Ken Milburn

Biography

Ken Milburn has been a photographer, both full- and part-time, for nearly five decades. Ken has written over 300 articles and columns for computer magazines as well as 17 books on web design, Flash, and (mostly) Adobe Photoshop and digital photography. Books currently in print include Digital Photography: 99 Tips to Make you Look Like a Pro, The Photoshop 7 Virtual Classroom, and Photoshop Elements 2.0--The Complete Reference (all from Osborne/McGraw-Hill), and The Digital Photography Bible, 2nd Edition, from Wiley. His newest book, for O'Reilly, the Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, releases in March 2004.

Books

Sony Alpha DSLR A100: A Better Manual by Ken Milburn May 2007 $9.99 USD (Read Reviews)	Digital Photography Expert Techniques by Ken Milburn Second Edition October 2006 $44.99 USD (Read Reviews)
From Darkroom to Lightroom by Ken Milburn Second Edition September 2006 $7.99 USD (Read Reviews)	Digital Photography: Expert Techniques by Ken Milburn March 2004 OUT OF PRINT

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From Darkroom to Lightroom: Downloadable PDF
Publish Date: May. 9, 2006Lightroom is Adobe's new photo workflow application. It provides an upload-to-output solution in one attractive interface that's filled with features designed specifically for serious photographers. O'Reilly author Ken Milburn introduces you to this breakthrough application and provides a 22-page "Getting Started" PDF that you can download today. The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 5
Publish Date: Jul. 20, 2004Ken Milburn, author of Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, offers the latest installment in his series on creating ideal (and least destructive) workflows for digital photography. This week, he offers step-by-step routines for performing the three stages of sharpening that are almost always necessary: rescue, effect, and output. And he offers advice on a few things you should do before you even start sharpening your images. The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 4
Publish Date: May. 7, 2004Ken Milburn continues his quest to create ideal (and least destructive) workflows for people working in digital photography. In this installment, he shows you the most efficient way to scan your images, which in turn insures that you've preserved as much of the data that was in the original image as possible. Ken is the author of Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. What's New in Photoshop CS?
Publish Date: Mar. 24, 2004Photoshop CS may have fewer new features than version 7, but quality counts more than quantity, and Ken Milburn is pretty jazzed about the quality. In this article, he covers the new features in CS he's most excited about. Ken is the author of the just-released Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 3
Publish Date: Feb. 24, 2004You can achieve greater control over the quality of the images produced by your new digital camera if you shoot them in RAW format. Trouble is, it can take an inordinate amount of time to convert RAW images into something your image-editing program can use. In Part 3 of Ken Milburn's series on creating ideal digital photography workflows, he details several steps you can take to save hours of RAW-process work after every shoot. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2
Publish Date: Jan. 23, 2004Ken Milburn follows up on suggestions he made in Part 1 of this two-part series about creating a minimally destructive workflow for the work you do inside image-editing software. Here he offers five nondestructive editing steps to take once you've downloaded your images. Then he provides some second-stage editing techniques to enhance the impact your images will have on your clients, or your friends and family. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 1
Publish Date: Dec. 18, 2003Ken Milburn offers a workflow that digital photographers can follow for preparing for a shoot and determining a shooting procedure, and for downloading, cataloguing, tracking, and archiving the image files that result. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photography: Expert Techniques. JPEG2000: the Killer Image File Format for Lossless Storage
Publish Date: Nov. 21, 2003Is JPEG2000 the killer image file format for lossless storage? Ken Milburn thinks so. In this article, Ken details the options available in the JPEG2000 plug-in, which have been designed to help photographers losslessly compress and store the highest-quality images as efficiently as possible. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photography: Expert Techniques.

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Ken Milburn Unplugged
Publish Date: Nov. 1, 2006

Take a listen. The author of Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition knew Dan Rather in college, started his career taking publicity photos of Hollywood starlets, and shot album covers for Capitol Records. Ken talks to O'Reilly staffer Sara Peyton about his career, tips and tricks, and creating the wow factor.

