{"id":12736,"date":"2008-04-24T23:16:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/tips-on-using-the-lightroom-2-beta.html"},"modified":"2008-04-24T23:16:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T23:16:53","slug":"tips_on_using_the_lightroom_2_beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/tips_on_using_the_lightroom_2_beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on using the Lightroom 2 beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Image sharpness is a good thing&#8230; except when it isn&#8217;t.&#160; Martin Evening shows how to achieve a &#8220;&#8216;pseudo&#8217; diffusion printing technique&#8221; using the Lightroom 2.0 beta&#8217;s ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/lightroom-news.com\/2008\/04\/11\/getting-negative-with-clarity-in-lightroom-20-beta\/\">go negative on the Clarity slider<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>To even out exposures across multiple images, Lightroom features a &#8220;Match Total Exposures&#8221; command.  Sean McCormack explains it in <a href=\"http:\/\/lightroom-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/matchtotal.mp4\">this brief video<\/a>.  (I&#8217;d listen just for the soothing brogue. ;-))\n<li>Lightroom lets you create virtual copies of a single image, applying different settings to each.&#160; New in the LR2 beta is the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oreilly.com\/lightroom\/2008\/04\/stacking-virtual-copies-in-pho.html\">stack virtual copies as layers of a PSD file<\/a>, letting you composite and blend them in Photoshop. <em>Mucho groovio!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lightroom marketing manager Frederick V. Johnson toted his camera to the Golden Gate Bridge in order to demonstrate <a href=\"http:\/\/frederickvan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/lightroom-2-and-photoshop-cs3-stitching-a-panorama\/\">handing off a panorama<\/a> from Lightroom to Photoshop. <\/li>\n<li>Ken Milburn touches on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oreilly.com\/lightroom\/2008\/04\/instant-turnaround-in-lightroo.html\">improved Auto adjustment algorithms<\/a> in LR2. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image sharpness is a good thing&#8230; except when it isn&#8217;t.&#160; Martin Evening shows how to achieve a &#8220;&#8216;pseudo&#8217; diffusion printing technique&#8221; using the Lightroom 2.0 beta&#8217;s ability to go negative on the Clarity slider. To even out exposures across multiple images, Lightroom features a &#8220;Match Total Exposures&#8221; command. Sean McCormack explains it in this brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}