Waiting for the light to get good so you can shoot? In line at the DMV? Relaxing on your summer vacation? Whip out your iPad, iPhone, or other MP4 video-compatible mobile device, watch my Lightroom videos, and learn how to take your photography post-processing to the next level! My Lightroom 3 and Lightroom 4 Fundamentals & Beyond Series are i-Compatible.  To add them to your iTunes library, go to File>Add Folder, and select the folder or folders from your purchased DVD or download. Then sync Movies on your iPad or iPhone. (Sorry I don’t have instructions for Android and other devices, but if they support MP4 videos, they will play my videos.) Lightroom 4 Fundamentals & Beyond: Over 10 1/2 [...more]

The Creative Suite 6,  including Photoshop CS6 is now available for download or shipment. . It is available for pre-order now, though it won’t start shipping for up to 30 days. (The website “estimates” May 7.) The traditional stand-alone Photoshop CS6 full version will be $699, and the upgrade will be $199. Photoshop CS6 Extended, which contains the ability to create and manipulate 3D objects, is $999/$399. Note that video editing has moved from the Extended version to the Standard version. Upgrade pricing is available to owners of CS3 or later (though for CS3 and CS4 owners, it will expire Dec. 31, 2012.) You can also gain access to Photoshop CS6 by subscribing to Adobe’s new Creative Cloud subscription service. [...more]

If you are a Craft & Vision e-book fan as I am, you may be interested in this great deal from Photo Whoa — through Monday, April 30 only!   40 quality e-books for $89 — less than $2.25/book! Click here for the Photo Whoa deal. Deal ends 10 pm PT Monday, 1 am ET Tuesday / 5 am GMT Tuesday. (In the interest of full disclosure, I do get a percentage on each sale — but I don’t promote what I don’t believe in.)    

Adobe today released a second release candidate for Lightroom 4.1.  This second  release candidate has been released to the public for broader testing and feedback in advance of an official Lightroom 4.1 release. This release candidate fixes more bugs (on top of those fixed in the first release candidate), and adds support for several new cameras.  In addition, we have two nice new features: Support for 32-bit HDR TIFF files.  Now once you have merged multiple exposures using Photoshop’s HDR-Pro, you can do the tone mapping using Lightroom’s Develop module.  Note that 32-bit PSD’s are not supported, so be sure to save in Photoshop as a TIFF. New Lens Corrections tools for fixing purple and green fringing.  In the Lens [...more]

I hope you were able to catch all or part of my 3-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop last week on creativeLIVE! If you missed the workshop, or you want to watch it again, remember that you can purchase the entire 3-day recorded workshop, at creativeLIVE.com for $99. If you don’t know creativeLIVE, you MUST check them out!  They offer free high-quality multi-day photography workshops online.  It was truly a privilege to teach for this fabulous team, and I thank them all for creating this wonderful live worldwide classroom, and for their professionalism, energy and stamina, encouragement and support, and for making it so fun! It was particularly wonderful to have the interaction with not only the great in-studio audience, but also [...more]

I’m a bit late in announcing this since I was busy last week with my creativeLIVE Lightroom workshop, but late last week Adobe announced the release of a Lightroom 4.1 “release candidate.”  With a release candidate, Adobe has tested the product internally, but is looking for the broader Lightroom community to further kick the tires before considering it “done”, at which time it will officially release 4.1. According to the website, this release adds support for the new Canon 5D Mark III, and fixes the following bugs in 4.0: Lightroom 4 did not properly open external applications when using the “Edit In” functionality. Point Curve adjustments made in Lightroom 3 have been restored.P Performance issues in Lightroom 4, particularly when [...more]

My FREE 3-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop with creativeLIVE started today! It runs through Saturday, 9 am (12 pm ET/4 pm GMT)- 4 pm PT .  There is also a free re-broadcast at 5:00 pm PT / 8 pm ET / 12:00 am GMT  every night (which is going on as I type this!) Tune in LIVE at this link!   You can also purchase the recorded version. Full information and registration are here. I hope you can join me for at least part of this workshop!  We did the rewarding, yet heavy-lifting part today — the Library module. On Friday (day 2), we head into the fun part — a bit on Map, then Develop. Note that this workshop is [...more]

I am pleased and honored to announce that I will be teaching a 3-day Lightroom 4 Fundamentals workshop for creativeLIVE, Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31, 9 am – 4 pmPacific Time. This will be a FREE live broadcast over the web, so you can tune in from just about anywhere! Lightroom 4 Fundamentals In this three day workshop, learn the fundamentals of Lightroom 4, concentrating on the Library, Map and Develop modules where you organize, edit, and fix and enhance your photos and videos. Learn how to import and organize your photos and videos; evaluate and assign keywords, map location and other information to them; find them, and fix and enhance them. Learn how to work more efficiently [...more]

I have just posted four new Lightroom webinar sessions for this coming month on my Webinars page: What’s New in Lightroom 4 Overview of Lightroom (2 sessions) Overview of Lightroom’s Output Modules They are filling fast, so if you’re interested, sign up now! I will schedule more if demand warrants — be sure to join my mailing list  to be informed of additional offerings.   Enter your email below to sign up for updates:  

I was on Amazon last night, looking to see what is out for Lightroom 4 training, and couldn’t help but notice that there is almost nothing!  The biggest authors are releasing books — in April and May. I just thought I would point out that my video series, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: The Fundamentals & Beyond (A Workshop on Video), is available NOW, on DVD or by download.  Why wait to get started? Here’s what Don B. had to say about the Lightroom 3 version of my series: “This is the best investment that I have made for learning Lightroom. I have bought books and watched other tutorials. This is by far the best way that I have found for [...more]