Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’

January 14th, 2010 Lightroom Tip – Setting your Camera Calibration and changing your Default Settings

Lightroom’s Default Develop Settings:

If you are anything like me, then you have spent all too long wondering a couple of things about lightroom (I use version 2.2) regarding importing RAW files and the default settings that Lightroom applies to them before you begin working on editing them.

Firstly, I wondered how to CHANGE those default settings that Lightroom applies – for example, it always applies certain values to the Basic settings as follows:

Note that the white balance is always defaulted to “As Shot” meaning it takes the setting from the RAW file each time.

I have taken issue with this in the past because a lot of my shots were starting off with the shadows clipped due to the combination of settings that were automatically applied. I could not find anywhere in the menu options that this could be changed and have previously  read on many forums that it is not possible to do so.

Camera Calibration:

Now the second thing that I have been wondering is about camera calibration. Since changing from my Sony A200 to a Canon 5D MkII I have noticed that a whole new bunch of options have appeared in the profile dropdown menu in the Develop module. Read the rest of this entry »

July 11th, 2009 Designing a Photo eBook with Adobe InDesign

So I was browsing one of my favourite photography blogs, Digital-Photography-School.com a little while ago and came across an inspirational article by Neil Creek (read it here) about presenting your photographs professionally in a photo eBook and thought; Why not give it a go myself?

The original article by Neil describes the benefits of creating an eBook along with design decisions to think about, suggested design software and so on, but this was the first time I had used any such software so I thought I would share the steps I took with InDesign to create my finished eBook. (Download my eBook here)

As a newcomer to InDesign most of my learning was around the Master Pages concept, so I hope this step-by-step can help guide you if this is your first time with the software.

1: Create a new document

After downloading and installing InDesign, the first step was to create a new document. After selecting File>New>Document from the menu, I went with the following settings:

Points to note here are:

Page Size: A4

Orientation: Landscape

Facing Pages: Ticked

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