We want to thank New Horizons Computer Learning Center for letting us use their space to continue our regular meetings!

Also, this is a reminder to read the meeting notes closely. WE HAVE CHANGED OUR MEETING LOCATION. So make sure you show up at the right location! LOL

In Part 1 we examined how to use Publish Services to control target folders on the hard drive using the Hard Drive Publish Connection.

There's another Publish Service that comes with Lightroom 3 Beta. The Flickr Publish Service allows us to connect Lightroom to a Flickr account (or multiple Flickr accounts) and manage our photostream from within Lightroom. However, there are some pitfalls to watch out for. Remember, this is beta software, so as you come across issues or areas that can be improved please join the conversation over at the Adobe Forums and tell the Lightroom team about it. You can help make this a great release!

Prior to the release of Lightroom 3 Beta we had the ability to upload our images to various online sites via the Export dialog. Jeffrey Friedl provided several excellent plugins for the Export dialog making it easy to export to these online services. He is hard at work turning those into Publish Services. By the time the final release of Lightroom 3 is ready I'm sure we will have a lot to choose from! For now, let's take a deeper look into how this new features works!

You can find Publish Services in the left side panel of the Library module. When you first start install Lightroom there are two basic services provided: Hard Drive and Flickr. Hard Drive allows you to create folders to receive images via Publish Services. This can be very useful for adding to a folder that is synched to your iPod/iPhone. Perhaps your screensaver is based on a folder of images. Make this a target and you can easily add and manage that. Or perhaps you are compiling images for a client to view and you first want to collect them in a folder from which you can FTP up to your client viewing portal. Interested? Let's take a look.

Yes! It's here! Head on over to Adobe Labs and download the Lightroom 3 Beta! Adobe continues its laudable practice of releasing Lightroom as a public beta to get important feedback from its users! Thanks Adobe!

Many thanks to J Schuh for his excellent After Effects demonstrations!

If you were unable to attend (or you want to catch something you missed) the meeting recording is available at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p79923349/. The first minute or so is missing since I forgot to press the record button (duh)!

Thanks again J!

Due to management changes at Nerdbooks, local user groups are no longer able to use their space for meetings. We thank Dave for his years of hospitality and wish him all the best!

However, we need your help. If you have any information about possible meeting spaces please send us an email. Since we do not charge members we need the space to be offered for free. It should be able to accommodate up to 50 people. We meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 11am to 1pm. WiFi access is preferred but not absolutely necessary.

Thanks for your help!

FYI - If you run a Mac computer using a PowerPC chip you'll want to hold off on upgrading to Lightroom 2.5 or Camera RAW 5.5. According to Tom Hogarty's Lightroom Journal:

Lightroom has its first iPhone application! LRKeys from Baum Computer and Graphics helps you learn the many keyboard shortcuts Lightroom provides in order to make your workflow more efficient.

I had the opportunity to take LRKeys out for a test drive and was pleasantly surprised by its simple and enjoyable approach. It provides a preference pane that allows you to set it in either Windows or Mac mode as well as turn sounds on and off. The sounds are cheers when you answer correctly and groans of disappointment when you get a question wrong.