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Lightroom CC Hidden Search Operators

By PhotoJoseph

March 21, 2019 - 9:00am

Lightroom CC is missing many of the filtering tools we know from Lightroom Classic… or, is it? Turns out, many of them are hiding in plain (text) sight!

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Renaming Photos Prior to Import for Lightroom CC (or Apple Photos)

By PhotoJoseph

January 26, 2018 - 4:00pm

Lightroom CC (that's the new cloud version, not the now-named-“Classic” version) is lacking the ability to rename photos on import. Let's find a work-around.

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TWiP Apps 20: HoudahGeo; Like Pins on a Map...But Better

By PhotoJoseph

December 13, 2016 - 9:23am

Thumbtacks on a map used to mark the places we’d been, but with Houdah Geo, now your own photos can point to your memories with impeccable precision.

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TWiP Apps 19: Aperture Exporter; Take the Blue Pill

By PhotoJoseph

November 30, 2016 - 9:00am

If you’re still stuck in Apple’s Aperture, looking for a way out, consider taking… the Blue Pill.

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TWiP Apps 18: Affinity; To Affinity and Beyond!

By PhotoJoseph

November 16, 2016 - 9:00am

Affinity Photo is an impressively robust, capable and extremely quick app that just may be enough to fill that Photoshop-shaped hole in your photo editing life.

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TWiP Apps 17: Photomatix; HDR for the Ages

By PhotoJoseph

November 2, 2016 - 9:04am

The company that’s been building things in HDR since before HDR was a thing shows us Photomatix Pro, OneShot, and a brand new iOS app.

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TWiP Apps 16: StudioBinder; The Cat Wrangler

By PhotoJoseph

October 19, 2016 - 9:00am

If you’re running a photo or video production involving more than just a few people, keeping everyone organized is a major task. Enter… StudioBinder.

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How to Use Lightroom as an Editor for Aperture

By PhotoJoseph

September 26, 2016 - 12:40pm

There are many folks who are still holding on to Aperture, but would like to use the advanced editing tools in Lightroom. Here's how to do it.

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Create Stunning Sunrise and Sunset Time Lapses With qDSLR Dashboard and LRTimelapse

By Johan Kok

September 2, 2016 - 12:00pm

Capturing the transition between day and night as a time lapse can be a complex process that requires constantly changing settings to create a smooth flicker-free end result. I use qDSLR Dashboard to capture the images and LRTimelapse to process the time lapse.

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Hacking Full-size Camera Panoramas to Work in Facebook

By PhotoJoseph

July 16, 2016 - 9:00am

You've probably seen those cool panoramic images in Facebook where you can not only drag to explore the image, but even tilt and pan your phone to do it. Neat! I really wanted to add a panoramic photo I'd created in Lightroom to Facebook, but it didn't work. It turns out, there's a few things you have to do… and the path to figuring that out was a looooong one.