Posts Tagged ‘ Lightroom ’

Review: TTG Pages

Months ago, I reviewed a fine piece of Web Gallery Engine for Lightroom from The Turning Gate, the one-man creation of Matthew Campagna. That piece of software, TTG Highslide Gallery Pro, made creation of high quality, attractive galleries simple. Plus, the added benefit that these beautiful galleries can be generated and uploaded directly from Lightroom. TTG [ READ MORE ]

LR3beta Preset: Kodak T-Max 3200

Hey, what is up with everybody? Sorry for the extended absence, but I have had way too much on my plate of late and needed to get some crap lined out. Sometimes I feel it is better to do nothing than to do something half-assed, henceforth the lack of updates on LIDF since the Kodachrome [ READ MORE ]

Rant: Lightroom Wishlist

Recently the Twitter persona of the Lightroom team asked what plug-ins would we most like to see for Lightroom. Which is fine, but most plug-ins process their magic on raster images. If that was a concern, I hit my go to Lightroom plug-in Photoshop. Another big question that should be considered is “What features does Lightroom [ READ MORE ]

LR/ACR Preset: Fuji Velvia 100 @ 80

Hey, whats up everybody? Still cranking on a lot of scanning articles to start releasing soon and trying to get ahead on my work over at X-Equals, so today seems like a good day to release a new preset. Today I bring you another emulation of Fuji Velvia 100. The original version is available only in the Cold [ READ MORE ]

Review: The Turning Gate Highslide Gallery Pro

Have you made a web gallery in Lightroom recently? Been less than impressed with the quality of the built in gallery engines Adobe provides with Lightroom? If so, The Turning Gate has been hard at work producing a slew of great web engines ready to use with Lightroom. Of all that they provide, TTG Highslide [ READ MORE ]

LR/ACR Preset: Kodak High Definition 400

Its another Monday and I got another preset for you. This time I present, for your approval, my interpretation of Kodak High Definition 400, the fine consumer film Kodak produced earlier this decade. When I got back into film photography, I came across a glut of this film and shot over 80 rolls. Needless to say the [ READ MORE ]

Scanning, an Art Unto Itself

Photography is an art of many facets, it always has been. In the early days of photography one would have to become proficient at exposure and composition to make the initial image on film and then master the art of development followed up by darkroom printing. I won’t even touch on the extending arts of framing and presentation. A [ READ MORE ]

LR/ACR Preset: Forte Fortepan 200

Well, I am trying to get back on a constant release schedule. I hope to have a new post up every Monday and Friday, with new presets coming on 2 or more Mondays a month. I cannot keep up the rlease schedule I was doing earlier this year if I want to avoid burning out [ READ MORE ]

LR/ACR Preset: Polaroid High Definition 200

Alright, it’s been a while since the last preset release, but most of this WordPress switch is over and it is time to get to putting some material back out again! Today I bring you another preset, this time simulating the old, cheap Polaroid High Definition 200 35mm film that could once be found on [ READ MORE ]

LR/ACR Preset: Polaroid 600

[Download updated 8/31/2009 with the ACR presets now included.] Hey everyone, it’s been a while, but it is finally time to resurrect LIDF from the ashes created by all my personal issues from the past few months. LIDF will now update on Saturdays and Wednesdays, with new articles, presets, reviews and my own rants. [ READ MORE ]