Blog

Making Basic Develop Adjustments Fast and Precise

May 08 2008

In the Lightroom 2.0 Develop module, there are some very useful shortcut keys you can used for the Treatment panels sliders. You can rotate through the use of the different sliders by pressing . When you do, the slider you’ve... read more

Lightroom 2.0 Print Promise

May 01 2008

The Print Module in Lightroom 2.0 has added one of the most time and money-saving features I’ve yet seen in an image editing package. Seldom is there a time in a portrait or product shoot when either the subject, the... read more

Making efficient collections in Lightroom 2.0

April 23 2008

One of the many things that Lightroom 2.0 does to revolutionize the efficiency of your workflow is to make it much easier to keyword your images. It then goes another big step further by making it much easier to instantly... read more

Instant Turnaround in Lightroom 2.0 Beta

April 17 2008

When the Lightroom 2.0 beta came out, there was much mention of the improved auto-adjust setting. It seems a small thing, but when it comes to being able to deliver quick proofs of a big shoot, could turn out to... read more

Stacking Virtual Copies in Photoshop

April 10 2008

Lightroom 2.0 makes it easy to open multiple images in a single file in Photoshop CS 3 (and, one of these days, in older versions and in Photoshop Elements). You can right click a selected image and the, under Open... read more

First Impressions of the 2.0 Beta

April 03 2008

Last night at exactly midnight NY time, I was able to download the very first version of the Lightroom 2.0 beta. I did this after I'd attended Adobe's on-line meeting and listened to everything Tom Hogarty had to say about... read more

Using the Histogram to Adjust

March 27 2008

Lately, I've been experimenting with using the Clipping Indicators and dragging the Histogram to insure a full dynamic range in an image. For the most part, it's a very effective way to make an image look it's best with minimum... read more

Using Lightroom to Track Stock Photo Submissions

March 20 2008

I’ve been trying out submitting my photos to Picture Stock. Picture Stock (http:www.picturestock.com) is an “agency” for Stock Photo agencies. When you submit your photos to them, they make sure they’re “punchy”, keyword them, copy them to CDs, and submit... read more

Here Come the Plug-ins

March 12 2008

Ever since Adobe announced an SDK for making Lightroom plug-ins I've been curious to see how third parties might expand the program's capabilities and efficiency. So I've been keeping a list of the plug-ins I've been hearing about. I haven't... read more

Regulating Your Keywords

March 06 2008

One of the biggest problems with keywords is that there are so many synonyms in the English language. So how do you know that one specific keyword for one specific thing will always be the case? After all, if it's... read more

Giving a Collection a Unifying Visual Style

February 28 2008

Occassionally you will want to go through all your photos, group them together and place them where you can find them for a special purpose (such as content for a coffee table book, portfolio, or fine-art exhibit). Furthermore, once I've... read more

Dramatizing with the Lightroom HSL Panel

February 21 2008

I am currently working in a country where color is often a large part of my intended composition and message. Often the dynamic and color ranges are so great;thanks to bright colors in the lifestyle and bright sunlight that they... read more

Don't Loose Your Photos Before You Download

February 14 2008

I do all of my downloading and initial processing in Lightroom, but before I can do that, I have to be able to download the images from my camera’s memory cards. Over the weekend, I took a day off to... read more

LightZone 3.4 For Even More Adjustment Lattitude

February 06 2008

Just about a year ago I wrote a blog for Inside Lightroom that suggested considering using Light Craft's LightZone to further enhance the power of Lightroom with a non-destructive editing tool that could also do regional adjustments. You can pass... read more

Get The Dust Off in Seconds

January 31 2008

Got one of those "old fashioned" digital cameras that doesn't have dust removal? It's time you thought about Lightroom's instant dust-removal. That's not so much a named feature as something you can easily do by using a combination of the... read more

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