Feb 4
SeanPhotography, Web Design
if your looking for some nicely written step-by-step photoshop how-to examples with movies and downloadable pdf directions look no further than dvgarage techtv downloads. each week (i think it’s weekly) they appear on techtv and provide a new tip for using photoshop to modify and retouch your photos. they have some very cool tips like bluescreen compositing, creating an unsharp mask (very cool and works great), curves, brushes and more. if your new to the more advanced features of photoshop like i am you’ll find these examples priceless.
Feb 4
SeanPhotography, Web Design
i’ve been reading a lot of articles about the newest release of photoshop. the marketing guru’s have decided to throw us all a curve ball and instead of following a logical software numbering scheme they took a page from the microsoft obfuscation handbook and named this release photoshop cs (creative suite). sure it sounds snappy but really, what’s the point?
anyhow, i’ve been thinking about picking up this latest release but wanted to make sure i was getting some bang for my buck. here are a few of the reviews i found useful, maybe you will as well.
- creative mac’s review goes into great detail about the 16-bit image upgrades, camera raw formats, new image manipulation functions (check out the cool butter fly example), file browser, text on a path and more. lots of images and the usual detail you get from the creative mac folks.
- brainstorms & raves review has brief overviews and links to several of the same articles that i read, and more.
- bergman graphics review asks the experts to give their review of the new release. i was really hoping for more information and detail from lynda weinman but she was surprisingly quiet and short on words. the other “experts” seemed to have many positive things to say about the new feature set.
- dp reviews’ review yet more detail and depth to the camera raw support, color match, new commands, and the way cool filter gallery feature.
- macworld’s review somehow without a single photo they reviewed a piece of photo editing software. oh yea, you have to buy the magazine to see the pictures. that’s so 90’s …
- adobe, from the horses mouth …
there are a few others but needless to say the message was getting repetitive. i definitely think that i’ll be picking up a copy of photoshop cs when time and cash flow permit. given the amount of time spent in 7.0 recently doing image sharpening and tweaking i found myself really having fun. actually i’ve been looking into taking a photoshop class recently, just to have a structured class to learn within. is anyone else finding the cs upgrade worthwhile? complaints?
Feb 4
SeanPhotography
we decided to bite the bullet and buy a digital camera today. we were originally planning on buying the nikon coolpix 5700 but decided that there were to many things we didn’t like or were worried about. there was also the concern of jumping in to deep price wise before we knew much about digital photography. anyhow, we decided to go with the trimmed down nikon coolpix 4300. it’s a 4.0 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom. it has a bunch of the same features as the 5700 but is a lot cheaper. don’t get me wrong, this isn’t the 5700. this is however a better grab-and-go camera than the 5700 and it has enough features that we will be able to learn from it for a while into the future. look for comments and a basic review in the coming weeks after i play with it a bit.
Feb 4
SeanPhotography
amy and i have been looking at getting a digital camera. i thought she wanted to wait on purchasing one but it seems i was wrong. anyhow, ive been reading on them on different sites. the one ive read a lot of good things about has been the nikon coolpix 5700. there’s a pretty detailed review over here, here, here, and here. pages and pages of details with images, details, flaws and everything. there have also been some good reviews of this camera in the astronomy discussion groups and mailing lists. it doubles pretty well for astrophotography and produces some great images. i’ll keep looking around though and if you have any information on other units please let us know.
Feb 4
SeanPets, Photography Pets
this is a smallish slideshow (324k) of our new siberian hamster pets. they are so cute and small. these pictures were taken with a sony digital camera and later processed in iphoto where it was turned into a quicktime slide show.
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