Author Archives: Timothy Armes

LR/PhotoDeck – Upload directly to your PhotoDeck account

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Timothy Armes

We’ve just released a new plugin to allow you to upload directly to your PhotoDeck account. PhotoDeck is a fanstastic image hosting service that allows independent photographers to create a full e-commerce platform.  In contrast to stock agencies and portals … Continue reading →

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Welcome aboard Matt Dawson! TPG Snapshotter now on Photographer’s Toolbox…

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Timothy Armes

Matt Dawson, a.k.a. The Photo Geek,  has joined the team at the Photographer’s Toolbox. His TPG Snapshotter plugin is now available from the site, and he’ll put putting on his other plugins as time allows. Great to have to you … Continue reading →

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Impact 1.55

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Timothy Armes

Following some feedback we’ve made a couple of modifications to the Impact gallery. The most important one is that the all important alt text for images can now be specified.  This allows you to optimise your galleries for search engine … Continue reading →

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Minor updates to Impact and Elegance

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Timothy Armes

Impact has had a couple of bug fixes – we recommend that you update your plugin to avoid any ‘freezes’ when users view the gallery. Elegance now reacts to key presses in Safari and IE.

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Impact 1.50 – get smooth

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Timothy Armes

We’ve just released an update to our inspiring Impact web gallery. Until now Impact has used Javascript to handle the image transitions (either slides or fades), however the performance can be a little jerky on slower machines, especially if there … Continue reading →

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Star Trail blending with LR/Enfuse

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Timothy Armes

Scott Martin recently contacted us to tell us that he uses LR/Enfuse for blending star trail exposures. To get full star trail images the exposure needs to be extremely long, however each individual shot is usually limited to a shorter … Continue reading →

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LR/Enfuse 4.00 released

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Timothy Armes

We’ve just released a major upgrade to our LR/Enfuse plugin. This plugin can be used to blend multiple exposures of a scene in order to create an image with greater apparent dynamic range.  Exposure blending is similar to HDR, but … Continue reading →

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Syncomatic 1.21

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Timothy Armes

Syncomatic 1.21 is an update that allows the user to synchronise the metadata of large numbers of files where their names are almost the same: The originals are 100703_0123 Jones wedding.nef… Photoshop layered files are 100703_0123 Jones wedding Layered.nef … … Continue reading →

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LR/Mogrify 2 & Lightroom 3

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Timothy Armes

We thought it would be useful to look at how LR/Mogrify 2 can complement Lightroom 3′s new built-in watermarking features. It’s great that Lightroom now includes proper watermarking as part of its feature set, and since it’s built right into Lightroom … Continue reading →

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Syncomatic

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Timothy Armes

We’ve just released a new plugin from John Beardsworth – Syncomatic. Syncomatic is a useful Lightroom 3 plug-in that can be used to synchronise metadata between pairs of files whose names are identical but where the file types differ. For … Continue reading →

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