Entries tagged with “adobe” from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure

So it's been a week since I got back from NYC and PPE. This is a belated entry because I came back elated but exhausted. It didn't help that it was minus 5 C and snowing here in our home...

A couple weeks ago, at the Adobe summer school here in Europe I hinted that Lightroom Beta 2 users would be pleasantly surprised at some of the new features coming out in Lightroom 2. Well... LR 2 is now out...

As many of you know, one of the key sponsors of the Adobe Adventure to Tasmania is Digital Railroad, the online photo marketing system for professional photographers and stock photo agencies. Digital Railroad is where many of our photographers have chosen to present and market their work. This week our very own Jeff Pflueger is featured in Digital Railroad's marketplace. Good job Jeff, and thank you Digital Railroad! Next week Digital Railroad will feature Catherine Hall's photos of Tasmania.

There are just two weeks left for a chance to win free trip onboard Qantas airlines to Tasmania! Sign up here. All of you who followed the Adobe Lightroom Adventure on the O’Reilly site know what a treasure Tasmania is. It’s photographers and travelers’ paradise and the Adventure team all came back thinking we had just been on a trip of a lifetime.

I've been playing with the Lightroom 2 public beta (free here) and finding some things I really like. Take the new Clarity, for example. Clarity controls are found under the Basic pane in the right panel of the Develop module. Traditionally, Lightroom's Clarity has been used for local contrast enhancement and gives dull images a "punch". With Lightroom 2, Clarity can have a reserve effect, a negative Clarity if you will. Negative values, (up to -100) when applied to a photo of, say, a face can give skin a smooth silky look (You can use reverse Clarity with the new localized adjustment tool as well). I was curious how negative Clarity might work on some of my Tasmanian landscapes and I was pleasantly surprised. Tasmania already has a romantic feel to it, but this simple adjustment really brought out the romantic quality even more, as you can see by looking at my Romantic Tasmania web gallery. I've also prepared a simple video that walks you through what I did using the public beta on one of the images. I'll post that shortly.

As a team member in Tasmania, trying to follow the activities of 24 photographers shooting over ten days could make one downright mad. One was likely to just get the crazy stories in bits and pieces - or hope to see an image or two. But of all of the photographers, what Bruce Dale was up to each day was the most mysterious to me. Bruce, long time national Geographic staff photographer (30 plus years I understand!), would dissolve each day into the Tasmanian landscape, to return at night with an impressive breadth of subjects. Not only did Bruce have stunning landscape images, but also intimate and rich visual stories of the people of Tasmania: A pirate wedding Bruce was invited to for example, or the slaughter of a pig - subjects only obtainable to photographers with the master key to all of the proverbial doors a photojournalist might want to enter! Bruce has put together a Lightroom gallery showing a bit of what he was up to in Tasmania, and it is stunning to say the least. The gallery shows off a bit of the photographic and journalistic skills a rich and full career at National Geographic can cultivate. You need to check it out! After seeing the gallery, I even more sorely regret not trying to tag along with Bruce like young grasshopper on one of his deep Tasmania day missions to learn what I could!

Tasmania is blessed with some of the cleanest air in the world, manic weather, and rugged topography - all nice ingredients for photographing wonderful sunrises and sunsets. And everyone loves a beautiful sunrise and sunset!

Is it possible to be homesick for a place that isn't home? As I sat on a plane returning to San Francisco from the island of Tasmania, I realized that I was experiencing the Frank Sinatra song in reverse. I'd left my heart in this land of magical forests, exotic wildlife and - more importantly - extraordinary people. In all my travels, I have never felt so safe, welcome, comforted and embraced. The Tasmanian people accepted me without....

I'm sitting in the Qantas lounge in Sydney, waiting for my flight back to the States. Peter Krogh, Bruce Dale and I spent an extra few days here doing workshops on Lightroom, Digital Asset Management, and Panoramas for the...

Last night, at the Henry Jones Art Hotel here in Hobart, hundreds of people showed up and we raised over $7,000 for the Save the Tasmanian Devil fund by selling the beautifully printed Epson prints we made on the trip....

Years ago, when I was illustrating a book on Shinto, the Japanese religion, I came up with a photographic style I called Sumi-e after the black ink, gestural art painting technique. This was long before Photoshop, and I used a...

Leo Laporte put together an awesome video from day one of the adventure featuring the photography and first day antics of Bruce Dale, Peter Krogh, Jackie King, and me. Check it out. Nice work Leo!...

April 1, 2008--Just two hours to go until we land in Sydney, Australia. It's still dark outside but I know the vast Pacific ocean is just below. Leo Laporte is asleep in the seat next to me.(See photo below. Click...

A few weeks ago I took a Qantas flight from San Francisco to Sydney to check out the locations for our adventure. I’ve never been to Australia before and frankly I dreaded the long flight. It turns out my fears...

Because of the release date for the public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, we knew we needed to look south, below the equator for the location of our second Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure. Several people suggested southern Patagonia, at the...

The second Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure is about to begin! In a little more than a week we are headed almost literally to the end of the world, to Tasmania, a small island off the southern coast of Australia. Tasmania...

Cologne, Germany--I'm winding up a week at Photokina, the world's largest photographic trade show held every two years here in Cologne. I spent a good deal of the week as a guest in the Adobe booth, talking up our Adobe Lightroom Iceland Adventure and showing off some of the tips and tricks we learned on our week long adventure in Iceland this summer.

Adobe announced the release of Lightroom Beta 4 today at Photokina. This version is a substantial update for both Windows and Mac users. I've been testing various builds of Beta 4 on a Mac since the Iceland Lightroom Adventure, and I can tell you from experience, that it's worth the download.

At the Photoshop World Keynote in Las Vegas yesterday, the guest Adobe representatives actually spent the bulk of their time showing the crowd new, cool features of not Photoshop but the "complementary product" designed particularly for photographers, Adobe Lightroom.

If you've been following the Adobe Lightroom Adventure to Iceland, you know that we've published a dozen galleries from members of the team. Viewing them, you might realize that some of them are using the current template available in Beta 3 for the Mac, and then others are, well, using something different.