Lightroom Mogrify

So what does "mogrify" mean? Well, I have no idea what the actual word means but I do know that photographers and photography gurus now associate the word with Timothy Armes Lightroom Plugin. If you don't use this plugin yet, you have to give it a try. It's a watermarking and image border creation tool that works through the export command in Lightroom. It has some great options and it's really slick. For more information click Here. While your there check out Timothy's work as well. He has some great images. If you want to go directly to his home page click on his logo to the right.

Now back to Lightroom Mogrify. The only way to currently watermark images in Lightroom is to use the print module and load your logo via the identity plate adjusting the opacity to your liking. This method is limited and does not allow you to create a custom border. Hopefully in a future version of lightroom we'll see a better watermarking tool but until then, Mogrify provides an excellent alternative. It gives you real flexibility for creating a border for your images as well as placing your watermark. Once you create your settings, you can save them as an export preset for future iamges. This makes a great tool for blog images. Here are a few samples. Let me know what you think. These are two wedding bridal bouquet's.

Pology

I hope you've already had the opportunity to visit the travel and cultural online magazine at pology.com. It's put together each month by the hard work of Neil Schwartz who really inspires with cultural insights and amazing photographs that are contributed from various photographers. I recently had the privilege to be included among them. In '08 I spent a month traveling in Southern Africa. Among the many stops was the town of Chimoio in Mozambique. One of the most powerful experiences was seeing the children. Their eyes tell such an amazing story. I was completely captivated by them and I think Neil was too. I suggest you fly over to pology for an inspiring visit and if you'd like to view my series on the Children of Mozambique, click here. Here is one additional image that you won't find there but was one of my favorites. I dare you to just stare into this little girls for awhile.