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Photoshop Tip: Synchronizing adjustments in Camera RAW

By Johan W. Elzenga On 13/05/2012

Most people use Adobe’s raw-converter Camera RAW with one image at a time, but did you know you can use it with a series of images and synchronize the adjustments from one image to all the others? That saves you an enormous amount of time if you need to adjust many similar images, especially if [...]

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Lightroom Catalog back-up

By Johan W. Elzenga On 22/04/2012

During my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom seminars I’m often asked how frequently one should make a back-up of the Lightroom catalog, as can be set in the Catalog Settings. My answer may surprise you, because it is “never”. Of course I do not mean that you shouldn’t make back-ups of your Lightroom catalog, but I don’t [...]

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TIPA Awards 2012

By Johan W. Elzenga On 16/04/2012

TIPA, the leading world-wide organisation of photo magazines, has announced the TIPA Awards 2012. Canon was the big winner this year, with no less than 6 TIPA Awards awards. Some people may think it’s strange that the Canon EOS 1D X could get a TIPA Award while it’s not yet available on [...]

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 book

By Johan W. Elzenga On 05/04/2012

Today I received the first copy of my new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 book. It should hit the book store shelves early next week. As this is a Dutch book, please switch to the Dutch version of this site for more details if you are interested.

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Photoshop Tip: Fit Image

By Johan W. Elzenga On 04/04/2012

Everyone who works with Photoshop knows the ‘Image Size’ dialog for resizing images. One question that comes up regularly is how to use this dialog in an ‘Action’, if the action will run with a mixture of images in portrait and landscape orientation. How do you resize each image to 800 pixels at the longest [...]

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

By Johan W. Elzenga On 06/03/2012

Adobe introduced Photoshop Lightroom 4 today, and that means that my popular Lightroom book will also get an update. As this is a Dutch book only, those people who do understand Dutch are requested to go to the Dutch version of this site for further information.

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