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What happens when you move? In my case you rediscover old tech that was put away and forgotten in the deep dark recesses of my home. The past couple of months I’ve been focused on moving my family for the first time in 15 years from San Francisco. While my nuclear family isn’t even 15 years old, I’ve been married 10 years and my oldest child is 5, I did surface some very old tech dating back nearly

When Adobe began demonstrating Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 it generated 2 reactions on average. The first fear about the removal of watermarks identifying the work of photographers and the second was an enthusiastic roar about the creative possibilities. Adobe of course was aiming for the later response.  Since the release of Content-Aware Fill I’ve often used it to fill in gaps when my canvas is rotate

I was privileged to have a chance to take part in the Lightroom on the Road Google Hangout last week discussing Lightroom 5 and photography with Julieanne Kost, Chris Chabot and Brendan van Son.  It was great to talk photos, photography & Lightroom 5 with talented and like minded individuals. There’s some great tips and ideas in the video around LR5 so be sure to check it out. Note: At 12:39 I show and disc

Adobe today is releasing the full creative suite of CS5 products including Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended ($699 and $999 respectively with CSx upgrades costing $199). The newest features added to PS CS5 include: 64-bit native code for Mac and PC (Mac had been 32-bit previously) Content-Aware Fill … “magically removes any image detail or object, examines the surroundings and seamlessly fill

In February 1990 Adobe released Photoshop 1.0. 20 years later the landscape of photography has forever been changed. “Changed” is too light of a term… Photoshop revolutionized how people manipulate pixels resulting in an edited image file. The cultural impact over the past several years has been quite pronounced as “photoshopped” or “‘shopped” is commonly used in every

Adobe Lightroom has been a critically important application to my photographic workflow, but from early on watermarking functionality has been limited. The standard copyright text line provided by Adobe Lightroom is enough, but lacks the ability to be customized giving photographers using it some level of individuality. As noted in my earlier blog articles on watermarking watermarks are not only functional to avert i

Over the past week I’ve received a few inquiries from readers wondering whether I use Apple’s Aperture or Adobe’s Lightroom. The answer… I use Lightroom. The decision is rooted back when Aperture was first released and Adobe put Lightroom out as a Beta. At the time I was about to purchase Aperture, but before I did I went to MacWorld to get a little more information on it. The 2006 MacWorld wa

Last week I discussed the Adobe Photoshop Express terms of use (ToU) and how the wording was nothing short of a rights grab (see Adobe Photoshop Express & The Mindless Photo Rights Grab). By weeks end John Nack posted an update, regarding the ToU, that “the Photoshop Express team has made some changes”. Reading the paraphrased revisions on John’s blog post alleviated what concerns I had, but whe