Today we are going to take a look at the new Adobe Photoshop Express. Express is a free web-based photo editor from Adobe that allows you to upload images and do basic photo correction. While it doesn’t have the full features of Photoshop or even Photoshop Elements, it may well be the perfect tool for many home users who want to make basic corrections, share images in a gallery, and email family and friends their images. The service is free from Adobe and currently allows up to 2gb of disk space. To check it out, go to http://www.photoshop.com/express.

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In this tutorial we take a look at using both Lightroom 1.4 and Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta to compare how to create vignettes in both versions. This will show you the new post-crop vignette tool in Lightroom 2.0 and demonstrate how it is different than the Lens Correction Vignette in Lightroom 1.4. All new videos are available on iTunes and you can subscribe to the feed to make sure you get all of our podcasts and tutorials.

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If you are into using gels or have wanted to experiment with it, one of the problems is finding good quality and affordable gel sets. While you can always try to get a free sample kit, the gels are small and have a hold in them. What would be almost perfect would be some pre-cut sheets with velcro straps attached. What a brilliant idea if someone did something like that right? Well wait no longer. HonlPhoto has created a killer gel kit that contains all of the common gels you would normally want. Priced at $24.95, this is the ultimate gel starting kit. More information is after the break.

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This short tutorial shows how to create presets with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. By creating your own presets you can customize existing ones or create your own effects that match your personal style.

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This short tutorial shows the basic workflow I use after importing my images into Lightroom. I show you how I use the Pick/Reject and star ratings to quickly narrow down a huge list of images into the final list I will then use for editing.

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In this tutorial i show you have to take a product shot and make sure you have a perfect white background around it. This will make use of the new retouching tool in Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.

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I am a big fan of doing interesting lighting techniques and have been playing around with using gels to create colored background effects. While using small gels can work pretty good, I have been looking for something that works better, isn’t as fragile, and basically was designed for the purpose. What I found was the Lumiquest FX kit. The FX is a complete colored filter system designed specifically to create colored lighting effects.

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For the most part I come home from a shoot and dump the images from the CF cards onto the computer and then do my backups. Once in a while I am gone for a weekend without the benefit of a laptop and I want to make sure I have my CF cards backed up every night. For this reason I picked up a Wolverine Flashpac several years ago and have been using it ever since. Since you should always make backups as soon as possible, I can’t recommend some type of device like this enough.

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This is our first video tutorial and we hope you like it, be sure and leave comments here or in the Flickr User Group and let us know if you want to see more of these. This one is on the new retouching tool that is in the new Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta. This tool allows you to “paint” effects like brightness, exposure, tint, saturation, and clarity into specific areas of an image. In this tutorial we lighten up the background, whiten up our model’s eyes and teeth, and make her lips redder.

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Your’s truely was just a guest on the digital photography show podcast. Please stop by http://www.prophotoshow.net/ and download the podcast while myself, Gavin Siem, Michael Anderson, and Dennis Zerwas discuss the news, new products, Lightroom 2.0, and discuss issues like marketing, insurance, new cameras, and a bunch of other randomness. If you don’t listen to the podcast, you really should.