Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v.1 Starts Shipping Today, Plus Related Resources

After being officially announced on January 29, 2007, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v.1 is now shipping. My article describing some of its new features can be found here. Since I wrote that article, a new website, Lightroom-News.com has been built that has many resources for learning more about Lightroom and for getting up to speed with the program. On the site, there is a free chapter available of Martin Evening’s new Lightroom book. You can also find an overview and a link to the PDF on this page of PhotoshopNews.com. I’m a fan of Martin Evening’s Photoshop books, and I found it the sample chapter to be an excellent resource.

Michael Reichman and Jeff Schewe have created the first installment of a 4.5 hour video tutorial covering Lightroom v.1 that looks to be an excellent resource. There will be eight to ten downloadable files, and the cost is currently $11.96 for the whole series. Based on other materials that Reichman and Schewe have produced, I think that these videos will help make getting up to speed in the program much easier.

Another resource is a series of very well-produced free online videos by Michael Tapes of RAWWorkflow (screenshot shown above) that can be found here. The videos are also available for purchase on DVD. I like how Tapes includes describes many specific shortcuts and key commands as he moves through the tutorial.

Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 3.7 plug-in and the new Adobe DNG Converter are also now available for download. ACR must be updated to provide compatibility with Photoshop Lightroom. When you download the files, there are instructions for where to place the ACR plug-in. According to Adobe, “it is now possible to apply default image settings specific to a camera serial number and apply default image settings specific to a camera ISO setting. The additional criteria are located in the Camera Raw preferences. Also, the default settings, including the global auto preference, are now shared with the DNG Converter.”

Related Links: Lightroom can be purchased for $197.99 at Amazon.com (there are a number of Photoshop Lightroom book links on the same Amazon.com page). It can also be purchased from the Adobe Worldwide Store for $199.99. According to Adobe, this is a special introductory price through April 30, 2007 and Photoshop Lightroom will later sell for an estimated street price of US $299.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v.1 30 Day Tryout.

The Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta download page.

Adobe Camera Raw 3.7 download page.

Martin Evening’s Photoshop books, and other related books on Amazon.com.

Free seminars online from Apple.com

I recently listened to a podcast and watched an Apple Seminar that features a very successful voiceover artist, Joe Cipriano. There are a lot of great tips for choosing a microphone, tips for recording in a hotel room, tips for how to speak into a mic and how to filter your voice. Just a lot of great stuff for people interested in recording audio.

Here’s a link to the specific Apple Seminar mentioned above. It is video and requires both Apple Quicktime and registration for the Apple Seminar to watch and listen.

The Radio Show/Podcast from which I learned about these resources is Inside Mac Radio (December 9th Show).

Joe Cipriano also has some video podcasts on his blog made with the video camera built into a MacBook Pro.
For many more free online seminars, covering a wide range of Apple products, visit the main seminar page at https://www.apple.com/seminars.

All the best,

Andrew

Interview with Joel Welsh from StartupNation

A few days ago, I was invited to be interviewed as a guest on the StartupNation community podcast. StartupNation is a radio show, series of podcasts and a website, with articles covering many aspects of starting and maintaining a business. There are forums which I’ve learned quite a lot from, and they just launched the StartupNation Marketplace, where people can list their services, or post their requests for services without any fees. In the podcast, Joel and I discuss some ideas for enhancing the StartupNation site. It was an honor to have been invited and I thank Joel and StartupNation for the opportunity.

To listen to the podcast, or subscribe to the RSS feed visit this page, or you can download the mp3 by cutting and pasting this link into any browser (https://tinyurl.com/28tgsl). Joel Welsh asked me to choose a few of my favorite songs from the Podsafe Music Network, and at the end of the podcast, you’ll hear Jennifer Richman’s song “Beautiful Girl,” which I first heard on one of my favorite podcasts, C.C. Chapman’s U-Turn Cafe.

There’s a short video on the bottom left of this page which gives a good overview of what StartupNation is all about. The founders of StartupNation are Jeff and Rich Sloan. They wrote a book entitled StartupNation, Open for Business. I’ve read it and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get good advice for starting or expanding a business, or for those who have an idea or invention that they believe should be on the market. Jeff and Rich Sloan also do a syndicated radio show, which features interviews with business leaders, questions from budding entrepreneurs and “elevator pitches” from callers.

The podcast feed has many of the recent shows, plus additional podcast-only shows. They recently did an “elevator pitch” contest, which I found entertaining and informative.

There’s an index of radio shows on this page, dating back to January, 2005. In my opinion, the information and suggestions never really go out of date (Napolean Hill is a good example of that).

All the best,

-Andrew