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March 23, 2009 by A.J. Wood

DFW Events – Week of March 22nd

“Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.” – Office Space

Made it through the weekend, almost feel relieved it is Monday. Sydney is still sick, although a bit perkier than on Friday. She’s at least sitting up on her own, and calling for the dog. I appreciate all the tweets and love during our small family crisis. Thank you all. Alrighty, on with this week’s events:

DFW WordPress Meetup – Saturday, March 28th at 4pm – Surprise! No on blogs anymore it’s all about Twitter. j/k Come learn how you can integrate various Twitter tools into your blogging life.

And that’s it. Why you ask? Well, most folks have left their home cities to be at Photoshop World in Boston. At least that’s where I would be this week, except I have some business to attend to here. If you’re going, be sure to catch @NAPP_News as there will be a tweetup, which I believe is tomorrow evening.

March 20, 2009 by A.J. Wood

Fun Fun Friday

How YOU doin’? It’s been quite a week, which ended with Sydney being sick today with a viral infection. Not how I planned to start the weekend. If you’re in Austin for SXSW this weekend, be sure to catch my sister Lesli’s band The Redwood Plan tomorrow at Lovejoys. I had planned to be there, but we’ll be staying home to get baby girl better. Alrighty, onto news around the Interwebs:

@Firgs recently wrote on her blog that she’s a Photoshop Snob. As a fellow enthusiast, I can understand the passion. However, while Photoshop is an AMAZING piece of software, it’s not for everyone. Even it’s little brother PS Elements can be a bit much, especially if all you want to do is have fun with your photos. And that’s what Vertus has done right with its latest software creation Play with Pictures.

DFW Events – Week of March 15th

Happy Monday to you all. Here’s the rundown of events around the DFW metroplex this week:

Richardson Internet Entrepreneurs – Tuesday, March 17th at 7pm – Topic will be how to increase revenue on your website.

NTPC – Thursday, March 19th at 7:30pm – Topic for the evening will be flash photography. $8 at the door.

NTPC – Saturday, March 21st at 11am – Field trip to the Dallas Aboretum to take advantage of Dallas Bloom season.

Texas Glamour Club – Saturday, March 21st at 12pm – Photography Workshop: Special Effects Lighting with guest model Rayne. $199

Feel free to tag me on Twitter if there’s an event I should list.

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March 15, 2009 by A.J. Wood

Managing Metadata in Lightroom

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 to the Adobe forums that Tom sent me, I realized the issue was not a bug, but an unfortunate misunderstanding of how Lightroom handles metadata. Here are the steps for manually or automatically syncing metadata info between a Lightroom catalog and individual image files.

Quick Links Wednesday

Morning all. It’s a light blog week. Need to think about getting me some guest bloggers over here, drum up some interest. Here are some links from around the interwebs:

NAPP Twitter Folks – @mitzs put together a list of about 112 NAPP members who also use Twitter. Just another way for you Photoshop enthusiasts to connect.

50 Tips for Frugal Living – with all the doom & gloom in the economic forecasts, you might consider reigning in some of those frivolous expenses.

17 Gmail Tools – if you live in Gmail (and who doesn’t these days?) then you might already be familiar with some of these apps.

Pixelmator – if Pixlr wasn’t enough for you last week, or if you want an offline app, you might give this image editor a spin. Mac OSX only.

Periodic Table of Adobe Shortcuts – I had to use Firefox zoom to get a good look at these. Certainly wouldn’t mind a larger image size.

Viveza for Lightroom Review – Matt Kloskowski gives a quick review of Nik Software’s Viveza plugin now available for Lightroom.

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