Adobe international pricing sham for software downloads
Why does Adobe continue the ridiculous international pricing sham for software downloads? I am a fan and regular user of Adobe software products, and was looking to upgrade some of my Adobe software suites from CS4 versions. However, after a bit of research on the Adobe US and Australia web stores, I have been left [...]
Photography and Web Discoveries of the Week – 28 May 2010
Continuing our “Photography and Web Discoveries of the Week” series, we have Photoshop and Canon 5D firmware updates, the Photographer’s Ephemeris solar angle calculators, and more. News Alamy changes submission size – Stock agency Alamy has reduced the uncompressed minimum file size requirement from 48MB to 24MB. Software Updates Canon 5D firmware update – Newly [...]
Lightroom RGB Percentage vs Photoshop RGB numbers
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 [...]
New Camera Raw, Lightroom and DNG converters releases
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, [...]
Photoshop CS4 bug – Color Sampler to Curves shortcut in Windows
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 [...]
Lightroom Version 2.5 and ACR 5.5 Released
Adobe have released Photoshop Lightroom version 2.5 and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) Version 5.5. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.5 update includes enhancements for: Additional camera support for several new camera models including the Nikon D300s, Nikon D3000, Olympus E-P1, Panasonic DMC-FZ35 and Panasonic DMC-GF1. Lightroom Bug Fixed – Lightroom 2.4 on Windows continued to display [...]
Adobe CS4 Install Disk Failure
I recently purchased a copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Design Premium to upgrade my CS3 system, but an installation disk causing “Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)” failures was very trying on my patience. For some reason software problems always seem to occur when you have other important things to do. The Problem When I [...]
