Monthly Archives: August 2006

Iceland Adventure Galleries

O’reilly have published several write ups from the Adobe Iceland Adventure on their web site. digitalmedia.oreilly.com/adventure/ If you’ve been listening to the various podcasts then you’ll also be keen to see some of the images that were made by the … Continue reading

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Apple recall Sony batteries

Apple is recalling 1.8 million Powerbook and iBook lithium-ion batteries made by Sony. They were sold with Apple iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 computers from October 2003 through this month, according to the USA safety commission.The affected notebooks include the … Continue reading

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Kingston reveal 133x CF

Rob Galbraith reports on the release of Kingston’s fastest compact flash cards… Kingston today has announced that the higher capacities in their premium-performance line of CompactFlash cards have been bumped to 133X speeds. Going forward, the company will offer Ultimate … Continue reading

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Lightroom flood’cast

A flood of Lightroom Podcasts #13 through to #17 are now available. Each of the ‘casts features the response of a different individual participant to their experience of the Iceland Lightroom Adventure. If you download in iTunes you get the … Continue reading

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Lightroom ‘casts more Iceland adventure

Mikkel Aaland discusses the Adobe Lightroom Iceland Adventure project in the latest Lightroom Podcast #12. There is a gallery of photos from the trip here. The podcast is available now from George’s iDisk at: http://idisk.mac.com/george_jardine-Public?view=web or later from iTunes Mikkel … Continue reading

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Action Pack 3 released

Ben Long has released Photoshop Action Pack 3, a collection of Automator Actions for Photoshop CS and CS2. The new collection includes 11 additional actions including Add Empty Adjustment Layer, Add Graphic Watermark, Channel Mixer, Duplicate Current Layer, Photo Filter, … Continue reading

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More Podcasts

Lightroom podcasts #10 and #11 are available. Podcast 10 talks about the differences between ACR, Lightroom and Raw Shooter raw processing and welcomes the founder of Pixmantic Michael Jonsson to the Lightroom team. Podcast 11 features Bill Atkinson (the father … Continue reading

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Photo Mechanic updated

Photo Mechanic 4.4.3.2 has been released. This version of the image browser is cross-platform, optimized for Mac OS X (universal) and Windows XP / 2000, color managed, and gives Dual Processor support. It can be downloaded from the Camera Bits … Continue reading

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New Lightroom book by Martin Evening

Martin’s new book is The Adobe Lightroom Book …and what’s more, you can read it even before its finished! Peachpit Press have included it as one of their Rough Cuts series which allows you to see a book as it … Continue reading

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