Posted in iPad, Photo Editing Software on Jun 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Snapseed is is a photo editing app for the iPad that takes full advantage of the iPad’s multi-touch interface and allows basic image editing as well as creative filters to be applied to images taken with any camera and imported. Watch their introductory video tutorial for an overview. More video tutorials at the bottom of [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software, Photojournalism, Studio Photography on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Supermodel’s Photoshop Horror A former Sports Illustrated cover model is suing an Estee Lauder company for allegedly damaging her career with a fake promo using a Photoshopped picture of her. The suit is the latest wrinkle in the global phenomenon of photo retouching. An interesting example of this type of photo retouching is this Dove [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Nov 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Picture Editing Outside the Photo Booth How to integrate Mac OS Photo Booth images with other image editors like iPhoto or Photoshop. Good tips. Here’s one I didn’t know: Recent versions of Photo Booth can also take video clips or a series of four snapshots that can be used to create an animated GIF file [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Editing Software, Tools on Sep 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Make Adjustments in Lightroom with Physical Sliders This is actually a fantastic capability. I find the adjustment sliders in Lightroom tough to control with a mouse. Try getting the tone sliders back to 0 sometime if you’ve not experienced this.
Posted in Photo Editing Software, Tech Stuff on Jul 25th, 2010 No Comments »
An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings Jeffrey Friedle on how Lightroom’s JPEG settings differ from other applications that can convert RAW and TIFF images to JPEGs and how to think about evaluating each image being converted to JPEG so as to get the most compression with the least loss of image quality. This [...]
Posted in Photo Editing Software, Video on Apr 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Wow, this is great stuff.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software, Photojournalism on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Reuters Retracts Icelandic Volcano Photo This is a fascinating story. This is the comment I made in the thread at PetaPixel: I think most of us can agree that a DSLR is doing some processing before the image gets written to the card and how a photographer sets things up will determine how little or [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing, Photographers, Stop Action on Mar 23rd, 2010 17 Comments »
My friends Mamen Saura, Gary Sharp and I have put together a photo magazine of our work using MagCloud, a new publishing service. The process has been fantastic and I’m sure we’ll not only continue this magazine but we’ll also be using MagCloud for other things as well. Here’s the magazine: Wabi Sabi, Issue 1. [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw bug hits PowerPC users If any of you out there are still using G4 and G5 Macs, this post’s for you. Those of you using newer Intel hardware can skip this. However, when combined with the general dissatisfaction with Adobe’s user interface design of Macintosh products it will no doubt add [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads Concerned that girls and women feel excessive pressure to live up to the digitally Botoxed and liposuctioned images of human perfection they see in glossy magazines, lawmakers in Britain and France are trying to push advertisers to get real. Under their proposals, ads containing altered photos [...]
Posted in Architecture, Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 23rd, 2009 8 Comments »
I’m experimenting with an application called PTLens which corrects pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective. In this case, the 24mm end of the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L causes distortion in the perspective on buildings left and right of center. Before: After: The image would need to be cropped to remove the black areas left [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Gear on Jul 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Apple considering matte option on more Macs? Yes, this is great news. Consider, then adopt Apple.
Posted in Photo Editing Software, Social Software on Jan 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
Tilt-Shift maker This site creates a tilt-shift visual effect to existing photos. Warning, the site seems to be getting hit hard from the boing boing link, maybe wait a few days for things to calm down. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Social Software on Jan 7th, 2009 8 Comments »
Picassa for Mac (beta) is out and some folks, despite the reviews, are using and liking it. I’ll be curious if any iPhoto users will consider it and why.
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Speed up Lightroom 2.0 on Intel Macs and other modern computers. Pretty simple solution. Not sure it’s a solution just yet but it can’t hurt.
Posted in Photo Editing Software on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
4 Quick Ways to Boost Lightroom 2 Performance Oh boy, I need this bad. LR 2 is a bit sluggish between modes at the moment. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 2nd, 2008 17 Comments »
I’ve got Lightroom 2 downloaded and installed and it’s working quite well. I read that a few found it slower than version 1.4 but I wasn’t sure what type of computers they were using. On my 2.5 Ghz MacBook Pro with 4 gigs of memory it seems plenty fast, much faster, in fact, than 1.4 [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Editing Software on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Useful write up by Thomas Hawk: The 10 Best Things About the New Adobe Lightroom 2.0. I’m planning on waiting a while longer before doing this upgrade but many of the updated features are appealing.
Posted in Photo Editing Software on Jul 29th, 2008 5 Comments »
Lightroom 2 released to suspecting public I didn’t play with the beta and will no doubt upgrade at some point but I think I’ll wait for 2.1. No rush, the current version works fine for me.
Posted in Photo Editing Software on Apr 11th, 2008 6 Comments »
Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 I know I’m late with this, I’ve been flying all day. I’ve not done this update yet, anyone done it? Feedback please.
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