Archive for the ‘Photoshop’ Category
Photoshop Elements 10 Now Available
Adobe Comes Through With Its Yearly Update to the Ever-Improving Best Selling Image Editor: Photoshop Elements
Once again we come to the time of year where Adobe always comes through with its latest version of Photoshop Elements. Personally, I teach Photoshop Elements and therefore use it on a daily basis. What I’m so impressed with is the bang for the buck with Elements. For under $100 U.S., it completely negates other image editors in price performance. For the amateur and enthusiast photographer, its absolutely the best software package around. It operates like the big brother Photoshop but it also has a nack of including new features that Photoshop just doesn’t have. Lets look at what Adobe has to say…. Kevin Moss, Publisher
10 Recent Photography Trends
Whats New For Digital Photographers In Photography Gear and Digital Techniques
We’re often techies. OK, we are techies and electronics geeks. We read, we buy, we play. Digital photographers are techie junkies at times and I am no different. Because of the nature of my personal photographic work and being an instructor of students all over the world, I do keep up with current trends for digital photographers. These are exciting times for us, and the available tools for our passion are getting larger, more complex and most of all, fun! Lets talk about 10 technology trends that are here or forthcoming. I’ll be breaking these down in detail over the next 10 articles, here is my introductory summary.
Recent Photography Trend #1: The Apple iPad
Greatest Artist and Photographers Tool Since Photoshop?
When was the last time you stepped into a Starbucks and didn’t see someone doodline on an iPad? Lets face it, they’re all over the place. Yuppies, professionals and regular folks likes us playing with their iPads. How does cool new tool help the photographer? Think of the future, cloud computing. Its coming, and its the next-step of the web. The iPad is more than a glorified iPhone with a few apps.
Recent Photography Trend #4: Digital Photography Workflow Software
Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom Mature Into Essential Tools for the Digital Photographer
One of the trends that has been growing for advanced and enthusiast photographers is the use of image editing workflow software. The market is dominated by Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. The first out of the gate a few years ago was Aperture, however dominating the space now is Adobe with its recent release of Adobe Lightroom 3. Both are top notch. Apple based professional photographers tend to favor Aperture as it is strictly for the Mac and integrates well with iPhoto. The rest of the world favors Adobe Lightroom. Which is better?
Recent Photography Trend #7: Digital Infrared
Convert That Old Digital Camera to Infrared
Back in the film days, or BF (before digital cameras) a small breed of photographers would load up their 35mm cameras with infrared film (in the dark I may add!), attach special filters in front of their lenses, and pursue a true art of infrared black and white photography. It was difficult to work with at best. The photographer would have to store the film in cold temperatures, and never knew what type of results they would get from the film, you see, we didn’t have immediate feedback like we do know with LCD’s on our cameras.
Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 9
Yearly Photoshop Elements Upgrade for 2011: Keeps Getting Better
Another year, another version of Photoshop Elements. Just announced, Adobe is rolling out Photoshop Elements 9. Adobe does come up with an upgrade approximately every year and always includes new features for the photographer. For Photoshop Elements 9, Adobe had added a neat feature borrowed from Photoshop CS5, content aware fill. Think of it as the healing brush on Steroids. Unfortunately Adobe doesn’t offer upgrade pricing for owners of previous versions of Elements, but at approximately $79 U.S., its still worth the price to upgrade.
Online Nature Photography Workshops Start Wednesday, October 6
Take an Online Workshop with Kevin Moss: Elements for Nature Photographers or Photoshop for Nature Photographers
Hello everyone, hope you had a wonderful September!
I have 2 workshops starting Wednesday, October 6, 2010. Both are on the subject of nature photography with one workshop concentrating on Photoshop Elements, and the other workshop for Photoshop users. The workshops are taught online at BetterPhoto. I’ve been an instructor there for over 3 years and have been teaching these two web-based workshops for some time. I’ve had students from 60 countries and at all ages and levels of expertise, doing a lot of one-on-one during the month-long online course.
Roxio Releases Creator 11 Multimedia Software
New Version of Roxio’s Creator Add’s 3D To Photo’s and Video
We’re photographers, but we’re also computer users. Many of us have collections of photo’s and video’s. With the advent of HD video in many of our digital cameras, we’re also video editors and producers. We have digital post-processing nailed with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, but what do we use for our digital video? Personally, I’ve been using Roxio for a few years, just for burning DVD’s and for some quick video editing. Roxio’s lastest version of Roxio Creator now adds 3D capabilities to our video’s and our photos.
