[Note: Mikkel couldn't get this blog entry up from Prague, so he asked me to post it for him---cw] 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...

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. Of all the new features, and there are...

Macs are now as inconvenient as PCs are. I've just been going through a tedious multimedia job. My Dear Old Dad makes image collection CD as his hobby: his first one, Aircraft Spotter, is of scans of WWII vintage aircraft schematics (you can get it on E-Bay, I believe). The new one is a complete catalog of the flowers at...

Here's one of my favorite tips from one of my favorite books, the Digital Photography Pocket Guide: "Don't forget to take pictures of signs and placards. It's a lot easier than taking notes about locations, and the information comes in very handy when recounting your travel experiences." Lately, I've been observing variations on this theme all around. Instead of taking...

I've recovered from Vegas enough to think about writing a wrap-up here. Here were the highlights of my week at Photoshop World: Eddie Tapp's induction into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Eddie was gracious and kind as usual in his acceptance speech, and I've never had the opportunity to meet an author's parents before. (Turns out charm and kindness are...

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. After NAPP President Scott Kelby entertained the crowd with a clever CSI send-up (featuring a nefarious act by our own Deke...

Gearing up for Photoshop World in Las Vegas next week. It's always interesting to watch thousands of photographers, graphic artists, designers, and other creative types come together all for the love of (or at least the preoccupation with) a single computer program. In my experience, it's a fun but frenzied week chock-full of informative classes, industry gossip, and catching up...

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. The story behind the difference is a good...

I've been forced to think about my job in a new way since the Reuters image manipulation hullaballo broke. (I work for O'Reilly Media as a book editor in the Digital Media space.) The bulk of my work day is spent helping authors create books on how to use Photoshop and other digital imaging technology to express their creative vision...

On the first Saturday in Iceland I joined the group as they migrated north to Reykholt. This wasn't the easiest of decisions because I had a wedding waiting for me in the other direction, south of Reykjavik. But getting me back and forth would have proven difficult. I was disappointed, but figured something else would materialize. On Sunday, a group...