Hall of Fame inductee Martin Evening receiving his “Photoshop Hall of Fame” award from NAPP’s Executive Director Larry Becker.
photo: Brad Moore

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Photographers needing to archive large numbers of images have taken to plugging in bare Hard Drives, cataloging the contents, and then storing them in a cupboard or off-site.
Hard drives are said to be more reliable and cheaper than CD/DVDs.
But its been a precarious activity, with the need to create your own bespoke set of data [...]

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A photo editor let us know about this…
“A wicked-simple website solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed for photographers and creative professionals, Small Folio let’s you create a web presence that looks great on one of the hottest mobile devices.”
Requires PHP, no database, and comes with a Photoshop action for preparing images. Cost is [...]

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Rob Galbraith, in a 1,700 word essay, compares the Canon EOS 1D Mark III’s autofocus performance of firmware v1.1.3 with  v1.2.3
link: Rob Galbraith article

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The technology was largely developed by Eric Chan,  on the Camera Raw team. And he writes extensively on John Nack’s blog explaining the principles behind it.
“Do you find deep reds becoming orange-ish and undersaturated? Is it challenging to nail colors under specific lighting conditions, like when doing a product shoot? Do you love our tools [...]

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As of 29/7/08 a problem has been discovered with Keywords when upgrading to v.2.0 Lightroom. The Lightroom team anticipate releasing a fix soon.
You can read about it here…
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5f7c6

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New features
Adobe Blog: Lightroom Journal
Profile Editor and the beta versions of Camera profiles, introducing the concept of color profiles for DNG/RAW files is certainly something altogether new to me, and I guess, to many.

Adobe Labs: DNG_Profiles
Adobe Labs: DNG_Profiles Editor
More…
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_review/lr2-review-1.htm
http://creativesuitepodcast.com/
http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/
http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom2/
http://lightroom-news.com/

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The Illustrators Partnership are pursing amendments to the Orphan Works bill being presented to Congress in the USA.
This issue affects photographers not only in the USA but also anyone whose works may be used or discoverable within the USA.
You can make a difference by contacting US Congressmen, even if you don’t live in the USA.
Here’s [...]

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“Sexy, stylish, and ever-quotable Miami photographer Jorge Parra is creating the “new Latin chic,” a sophisticated, upscale look that showcases the heady verve of Latin culture. His imagery for clients such as Ray-Ban, Avon, Johnnie Walker, Christian Dior, and L’Oréal Paris has appeared in both U.S. and Latin-American markets. His images are made stunning through [...]

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A short guide to photographers rights in the UK
This is intended to provide a short UK guide to the main legal restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to publish photographs that have been taken.
The guide was written by Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip.L.P., LL.M, who is a lecturer in law at Heriot [...]

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This BBC Radio interview features a discussion with Austin Mitchell MP about his Early Day Motion in parliament. It concerns controlling officious behaviour by police, security guards and others who may try to stop photographers, whether amateur or professional, who are going about their legal business.

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Austin Mitchell MP has drawn on cross-party support from 150 other MPs, calling on the Home Office and the police to educate officers about photographers’ rights.
“There’s a general alarm about terrorism and about paedophiles, two heady cocktails, and police, police community support officers and wardens and authorities generally seem to be worried about this.” said [...]

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OK so the weather forecast wasn’t quite right, you’ve had to call off today’s location shoot and now you’re sitting around the studio twiddling your thumbs.
Well thanks to the kind people at Taco Bell all is not lost. You can still do a bikini shoot today… mind you it might not go the way you’d [...]

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Very positive reports are surfacing about this new product from Nik Software. Using their U Point technology Viveza places a control point anywhere on an image and allows you to selectively control Brightness, Saturation, Contrast etc just in that selected area without the need for you to do your own complicated masking.
The Nik web site [...]

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