Photoshop CS5 Is Here
Just When You Thought You Had Your Current Version Of Photoshop Understood…
Adobe has been pretty regular with their updates to their Creative Suite of software. In our case as photographers, Photoshop. Photoshop CS5 announced last month is shipping. We thought it to be a good idea to hit the highlights with you. After all, we’ve been testing this for quite a while, and am really enjoying some of the new features the photographer may be interested in.
Blur as an Element of Composition
A large part of my personal portfolio, the use of blur in my personal photographic work is ever expanding. I’m not condoning sloppy technique that result in a soft image, I’m talking about introducing blur into certain images in order to elicit a desired effect; an abstract study of color and blur. I’ve been working on a portfolio of such images for about 5 years now (hmm, another book idea!).
Improve Your Photography Available in Print
Improve Your Photography – 50 Essential Tips and Techniques Available In Print
We have had a lot of requests for a printed version of our eBook, Improve Your Photography – 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques. It is now available for order from my publisher (and soon to be on Amazon) at https://www.createspace.com/3435093. I received my final proof earlier this week, and the book is looking great in print. If you don’t want to waste a set of inkjet cartridges and want a printed copy, it’s ready for purchase. By many copies and send them to your friends!
Color As An Element of Photographic Composition
Using Color As The Main Subject Matter
You’ll discover that most photographers, regardless of their level of expertise will typically like to shoot a small number of subjects. There is a large army of nature photographers around the world. There are many that are primarily portrait photographers. Some concentrate their photographic efforts on travel (I call them the “lucky ones”). Others photograph a number of different subjects, that’s the category that you should be encouraged to explore.
Top 40 DPD Photography Gizmo’s Updated
DPD’s Top 40 Digital Photography Gizmo’s
Take a gander at our updated DPD Top 40 (DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY DAILY’s top digital photography products). Still on top, the Canon EOS 7D. Still think its the best APS-C class digital camera out there. You could actually make most of these products #1 in the Top 40, but that’s according to taste. They’re all good, and you probably own a few already too!
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Preview Video’s
A Couple of YouTube Video’s Regarding CS5
Hi all, hope you had a great week! We’re linking to some video’s that will provide sneak peaks of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5. These are starting to make the rounds, so I thought I’d link to them from YouTube.com.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Is On It’s Way
Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Creative Suite CS5 Launch April 12, 2010
Adobe announced today it’s launch date for Photoshop CS5 and the rest of the Creative Suite CS5. There isn’t a lot of info out there on the Web yet, and I can attest to the point that the software isn’t being burned to CD’s yet either as various beta programs are just getting wrapped up.
You can sign up for Adobe’s online event at http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ JANAD2W98WDM 3DV6VHS34B8J
Spring Means Flower Photography
10 Tips For Spring Flower Photography
In many parts north of the equator, it’s still cold outside. Springtime is here, and that means it’s getting time to start thinking about flower photography. If you hadn’t noticed, the stores are starting to stock more flowers, getting ready for springtime business. As the flowers are getting ready to start blooming in the next few months, we need to start thinking in terms of photographing them.
Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Free Download
Adobe has announced version 2 of its Lightroom 3 beta available for free download. This is an update to the download version featured in our earlier article. The beta is operational on your computer until June 30th, 2010. The new beta offers better performance, enhanced noise reduction, new slideshows with audio, better online photo sharing which has been growing in popularity the past few years, plus updated import file handling.
You can download the latest beta at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/
Search Your Old Digital Camera Files For Treasure
Rescue Lost Treasures
Shooting digital for 10 years yet? That’s when the digital revolution started to take hold. When was the last time you went back to your image library and reviewed the images you had taken years ago? If you’re like a lot of photographers, there are probably hundreds or more digital images that were pretty good, but you never bothered doing anything with.
Oscar Rivera Photographs New York City
Photographer Spotlight
Oscar Rivera’s Extraordinary Photography From The Streets of New York
I came across New York City photographer Oscar Rivera’s photographic work while trading forum emails with him about Nikon lenses. I followed a link to his website, and was thoroughly amazed as what I discovered next.
Free Dreamy Photo Photoshop Filter from Auto FX Software
A Nice Freebie Photoshop Filter or Standalone Application
Auto FX Software has a number of special effect Photoshop plug-ins that I’ve used over the years. One filter in particular,is the Dreamy Photo filter that is part of their Dreamsuite Series product line. I really like the effect of this simple filter, and have used it from time to time with good success. I like the filter to add a colorful glow to certain images, an effect that is difficult to duplicate with consistency in Photoshop (though all the capability is there, this filter is just very convenient!)
