What Don’t You Want in Photoshop CS6?

Wednesday, 18th August, posted in Thoughts, 8 comments.

There’s been a lot of talk already about what people want to see in the next edition of Photoshop, which for the purposes of this post we shall call CS6 :) But I am asking another question. What Do You NOT Want to see in Adobe Photoshop CS6?

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Confessions of an iPhone Shooter

Wednesday, 4th August, posted in Thoughts, 10 comments.

Ok, so I have a confession to make! I am an iPhone shooter, BUT, until I thought about it today. I have never really given two hoots about what I did with the images that I have taken with the iPhone. How nuts am I…

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A Little Photoshop Live – Sunday 20th 6pm – Lightroom 3

Wednesday, 16th June, posted in Thoughts, 23 comments.

On Sunday 20th June at 6pm. I am going to be doing my first ever live screencast and I thought saying as Adobe have just released Lightroom 3 that would the perfect topic for this inaugural event. What would you like to learn? Submit a question after the jump and find out how you can watch the free screencast!.

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What Type of Photography Do You Do?

Monday, 31st May, posted in Thoughts, add a comment.

To help me focus on the most relevant types of articles for Photoshop and Lightroom, I would love to know what type of photography you do. Please take a quick second to answer the questions after the jump. You can pick more than one but keep your answers to your primary photography.

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Its time to make mistakes again!

Monday, 3rd May, posted in Thoughts, 6 comments.

Throughout my photographic career I have made many mistakes. I love mistakes, mistakes are my ticket to better pictures. Although, hands up those of you who have made a mistake with an image and then looked at that ever glowing LCD on the back of the camera and thought “I will fix it in Photoshop later”?

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Poll – Are You Upgrading to Photoshop CS5

Monday, 26th April, posted in Thoughts, 5 comments.

Just a quick straw poll to see who is upgrading and when. This will help me determine when to start showing off some of the more real world features of CS5 rather than “Smoke & Mirrors” stuff thats floating around on the web at the moment.

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Happy 4th Birthday, its time for a Spring Clean!

Thursday, 8th April, posted in Thoughts, 7 comments.

On April 6th we reached the mile stone of being 4 years old. Yes, I know the archives only go back to August 2009 but thats because the old site got hacked and we had to start again. It was 4 years ago that I setup the first website and thats the date that I mark in the calendar each year. Before that I ran this end of things as an off shoot of my photography website and very soon we will be going full circle. More about that after the jump!

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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10 Inspirational Photography Websites

Thursday, 18th February, posted in Thoughts, 13 comments.

Inspiration is a wonderful tool for making better pictures. So check out these photographers for lighting, composition, subject, theme, expression, colour, post-processing etc. Learn from them and maybe borrow an idea or two, but remember to make those ideas your own… Enjoy!

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