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Lightroom

Aperture to Lightroom Migration

October 17, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

This is a quick post to bring to the attention of Aperture users who want to transition to Lightroom. Adobe has just …

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Lightroom Folder Structure

Lightroom Folder Structure For Photographs

December 13, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

How Many Lightroom Photo Folders? In the previous post, I addressed the storage device options for Lightroom users. This …

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Lightroom Storage

Where To Store Lightroom Catalog and Photo Files

December 12, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Lightroom, the popular software for photographers is essentially a photo-centric database with extensive abilities to …

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Replace Color in Lightroom

Replace Color in Lightroom

April 28, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

There are times when the color of an object in a photograph is not suitable for the intended use of the photograph. Most …

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Spotting in Lightroom needs a helping hand

Spotting Scope (Kind Of)

January 4, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Doing preliminary, even complete edits of my photographs in Lightroom has become an integral part of my workflow—despite …

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Lightroom to MagCloud – 3

September 8, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

In two earlier posts, I pointed to a post on MagCloud then added some points that will allow you to finesse the best …

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Lighroom 4 to MagCloud

Lightroom to MagCloud – 2

September 2, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

In a previous post, I pointed to the MagCloud blog that presented a nice workflow to publish PDF files from Lightroom 4. …

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Lighroom 4 to MagCloud

Publish to MagCloud From Lightroom

August 31, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been a fan of MagCloud publishing platform for the last several years since two students of mine published the …

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Alt The Magic Key

Alt The Magic Key

August 24, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

In the “Lightroom:” series I will try to add frequent short posts about some of the features that may escape …

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Lightroom 4 Quick Review

Lightroom Split Personality

June 20, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been using Lightroom since its initial public beta some years ago and I am very pleased with the software in …

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Lightroom 4 Problems

Lightroom 4 Final Thoughts

April 13, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have written and documented the unexpected, and for me undesirable, changes in Lightroom 4. This post will wrap up …

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Lightroom 4 Clarity Slider Muddies the Tool

Lightroom 4 Clarity Slider

April 4, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been using Lightroom 4 for a while now and have already written extensively on the printing related issues. In …

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Lightroom 4 Print Problems, Part 2

Lightroom 4 Print Issues Part 2

March 27, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I wrote in an earlier post about the printing issues in Lightroom 4. Since then I have run a series of tests and can say …

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20-image panoramic stitch in Photoshop CS6, Adaptive Wide Angle corrected

Lightroom 4 Printing Issues

March 24, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

Update: New tests I have run conclusively show the printing issue in Lightroom 4. A few days ago I printed a photograph …

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Lightroom 4 Quick Review

Adobe Lighroom 4

March 8, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been using the public beta version of Lightroom 4 and I like some features and have a few gripes. This post is …

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Lightroom to Photo Lab Workflow

Print From Lightroom to File For Lab Printing

January 13, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

I try to do most of my printing myself. I enjoy the process as part of the full creative control and I can have the …

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Color and Gray Scale Ramp for Testing

Lightroom Exposure vs Brightness, 2

August 5, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

The Case for Color Shift The previous installment of this post, Lightroom Adjustments: Exposure vs Brightness was …

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Lightroom Adjustments – Exposure vs Brightness

July 10, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

After further studying the behavior of the exposure and brightness sliders and discovering how strong upward exposure …

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LR/Mogrify 2

Photoshop Lightroom Resources

May 22, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photoshop Lightroom has become a very powerful, almost indispensable tool in photographers’ workflow; and for good …

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Perfect Layers from onOne Software

Layers for Lightroom

April 23, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

  Lightroom has become a very mature product offering easy and powerful workflow for photographers. I now do much …

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From “Scene” to “Seen”

September 21, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

Digital photography has many more user-controllable variables compared to the film. A good understanding of the …

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White Balance Tools

Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend Part III Retouching the Portrait

July 15, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

  Let’s start by viewing a short video, all the way to the end. Click on the following link and watch the video …

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SpyderCube

Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend
Part II Smart Shoot

July 15, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

Smart Shoot In the excitement of the shoot and technical pressures, one of the most important steps gets the short …

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Part II Smart Shoot
A Conceptual Model of Photographic Art

Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend
Part I Glamor Photography

July 15, 2010 by A. Cemal Ekin

  Photoshop offers an exceedingly powerful tool to photographers. It is up to us to use or abuse it; keep it within …

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Part I Glamor Photography
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