Introducing the Storybook Album Designer Pro Power Panels
Sunday, 28th March, posted in Products Videos, 2 comments.It has always been a goal of mine to get Storybook Album Designer out of the actions panel and onto its own interface. Well, I have gone one better because now you can run Storybook using the whole of Photoshop CS4 workspace and I can’t begin to tell you how cool this is for creating digital wedding albums. Watch the demo screencast after the jump…
Buy the LPS Workflow Power Panel Today
Saturday, 27th March, posted in Products Videos, 18 comments.Do you love our FREE LPS Workflow Essentials Actions? Wanna Power Up for £4.99? Check out the Limited Edition Workflow Power Panel.
Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Beta 2: What’s New?
Wednesday, 24th March, posted in Thoughts, 3 comments.I mentioned yesterday in my latest screencast, that Adobe has released the 2nd public Beta version of Lightroom 3. Its got some new features, tweaks and a lot of fine tuning that is based upon feedback from over 350,000 photographers worldwide. I have now had 24 hours to play with it and here are my thoughts on it and what I think I they should be adding to the final shipping version.
Count Down to Your First Look at CS5
Tuesday, 23rd March, posted in Thoughts, 1 comment.Adobe has announced that they will be launching CS5 globally on Monday April 12th at 8am PDT. Which is around 4pm GMT, if their little calendar reminder is correct. You can follow updates on twitter using #csbuzz and #cs5 tags and as soon as I can do a screencast on all the new features of Photoshop CS5 it will be on the blog.
Sloppy Edges in Lightroom? Really, Yep!
Monday, 22nd March, posted in Videos, add a comment.So you love my Foto Edge Fx Actions, but you want to stay in Lightroom. Did you know you can easily adapt any of my sloppy edges as overlays for Lightroom’s Print Module? Watch the free screencast after the jump and all will be revealed.
How to Create a Night Shot Composite with Photoshop
Thursday, 18th March, posted in Videos, 6 comments.HDR is an amazing tool for taking photography into the realms of what the human can see. But even the likes of Photomatix Pro has its limitations when you want to introduce movement to shot. So in this screencast I will show you how to composite multiple exposures into a single image that would have “merge to hdr” running for the hills. Get the popcorn on as its another biggie!
Poll Results on Photo Management Software
Wednesday, 17th March, posted in Thoughts, add a comment.It’s that time again! The results are in and it’s time to spill the beans.
This Poll has been something of an adobe landslide! Check out the results for yourself…
Join Our Facebook Fan Page
Tuesday, 16th March, posted in Thoughts, 3 comments.You know me! I don’t like to jump onto a new band wagon without thinking about for at least 5 minutes, sometimes 10 minutes. This time I thought about it for 3 months and we now have a Facebook FanPage.
How was it done? Tell me and Win a Prize!
Sunday, 14th March, posted in Competitions, 6 comments.I have an HDR in mind for this weeks screencast and I need some shooting time. So we are mixing things up and the next video will be out on Thursday. Anyway, I thought it was about time we had another little competition.
New Templates & Tutorials for Storybook Album Designer v6
Saturday, 13th March, posted in Products, 4 comments.You asked for them and now they are here! Last week I finished a set of 30 (14×11) Auto-Page Templates for Storybook Album Designer v6. There 15 templates on a white background and 15 on a black and they make full use of the new vector based apertures that I introduced to Storybook last week.
Should You Ask Permission to Photograph People?
Thursday, 11th March, posted in Articles, 15 comments.I thought I would pose a question this week. Should you ask permission to photograph people in public places? I have posted an image or two after the jump to get the discussion going and I will be interested to hear what you think!
Retouching 35mm Film Scans with Photoshop Part 2
Monday, 8th March, posted in Videos, 2 comments.I am currently bringing back to life old photos from when I used to shoot film. So this week I thought it would be cool to follow up on how I setup my graphics tablet and show you how I use on a 35mm film scan. If like me you have a bunch of old neg’s in need of scanning. Then this will give you a great workflow for retouching a Tiff image in Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop.
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