Making Lightroom User-Friendly

Adobe asked me to analyze some of its programs, so I wrote a pretty tough critique of Lightroom 2 with suggestions on how to make it easier to use.

It's super-technical, photo-geeky stuff, but you hardcore digital darkroom workers out there may find it provocative and controversial.

Check it out here

Recipe For A Rainbow

Take a little rain, spread warm, late afternoon sunshine over Miami Beach, and capture quickly with a little point and shoot.

Then incline camera for second helping, and walk 90 degrees from the direction of the light to adjust the apparent end of the rainbow to where a bystander waits for the light rain to stop:


Then darken the bottom lightly in Photoshop as the clouds move by: