NEWS ALERT: Lightroom Update Being Removed and Rescheduled
Tom Hogarty at the Lightroom Journal has since posted a news alert about the newest version of Lightroom out on the web. Because of a couple of problems with the update, users are being asked to roll back to their earlier versions. For more information, please visit the Lightroom Journal website. Back to your normally scheduled programming.

Happy St Patricks Day!
I figured I would start today’s post talking about something a little outside of the tutorial realm. I have spent some time at home wondering how I can offload some of my home pictures, music, and content from my Tivo HD, and have it accessible to me whenever I want to get to it. To do that, I installed a Ministack NAS to my network at home, and was really excited about how quick and painless lt was to get up and running.

I got the NAS on Friday, and ran home to do the setup. I immediately noticed that I didn’t have the drivers I needed for a Mac setup, but a 5 minute phone call to the tech support department got me squared away. In about 10 minutes, the network drive was immediately available for me to drop files in. Setup proved to be a breeze, and dropping files over a wireless connection was about 1 minute for 160MB of information, pretty respectable for smaller MP3, JPG files, and the MP4 files I converted from the Tivo HD. For conversions, I used Popcorn 3 on my local computer and transferred them back. A couple of readers had asked me to outline a scenario on placing files on a network drive, and I have to say, the Ministack NAS is definitely something you should put on your short list. For more information on it, check out the Newer Technology website. Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to work on checking out some of their other mobile hard drive solutions to solve my ever increasing space issue with Lightroom.

A Cool Sharpening Tutorial, and a contest, right after the jump!

Sharpening with Mark Fleming
When you think of sharpening an image, using High Pass is one of those things that really doesnt come up in conversation. That is unless you are Mark Fleming. Check out his really cool tutorial on how to make things sharper by clicking on this link

Contest Time
This should be a pretty simple contest. Go to the Contact page, and select the Layers TV drop down. Put in your name and email address. Lightroom has recently been upgraded to another version. Tell us what is the version that it was upgraded to (ex 1. something – its the version that is now being recalled for some problems), and you will receive an autographed copy of Scott Kelby’s Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers. This contest ends on Thursday at 5PM. We will announce the winner on the Friday blog post.

Happy St. Patricks Day!