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Ultimate Mixer - TONIGHT!
Thread posted on Jan 27 by Alan_Brusky

I hope you are ll able to come to the Ultimate Mixer tonight! It will be a great opportunity to mingle with other creative professionals and it benefits a great cause!

The Ultimate Mixer is a collaboration of Tampa Bay's advertising, communications, creative, marketing, media, and PR professionals aimed at uniting our community to create greater networking possibilities for our members. 

Enjoy complimentary appetizers and Happy Hour drink specials. And do something good for the community, bring a non-perishable food item and help us replenish the post-holiday shelves of Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity.

Cost is FREE for those who bring food to restock the food bank. $5 for those w/o food. All proceeds will go to Feeding America.

Great raffle prizes throughout the evening! 1 free raffle ticket per entry. We will sell additional raffle tickets for a fee. All proceeds will go to Feeding America.

Thanks to all of our member groups for putting this together once again!

- American Advertising Federation - Tampa Bay 
- Ad 2 Tampa Bay
- Bay Area Media Network
- Florida Public Relations Association of Tampa Bay
- International Association of Business Communicators Tampa Bay
- Legal Marketing Association
- Lightroom Tampa Bay
- Public Relations Society of America, Tampa Bay
- Society for Marketing Professional Services Tampa Bay 
- Tampa Bay InDesign User Group

No Cover * Happy Hour Drink Specials * Complimentary Appetizers

Green screen 1
Thread posted on Dec 16 by Beth McNabb

David, you had a really good meeting where you showed masking in Lightroom. 

I had a young and aspiring photographer who has downloaded the Lightroom trial and wants to know if she can change her greenscreen to something different.  What do you think her options are in Lightroom and/or do you think Photoshop would do a better job for her?

I've encouraged her to join our group. 

Thank you for your thoughts.

Recent Comments (1 of 1)
12/16/10 by David A Rogers: . Its important to note that the masking in Lightroom is specifically fo...

Plug In for noise vs Lightroom adjustments 2
Thread posted on Dec 14 by Beth McNabb

Do you use a plug in for noise that you love in Lightroom or do you prefer to use the Lightroom adjustments?  If you prefer Lightroom, is it because it's not for a client or because you think Lightroom does a better job?

I have an older camera and had to shoot at ISO 1600 for a client.  I want to remove as much noise as possible and as quickly as possible. 

Thank you for your thoughts.  I really want to know your opinions. 

Recent Comments (2 of 2)
12/16/10 by Beth McNabb: Usually I don't have any major problems with noise either. I was shooting ...
12/15/10 by David A Rogers: . Personally I don't really have an issue with noise. Mostly because I d...

Collections! Best Practices / Your Workflow?
Thread posted on Nov 23 by ErikValind

While downloading a job I shot this past Monday it dawned on me how much more I have been utilizing collections in LR lately. This is a more recent habit then I would like to admit but I can't imaging not utilizing collections now that I've figured them out a little. Especially with the added clutter of video clips, behind the scenes photos and setup shots on top of the standard .DNG files and subsequent derivative files my old use of folders was quickly becoming unmanageable.

My current workflow is ever evolving but I have started using meta data to tag each job and "Smart Collections" to automatically do my sorting as I import. This at least gives me a clean starting point before jumping into the editing process. My goal going forward is to put together some more detailed Smart Collections to keep me organized all the way through as I rate, edit and create PSDs and TIFFs. The added benefit of these collections is there indifference to where the actual master files lives, as I keep these on a separate external drive.

I am interested to hear what works for you guys if you are using collections and if not, I encourage you to start, and ask your questions here.

Taking large Catalog to several smaller catalogs & archive 2
Thread posted on Nov 11 by Keith@kwstudios.biz

Do you have a suggestion for this goal: I'd like to simplify and comparementalize (sp!?) my photos into collections unique to each individual event that can be culled/simplified to "each stand on their own" and be archived to DVD or external drive.

I currently have a large catalog "All Pictures" - with say 40k photos from numerous events (Wedding 1, Wedding N, Corporate1 to Corporate N, Fashion... Embarassing photos of DavidR, etc..).  Each event is in its own folder with multiple subfolders..

