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Post Processing

Lightroom 3 Copyright Watermark Tutorial

May 18, 2010

Covers:
How to embed text watermark
How to embed graphical watermark
How to save the set watermark for future use

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Lightroom Develop Preset for Smoothing Skin

May 17, 2010

This is a Lightroom develop preset that I made to make the model’s skin smoother. It will work for most portraiture.
Right click and save to download ‘Victor’s Smooth Skin preset’
It makes use of the Lightroom 3 noise reduction engine. Note that this preset will also make other aspect of the picture a little bit smooth [...]

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Difficulty of Using Adobe Lightroom, or Lack Thereof

April 17, 2010

Today, I taught a workshop about photo post-processing with Adobe Lightroom beta 3 to several Monash University student.
It was quite fun.
Most students never used Lightroom before, so we gotta go from the start.
I covered:
- Importing
- Flagging (Pick, color, star)
- Croping, Brush, Graduate Filter, Spot removal
- The basics of sliders on develop module
- Exporting
- Develop presets [...]

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[Lightroom Tutorial] Cropping while breaking aspect ratio

January 5, 2010

I got a question from my friend earlier this week when she watch me as I edited my photos. She was asking me how did I manage to crop my photos freely as Lightroom always restrict her cropping. By default Lightroom lock your aspect ratio to the width x height of your photos.
So how do [...]

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LR2 Mogrify Version 3.10 Available

July 25, 2009

The plugin we all know and love is updated. The new version is pretty much the same as the old one, but you are able to set % of width/height instead of pixels on the watermarking to make sure the watermark scales with landscape/portrait.

Version 3.00, 23rd July 2009

Added support for inner borders!
A checkbox in the [...]

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Video Tutorial: HDR Landscape with Lightroom

July 24, 2009

Couple of days ago I posted several photos from Lake Mackintosh, Tasmania and received quite a number of good feedback from my friends and the online community. Numerous people asked me on how to post process the photo. So here I am, presenting to you, my FIRST video tutorial.

Download Link: HDR Landscape with Lightroom (6mb)
What [...]

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Lightroom Catalog Folder Error

July 22, 2009

Lately my photos has been filling up my 320gb hard drive (around 55 thousands photos) so I decided to move them to my 1tb external hard drive. I moved them conventionally with Windows Explorer. All is well until I opened Lightroom and noticed all of my folders are marked missing. And to make things worse, [...]

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Tutorial: How to Add Border with Copyright Watermark in Lightroom

May 2, 2009

So I posted a tutorial on how to create copyright signature with Lightroom sometime ago. I got some question from readers on how to put the copyright watermark into the border to not obstruct the photo itself. Now the answer is using Mogrify plugin to add border around the photo along with the watermark. Now [...]

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How To: Copyright Signature Watermark On Lightroom 2 Using Mogrify Plugin

April 19, 2009

This tutorial is for those who are still using Lightroom 2. If you have Lightroom 3, please go to this tutorial
I have been getting some question from my friends and reader on how to put a signature on your photos with Lightroom. Before knowing this technique, I used Photoshop to manually embed signature on lightroom [...]

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7 Reason to Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

March 30, 2009

Some of you might wonder what Lightroom is? The short answer is “another image processing software from Adobe beside Photoshop and Elements”. The long answer would be “a freaking awesome software to help you process hundreds of photos in short amount of time by maximizing your work flow while utilizing presets and databases.” It might [...]

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