Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.
Category: Software & Technology
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Lucas Gilman On Nik’s Color Effex Pro
Lucas Gilman On Nik’s Color Effex Pro
This is the debut of a new column where we talk to pros about their equipment and techniques. by Grayson Schaffer Last week, San Diego–based Nik Software released the fourth version of Color Effex …
via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/10/10/lucas-gilman-on-niks-color-effex-pro/
Nik Software released the fourth version of Color Effex Pro, their popular Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture plugin. Like Photoshop actions, CEP4 allows photographers to quickly combine multiple small adjustments into different treatments or filters. But unlike actions, and even its own previous versions, CEP4 has a stand-alone user interface that makes adding and blending multiple enhancements fast, easy, and intuitive. We spoke with Denver-based adventure sports photographer Lucas Gilman, one of Nik’s beta testers on CEP4, to find out how it integrates into his workflow.
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Camera Bits to demonstrate Photo Mechanic 5, Photo Mechanic Catalog
Photo Mechanic 5:
-New and improved professional look and feel with additional features in the main contact sheet view.
Non-modal preview window can be kept open on a second monitor. Thumbnail strips can be either on top or on left.
-Crops can now be rotated to arbitrary angles to match the horizon, and the crop that is stored is compatible with several other popular applications.
-Previews can display blown/clipped highlights and underexposed/clipped shadows.
-Movies can be played internally and frames can be extracted with a crop applied.
-New and improved Export plug-ins.
-Ingest can now automatically begin upon flash card mount.
-Improved speed of browsing and operation by using internal database caches for user command and “sort/filtering” preferences. -
Photoshop Touch for iPad is here!
Now, let me anticipate two questions which go hand in hand: Why does the app require an iPad 2, and why is the maximum image size 1600x1600px? The iPad 2 has twice the RAM, twice the processing cores, and ~5x the graphics grunt of the iPad 1. PS Touch brings some seriously powerful algorithms (e.g. Refine Edge) from the desktop to mobile, and we wanted to ensure a good match between hardware & image size. The app is geared more towards remixing photos & sharing them onscreen than towards print work; having said that, note that a 1600×1600 doc could be printed at 10.6×10.6″ at 150dpi.
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Lightroom 4.3 Now Available
Once again we are upon the photography contest season. And every year I hear photographers ask “Do photo contests matter?” In the opinion of this photo editor, they do! But just don’t take my word for it; here are what some prominent industry professionals think about the value of contests and what you can do to assure your entries are seen in the best light.
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You Can Tag People In Instagram Now
You Can Tag People in Instagram Now
Instagram launched a “Photos of You” feature in its iOS and Android apps today. Photos of You gives Instagram users the ability tag photos with any other Instagram account.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2013/05/instagram-photo-tagging/
Instagram launched the feature, dubbed “Photos of You”, in its iOS and Android apps today. Much like the photo tagging function on Facebook, Instagram users can tag photos with any other Instagram account. And all of the photos you’re tagged in will show up in a new tab on your Instagram profile.
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Next Version of Adobe Photoshop to Be Branded Photoshop CC, Includes Awesome New Motion Blur Sharpening Tool
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2013/05/next-version-of-adobe-photoshop-to-be-branded-photoshop-cc-includes-awesome-new-motion-blur-sharpening-tool.html
The biggest news though is Adobe’s moving Photoshop 100% into the Cloud and 100% by subscription. You’ll still be able to purchase Photoshop CS for the time being, but it won’t have the new features available in CC.
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How the New Google Images is Changing Traffic to Your Site
How the New Google Images is Changing Traffic to Your Site – PhotoShelter Blog
By now you’ve probably noticed Google’s new and “faster” image search, launched in late January 2013, which displays larger images in an inline panel that lets users flip through image search results. But many in the webmaster and search engine marketing community are not happy about the impact these updates are having on referral traffic…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/05/new-google-images-interface-causes-78-drop-in-referral-traffic-to-your-site/
So what’s been the result and how has it affected your website? The change means that the source page (i.e. your website) will no longer load up in an iframe in the background.
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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (Published 2014)
In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html
Cool exists at the ineffable confluence of smart people, big money and compelling product. You can buy it, but only up to a point.
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People Are Laughing at Your LinkedIn Profile
People Are Looking at Your LinkedIn Profile and They’re Laughing at You
I mean, come on—you like racquetball and you list “social media” as a skill? What does that even mean? You know about Twitter and you own weird goggles?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/people-laughing-linkedin-profile
Browse the suggested connections, and don’t bother to think about whether you ever gave us permission to trawl through every e-mail you’ve ever received just because some of the people are super-specific and it’s creepy that we would know that you know them
