If you are into the newest version of Lightroom (version 3, of course), you need to dig into this pile of useful links. Please, notice that I extended it to include a number of languages that are used only by some of our readers, but I felt that this could be useful. You can voice…
Category: Image edit
Photoshop links
A link roundup for Photoshop lovers and people who want to learn more about Adobe Photoshop. 15 Essential Tutorials For Photoshop Beginners 5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool Using Workspaces in Photoshop Photoshop CS3 – Adding a Neutral Density Gradient Filter How to Manipulate Colours in Photoshop using Fill Layers The Ultimate Guide To…
A photographic workflow with Photoshop
Returning from Botswana, I started to publish a few of the good pictures I shot in May 2010 while on a photo safari trip. If you are interested, you will find these images on my personal web site and some of them on sale at RedBubble.com. New photos will keep appearing on a daily basis,…
Adobe Lightroom v3 is now available
After several weeks of waiting, I can now confirm that the latest version of Adobe Lightroom, version 3, is now available. You can go and purchase it.
5 tips for a great photo
While sorting and choosing the photographs of my recent trip to Botswana, I quickly remembered a list of criteria I like to use to objectively (more or less) decide which pictures are worth extracting from the huge bunch of files in the memory cards of my photo camera. photo credit: mikebaird As a matter of…
Adobe Camera Raw 6.1 coming with automatic lens correction
The beta version of Camera Raw v6.1 is now available from Adobe. As usual, we can be pretty sure that this version is looking a lot like the final one. As complete as ever, this software program is more or less the reference in RAW format photo picture handling (the DxO Labs tools still have…
IrfanView upgraded
The excellent images handling software program, IrfanView, has just been upgraded to version 4.27. Command line options to handle images with scripts (actions) or filters. Addition of a border or a frame. Addition of new filters and file formats. The screen copies options now allow to handle larger objects like a full web page (auto-scroll…
Gimp links
I don’t often write about Gimp, the free software image and photo edition software which is avbailabel both for Linux and PC-Windows. But, nevertheless, I keep noticing bits of useful information that I’d like to share with you if you are a user of Gimp. Selective Noise Reduction with GIMP — Repairing Noisy Skies pour…
Clean hot pixels from RAW files
It is sometimes unpleasant to discover a little annoying problem like a defective pixel on the sensor of a digital photo camera. It produces a small colored pixel (often black or white, sometimes of some other color). On a RAW file, it could be worse if it produces a colored streak. It is most visible…
Five new features of CS5
Adobe just announced the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Don’t panic! These software programs will not be available before next month and for a price relatively normal at Adobe (read “relatively expensive”; See at the end of the article). What these new versions of Creative Suite (CS so CS5)…
Photoshop CS5, tomorrow
Monday 12 April, Adobe will announce the features of its new Adobe Photoshop CS5. The most interesting will certainly be the “content-aware fill” that allows to fill empty parts of an image with adequate data without using the copy-paste or drawing tools. Many a photographer will be listening. But the actual product will only be…
Wipe tourists out
This is a very simple web application created by FutureLab AG. Tourist Remover is part of the graphics software suite Online Photo Manager SnapMania. It works quite simply: You take several pictures of the same location or the same monument. There is always one or more ugly tourists on the photo, but they are never…
Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware fill demonstration
This new feature for Photoshop CS5 is really impressive. Just remove what you want to remove and CS5 will fill back with adequate data built from the rest of the image. YouTube link Adobe Photoshop: A wonderful tool.
Photoshop CS5 countdown
Click onto the image below to reach the official launch site of Photoshop CS5: Update: Let’s be as clear as possible. On April 12, don’t expect to be able to buy a new box of Photoshop CS5. It will be only a technical presentation. We will still have to wait for the real availability (maybe…
What’s next for Adobe?
After the recent announcements, it would be useful to look where Adobe is going now, or in the coming months. Here, it is OK to start using the bits of news becoming available. First, of course, Lightroom v3 will soon be available (you can download the beta 2, already). DPReview obtained an interview with Tom…
All for Lightroom v3
Lightroom v3 beta 2 is now available for all to use/test. This is still a beta version, so you should remember that it comes with no warranty and, if you download it (for free), you expose yourself to a software application not yet ready for prime time and shop shelves (bugs are still very possible).…
A sharp picture: 12 tips
The plague of many photographs and photographic hardware devices is of not being able to produce nicely sharp pictures, nearly crunchy images (Nota bene: I do understand that this is not the ultimate goal of a photographer and that many a picture is technically mediocre or fuzzy or foggy and still is a great photograph).…
Photoshop links
Once again, let’s check my bag of fine Photoshop-related articles found on the web. For sure, most of them did not need to receive a full article here, but you will admit with me that they are worth reading. Paste Images on Tilted Surfaces in Photoshop Understanding the basics of Sharpening in Photoshop Create Seamless…
New HDRtist for HDR photos on Mac
It’s been quite some time that I wanted to mention the existence of a powerful HDR tool that is available for Mac: HDRtist is free and seems quite able. Unfortunately, it comes from the family of HDR tools which prefer to produce unrealistic images, but it can be tweaked. The new version of HDRtist, v1.2,…
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5
Corel just announced an update to its graphics design suite CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5. The new features of this too-often-forgotten competition to Photoshop: A new engine of color management A Built-in Content Organizer: Corel® CONNECT Compatibility with 100+ graphics file formats The price? 716,40€/£399/$489 for a full version and 357,60€/£179/$189 for an upgrade. It can…
Transform GIMP into a free Photoshop clone
GIMP is an excellent image edition software which could (should?) attract all those who do not want to pay the full price of Photoshop, while they work with Apple, Windows or Linux. the differences are real, but the most obvious one is certainly the interface (and Adobe clearly did a nice work on it). So,…
The rule of thirds, soon to be enforced
In composition, it is often considered that putting objects of interest on the key attention points helps build more powerful images. Daniel Cohen-Or and Lior Wolf at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, with colleagues at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, created a software program that automatically re-organizes photos to make them more powerful, more pleasing. NS link…
Aviary goes free
Aviary, one of the best online graphics edition software, just changed its pricing model. Instead of the subscriptions previously used, they went for a new price structure: 100% free. Supported by new financial partners, they offer their tools for free. Impressive free tool suite. The announcement on the Aviary blog.
Modify the EXIF dates of your pictures
The EXIF data hold a lot of useful technical information about your photos. One of these is the date and hour of the snapshot. This is quite pleasant, useful and nice up to the moment when your camera internal clock fails or starts lagging. Or when you need very precise synchronization with another device (like…
Camera Raw 5.6 is here
Ready to celebrate the arrival of 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, a new version of the RAW conversion utility from Adobe is here: Camera Raw 5.6. It supports a whole lot of recent cameras: Canon EOS 7D Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S90 Leaf Aptus II 5 Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 Nikon D3s…