Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom.

If you own your own studio, or are heading in that direction, it is nice to have your Lightroom customized to your own studio. This portrays an established brand, especially if you happen to be showing a client a catalog on the spot. In previous articles we have shown you how to customize the Identity Plate. In this article we will show you how to customize your panel end marks by uploading your own logo, or simply choosing one of the preset end marks Lightroom has provided.

Using Preset Panel End Marks

To get started we will go into our Preferences Dialog Box by going to our Menu Bar, selecting the Edit drop down menu, and selecting …

This week Adobe announced a new version of Photoshop – CS6 which is now available for download as a free beta test for a limited time.

There’s been loads of posts this week with details of new features but here’s a quick video with 6 of them by Terry White.

Want to see more? Here’s another quick video by Russell Brown (from Adobe) with his 6 favourite Photoshop CS6 features:

Want a few more? Here’s Photo Gavin’s five favourite Photoshop CS6 features:

Want to see more? Here’s another 6 favourite features from Adobe’s Julieanne Kost.

OK – there probably wasn’t 23 features as there was some overlap between a few of them – but I hope you found these first looks at CS6 helpful!

Have …

All those photos you have on your harddrive, what are you doing with them? Are they sitting there and then up on a website? Maybe a share on Facebook or Google+? Have you ever thought of presenting your work in a slideshow, or projected, exhibition?

Presenting a slideshow of your work can be a very rewarding event or an evening of frustration, depending on how well you prepare and plan. It was once told to me that for every 30 minutes of presentation, I should spend 40 hour preparing. This includes planning, choosing images, organizing, practice, rework, more practice, more rework and then some more practice. This rule of thumb is more true for a professional or highly important presentation than a backyard viewing during a BBQ, but the process is just as important.

Whether for your friends, family, neighbors or complete …

When teaching modern digital photography I often forget those new to the general art of photography might not be familiar with classic terms and techniques and I need to take a step back. This post is for those who might have always wanted to ask, “What do people mean when they say ‘burn’ and ‘dodge’ in post-processing?”. If you can still smell the darkroom fumes when I bring up these terms, you can skip over this post.

Burning and dodging are two darkroom techniques used when printing a picture. A negative is placed in a projector and then pointed at a piece of photo paper (much like a slide projector projects an image on a screen). That photo paper is not like the paper you might be used to printing on at home now. It is light sensitive, just like film, …

If you envy your friends their iPhone Instagram app and their iPad grunge photo editing apps then PSKiss has the solution. PSKiss recently released its PSKiss Photogram which is the first ever (at least as far as I’m aware) app like extension for Photoshop. It has all the coolness of an iPad app and it works on the desktop.

PSKiss Photogram is an extension so it installs like any extension and, when running, you see an iPad style interface with Instagram like features all running in a panel inside Photoshop.

You can download the extension from pskiss.com and right now the starter price is $9.90 which is comparable with many iPad apps. The extension is called Photogram and it has a distinctly retro look – it’s tag line …