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Postcards from My Backyard

By Rob Sylvan | Published December 1, 2007

I really enjoy spending time around the house and in the yard. One of the biggest reasons I moved to the Northeast was because of the full-on change of seasons effect. Each season is so markedly different from the next. Each with its own delights and nuances. So many photographic opportunities await and the scenery is always changing.

With the 1.3 update for Lightroom came the welcome integration of Airtight’s AutoViewer, PostcardViewer, and SimpleViewer galleries. So, here are some postcards from my own backyard across the changing seasons.

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Lightroom Custom Watermark Tutorial

By Rob Sylvan | Published September 10, 2007

My “Under the Loupe” tutorial on using an export action to create a custom watermark for the web galleries is finally out in Photoshop User magazine (Sept 07, pg 84). Here’s the nutshell version:

Create watermark action in Photoshop
Turn action into a droplet and save in Lightroom’s Export Actions folder
Configure Lightroom’s Auto Import function so that images saved from the droplet are automatically imported
Select images in Lightroom that you want to watermark, click Export and select your droplet as the “After Export” action
Bring all the auto imported watermarked images into the web gallery
Upload to your web space

Pick up the September 2007 issue of Photoshop User magazine for the detailed steps!

UPDATE: You should also check out an alternative method I find even better! See how I watermark photos in Lightroom 2 on my Lightroomers blog.