Using Adobe Lightroom© to Organize, Edit & Export Your Digital Photos
In the last few years, Adobe© has been rolling out some new pieces of software aimed towards digital photographers and designers alike. One of Adobe©’s newest pieces of software is targeted towards professional photographers, and is called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom© (or just Adobe Lightroom© to most). When Lightroom© first hit the market, those of us schooled in Photoshop© since Version 3 looked upon the newcomer as a mismatch of features we already used. We wondered who would want to use something that didn’t have all the “power” of Photoshop©. We couldn’t have been more wrong. Lightroom©...
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[Originally published in The Coloradoan on 5/31/12] Being a musician and computer guy, I often face a difficult dilemma when listening to studio music recordings. On one hand, I’m a music purist who loves the sound of analog recordings. There’s a certain warmth to the sounds of the older ways of recording, pressed onto vinyl and reel-to-reel tape. Some of my favorite music comes from eras when instrument tracking was a crazy, new technology. On the other hand, I love what digital technology has brought to the music industry. It has revolutionized how music can be recorded and listened to....
read moreMicrosoft Excel: Using Conditional Formatting
[Note: This article was originally published in The Coloradoan on 2/24/12] A client recently came in looking for help with Excel spreadsheet issues. As the director of a youth program, she was using an Excel spreadsheet to track participants’ enrollment information. She needed the name of an active participant to show in green. If the participant was transitioning out the name was to show in yellow, and if the participant had left the program, the name was highlighted in red. She had approximately 3,000 participants to work with at any given time, and she manually went through every...
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