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Quick Collections in Lightroom – I Create Content #37

by A.J. Wood September 5, 2011 I Create Content

Good morning dear viewers. Before I get to today’s show, I want to thank you for your patience as we work on the website. While many of the changes are happening behind the scenes, the stability of the site kept me from posting the last 12 episodes here. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll [...]

Tagged as: I Create Content, lightroom, shows, Tutorials, videos, workflow

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Interview on NBC Action News, Kansas City for D2WC

by A.J. Wood July 14, 2011 Adobe

Today kicks off the pre-con workshops for D2WC, and I joined Kevin Stohlmeyer for a quick interview with the local Kansas City NBC affiliate. Dallas/Fort Worth are you listening? Let’s get our creative community fired up!!! As much as I enjoy being on the road, it will be great to get home to the family [...]

Tagged as: conference, D2WC, designer, developer, interview, Kevin Stohlmeyer, NBC, workflow

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Top Five Reasons to Attend D2W 2011

by A.J. Wood July 5, 2011 Adobe

Good morning everyone! The conference season is upon us. Less than ten days away is the D2W Conference in Kansas City, MO scheduled July 14-16. This annual event has quickly become a sought after source of designer & developer workflow goodness. That being said, here are the Top Five Reasons to attend D2W: InDesign to [...]

Tagged as: conference, D2WC, designer, developer, Events, Kansas City, Missouri, workflow

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How To Use Layer Comps to Organize Designs in Photoshop – I Create Content #8

by A.J. Wood June 29, 2011 I Create Content

If you’re reading this then that means you’re catching me on a better faster webserver. I want to thank @VSellis for connecting me with @Orangecast as my WordPress setup is screaming fast compared to my old host. Speed baby! Yeah!!! Alrighty, on today’s episode we’re talking Layer Comps in Photoshop. If you’re not using them, [...]

Tagged as: I Create Content, Layer Comps, organization, Photoshop, shows, Tutorials, video, workflow

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Tip Tuesday – 08/17/2010

by A.J. Wood August 17, 2010 Tutorials

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to show you that it’s okay to destroy pixels. Sometimes making a composite image doesn’t require fancy layer masks or clipping paths, a good ole Eraser tool will do just fine. Have a look.

Tagged as: Background Eraser, Image Compositing, Photoshop, Tip Tuesday, tutorial, video, workflow

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Effective Use of Lightroom Identity Plates

by A.J. Wood April 16, 2009 Tutorials

Which Lightroom Catalog is it? Identity Plates in Lightroom allow you to quickly recognize which catalog you are working in. If you live in multiple catalogs this can be extremely useful. (And if you use Lightroom to present images to your clients, the added branding always helps)

Tagged as: identity plate, lightroom, photography, Tutorials, workflow

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Managing Metadata in Lightroom

by A.J. Wood March 15, 2009 Tutorials

Lightroom (LR) enthusiasts marvel at its ability to streamline our digital image workflow. However, working with a Lightroom catalog (its database) can be a task when it comes to syncing metadata changes to outside applications. During last Friday’s Lightroom workshop an attendee mentioned a bug in the 2.3 release of Lightroom. Upon reviewing the link [...]

Tagged as: best practices, bridge, camera raw, DNG, lightroom, metadata, photography, RAW, syncing, tutorial, workflow

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The Award for Worst Adobe Keyboard Shortcut

by A.J. Wood February 19, 2009 Tutorials

Hola dear readers! How are you today? Maybe it’s the classes I’m teaching today (Dreamweaver then Lightroom), but I’ve got keyboard shortcuts on the brain. Here are some quick observations: 1. Why are the Preferences in Dreamweaver activated by CMD+U (CTRL+U) and not CMD+K (CTRL+K)? Was Dreamweaver Uninvited to the preferences party by InDesign, Photoshop [...]

Tagged as: Adobe, bridge, keyboard shortcuts, lightroom, workflow, worst

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