Large version is on Flickr – Much more detail

Stitched with Photoshop – I will definitely have to do more pano work in the near future.

Experiment with heavy and light vignette options. In the end editing is all about personal opinion or the job you are trying to complete or get … Which one do you like more?

There sure were allot of oooo’s  and ah’s in the audience – I assume none of them were thinking about the possible consequences.

So how does this help photographers – Well it helps greatly by allowing us to fix massive mistakes & possibly save huge jobs. But the real question is what happens when Adobe empowers editors with the ability to remove anything easily from an image? It is really a problem we have daily and that is how to mark or watermark your images to hopefully maintain some kind of control over the images and the content you created. This incredible tool like many things great in our world can easily be used for evil.

I believe we all know that we as photographers should not impede the creation of such great time saving tools but on the flip side i ask Adobe: Can we please have a good way to secure our content when tools like this are released?

Adobe has very smart people working for them, they have and to this day create great products, now its time to make a reliable, secure way for photographers to lock down their images. We have asked for it for years and with the introduction of  Content Aware Fill it’s time to see some better options.

In diving a bit deeper into this topic it does seems Adobe is working on solutions as I could only image they would be, this article: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phscs2ip_digintegr.pdf and a few others show the high level of concern we all have but in the end we still have no real tools available to secure images.

Will any of these unknown security tools solve the problem, doubtful. But just like with “The Club” on your car steering wheel the harder we can make it the better.

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/

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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.

• Border widths can now be a percentage of the longest/shortest side.
• Problems related to the saving of presets containing multiple borders have now been solved (I hope!).

Author’s Site: http://timothyarmes.com/lr2mogrify.php

Update is available from your Lightroom Plugins page

The Fractalius plugin creates unusual, eccentric artworks in a single step. The effects are based on extraction of so-called hidden fractal texture of an image. You can also simulate various types of exotic lightings and high realistic pencil sketches.

This is definitely one of the more fun plugins for photoshop – and I even paid for it because the results can be so cool and fun to play with… Sometimes a plugin should just really mess with pixels and this one does just that.

No details of what has changed yet – but there seems to have been a few fixes lately:

Version 2.12, July 2009

• No Changes listed yet

Version 2.11, 4th July 2009

• The export was being disabled unnecessarily when the watermark height field was empty, even though watermark resizing option was not turned on.

Version 2.00, 2th July 2009

• New JPEG compression option will compress JPEGs to the highest quality that’ll be smaller than the requested file size.
• Text annotations can now include accented characters and other such things.
• Unnecessary punctuation resulting from empty tokens in a text annotation is now removed.
• Text can now be scaled as a percentage of the shortest or longest side of the image so that it’ll be the same size on both landscape or portrait images.
• Watermarks can now be scaled as a percentage of the shortest or longest side of the image so they’ll be the same size on both landscape or portrait images.
• Estoteric errors that resulted from leaving width and height fields blank are now trapped.

For those that use lightroom here are the details of this great export plugin – actually something worth donating money to the author for:

LR2/Mogrify is a Lightroom 2 post-process plug-in that can embellish your images as they are exported from Lightroom. It’s flexible interface allows you to add borders, watermarks and text annotations to your images.

It’s also capable of exporting optimum JPEG images that are no larger than your requested size; great for uploading to web sites that limit the file size.

LR2/Mogrify uses ImageMagick to process the images. ImageMagick is a collection of powerful, freeware command line utilities for processing images.

In contrast to the original LR/Mogrify for Lightroom 1.3 and above, LR2/Mogrify is implemented as a "post-process" plug-in (new to Lightroom 2.0), allowing it to work in tandem with any export plug-in. This allows you to process your images using LR2/Mogrify and still have them sent to your final destination using the export plug-in of your choice.

LR/Mogrify and LR2/Mogrify are donationware plug-ins and are distributed via the Photograper’s Toolbox. The trial version limits the number of images that can be exported in one go to ten. Donating towards one of the projects removes this restriction and will give you a serial number that works with both.

You may also be interested in my LR/Enfuse plug-in to blend multiple exposures together.