Europe Deal: Adobe Lightroom 5 40% Off (€77, today only, DE, UK, FR, ES)

Adobe Lightroom 5

Update: appears to be live Europe-wide. All EU Adobe sites seem to offer the discount: Adobe Spain, Adobe Italy, Adobe France, Adobe UK. Possibly other Adobe sites are also offering the discount.

Adobe Germany is offering a 40% discount on Lightroom 5 (download version). The offer is just for today, November 25th. To get Adobe Lightroom 5 for $77.5 click here. Regular price is €129.15. Remember: the offer is only for today!

There is a 5 parts tutorial about Lightroom 5 by Canon Professional Network.

CPN Lightroom 5 Tutorial: Output Options

Lightroom 5 Tutorial

Canon Professional Network published the 5th and last part of their ongoing Lightroom 5 tutorial series: Inside Lightroom 5 (Pt. 5): Output Options.

Lightroom output options

Examining the output options of Lightroom is the final part of this series, but it is equally as important as the rest. There are multiple output choices that we have available to us: options such as making books, creating web galleries or slide shows or just printing and exporting to social platforms (such as Facebook or Behance). This guide explains all of them and will give you a flavour of each option and how to use them to your advantage.

The post comes with a video tutorial, but the following sections are covered in text too:

  • Map ModuleCreating Books
  • Configure the Book Preferences
  • Configuration of the printed book
  • Preparing Lightroom for creating the book: Auto Layout
  • Creating consistent type for your text
  • Book layout customisation
  • Creating Collections
  • Re-configuring the book once Auto Layout has completed
  • Modifying Templates
  • Creating a Book Cover
  • Create Slideshows
  • Printing from Lightroom
  • Colour Management & Soft Proofing
  • Web publishing
  • Exporting your pictures from Lightroom
  • Publish options

Canon Professional Network Lightroom 5 Tutorial: Local Adjustements (pt. 4)

Lightroom 5 Tutorial

Canon Professional Network published part 4/5 of their ongoing Lightroom 5 tutorials: Local Adjustments.

In Part 4 of this series Richard Curtis looks at all of the local adjustment options in Lightroom and, in a special video, he reveals how to edit elements of your pictures using local adjustments.

There is a video to watch, and the following topics are covered (also in text form):

  • Graduated Filter
  • Operating the Graduated Filter
  • Cloning and Healing
  • Operating the Clone/Heal Tool
  • Adjustment Brush
  • Adjustment Brush: add depth to foreground shadows
  • Adjustment Brush: change the colour of a person’s jacket
  • Adjustment Brush: change the brightness of whites in eyes
  • Crop Tool
  • Radial Filter
  • Red-Eye Reduction Tool

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Inside Lightroom 5 (Pt. 2): Ranking & Selecting Images (Canon Professional Network)

Inside Lightroom 5
Screenshot from the CPN video

CPN published part 2 (part 1 here) of 5 of their ongoing series Inside Lightroom 5: Ranking and selecting images. Pretty comprehensive and quite in-depth guides to learn the best of Lightroom 5. This time in short:

[…] Richard Curtis (a Principal Solutions Consultant in Digital Imaging for Adobe UK) will examine the key features of Lightroom 5 to give you a solid grounding and a good understanding of how to get the most out of working with the software. In Part 2 of this series Richard Curtis explains the ranking and selecting of images in Lightroom and, in a special video, he reveals how to select and rank your pictures for editing later on.

There is a 15min video, and those section are discussed (also in text):

  • Your Photo Import is complete – what’s next?
  • The Lightroom Filmstrip
  • Auto Advance
  • Two methods for selecting and choosing your pictures
  • Hide the Lightroom panels and hood
  • Full Screen mode
  • The Pick and UnPick method
  • The Star Rating system
  • Change the Filmstrip view to show just the selection
  • Survey mode

Adobe Lightroom 4.4 And Camera Raw 7.4 Available For Download

Adobe Lightroom 4.4

Adobe Lightroom 4.4 (click here to download) and Camera Raw 7.4 (click here to download) have been released to the general public. Support for the Canon EOS-1D C (B&H | Adorama, or rent it here) has been added (among other cameras), and various bug fixes and tweaks are also delivered.

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Adobe Lightroom 4.4