A personal update, impending travel, blog entries and product updates pending …

G’day readers, I realize I’ve recently gone quiet, so I wanted to take a moment to let you all know what’s going on. Rather abruptly and much ahead of schedule, I am heading to South Korea this coming Saturday. If you’ve been around TTG for a while, you likely know that Korea and I have [...]

Visiting the Lightroom? Pack a Juicebox.

I have recently been working with Felix Turner and his team to bring their new HTML5 gallery, Juicebox, to Lightroom. I am happy to report that the Juicebox Lightroom plugin is now available for download. These are the same guys famous for the SimpleViewer Flash gallery which has been an Internet staple for a good [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part VII

Our long walk continues! We’re seven articles deep into development of a website using TTG plugins in various “advanced” configurations. To access previous entries in this series, see a full list of articles on Advanced Website Creation. If you’re new to TTG, please check out our Beginners’ Guide to Website Creation to learn the basics. [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part VI

Last time, we setup our Shop section and an image gallery for selling prints. For Part VI, we shift our focus to the Galleries page and begin to populate that section of our site as a showcase for our work. We will be adding image galleries, and also demonstrating how to use TTG CE2 Auto [...]

Exchange Updates

I have updated my listings on the Adobe Lightroom Exchange. Adobe has updating their compatibility options for exchange listings to include “Lightroom 4″, so all products now list as being Lightroom 4 compatible. I have also updated the entry for TTG CE2 Client Response Gallery to reflect the CE2 upgrade. As always, should you feel [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part V

This is Part V of our how-to series on Advanced Website Creation using TTG Plugins. If you’re new to using TTG plugins, you will want to see our Beginner’s Guide to Website Creation. We are working on Campagna Pictures, a demonstration site setup at http://campagnapictures.com. Previously in this series, we have setup our foundation pages, [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part IV

This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series of articles in which I walk you through the process of creating a very complicated website using TTG plugins. New users should ignore this for now and go check out our Beginner’s Guide to Website Creation which teaches you the basics of using TTG plugins, while [...]

Five years of TTG!

Today marks the fifth anniversary of The Turning Gate’s service to Lightroom users. From small and humble beginnings and simple gallery offerings, we have grown tremendously to include a vibrant community of talented photographic professionals, and a range of offerings that covers the gamut of web-design allowing users to create websites to serve a wide [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part III

Welcome to Part III of our Advanced web-design tutorial for site creation using TTG plugins. In this series of articles you have the opportunity to follow along from start to finish as I design and publish a sprawling website at http://campagnapictures.com. Sprawling? Well yes, because I’m trying to cram as many content examples into the [...]

Advanced website creation using TTG plugins, Part II

In part one of this series, we laid a foundation for our website. In part II, we will create a plan for our site and begin to work in Lightroom. This series of articles is Advanced Website Creation. If you’re new to TTG, I suggest that you first read through our Beginner’s Guide to Website [...]