Posted on February 21, 2010, 9:23 pm, by Carl, under
Workflow.
The presentation HDR guru Trey Ratcliff (www.stuckincustoms.com) recently gave to Google (on Youtube). Displays many of his HDR photographs. Interesting to hear about his vision and how he sees the world.
Other links:-
The blog post on Trey’s site about his presentation.
HDR Spotting
The internet is a very different experience on a slow connection, as I was reminded when I ran over my wireless data allowance recently and was limited to 64 kbps. The art of optimizing page download speed seems to have been lost, but there is hope on the horizon.
The usage indicator on my BigPond wireless [...]
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Trying to get my Lightroom refined images as close as possible to Photoshop optimized versions, I discovered that the Lightroom RGB percentages do not match Photoshop RGB numbers.
Lately I have been finishing my underwater images in Photoshop, as Lightroom does not offer the amount of color correction control I waned.
However, reimporting my corrected images into [...]
I have finally given in and upgraded my 2 year old Palm Treo to an Apple iPhone 3Gs. After having a bit of a play with the new iPhone I thought I would share a few of my initial observations and tips.
Save battery capacity – By switching off a couple of items when they are [...]
Posted on November 19, 2009, 8:01 pm, by Carl, under
Software.
Adobe Labs has announced “‘release candidate” updates for Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 and DNG Converter 5.6. The updates extend file support to 19 new camera models including:-
Canon EOS 7D
Canon Powershot G11, S90
Mamiya DM22, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31
Nikon D3s
Olympus E-P2
Pentax K-x
Panasonic FZ38
Sigma DP1s
Sony A500, A550, A850
The updates also fixes an issue for PowerPC [...]
Posted on October 23, 2009, 4:57 pm, by Carl, under
Software.
Adobe has released a beta version of Lightroom 3 for public preview, which includes easier importing, better noise reduction and sharpening tools, improved slideshow capabilities and direct publishing to online photo sharing sites like Flickr.
Library module – The import system has been rebuilt to make importing photos into the software easier. You can now [...]
Posted on October 11, 2009, 8:35 pm, by Carl, under
Software.
I was doing some color correction recently and noticed there is a bug in the Windows version of Photoshop CS4 when using the color sampler tool shortcut that places a point on the Curves Adjustment layer.
Using the colour sampler tool in Photoshop CS4 you can select a point on an image, which places a marker [...]
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Many modern laptop power adapters contain a PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller) micro controller that communicates with the computer. Unfortunately when they fail while traveling, the laptop user is left stranded. From seeing my first “smart” laptop power pack, I knew these devices were going to be a travellers curse.
The first time I came across “smart” [...]