Flickr is easily the most popular photo sharing site and it is very easy for dedicated users to quickly amass a large volume of images on the service. But what happens when you leave the service? Or even if Flickr disappeared? Do you have local copies of all your images? Backing up, whether it be [...]
Read the rest of this post »Following a recent comment in the Leeds Flickr Group about the cost of things like Photoshop, Lightroom and other photo software, I thought I’d post a small article about some of the free alternatives that are available on the net. First up, how about a Photoshop alternative? GIMP GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Project) is a [...]
Read the rest of this post »Which format do you prefer to shoot in? RAW or JPEG? I ask as there’s an interesting discussion going on over on the Digital Photography School forums. Raw image files are sometimes called digital negatives, as they fulfil the same role as negatives in film photography: that is, the negative is not directly usable as [...]
Read the rest of this post »For those of you using SlideShowPro for Lightroom, a new version is out. Version 1.1.4, which is likely to be the last upgrade before version 1.2 hits, doesn’t contain any major new features but fixes some bugs and brings the core product in line with the Flash version. SlideShowPro for Lightroom
Read the rest of this post »The SlideShowPro tool is now available as a plugin for the web module of Adobe Lightroom. The tool allows you to create Flash slideshows from your photo collections using just the familar Lightroom interface. Its all self contained and you don’t need Flash installed on your machine to use it. For more information check out [...]
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