Platform: macOS

Intermediate

Migrating an Aperture Library to Lightroom; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By PhotoJoseph

August 2, 2016 - 6:30pm

For a long time, readers have been asking me to go through the migration process from Aperture to Lightroom. I've ignored these requests, preferring instead to explain alternate options and my recommended way of handling the demise of Aperture. Today, however, I decided to record a video documenting the process.

Now I know why I resisted for so long.

By popular request, we're revisiting Photos for OS X and iOS! It turns out that in the past several months, there have been LOTS of apps released with Photos for OS X Extensions support.

Duration: 00:41 hr

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This is part three of the Develop Module!

Duration: 00:54 hr

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Beginner

Priime Styles for Mac (and Photos & Lightroom)

By PhotoJoseph

July 22, 2016 - 9:00pm

Priime Styles for OS X has recently been released, and it's a beautiful thing. At $29.99 it's on the high end for App Store apps, but if you love the styles, it'll be worth every penny.

Beginner

Media Pro SE (Second Edition) by Phase One

By bill@billbooth.ca

July 20, 2016 - 9:00pm

Phase One has released an update to its long standing catalog program Media Pro. The price is $189 and includes 3 seats (vs 1 seat for version 1.5). A 30 day trial is available and recommended if you are considering this program.

Beginner

Finding Your Camera-generated Panoramic Photos in Lightroom

By PhotoJoseph

July 18, 2016 - 9:00pm

If you've shot in-camera panoramas before with your digital camera, and then tried to find them in Lightroom amongst hundreds or thousands of other photos, you may have had a hard time locating them since Lightroom lacks any kind of pixel-dimension search capability. Fortunately, I found a way!

Advanced

Hacking Full-size Camera Panoramas to Work in Facebook

By PhotoJoseph

July 16, 2016 - 6:00pm

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.

Intermediate

Making Lightroom Column Widths as Wide as You Want

By PhotoJoseph

July 11, 2016 - 9:00pm

It turns out that you can make the Folder / Collection etc. column and the Metadata / Develop columns as wide as you want!

Beginner

Quickly Toggle Search Filters in Lightroom (Handy for RAW+JPEG Workflows)

By PhotoJoseph

July 4, 2016 - 9:00pm

Another simple tip, but this keyboard shortcut will speed up your workflow as you're searching and sorting your photos — especially if you're shooting RAW+JPEG.