Comments on: Friday Tips - Easy Way to Switch Folders

By: kelli

kelli — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:54:21 +0000

great tip. thanks! happy new year!

By: Phil Scott

Phil Scott — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:11:18 +0000

Matt-that’s a great tip that will really help me! Thanks and best for the new year.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:32:33 +0000

Unfortunately I too have succumbed to GHIII. Glad you are feeling my pain. I heard all of the hype and after some gift card discounts, I got it for $40 and figured what the heck. It so owns me. What is Lightroom again? Ha!

And marathons are great. I did one on a dare while stationed in the Marine Corps. It is a great accomplishment and another check mark to add on the things you’ve done list. Now back to GHIII.

By: Patrick J. Hughes

Patrick J. Hughes — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:37:46 +0000

To: Matt K.
Sorry but I did not know the best way to reach you and ask this question.

I have created a number of web galleries in Lightroom using Slimbox. “Which is terriffic.” It seems the default settings are for the last gallery created? How do I reopen one up and view it as originally created? I could not figure out how to save each gallery settings in “Lightroom”?

http://www.memorymatephoto.com/My%20Galleries/Christmas%20Tree%20Ceremony%20at%20the%20Wall/christmastreeceremony.html

PS. Did you get one or Two guitars with your “hero”?

The Best Of Wishes & Good Health For The New Year’s,

Patrick

By: Ivan Makarov

Ivan Makarov — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:14:26 +0000

Very useful Lightroom tip, Matt. That’ll save me a lot of time in the long run. As to marathon - that’s exactly the reason I prefer half-marathons and 10k’s, hehe.. Good luck with that!

Thanks for all you do and I hope you and your family are having great holidays.

By: Raymond Kozma

Raymond Kozma — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:31 +0000

Echoing so many others, I too thank you for the many tips you have given this year and for the free presets. Two ‘tricks’ I have found: 1) There is no immediate way to organize the presets in any logical way once they have been imported. But by adding ’spaces’ before the preset name, the computer can be fooled into organizing them differently (e.g. five, four, three, two, one and none (spaces) places the presets into groups in a descending order); 2) After importing photos from the Library into the Print module, and wanting to print using the Contact sheet (e.g. to print nine photos on a page), there is no way to be able to rearrange the photos into an arrangement you might want. But by placing the photos into the Quick Collection area first, you can then ‘click and drag’ them into whatever arrangement you like, then they can be moved to the Print Module. Thanks again, Matt, for all your efforts!

By: Florian Rachor

Florian Rachor — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:21:38 +0000

Thnx a lot for this tip, gives me more time for playing guitar hero… Keep up the good work in 2008, I’ll make sure to visit this page on a regular basis.

By: John Bigenwald

John Bigenwald — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:30:21 +0000

Disney is a great marathon — if you’re going to enjoy the experience. It’s not for someone trying for a really fast time — it sounds like you’re looking for the experience. Enjoy it, savor it — and get a reservation for a day after massage now!

You’ll also want to wear your finisher’s medal to the parks that afternoon — take a 30 minute soak in a cold bath — enlist your kids to empty the ice machine — take a couple of Advil, then find the biggest burger in the kingdom for lunch.

I did Disney six years ago and brought a disposable camera with me — they have characters throughout the course and the handlers will take your picture. I’d love to do it again but this time with a little digital. There are so many interesting shots you can only get when you’re on a 26.2 mile stroll through the kingdom. Enjoy.

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:23:57 +0000

It’s too bad that Lightroom doesn’t handle Photoshop Batch, Merge to HDR, etc. as Bridge does, this is pretty much the only remaining functionality that I use Bridge for anymore!

By: mattk

mattk — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:14:54 +0000

Glyn - Thanks for the cool tip mate!

Don - Not really a Lightroom thing. More Photoshop so I’m not sure I’ll get to it on this site.

Guitar Hero commenters: I’m glad you feel my pain. I just won the game on the “Easy” level. Now it’s time to move to Medium. Ughhhh!

Marathon Good Wishers: Thank you SOOOO much for the great words of inspiration and good wishes. I’ll need them. I actually ran a marathon 7 years ago so I know I can do it. I just want to do it better this time. However, that was 2 kids, 8 books, and about 500 podcasts ago. So, there’s been a lot to take up my time these days besides running. I’m excited though. I feel good, rested, and prepared and the workouts I have over the next 2 weeks will just get me stronger for race day.
Oh yeah…Joel hit the nail on the head. I trained for months for my last one. But I got excited the day of and went out of the gate too fast. I paid for it 3 hours later BIG TIME! That won’t happen again this time. A Steady 9:30 pace is what I’m after.

Bo, Peter, and Rick: I told you it was a cool tip.

Thanks again everybody.
- Matt K