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Many moons ago, an Adobe knowledge base article that solved an issue for older video cards, introduced the concept of the config.lua file. The config.lua file is file Lightroom will look for on startup and apply settings from within to change behaviour within Lightroom. There is no list of commands for what you can put in there available to the public, but occasionally a Lightroom Team member will suggest something that might help with a problem, or that can help debug a problem.

A few weeks ago, Matthew Campagna from The Turning Gate, sent me a gallery link to look at, specifically via my iPod Touch. It looked wonderful and was very elegant, of course it elicited lots of questions and comments from me. In truth I was very impressed with it. This was a preview of the TTG iPhone Portfolio 1.0 gallery, and is now available to download.
The purpose of this web engine is to create an iPhone compatible gallery, which has all the bells and whistles of a normal web gallery.

Continuing our series of occasional interviews, I recently approached Lightroom 3rd party developer Timothy Armes to talk about photography, Lightroom and his excellent plugins.

Hi Tim and welcome to Lightroom News

Thanks Sean, it’s great to be here.

Give us some idea about your photographic background?

Well, my interest in photography was sparked at a very young age when my mum bought herself an SLR which I used whenever I got the chance, but it wasn’t until I finished university that I bought my own camera. I suppose that I struggled in my initial attempts to “find myself” in photography - at the time I didn’t have the photographic culture necessary to move myself along.

About 12 years ago I enrolled in a photography course, and that’s what really got my started. Although I learned to develop and print my own film I felt more comfortable in the digital darkroom, so I used to shoot film and then scan it in so that I could learn to hone my post-processing skills.

In the first of a series of video tutorials on the toolstrip in Develop, I take a look at using the Crop tool. While I have posted a Crop video tutorial in the past, this one is a little more extensive, with new shortcuts and general tips. To follow are the Spot Removal tool, the Redeye tool, Graduated Filter and the Adjustment Brush.

Rather than doing my own post, which I was in the processing of making, let me point you over to Matt Kloskowski and his Lightroom Killer Tips post on Removing Old Camera Profiles. Based on comments on his 2.2 announcement post, Matt lists the locations of the files you need to find and delete.

Lightroom Help administrator Anita Dennis has announced the addition of a Lightroom Keyboard Shorcuts resource to the help pages. The list is extensive and includes a number of previously undocumented shortcuts. In addition Lightroom Help has been updated to 2.2, including recent bug fixes.

Tom Hogarty has announced Lightroom 2.2 is now available “

Lightroom 2.2 is now available on Adobe.com. (Mac, Win) The release includes new camera support for the following models:

• Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• Canon PowerShot G10
• Panasonic DMC-G1**
• Panasonic DMC-FX150**
• Panasonic DMC-FZ28**
• Panasonic DMC-LX3**
• Leica D-LUX 4**

We’ve also fixed a few bugs that were introduced with the Lightroom 2.0 release:

Lightroom 2 Bugs - Fixed

Although seriously busy with college, Matthew Campagna has found time to update his Client Response Gallery to version 2.1. For those unfamiliar with the gallery, this is a perfect way to use Lightroom to create galleries that allow clients to make selections of images online. The client form sends an email to the photographer listing picks, individual comments and ratings, depending on what options are chosen when creating the gallery. As this is a major update, users of previous versions are recommended to update.

2.1 Additions:

Updated scripts: Highslide 4.0.10, Fancy Forms 0.94, Mootools 1.2.
Removed Nifty Corners Cube (js/css) to further reduce gallery footprint.
Made changes to highslide.cfg.js, the custom Highslide configuration file used by the gallery.
Cleaned some old code out of the gallery head that wasn’t being used anymore; somehow overlooked it before.
Added a border to the Name/Email/Comments input form and corresponding color switcher to the UI.
Image caption alignment now set to left justified.
Added an overarching label or set of instructions for Custom Panes (to be used if you want a single label for both columns of checkboxes).
Paragraph alignment for upper and lower paragraphs can now be aligned left, right, center or justified.
Custom panes expanded to seven possible items.
onHover Download Title and Body copy now customizable.
Download Image button can now be set to download either the Hi-Res Rendition, or the Large Preview.

Users having previously purchased the gallery through E-Junkie.com should be able to download the update using their unexpired personal download links.

Joe Barrett of The Image-space has just uploaded a new Lightroom 2 ebook on his website.
You reviewed my last book back in March last year. Thanks.

It’ a collection of over 25 tips and techniques that he’s been progressively posting. It’s not the first time you’ve seen the name either, because he also had one for Lightroom 1. As with the first book, this is free, but donations are accepted.
Tips include:

Timothy Armes has today annouced a small but very useful update to LR2/Mogrify, his plugin for adding watermarks, annotations and borders to images exported from Lightroom 2.

In this update it’s now possible to include any borders within the size requirements that you specify in the plugin’s resizing panel. For example, it’s now possible to export images that are all 600px wide including any borders. Until now the borders have always been added to this size.