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With the advent of digital photography and the Web came one of the major benefits, sharing photographs online, to be viewed instantly by people around the world.

This has, however led to people's photography being used without their permission, thereby depriving them of potential financial reward and credit for their work. One way to help prevent this, is to watermark your photos. We've all seen photographs with either some text, or a logo, superimposed on a photograph to identify the photographer. Using an image manipulation program, such as Adobe's Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, it is possible to add a watermark, but without some considerable technical know-how, it's difficult to add one to multiple images.

This is where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes to the rescue. In this tutorial, Mike Le Gray will guide you through setting up Lightroom so that you can batch-process your completed images, not only adding a watermark, but also converting color-space, file type, adding sharpening, etc.

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One of Lightroom's main strengths is it's cataloguing and sorting tools, making organising your thousands of photos a breeze.

Mike Le Gray, a photographer and trainer, shares with us his methods of organising your photos in such a way that locating and working with them becomes almost effortless. He explains exactly what Smart Collections are and why we should use them.

He then goes on to illustrate the difference between these collections and the standard 'non-smart' collections. In the process, he throws in a few tips about rating with stars and colours, such as why you may want to use stars and colour labels, and why you can utilise this practise to further improve your Smart Collections. As we watch, we see how to set multiple rules in a Smart Collection and then how and why we may want to export one.

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Apple's Aperture is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom's biggest competitor when it comes to processing, storing and cataloguing your photos. Many, if not all, of you are aware of just how tedious and time-consuming cataloguing can be, but have you ever tried using 'Smart Albums'? If not, you may well be surprised at how these automated albums can not only save you from having to put all of your images into separate folders, but also from making mistakes whilst performing the task.

Photographer and trainer, Mike Le Gray, introduces us to these extremely powerful tools and explains just how they can help to ease the seemingly endless categorising and organising that seems to take up so much of our time. We learn how to avoid having to run specific filters when looking for photos that match certain criteria, and then how we can insert them into individual projects, thereby working with only those images as opposed to the whole library.

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Fantastic Results From Apple Aperture 3!

In this tutorial, Mike Le Gray illustrates how, using some very basic settings, to get amazing results in Apple's® popular Aperture® 3 program.

Although best suited to processing RAW files, it still offers great flexibility for JPEG shooters. Here we see how easy and quick it is to get excellent, natural-looking results with just a few mouse clicks. We'll cover exposure, curves and levels, and even take a look at a couple of channel settings. This simple set of instructions will get you either to a finished image, or at least to a great starting point, should you wish to take the photo out to Adobe® Photoshop®, or similar.

After finishing watching this video, check back here regularly to see more tutorials on this superb piece of editing and cataloguing software.