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Prevent Walmart Printing of Your Facebook Photo Albums

by A.J. Wood July 16, 2010 News

UPDATE 07/22/2010 – Be sure to read the updated information posted below after the video. Good evening all. Thanks to Walter Van Dusen who brought to my attention Walmart is beta testing a new Facebook Connect application. This application allows access to your photo albums for printing. Many photographers have been using Facebook photo tagging [...]

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Lightroom 3 & Photoshop CS5 FREE Online Videos

by A.J. Wood June 30, 2010 Adobe

Good afternoon all! It’s me, you’re humble Adobe Instructor back from the blogging break. If you’re not already using my iPhone app then you may not be aware I’ve been posting videos for the latest Lightroom 3 & Photoshop CS5. Click over to the new Media Cats Learning Center or catch me unfiltered on YouTube [...]

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Adobe Software Updates – Camera RAW 5.7 & Lightroom 2.7

by A.J. Wood April 21, 2010 Adobe

Adobe has released updates for both Camera RAW 5.7 & Lightroom 2.7. Lightroom users, you did install the Camera RAW update right? The following link to the camera raw support page provides the appropriate download links for both Mac & PC computers. Here are some additional tips when updating your software: Camera RAW 5.7 – [...]

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Adobe Announces CS5

by A.J. Wood April 12, 2010 Adobe
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Today is the official Adobe CS5 launch event, and there are plenty of things to get the creative community excited. The web has been a buzz the past month as Adobe started releasing sneak peeks of features via social media sites. The most talked about feature has been Content Aware Fill inside of Photoshop CS5. [...]

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Why You’ll Buy The iPad Even Though You Don’t Want One

by A.J. Wood April 5, 2010 Adobe

After months of speculation, followed by  the device’s introduction–the iPad is here. I didn’t buy one, nor did I intend to make a purchase, but let me tell you why I will anyway. My initial thought is the iPad is for content consumption not content creation. It’s not as powerful as my Macbook Pro which [...]

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Aperture 3 vs Lightroom 3(beta)

by A.J. Wood February 9, 2010 Adobe

UPDATE 04/26/2010 – I have written an updated feature comparison of Aperture 3 vs Lightroom 3 Beta 2. You couldn’t have gotten too far into your day without hearing the announcement that Apple released Aperture 3 for photographers. I received a number of messages today, some asking if I heard the news, and many others [...]

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Make Your Point in 140 Characters

by A.J. Wood January 25, 2010 News

If you haven’t caught wind, yesterday there was a dust up around this status update by @ScottBourne. “I’m consulting with a wedding #photog studio selling against a studio doing $500 weddings. Our new ad – ‘We fix $500 wedding photography.’ “ While I would normally ignore the “controversy” surrounding the heated discussion that followed, I [...]

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