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INTO THE LIGHT
For years now, the standard for editing digital
images has been Adobe’s Photoshop. A
couple of years ago, Adobe introduced Lightroom
and its suite of features and usability
has started to garner a significant following.
For the digital photographer, Lightroom offers
a tremendous feature set for those looking to
organize and process images, create slideshows
or web galleries and print their images
all from a single piece of software. Let’s take
a look at some Lightroom features that can
really help optimize your workflow.
Lightroom is organized into five different
modules. The Library module allows you
to import your images into Lightroom’s
catalogue, rename them, assign ratings and
metadata (a fancy word for information that
includes copyright information, keywords,
etc.), organize images into collections and
perform file functions like copying and
deleting.
The Develop module is where things
get exciting and is the module you’ll probably
spend the majority of your time using
in Lightroom. The Develop module features
an elegant....
By Paul Burwell
Contributing Editor
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BIO
I took a circuitous route to professional photography.
As a six year old, I used my mother's box camera with 120 films. Two Christmas's
later, I received my own 110 point and shoot camera. At fifteen, I
purchased a Pentax K-1000 single lens reflex camera - a wonderful
manual camera with which I learned the concepts of exposure. Every
setting needed to be made by hand.
I borrowed photography books from the local
library, studied them intensely, and learned that it was possible to
develop film and pictures by myself using relatively simple equipment
and chemicals. My father had some unused darkroom equipment consisting
of an old black and white enlarger that was missing a lens as well as
some developing trays, film development canisters and a darkroom light.
I took it upon myself to set up a mini darkroom in the closet of my
bedroom. This was hardly an ideal place for this activity as the closet
only measured two and a half feet by six feet and took a lot of work to
make completely dark. Eventually I had a space I could work with. After
convincing my father to help me find a lens for the old enlarger, we
took a trip to McBain Cameras in downtown Edmonton and managed to get a
good deal on a used enlarger lens that someone had traded in. Together
with the required chemicals, I purchased the enlarger lens and spent
the last of my accumulated savings. At home, my father helped jury-rig
a mount for the lens to the enlarger.
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