Monthly Archives: January 2022

Started Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, NOW!

Started Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, NOW!

Started Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, NOW! – I started using Lightroom (or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, as it likes to be called) last month.

It has been great for tagging and cataloging my photo archives and getting rid of some of the useless files – although now the Lightroom archives files themselves take up over 2gb!

Started Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, NOW!
Camera RAW

I was skeptical at first – I was happy opening the photos with Camera Raw and importing into Photoshop that way, but Lightroom has streamlined that.

I use to come back from a day of shooting and take 2 or 3 hours going through them that way – opening, processing, trying different presets in Camera Raw, tweaking, opening in Photoshop, tweaking further. https://3.79.236.213/

Getting carried away and ending up with 20 layers of gradient maps, curves adjustment layers, then removing it all and deciding the original was fine, then saving that.

Now I can see the folder of Raw photos and get a nice overview of them. I can process them in the same program, very easily try all my presets to see which looks best just by hovering over each preset (imported from Camera Raw)

Do any further tweaking with all the settings in a sidebar, not get distracted by the plethora of Photoshop options and effects.

When one photo is done, just click the arrow key on the keyboard to move to the next photo and do it again. The whole thing takes far less time now.

If I was just a photographer, I would say Lightroom could replace Photoshop almost entirely.

Started Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, NOW!

Personally, I enjoy messing with photos too much; adding lomo-style effects and vintage textures, lots of layers and blending and so on, so I don’t think I will ever be able to replace Photoshop.

Photoshop CSH file and vector SVG : Guns

Photoshop Custom Shape – CSH file and vector SVG : Guns

Photoshop Custom Shape – CSH file and vector SVG : Guns – Includes: Photoshop CSH file and vector SVG file for use in other programs (Inkscape, Illustrator, Flash, etc)
Filesize: 253kb

Photoshop CSH file and vector SVG : Guns

About

Downloaded over 38,000 times on deviantart, this was the first set of Custom Shapes I made. There is quite a lot of detail in the guns, even though they are only outlines. I’ve found them very useful over the years. www.mustangcontracting.com

See below for some examples of things people have made with them. If you’ve made something using these shapes, let me know and I’ll add it to the list!

How to import Camera Raw presets into Lightroom

When I started using Lightroom, I thought it would be very handy to be able to import all my Camera Raw presets into the developing room. Afterall, I’ve spent the past couple of years developing them and they’re the same options as far as I could see. Wrong.

I thought it would be a matter of copy and pasting the files from the Camera Raw folder into the Lightroom one. Which is what I initially tried. It didn’t work. So I saved a setting from Lightroom, had a look back in the folder and it has some strange .LRTEMPLATE file to store the settings.

Not sure who thought that was a good idea. It’s probably just the same Camera Raw .XMP file but with some changes to make .XMP unreadable.

As far as I can tell, the following is the only way to import the Camera Raw settings into Lightroom (at the time of writing).

Essentially, we need to get a bunch of photos, apply one preset to each photo, click done to save the XMP sidecar file, then open those files with Lightroom, go to Develop on each one (it will read the sidecar files with your Camera Raw settings) and click the plus sign to save as a Lightroom preset.

It shouldn’t take very long, depending on the number of presets you have. Personally, I had about 25 Camera Raw presets that I use and tweak further for my photos. I’m not sure if that’s a lot or not.

Photoshop CSH file and vector SVG : Guns

Took me about 10 minutes to go through them all and make the Lightroom files.

Design Idea: Simple Colorful Brush Object

Design Idea: Simple Colorful Brush Object

Design Idea: Simple Colorful Brush Object – A recent OXO Tower brochure had a clever design idea, but unless you live in the London area and have a particularly keen interest in the OXO Tower, it’s unlikely you’d have seen it.

Design Idea: Simple Colorful Brush Object

I thought this idea was too good to let slip away into obscurity, so here it is and here’s one way to do it in Photoshop.

As you can see in the image, they have used balloons to outline the negative space in the shape of the OXO Tower. The design is simple, light and colourful and I really like it. The easiest way I can see to do this in Photoshop is to use a brush and play with the scatter and size settings. https://www.mustangcontracting.com/

How to: make a skin for Launchy

Launchy, an application launcher for originally for Windows, is now available on Linux. Both are identical until you start downloading third-party skins. Many skins work on Windows but have strange graphical glitches and errors on Linux.

Design Idea: Simple Colorful Brush Object

It seems the Linux version is a bit more strict in the way it reads the layout of files. This guide will be a (hopefully) simple guide to creating skins correctly for Launchy 2.0 based mostly on my own trial-and-error in making this Elegant Brit skin.