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So you have made a few very cool web templates for showing off your latest photos and since you have had so much fun with photography you decide to upgrade you old computer with a new one. You finally get done with the hours of moving to a new machine and you have reinstalled Lightroom. You go looking and your web templates are gone?

Where did they go?

Well here is the bad news – More than likely if you did not back up your USER file on your old Windows machine those templates might be gone for good.

Here is where to look in Vista and Win 7:

C:/Users/Your User Acct/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Templates

And you thought it would be located in your lightroom catalog? So did I till I lost them all and had to recreate them.

Remember to back up your templates! I would recommend backing up the entire Lightroom user folder under Adobe – Just in case!

Worst case you can just import them in the reinstalled version of Lightroom if needed but at least you have not lost all your hard work.

See my latest post on Photofocus.com – Click the image above or this link:

http://photofocus.com/2010/01/08/glamour-photography-that-sounds-expensive-2/

Adobe’s Photoshop.com iPhone app goes live

from John Nack on Adobe by jnack

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I’m pleased to see that Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone has gone live on the App Store (see screenshots).

[Update: Don't be confused by the name: the app is useful for on-phone editing, not just uploading/sharing.]

According to the product page, with the app you can:

• Transform your photos with essential edits like crop, rotate and flip.
• Correct and play with color by adjusting the saturation and tint, enhancing the exposure and vibrancy, and converting images to black and white.
• Use the Sketch tool to make photos look like drawings, and Soft Focus to give photos a subtle blur for artistic effect.
• Apply dramatic changes with effects such as Warm Vintage, Vignette and Pop. Edits or changes can be undone or redone so you can experiment without the worry of losing your original photo.
• Upload photos to Photoshop.com. The app provides the ultimate digital photo wallet, providing access to your entire Photoshop.com library. Photoshop.com offers 2GB of free online photo storage (equal to more than 1,500 photos).

The app is free. Happy shooting!

Some good changes in the past couple versions. Download via the Lightroom 2 Plug-Ins Console – It should prompt you.

Change Log

Version 4.11, 1st October 2009

• PNG watermarks weren’t always working on Mac.

Version 4.00, 30th September 2009

• There’s a new "Canvas" section for placing the (resized) image onto a fixed size canvas. Useful when images have to have a fixed size but you don’t with to crop them.
• Multiple different watermarks may now be added to an image.
• PNG watermarks may now be scaled proportionally.
• Watermarks can now be specified as a percentage of the width or height of the image while preserving the aspect ratio.
• Horizontal/Vertical insets now work in each of the nine watermark positions.
• The limit of 3 text annotations has been removed.
• Fixed a recent bug that stopped TIFF’s being exported in 8-bit mode.
• Fixed a recent bug that stopped borders having no width or height.