Lightroom or Aperture?
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This gets filed under the old news category, but I thought I'd share a demo I did on Lightroom several months ago. (oh, and that's my first submission to slideshare!)
Links for January 6th
These are my links for January 6th from 00:38 to 02:52:
- Blogging, a new journalistic genre ? | Monday Note - Pretty strong argument that blogs are a great new form of journalism.
Problem: they don't make money. Adverts don't value them and they just don't generate the pageviews an article does. - What is literacy? BuzzMachine - If online journalism is expected to work, the audience must be able to do the following:
Media literacy, then, must embrace all those activities and skills, not just reading but:
* knowing how to focus on a need for information and express that by crafting a query to find an answer;
* knowing how to judge the relevance and reliability of sources - including the PageRank-like skill of judging sources on sources;
* knowing how to create (and remix) content across all media types;
* knowing how to collaborate;
* understanding the impact of facts on perspective and perspective on opinion;
* understanding the impact of identity and anonymity;
* understanding the relationship of pieces of information that make up a larger story via links;
* understanding how to make and find corrections - On The Media: Transcript of "You Are What You Is" (November 28, 2008) - Jeff Jarvis makes a good case for convergence. The media is now a singular: no longer do jounos choose, video, print, photo, whatever. We're cross-medium.
- Twelve months of top journalism blog posts in 2008 Christopher Wink - Title says it all. It's a pretty darn good list of the top posts of last year. Worth reading through the list at least.
- HuffPo Worth $200M? Em, More Like $2M - Business news | Newser - Sounds like the $25 million dollar investment that HuffPo just got may have inflated the value of the blogging newspaper. Instead of the $100-$200 million the investment was based on, it might be worth closer to $2 million. Ouch.
- Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper share value fell $64B in '08 - A look at the stock prices and market cap. of the major newspapers in 2008.
- The Turning Gate / TTG iPhone Portfolio - iphone friendly photo gallery direct from Lightroom: Cool!
- Lee Enterprises: A poster child for the ownership crisis | yelvington.com - Steve Yelvington breaks down the economic crisis for newspapers:
1. The internet means long term changes, newspapers weren't ready.
2. Global economic crisis = less adverts = less income.
3. Newspapers borrowed when the borrowing was good, and are in the same place as everyone else in this economic crisis. They debt they can't pay back.
I Leave for a Week!
I leave for a week to go backpacking (and photographing … as much as one can while being exhausted), and Adobe goes and releases Lightroom 2! What a treat to come back to! My favorite reviews here and here.
My favorite new features:
- filter bar
- localized corrections
- it's a localized correction, but the graduated filter wasn't in the beta, and is AMAZING
- keywording interface
There are of course other new features too!
Oh, and photos of the trip coming soon.
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Preset Templates in My Lightroom Plugins
As another example, consider the template:
{Location}-{Country}-{State}-{City}-{Caption}
for a photo that has “Location” and “Caption”, but no “Country,” “City,” or “State.”. Assuming that location and caption are “Home” and “Having Fun” respectively, it becomes:Home-Having Fun
which is better than it would be without these special rules:Home----Having Fun
-Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Preset Templates in My Lightroom Plugins
Sweet!!! This is a much need addition to Adobe Lightroom. The current ability to place metadata fields just about anywhere is very cool, but poorly implemented. It appears that Mr. Friedl has managed to fix this inadequacy – I'd love to see his solution made into a plugin that any other plugin can call / see Adobe adopt it.
Mark Hamburg Leaves Adobe – LightroomNews
I don’t think one can downplay the significance of Mark’s departure because the contribution he made to the development of Photoshop and Lightroom has certainly been enormous and it goes without saying that his presence will be missed at Adobe.
-LightroomNews » Blog Archive » Mark Hamburg leaves Adobe
I've heard of Mr. Hamburg before, and know him to be a prime instigator behind a lot of Adobe's success.
As for what Mark is going to do next, it is known that he is now going to Microsoft in Seattle, and that his future work there won’t involve digital imaging, but instead be focussed on the “user experience”. So remember Jeff’s advice and be careful what you wish for!
That I didn't know (unsurprisingly). All I can say is… godspeed Mark, may Redmond treat you well. (though I have my doubts).
UPDATE: I re-read this post the morning after I wrote it.
NOTE-TO-SELF: Proofread at least twice before posting when you're tired.
Real UPDATE: Further news from photoshop news. Apparently, Mr. Hamburg is going to be working on revolutionary new OS interaction methods. Seems like this is the hot field for programming geniuses to be in nowadays. And it makes sense. The last/only great evolution we've seen was the mouse/desktop analogy paradigm. I'm not sure if Microsoft will be the company to come up a new way of interacting with a computer, but here's to Mark's efforts!
Adobe Releases Lightroom 1.4.1, Camera Raw 4.4.1 Updates
Sweet. Adobe finally corrects their mistake(s). 'bout time.
NEWS! - Adobe Releases Lightroom 1.4.1, Camera Raw 4.4.1 Updates
Lightroom Journal: Lightroom 2 Beta Available
Lightroom Journal: Lightroom 2 beta Available
There's a beta of Adobe's Lightroom 2.0 out!!! Whoopee!
Update: Here's a pretty good feature summary/review of the new Lightroom.
Update2: The above article combined with Adobe's own warnings have convinced me not to adopt this is my primary workflow software yet. (huge bummer) The fact that metadata almost certainly won't carry over and the inability to support LR v1.x libraries is a huge pain. Plus it's not been guaranteed that libraries created in a beta of version 2 can be carried over to the shipping release. I'll just have to wait for beta 2.
Lightroom 1.4 – Sucks
I've been holding off finalizing my Italy photos because of the problems with Lightroom 1.4, which of course I upgraded to the instant I got home from Italy. I've been waiting for them to release a fix, for over a week now to no avail. In re-reading the post, I discovered that uninstalling does not require me to delete all my preference files as I had originally thought. I will go a head and put LR 1.3.1 back on (there's not that much of an upgrade anyway), and finish those photos.
...erm but not tonight b/c I'm going to a football match: Brazil v. Sweeden. Should be a fun, wet, time.
LightroomNews » Blog Archive » Adobe Yanks Lightroom 1.4 & Camera Raw 4.4
The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided.
LightroomNews » Blog Archive » Adobe Yanks Lightroom 1.4 & Camera Raw 4.4
Ouch. That's no good. There's a bug that affects only Windows users and DNG. There's an Olypmus processing bug. But the killer is a bug in the EXIF timestamping that will modify an original RAW files. Ouch. Get this fixed quick Adobe!!!
