Monthly Archives: December 2006

Free Deke

Wondering what to do over a wet and windy New Year’s holiday?… Deke McClelland has 20 (yes count them!) video clips previewing Photoshop CS3 Beta over on Lynda.com … that’s well over an hour and a half’s viewing entertainment. And … Continue reading

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Photoshop 64bit when not if

Scott Byer of Adobe sparked off a flourish of excitement over the holidays, with photoshopers wishing for a little extra in their xmas stockings, when he wrote about the potential for CS3 to become a 64bit application in his blog. … Continue reading

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Think Tank Rotation 360 part 1

Today we finally got our hands on one of Think Tank Photo’s “Rotation 360” camera back packs. So we thought we’d test it out over the holidays. But meantime some first thoughts. It arrived in a substantial box. The bag … Continue reading

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Astronaut looses camera in space!

Darn it, doesn’t that always just happen! Well this was bound to make it onto YouTube. So here’s the footage from last Saturday 16 December 2006.

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Bruce Fraser

We’re sad to report that Bruce passed away over the weekend. link: in memoriam (John Nack blog) 

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Bruce Fraser seriously ill

Just a few days after we announced his new book we are very sad to report that colour and digital imaging guru Bruce Fraser is seriously ill with lung cancer. Following a failed programme of chemotherapy his prognosis is not … Continue reading

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Photoshop CS3 Beta Released

Martin Evening writes: There have been recent rumours in the last week that Adobe were planning to announce a public beta of Photoshop CS3, and today Adobe have confirmed that a public beta of the latest Photoshop CS3 and Bridge … Continue reading

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CS3 Beta Friday?

Appleinsider reports that Adobe may release a Beta version of eagerly awaited Photoshop CS3 as soon as this coming Friday, the full release of which is slated for Spring 2007. One of the key improvements that Mac users have been … Continue reading

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Sharp book from Bruce Fraser

“Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2″ arrives just in time for seasonal present buying. There’s a sample chapter available online courtesy of Peachpit Press and InformIt.com link: Real World Image Sharpening sample chpt

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Martin Evening: Lightroom tethered shooting

Martin has written a substantial introduction on how to shoot via a tethered connection using Lightroom. The article appears on PhotoShopNews. He also discusses using Nikon and Bibble software to achieve similar live viewing of each capture. I was very … Continue reading

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UK Copyright Gowers report due

The Gowers Review Report is to be published shortly. Early indications are that Gowers will recommend an exception in copyright law for ‘private copying’. This is rather unsettling. Of course in advance of the publication we do not yet know … Continue reading

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Photoshop CS3 clues

Some details of PS CS3 are starting to spread across the internet in advance of its anticipated release. Think Secret lists Live Filter effects working in a similar manner to adjustment layers, native support for Mac Intel chips, Flash animation … Continue reading

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Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography

Johnson has been previously mentioned here, and now he has a new book. This isn’t a Photoshop book, although Photoshop has its place within the book; it’s a book that a master teacher and photographer creates after a lifetime of … Continue reading

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