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Katrin’s New Book is a Winner, and I Know Eight People I’m Sending a Copy to This Week!

By Scott on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am | updates.

Before I left, I got my hands on Katrin Eismann and Sean Duggan’s new book, “The Creative Digital Darkroom” (Published by O’Reilly publishing) and I have to say—it’s the most complete book I’ve seen on the topic, and packed with so much in-depth info they probably didn’t sleep for a year. Way to go you two!!!

While the ink is still wet on the pages, I want to send a copy of this great new book to eight people who posted killer ideas (as blog comments) to my “Lightroom 2.0 Wishlist” post from last week. These are ideas that struck a chord with me personally (and I hope will with Adobe, too!), and they were just so good, I wanted to do something special for them. The winners of Katrin and Sean’s new book are:

Bob Ellis, for his idea of adding a pop-up movable shortcuts palette you can have open while you work in Lightroom
Dain, for his idea to have Lightroom’s Back-up warning appear when you close Lightroom (or shut down), rather than when you first open it.
Eric, who suggested that Lightroom automatically create and embed a snapshot of the develop settings used when a photo is exported.
MRK is That Kid, for the idea of a built-in Neutral Density Gradient Filter.
Allen Gambrell, for the ability to output the print to an image file at a specific resolution to be able to send to a pro lab for prints.
Rui M Leai, for the suggestion of adding the ability to browse folders without importing
Josh Garretson, for the idea of adding filtering like the Adobe Bridge
Christer, for the idea of including perspective Corrections within Lightroom

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me, with our readers, and most importantly; with Adobe. It matters.

If you didn’t win Katrin and Sean’s new book, you can find it at Barnes & Noble.com or at Amazon.com, or wherever really good books are sold.

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^#1

Scott,

I am not concerned with receiving a book or not, however, I wanted to share with you a Lightroom modification that I think many people would be very happy to have.

After we import photos and have the folder in the Library Module visible, I often create a collection for the most valued photos from that import that I will be using to send to a client vs creating a sub folder. This way, I have a quick way to access the photos and I can assign a purpose and child collections as well within that collection. I like the way it stands on its own.

The problem I will continue to run into is when I have created a virtual copy within that collection; then say I want to delete the virtual copy, or even the original, from within the collection, when I right click (or control click for Mac) I only get the option to remove from the collection.

My recommendation is for Lightroom to be modified so that I have the option to delete the photo or its virtual copy right from the collection. This keeps me from having to go to the photo or virtual copy in the folders area and then navigate back to my collection where I was doing my main work (which is a very cumbersome process and waste of valuable editing time for my customers).

Hope this helps.

Pat Flanakin
Houston, Texas

Pat Flanakin on January 22nd, 2008 at 10:26 am

^#2

There is one thing I wish was different. I know Scott hates to crop as I do, but when I need to, the Vignett is only applied to the edges of the original image. It is not applied to the edeges of the croped portion. That makes sense as the tool is for lens correction. However, as many use it to add artistic value, it would be nice to not have it locked in to the original image edges. I hope that makes sense.

BTW, the other suggestions are great and congrats on the book.

Jason
South Carolina

Jason Hall on January 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 am

^#3

Hey Scott,

How about making that 9 people, like me

NAPP Nut

Ken
Kentucky

Ken Lawson on January 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm

^#4

O-Great-Wonder-of-Kelby:

I beg of you, make it 10… between my 3 kids, the blinding snow and the roar of cold, winter dreariness with limited outdoor photography opportunities, I could use a book with this kind of ’spark’ to it to snap me out of the ‘photo-funk’.

Keep up the professional work, Scott… your site is something I look forward to every day (and no that is not me buttering you up - you’ve had enough buttering by others). Thanks.

- Kevin
Maryland/DC

Kevin on January 22nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm

^#5

Hi Scott

I have your great books and also Katrin’s but would love this new book of hers.

Cheers

Clifford

Clifford Canty on January 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

^#6

Scott,

I just found out I’m one of the winners of Katrin’s new book. WOW! Thank you VERY MUCH for your generosity. I appreciate your willingness to provide for all of us a platform to brainstorm and help to improve this magnificent software. I’m just honored to have just been mentioned as having an “idea that struck a chord with you,’ let alone getting such a wonderful book.

My sincerest thanks,

Dain

Dain on January 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

^#7