with Eric Cheng. Between the two of us we have decades of professional photography experience and a unique perspective as industry insiders, Eric with DJI & Lytro and myself with BorrowLenses. Unlike other podcasts this series will also include video vignettes above and beyond our recorded discussions. I welcome you to subs

The long awaited next version of Lightroom is out and below is my list of favorite features and improvements: Note before you upgrade I recommend reviewing  Steps to Save Your Ass With Lightroom Catalog Changes 1. Graduated Filters – Brush function A new Brush function has been added to Graduated Filters so that you can create custom edges versus a linear edge. 2. Performance: Optimized Multi-Processor and Mult

Avoid downtime with these 6 steps to keep your Lightroom Catalog in tip top shape: 1. Know Where Your Catalog Resides Lightroom saves catalogs in the following folders: Windows: \Users\[user name]\Pictures\Lightroom Mac OS: /Users/[user name]/Pictures/Lightroom When in doubt check here: (Mac OS) Lightroom > Catalog Settings (Windows) Edit > Catalog Settings   2. Save Metadata to Your Files To save metadata

I was privileged to have a chance to take part in the Lightroom on the Road Google Hangout last week discussing Lightroom 5 and photography with Julieanne Kost, Chris Chabot and Brendan van Son.  It was great to talk photos, photography & Lightroom 5 with talented and like minded individuals. There’s some great tips and ideas in the video around LR5 so be sure to check it out. Note: At 12:39 I show and disc

The 35th episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released (duration 38:09  min.) This episode of EXIF and Beyond features an interview with Tom Hogarty product manager for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the Adobe Raw Converter plugin and the DNG file format. Discussed is Lightroom 3 vs. Lightroom 2 improvements, new features in the recently released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.2 and Adobe Raw Converter 6.2 and great conversa

The PhotoNetCast crew had an opportunity to interview Tom Hogarty, the product manager for Adobe Lightroom 2. Questions posed to Tom were a mix from listeners and the hosts of the show (Brian Auer, Antonio Marques and I). As a bonus Adobe has made available a copy of Lightroom 2 to be given away. Check out the podcast episode/post “PhotoNetCast #18 – Interview with Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty

The much-awaited Adobe Lightroom 2.0 was released July 29th after a brief 4 month Beta period. With out hesitation, for reasons I’ll explain later, I upgraded my copy of Lightroom to version 2 the day it was announced. Now that I’ve had a chance to use the application in real world conditions for the past week I wanted to share my impressions of it. Since Lightroom went into its initial Beta I’ve be

Some very exciting services and applications launched today including a new search engine Cuil.com and Adobe Lightroom 2. Having used Adobe Lightroom 2 Beta I’ve been very impressed and opted to buy Lightroom 2 at the first notice of its availability. Unfortunately after purchasing the Lightroom 2 Upgrade per the install PDF I was unable to get the program started. I was not given the option to reference my exi