Monthly Archives: February 2007

Photoshop follows Google by going online

Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, according to a Cnet News.com interview with Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen. The hosted … Continue reading

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Law in Action

Changes to the laws on Intellectual Property Rights are being covered in the BBC radio programme Law in Action. This of course includes the outcomes and reactions to the Gowers report. High on the agenda are Musicians and Photographers, as … Continue reading

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NUJ Freelance Fees Guide

We’ve had this listed in the links in our “Some Friends” column on the right of this page for some time… but its worth mentioning again. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) publish a very comprehensive to photography rates for… … Continue reading

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Lightroom cheaper at Amazon

Adobe may have already offered an early purchase discount, but if you want to save a few more pennies then Amazon’s UK store is offering Lightroom at £133.99 inc tax and delivery. This compares with Adobe’s price of £146.88 plus … Continue reading

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Remote Capture on high

With WiFi connections to cameras and flash becoming more robust the possibilities for operating cameras in what would formally have been crazy or expensive situations are becoming a lot easier. So much so that clients are now expecting photographers to … Continue reading

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Seminars at FOCUS

Just a reminder that Prodig will be at FOCUS on Monday 26 Feb. We will be offering a rendezvous between 1.30 – 2.30 hosted on the Redeye stand. Paul Herrmann of Redeye will also be talking about life as a … Continue reading

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Profiling a ColorChecker SG card

If anyone wants to run the Fors script with a ColorChecker SG card, Keith Cooper has got the modified script to download… It’s from a review he did about using the ColorChecker SG with Eye One Match to create camera … Continue reading

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Lightroom 1.0 ships

For those of you who have been on a desert island… the full release of Lightroom 1.0 started shipping today. There were some questions about whether a demo would be available and indeed there is. It will operate for  a … Continue reading

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Jill Greenberg video profile

Jill Greenberg became notorious for her portrait series of children crying “End Times”. But the work she created at the beginning of her career took advantage of Photoshop before it was a household name and formed the groundwork for the … Continue reading

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Prodig at FOCUS

If you are going to  FOCUS at the NEC in Birmingham (UK) Redeye are very kindly letting Prodig use their stand as a Rendezvous Point this year. I am planning to be at FOCUS on Monday 26th February, so if … Continue reading

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Apple Aperture events (UK)

Apple resellers are presenting the ‘Shoot Like a Pro with Aperture’ series. The events take place in Jersey, Liverpool and Manchester during March. “Find out how Aperture integrates with the latest digital SLR cameras and photo-editing tools like Photoshop. A … Continue reading

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Prodig Podcasts on iTunes

Prodig Podcasts are now officially listed on iTunes. Just go to the iTunes Store and enter a search for “Prodig”. Once you have subscribed to our Podcast (its free, by the way) you will automatically download the latest podcasts as … Continue reading

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Vista looses Metadata

Reports are coming in that Windows Vista is stripping metadata from images, or making it unusable. According to one Microsoft Knowledge Base article, “When you edit the properties of a photo to add metadata to that photo in Windows Vista, … Continue reading

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Photographer introduces Print house to Colour Management

Ian Reynolds writes about his experience giving a print house a helping hand to handle his (and everyone else’s) image files correctly… There are some in the Repro Industry who think they know better, just because they have big printers. … Continue reading

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