What is the most efficient method to group, catagorize and create individual catalogues (while removing them from the big "all photo" catalog)?  And I guess the world is such that the majority will not fit on a DVD - are we stuck with using external drives (they scare me as I know have 4 that are dead when checked from storage...!!) or do you save and span multiple DVD's?

Thanks for any ideas :) Keith

Recent Comments (2 of 2)
11/11/10 by Keith@kwstudios.biz: Thanks Dave! and yes - a good question "Why".. lol... You did catch what i...
11/11/10 by David A Rogers: . The first question I have is Why? Why would you want to manage multip...

Export catalogue or simply move it? 2
Thread posted on Oct 18 by Alex McKnight

I have been on location for a week. I have a catalogue with just under 4000 images on the laptop. I want them on my desktop in my "client catalogue". Would you: Export the catalogue or simply move it from laptop to desktop. The first scenario seems redundant as I will have to move the exported catalogue anyway.

Recent Comments (2 of 2)
10/18/10 by David A Rogers: To clarify: moving the images wouldn't work but I realize you asked about m...
10/18/10 by David A Rogers: . Transferring catalogs and data from one machine to another is a common...

Dont' forget to vote everyday! 1
Thread posted on Sep 15 by Beth McNabb

Hi everyone!

Don't forget to vote for David as the next Photoshop Evangelist!  He needs our support!

Beth

Recent Comments (1 of 1)
09/15/10 by David A Rogers: Thanks Beth! There are 2 videos people can vote on. One of which has a l...

Group Suggestion Box 13
Thread posted on Sep 14 by David A Rogers , tagged Sticky

Hi,

If you have any suggestions for the group or ideas on what you would like to do, see, or hear at meetings please let us know.

Recent Comments (3 of 13)
12/10/10 by MichaelFSheehan1: Collections is good Exporting would be good with all the variations: expor...
12/10/10 by David A Rogers: . Yes, and the difference between Export and Edit, as they are often con...
12/10/10 by Alan_Brusky: Exporting. I think this simple action is sometimes overlooked. I think this...

Lightroom Question - tethered shooting 3
Thread posted on Sep 14 by Beth McNabb

During a tethered shoot with a client, Lightroom kept kicking me out of my directory.  I was using Lightroom 3 and a Canon 20D.  I would shoot a few pictures and then it would make me restart the whole tethered shoot dialogue.  It was frustrating for the client and a made me feel like I didn't look like I knew what I was doing.  Any ideas?  I don't think the camera was going to sleep. 

Recent Comments (3 of 3)
09/14/10 by Beth McNabb: Great thoughts, I'll check them out! I used a very short cable, would have...
09/14/10 by David A Rogers: . Im glad you put the part in about the camera going to sleep as that wo...
09/14/10 by ErikValind: First thing to do is make sure you have the latest updates for Lightroom an...

Log In Automatically 3
Thread posted on Sep 12 by David A Rogers , tagged General,announcement

Sometimes it can be a tad tedious to enter your login details each time you want to come in to the site but there are very good reasons for companies wanting you to log in before accessing any areas where content can be changed or messages posted out.


Some months back when changes were made to the groups.adobe.com site the login area changed to a panel that popped up. Unfortunately this panel does not remember any details and you have to type in your Adobe ID and password each time.

Well the is a way around that. And NO, its not by the use of a program that remembers or assigns passwords, its simply a different area of the Adobe site where you can login to Adobe, and therefore access ANY groups that you belong to.

Bookmark the link below, instead of the Lightroomtampabay.com address and you will be able to have your browser remember your details just like any other site where you enter usernames and passwords. Hopefully this will make it a little less tedious for those of you who have many names and passwords to remember. Of course, if you want to use a password program for all of your internet sites, let me know and I will recommend a great one.

Link: A Different Door

Recent Comments (3 of 3)
10/17/10 by David A Rogers: . For those keen eyed hawks out there you may have noticed something abo...
09/15/10 by MichaelFSheehan1: I love One Password, for all my secret things, including credit cards, iden...
09/13/10 by ErikValind: One day I will breakdown and buy One Password for all my devices but until ...

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