Lightroom workflow seminar Sydney
See us at the Sydney Convention Centre speaking on DAM Workflow as a part of the AIPP Blow Fish Diaries (13-16 April 2008).
Lightroom 1.4 – Don’t update!
Yet another “do not update”; this time to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.4 and Adobe Camera Raw 4.4. There are serious bugs for DNG users who update their settings, as well some quirks with Olympus JPEG images and EXIF capture date. Adobe have identified the bugs and Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 are in the … Read more
DAM Workflow Newsletter 4
DNG 1.2 – Updated to version 1.2 Adobe released new specifications for their DNG (Digital NeGative) file format. Now at version 1.2 it has been offered to the ISO as the basis for an international standard camera raw format for camera manufacturers and software vendors. Adobe is also pursuing a DNG format for motion picture. … Read more
DAM Workflow Newsletter 3
File Naming A Dark Science? One area many creative professionals get stuck is file and folder naming. Filenames are the most vulnerable metadata because clients typically will rename images for their own purpose. That does relieve some pressure on coming up with your own protocol because it only needs to work for you in your environment. … Read more
Photoshop CS3 update for metadata
A part of the Adobe Photoshop CS3 10.01 update includes the option to include XMP with Export for the Web & Devices. This means your JPEG images can retain copyright and other important metadata. Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom are also updated; the latter now plays nicely with Leopard.
Lightroom 1.1 update
Adobe released the update to Photoshop Lightroom 1.1.
Testing Loyalties (or, DAM, Politics, Religion and Sex)
Around the middle of 2007 iView will be no more and the much-loved MediaPro will become Microsoft Expression Media. Microsoft purchased iView Multimedia in June 2006. Recently Microsoft has been quietly informing us that the first version of Expression Media will essentially be the same as the current MediaPro 3. In other words, don’t expect … Read more
Aperture or Lightroom = Neither!
Apple’s Aperture and Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom introduce a new workflow for photographers. Rather than use two or three separate applications Aperture and Lightroom promise a one-stop-shop. So which one is best? Well, neither. This goes against current trends where most experts are suggesting one of these apps will be the dominant software for photographers in … Read more
Lightroom release date
Adobe have announced Lightroom will be released 19 February 2007 at an initial price of US$199. Lightroom does not offer enough DAM features to replace applications like iView MediaPro. Lightroom is an alternative to Adobe Bridge for photographers.
Meta What?
Besides the actual photo, digital images also contain metadata; data about data, including EXIF and IPTC. EXIF is the information about how the image was captured (shutter speed, lens, time/date, etc). IPTC is used to enter information to describe what the image is about (the who, what, when, why, how). With Orphan Works legislation being … Read more