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Google Plus Photographer’s Conference – Help Shape Our Google+ Experience
Gerard Murphy - May 31, 2012 | Entrepreneurship, Photographers, Photography Business, Uncategorized
You shouldn’t be allowed to have this much fun at “work”! That is what I kept saying to myself at the recent Google Plus Photographer’s Conference. I was able to show off the new MosaicView web app for Lightroom on my iPad at the conference. I also met a bunch of great people and got to talk/learn about photography for 2+ days. What could be better? I love my job!
I have to admit that I wasn’t fully bought into GooglePlus before the conference. Sure, I had a profile and I even maintained it. Mosaic had a profile as well. But it wasn’t top of mind. Now it very much is.
I want to hear from you on what we should be doing on G+! I am going to host a Google Plus hangout this Monday, June 4 at 2 PM EST/11 AM PST. This will be on the G+ Mosaic Page. I want to provide useful content to our customers and fellow photographers. This is your chance to help us shape this content.
We have been getting a steady stream of customers and visitors to our website from GooglePlus. In April, for the first time, GooglePlus provided more traffic to our website than Twitter. Although honestly this is still well below the number of visitors from Facebook. However, GooglePlus sent us more engaged users than Facebook, with G+ visitors spending on average 1:01 minutes more on our site. Visitors from social media are more likely to convert to customers than visitors from any other source.
So social media is real business for us. But as importantly, it is were we learn from photographers about parts of our product that people like… and don’t like. And nothing has been more valuable in figuring out new features we need to build.
(more…)Delete photos from Lightroom
Gerard Murphy - May 09, 2012 | Digital Asset Management, Lightroom, Workflow
Deleting photos in Lightroom isn’t that hard, but a lot of photographers find removing images from Lightroom kind of annoying. Who wants to click on a dialog with every photo you want to delete.
Luckily there is a trick that makes deleting photos fairly easy and much faster.
First, how do you delete your photos in Lightroom using the traditional method?
If you select the photo (or photos) you can press the Backspace key (Windows) or Delete key (Mac OS) to delete the photo.
A dialog will pop up asking you if you want to remove the photo from the catalog or remove and delete from the disk. There is often some confusion about this.
The Lightroom catalog acts like a map that says that image lives on this file location on your computer. You images are not stored within the Lightroom catalog. Deleting a photo from the catalog is like erasing all knowledge of photo from the map. They image file will still be on your computer but it will be invisible to the Lightroom catalog.
If you want to remove the photo from the Lightroom catalog and delete the underlying photo file, select “Delete From Disk”. (more…)
Introducing Mosaic View: View Your Lightroom Images on the Web or iPad
Gerard Murphy - May 07, 2012 | Archiving, Backup, Cloud Computing, Lightroom, Mosaic, Photographers, Storage, Uncategorized
Since we launched the Mosaic online backup service for photographers, we have had the goal of providing web access to our clients. We are proud to announce our new service called Mosaic View that will provide that access.Mosaic View will provide web access to your Lightroom Catalog. Your last 2,000 images will be instantly available for free using the Mosaic View web app. In addition to online backup, Mosaic paid customers will have access to their entire Lightroom catalog plus new upcoming features. (Read more here.)
As photographers, it frustrated us that we didn’t have anywhere access to our Lightroom images. We tried exporting and publish services but were not satisfied. We just wanted our images on our iPad the moment we put them into Lightroom without any muss or fuss. We have come to expect this with great tools like Google Docs and Dropbox.
Lightroom is like iTunes with no iPod – a great catalog tool that is stuck on one machine.
We are recreating the Lightroom Library view in a web application. So you can find your photos as easily as you do in Lightroom. You can view your folders, collections, and smart collections. Use these to show off your photos from your iPad or second computer to your clients, friends, co-workers, or spouse.
We have designed this web application to look great on tablet devices like the iPad.
(more…)Introducing CloudView: View Your Lightroom Images on the Web or iPad
Gerard Murphy - May 07, 2012 | Lightroom, Mosaic, Photographers, Uncategorized
Since we launched the Mosaic online backup service for photographers, we have had the goal of providing web access to our clients. We are proud to announce our new service called Mosaic CloudView that will provide that access.CloudView will provide web access to your Lightroom Catalog. Your last 2,000 images will be instantly available for free using the CloudView web app. In addition to online backup, Mosaic paid customers will have access to their entire Lightroom catalog plus new upcoming features. (Read more here.)
As photographers, it frustrated us that we didn’t have anywhere access to our Lightroom images. We tried exporting and publish services but were not satisfied. We just wanted our images on our iPad the moment we put them into Lightroom without any muss or fuss. We have come expect this with great tools like GoogleDocs and Dropbox.
Lightroom is like iTunes with no iPod – A great catalog tool that is stuck on one machine.
We are recreating the Lightroom Library view in a web application. So you can find your photos as easily as you do in Lightroom. You can view your folders, collections, and smart collections. Use these to show off your photos from your iPad or second computer to your clients, friends, co-workers, or spouse.
We have designed this web application to look great on tablet devices like the iPad.
(more…)Proud To Be Part of a New Hampshire Tech Reboot
Gerard Murphy - May 03, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the payoffs of being CEO of a growing online photo storage business is helping create jobs. We are aggressively growing. Startups are the growth engines of a healthy economy. We look forward to creating more jobs and helping to grow the NH Tech Sector.
Article from the April Edition of NH Business Magazine.
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Mosaic was founded by prosumer photographers Andy and Gerard in 2010 because they were frustrated with the existing options for managing their photos. Andy and Gerard are on a mission to make digital asset management easier for photographers, while enabling the anywhere access that we have come to expect. Mosaic is located in the beautiful state of New Hampshire where Andy and Gerard met over 20 years ago.Blog:
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