Scott and Jerri Menual of Menaul Fine Art regularly host informative demos at their Studio and Gallery in Largo. Last night's presenter was David Rogers from Lightroom Tampa Bay, who gave a very helpful tour of Adobe Lightroom 3. For me, this had been for some time one of those mysterious "so what does it actually do?" programs. I suppose you could say that my mindset is "one program for one purpose" because I do tend to lump software together into neat little categories to better wrap my mind around them... Microsoft Word for Word Processing, Photoshop for image editing, etcetera, etcetera... But Lightroom is a veritable swiss-army-knife of helpful applications - a database to better track photos, a slideshow generator (that meshs beautifully with the SlideshowPro account I already have), a print studio and so much more. It was a no-brainer that I would need this eventually as my art career opens up, but Adobe tends to be a pricey brandname, so, expecting a six hundred dollar price tag, I was surprised to hear from Mr. Rogers that B and H photography, an online resaler, was selling it for seventy dollars online... Sold. Add that to my stock of handy software and thanks all around.
Visit David Roger's Lightroom Forum at
http://www.lightroomtampabay.com/
Learn more about Menauls Fine Art at
http://menaul-art.com/ and
http://www.menaulprinting.com/
Thanks for reading!
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www.themindscapeartfoundry.com or
www.artoflylepolyak.com)
