Profile Your Monitor

If you want to display your images accurately and make sophisticated decisions about how they will or could look, calibrate your monitor with hardware. Monitor calibration is a must. It’s not optional. It is easy. You need a device to do it well. The visual...

Try Something New For 30 days – Matt Cutts

Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals. View more creativity videos here. Read more...

Keep Your Goals To Yourself – Derek Sivers

After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may...

Save 10% On Moab Papers

Get 10% off all Moab products with this discount code – JPMOAB2011. Moab is one of the most trusted paper producers in the industry offering a full line of substrates that spans the gamut from canvas, to washi, to metallics. For something different, explore their...

Creating Your Own Identity Plates In Lightroom – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to create and save text and graphic presets to be used as Identity plates to brand your images when outputting them to slideshow, print and web. In addition, Julieanne will show you how to personalize your copy of Lightroom with your...

Watermarking Images in Lightroom – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost shows you how to quickly save your vector and raster logos in Photoshop to be applied to photographs on export, via Publish services, Slideshow, Print and Web modules. Visit Julianne’s blog for more shortcuts and tips. Learn more in my digital photography and...

Top 10 Ways To Automate Lightroom Part 2 – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost demonstrates how streamline Lightroom 3 by taking advantage of presets, templates, Collections, Virtual Copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs. Visit Julianne’s blog for more shortcuts and tips....

Top 10 Ways To Automate Lightroom Part I – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to streamline Lightroom 3 by taking advantage of presets, templates, Collections, Virtual Copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs. Visit Julianne’s blog for more shortcuts and...

Saving Changes To Your Photographs In Lightroom – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost explains how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog. Then Julieanne will demonstrate how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to...

Shortcuts for Lightroom's Develop Module – Julianne Kost

Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to streamline Lightroom 3’s Develop module by taking advantage of her top 10 favorite shortcuts & time-saving features in order to eliminate many of the repetitive image adjustment tasks when editing large volumes of images. Visit Julianne’s blog for more shortcuts...