Mikkel Aaland

Photographer, author, workshop leader.

Biography

Mikkel Aaland is an award-winning photographer, popular workshop leader, and the author of ten books, including Photoshop CS2 RAW (O’Reilly 2006), Shooting Digital (2nd edition, Sybex, 2006), Photoshop Elements 4 Solutions (4th edition Sybex/Wiley, 2006), Photoshop for the Web, 2nd edition (O’Reilly, 1999), Still Images in Multimedia (Hayden, 1996), and Digital Photography (Random House, 1992). Since 2001 Aaland has been a regular guest on G4’s Call For Help TV Program with Leo Laporte. In 2003 he was a guest columnist for newsweek.com. In 2004, Shooting Digital was named the best "Digital Photography" book of the year by the Designer’s Bookshelf.

Aaland’s documentary photographs have been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. In 1981 he received the National Art Directors award for photography. He has contributed both text and/or photography to Wired, Outside, Digital Creativity, American Photo, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, as well as several European publications.

Aaland has been a pioneer in digital photography, an interest that dates back to a 1980 interview he conducted with Ansel Adams. When Aaland asked Adams what he would be pursuing if he were just starting out, Adams discussed at length his fascination with digital photographs of the planets. Aaland has pursued this new technology since its infancy. During the 1980s he reported on digital photography as west coast editor of the Swedish FOTO magazine, and wrote a column on the subject for American Photographer magazine. Aaland is one of the few orginal Adobe Lightroom’s alpha and beta user, and he served as an unpaid advisor on the project for over a year.

Books

Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure by Mikkel Aaland October 2008 Print: $44.99 (5) (Read Reviews)	Photoshop CS3 RAW by Mikkel Aaland December 2007 Print: $34.99 Ebook: $27.99 (4) (Read Reviews)
Photoshop Lightroom Adventure by Mikkel Aaland July 2007 Print: $39.99 (4) (Read Reviews)	Photoshop CS2 RAW by Mikkel Aaland March 2006 Print: $34.99 Ebook: $27.99 (4) (Read Reviews)
Photoshop for the Web by Mikkel Aaland Second Edition November 1999 OUT OF PRINT (4) (Read Reviews)	Photoshop for the Web by Mikkel Aaland April 1998 OUT OF PRINT

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Rendering Previews, Discarding Previews
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Rendering and manipulating previews of your photos is easy in Lightroom. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Renaming Files on Import, Proper Punctuation
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Learn more about giving your files unique, machine friendly names when importing. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Finding Missing Files
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Find missing files with Lightroom's help. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Creating and Using Watched Folders, Tethering a Digital Camera
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008By enabling Lightroom's Auto Import feature from the menu bar, you can automatically import photos into the Lightroom Library module using a designated watched folder. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Creating and Using Stacks
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Stacks are another useful way to organize your images. Learn how to create them! Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Using Quick Develop
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008The Library module contains streamlined image processing capabilities via Quick Develop. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Noise Reduction
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Lightroom's Noise Reduction feature can easily reduce the effect of electronic noise, while maintaining image detail. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Lens Corrections
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Add and remove vignettes with ease. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Evaluating Tonal Distribution and Color
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008What you see on your monitor, even if the monitor is perfectly calibrated, can be deceptive. Let's look at the various tools Lightroom offers to evaluate your images. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Adjusting Tone Directly from the Histogram
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008If you prefer, you can make your Basic tone settings directly from the Histogram. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. The Split Toning Pane
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008The Split Toning pane can also be used to subtly tweak color in just the highlight or shadow areas and create a more pleasing looking image. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Getting a Cross-Processing Look with Split Toning
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Cross-processing is a popular technique in the film world, where film was deliberatively processed incorrectly. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Exporting Revealed
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008With Lightroom, you can export one photo at a time, or as many as you wish. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Saving Metadata to the Original File
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008In order to properly open or view your Lightroom adjusted image files in Adobe Camera Raw or Adobe Bridge you'll need to make sure these develop settings travel with the file. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features. Using Metadata and Custom Text for Slideshow Captions
Publish Date: Jan. 1, 2008Possibly the single most compelling feature of the Lightroom Slideshow module is the ability to turn metadata associated with an individual image into a slide caption which is totally sizeable and positionable. Excerpted from Mikkel Aaland's Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, check out step by step examples on how to use some of Lightroom's most popular features.

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Webcast: Shooting Digital: What are YOU missing?
April 09, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The modern digital camera is a powerful tool, capable of far more than the camera of yesterday. And yet many of us only see the familiar and are blind to the new. What are YOU missing? For example: ...

Shooting RAW with Mikkel Aaland
Publish Date: Sep. 26, 2006

We talked to Mikkel Aaland about shooting RAW when we met up with him at the MacWorld Expo in January 2006. Aaland is the author of Photoshop CS2 RAW and is an expert with working with RAW files in Photoshop, Bridge, and Adobe Camera Raw. (11:34)

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