February 2009

Everybody Cheats

by A.J. Wood February 26, 2009 Editorial

Try as you might the fact is inevitable–one day you will cheat. Perhaps it will be out of habit, maybe under the influence of some person or event, but a decision will need to be made, and you will cheat. Some of you will feel immediate guilt & anguish. Others will try to rationalize their [...]

Tagged as: cheating, decision making, Editorial, Inspiration, Motivation, personal choice, self help, thoughts

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Heard Around the Interwebs

by A.J. Wood February 25, 2009 Adobe

A few quick hits for Wednesday: Ritz Camera the world’s largest camera retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. Ritz operates some of its stores under the name Wolf Camera, and its creditors include Nikon & Canon. According to a post in DPreview, “Court papers suggest that Ritz Cameras owes over $40 million [...]

Tagged as: bankruptcy, News, photography, ritz camera

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DFW Events – Week of February 22nd

by A.J. Wood February 24, 2009 Events

Here’s what’s going on this week around the DFW metroplex: Sandy Puc Tots 2 Teens – Today at 4pm. The Tots 2 Teens Seminar Tour covers all aspects of creating, executing, and marketing a successful program that covers children 18 months to young teens. North Texas Photo Club – Thursday, Feb 26th the NTPC meeting [...]

Tagged as: glamour, local events, meetups, photography, seminars, workshops

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The Award for Worst Adobe Keyboard Shortcut

by A.J. Wood February 19, 2009 Tutorials

Hola dear readers! How are you today? Maybe it’s the classes I’m teaching today (Dreamweaver then Lightroom), but I’ve got keyboard shortcuts on the brain. Here are some quick observations: 1. Why are the Preferences in Dreamweaver activated by CMD+U (CTRL+U) and not CMD+K (CTRL+K)? Was Dreamweaver Uninvited to the preferences party by InDesign, Photoshop [...]

Tagged as: Adobe, bridge, keyboard shortcuts, lightroom, workflow, worst

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DFW Events – Week of February 15th

by A.J. Wood February 18, 2009 Events

It’s Wednesday, which means we’re halfway to Friday, which means the weekend might as well be here. If you’re in Dallas then you may want to attend some of the following events scheduled this weekend: Dallas Digital Photography Club – Saturday, Feb 21st the club will be at the Ft Worth Zoo for an early [...]

Tagged as: community, DFWAUG, local events, photography, user group

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Quick Links Tuesday

by A.J. Wood February 17, 2009 Arts/Media

In case you missed it, RC posted a great tutorial that combines Lightroom’s web gallery upload with the Shadowbox plugin for WordPress last Friday. What does it do? Checkout the flash gallery I created of my daughter. You may be aware of the service called Twitturly that ranks the most frequent URLs tweeted, but did [...]

Tagged as: Flash, photo gallery, RC Concepcion, shadowbox, twitturly

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Monday Madness

by A.J. Wood February 16, 2009 Adobe

Good morning dear readers. Hope your weekend was swell, and Monday hasn’t caught you by surprise just yet. Well, 2009 has started with the best of intentions, and like my workout schedule, I’m trying to be a bit more consistent here on the blog. I’ve managed to keep the daily Adobe tips going via Twitter [...]

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Your Newest Adobe Community Expert

by A.J. Wood February 13, 2009 Adobe

I am excited to announce that this week I joined the 2009 class of Adobe Community Experts. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to Dee Sadler, Stacy Sison & Lynly Schambers-Lenox for nominating me. It is a privilege & honor to be considered worthy of such a great community of talent. I hope I can share as [...]

Tagged as: Adobe, adobe community expert, community

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