DAM Sexified – Thanks Steve Jobs When Apple announced Aperture, their DAM and Raw conversion software, they made a huge impact on digital photography. For too long DAM was mostly presented in an ugly database interface. Aperture’s biggest influence is the Steve Jobs ‘black skivvy’ interface. As they did to mp3 players and mobile phones … Read more
A swag of updates from Adobe. Lightroom version 2.1 is out of beta and officially released for Windows and Mac. Camera Raw 5.1 for Photoshop CS4 and its companion DNG Converter 5.1 were also updated, Windows here and Mac here. Alternatively use Adobe Updater that is installed with your apps. New camera support and minor … Read more
The long wait is over. Phase One have released Capture One 4 Pro. Phase have lost a lot of ground to the likes of Lightroom and Aperture offering two major updates in the same time, and Bibble 5 nearing release. There is no doubt that Capture One offers an alternate RAW rendering that many love. … Read more
While this is not news recently I’ve found network speed a real pain to deal with using image browsers. Even on a Gb network opening and zooming high megapixel RAW files is slow. Now I use catalog apps for a first look at images instead of an image browser. The catalog app (Expression Media 2.01, … Read more
Expression Media 2 Service Pack 1 has been released. Get the Windows version here and the Mac version here. Install the service pack on top of Expression Media 2. It fixes many bugs that prevented me recommending the upgrade to version 2, and polishes the user interface. Full details onDavid Sayed’s blog.
At Photokina the new Metadata Working Group released their guidelines for preserving metadata. The group consists of Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony. Josh Weisberg, director of Microsoft’s Rich Media Group, is the groups founder and has worked hard for two years to bring it together.
Adobe have made public a Release Candidate for Lightroom 2.1. Treat this as a beta. If you are experiencing problems with Lightroom 2 such as missing metadata (or have a shiny new Nikon D700) you may like to see if the RC helps. The link above lists the all the bugs addressed. Otherwise wait a … Read more
iView Multimedia and the iView products are about to be put to rest once and for all. Email support will cease as of 1 September 2008. In 2006 Microsoft acquired iView which became Expression Media. Thankfully Microsoft will keep the iView forums running for now.
Back up – Software Back ups are essential. Professionals need to ensure their digital assets are protected. Everyone wants to know their personal images, videos and documents are safe. Backing up involves a set of protocols; the what, when, where, how (the who and why are obvious), the media, hardware, and software. Today I want … Read more
Lightroom Adventure 29 July 2008 Adobe have released Photoshop Lightroom 2. As previewed in the beta the star feature is non-destructive local area correction. New in the final release is graduated local area correction that some may have seen used by the Lightroom Adventure photographers. Make sure you stock up on RAM as Lightroom is … Read more