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Terry White’s, free 45 Minutes of Photoshop CS5 training.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Terry White was nice enough to post a 45 minute video going over the new features in CS5. I like the mini bridge edition!

Terry White’s, free 45 Minutes of Photoshop CS5 training here!

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The New MacBook Pros, holy sweetness Batman!

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

MacBook Pro notebook computers

So I just got back from vacationing in a cave apparently because I had heard nothing about the new MacBook Pros coming out!  I was a bit torn between trying to decide between an iMac with the i7 processors or a now older MacBook Pro.  Now the 15 and 17 inch MBP’s come with either a Core i5 or i7 processor, guess that makes that decision easy for me…  Plus, one of the coolest things I’ve read is the graphics switching per application.  With the older MBP’s you’d have to choose either the on-board graphics or the actual graphics card, depending on what you thought you’d be doing.  the on-board graphics obviously using much less power and therefore getting better battery life, but if say you knew you were going to be doing a lot of editing or something else more graphics intensive, the on-board graphics wouldn’t cut it, so you’d opt for the graphics card.  Well now, I guess there’s built in magic that knows what the graphics needs are per application and can switch from the less powerful to the more powerful graphics processor depending on what application you’re running.  So go from surfing the web to working on a 1000 RAW files in Aperture per say, the GPU would be swapped without having to re-boot, how cool is that!  This will definitely be my next main computer.  Check them out here!

Apple – MacBook Pro

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ADOBE Lightroom Beta 3 is out!!!

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Lightroom Beta 3 is out!

I really enjoy using Lightroom 2, but recently I have been using it primarily for images that I have exported to targa after developing the NEFs with Nikons Capture NX2.  I just find I get much better results using Capture and it’s way faster on my old 2003 MAC. In order to handle this sort of workflow I have two directories set up, identical directory and sub-directory structure but one fo strictly for NEFs which is where NX2 and Nikon View look, and the other is strictly for Lightroom 2 to use.  I never liked having all those sidecar files Lightroom writes out so I avoid this by never importing NEFs into it, just exported TGAs and JPGs.  I know it’s a bit more work but I feel its worth it.  All though when I come home from a family vacation with 2000 JPGs they go right into LR and stay there!

Adobe Labs – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

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