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James Duncan Davidson is a photographer, author, and software developer living in Portland, Oregon. He is the co-author of O'Reilly's Running Mac OS X Tiger and a contributor to Mac OS X Hacks, among others.
He is perhaps best known for his work on Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant, both open source software projects created during his tenure at Sun Microsystems. More recently, he's been working on lots of Ruby on Rails based websites and Objective-C based Cocoa applications. Since 2005, he has been the photographer for all the conferences produced by O'Reilly Media.
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Localized Corrections and Masking
May 15 2008
The headline feature of Lightroom 2 will be localized corrections. Sure, multiple monitor support is nice, print packages are pretty cool, and 64-bit support are all great additions, but localized corrections are what really will get people's excitement going. Because... read moreMay 10 2008
Brandon Oelling has been extolling the virtues of AutoSync on this blog, and for good reason. It can make quick work of adjusting dozens or hundreds of images at once, especially for simple adjustments like exposure and contrast. There's one... read moreApril 20 2008
Because of the fact that I spend so much time working with digital assets, or maybe despite it depending on your point of view, I'm always quite curious to see how other people deal with the problems of managing large... read moreApril 10 2008
On March 16th, Lightroom 1.4 was pulled from Adobe's servers because of some rather nasty bugs that slipped out into the world. This was a disappointment to many because Lightroom 1.4 contained support for lots of new cameras, including the... read moreApril 02 2008
It may be the end of April Fool's day, but this is no joke. Today marks the start of the public beta of Lightroom 2.0 which introduces localized corrections as well as the ability to run on multiple monitors. As... read moreMonitor Calibration Cheat Sheet
April 01 2008
If you're using Lightroom to manage your photos, you are probably serious about your photographs. And if you are indeed serious, then practicing good color management is essential to getting the most out of your work. I recommend that everyone... read moreMarch 16 2008
Lightroom 1.4 and Adobe Camera Raw 4.4 were released last week. However, it has come to Adobe's attention that things aren't all happy with these updates and that if you've installed it, you should rollback to previous versions. If you're... read moreLightroom and Time Machine Update
March 11 2008
When Mac OS X Leopard was released, it came with a cautionary note about Time Machine compatibility with Aperture databases. Soon after, Adobe released information that the interaction between Lightroom and Time Machine was unknown. Of course, we all presumed... read moreKeep Things Straight When Using Multiple Catalogs
March 02 2008
For many people, putting all of their images into a single Lightroom catalog works just fine. When everything is in a single catalog, things are easy. All of your keywords are in one place and you can search among all... read moreFebruary 19 2008
One of the common threads of the comments to my recent set of posts about the challenges of keeping a large library and backing it up—both on this blog and in person—was the question of why should one keep so... read moreFebruary 12 2008
A few days ago, fellow Inside Lightroom blogger Michael Clark talked about his use of 1:1 Previews to speed up his Lightroom workflow. At the risk of sounding off with a "me too!" post, I fully agree. For the last... read moreFebruary 05 2008
One of the essential uses of metadata for photographic images is to indicate who owns the image and how to get in touch with them. After all, if you publish your images on the web they're going to be distributed... read moreThe Economics of Online Backup
January 29 2008
In the comments to my previous posts about storing a photo library, quite a few people have mentioned using an online backup solution like Amazon S3 or Mozy. I've looked into this many times and keep running the two sets... read moreSafe Deposit Backups of Photo Libraries
January 22 2008
In last week's blog post, I mentioned that I was done talking about storage of photo libraries. I lied. Over the course of the last seven days, I've had dozens of conversations with photographers about storage. Even at the end... read moreThe Simplest Photo Storage Solution
January 15 2008
Starting out on New Year's Day, I've been writing about storage here on the Inside Lightroom and evidently it's hit a nerve as my fellow blogger Micheal Clark has also chimed in on storage solutions. What with all these posts... read moreBuy Direct and Save
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