Photography

REVIEW: Cyberlink PhotoDirector 2011 vs Adobe Lightroom 3

by A.J. Wood July 4, 2011 Adobe

Last month over 75,000 people participated in the beta program for Cyberlink’s new photo editing tool PhotoDirector 2011. I had the opportunity to take a look at the program, and compare it to existing programs, i.e., Adobe Lightroom 3 & Apple Aperture 3. Many initial reviews have compared PhotoDirector to Lightroom, and you cannot deny [...]

Tagged as: Adobe, Cyberlink, lightroom, PhotoDirector, photography, reviews, Software

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June 6 – Week Recap

by A.J. Wood June 10, 2011 Events

Good morning everyone. Here’s a recap of this week’s shared content: 1. Ten More Things About Photoshop posted on TipSquirrel. Part of my Top Ten series, you can never have enough Photoshop tips. 2. Working with Nested Styles in InDesign posted on Layers Magazine. InDesign is definitely a “must know” app for designers, especially now [...]

Tagged as: Announcements, Canon Blogger, InDesign, Layers Magazine, News, photography, Photoshop, Photoshop User Magazine, TipSquirrel, Tutorials, YouTube

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Lightroom vs Adobe Bridge

by A.J. Wood November 20, 2010 Adobe

My article was originally posted on TipSquirrel, February 23, 2010. I’ve updated the information to reflect the latest Adobe products. It may come as a shock, but with the pending releases of Lightroom 3 and CS5 currently on the brain, folks still have time to debate whether to use Lightroom or Adobe Bridge. Really? This [...]

Tagged as: bridge, camera raw, comparison, lightroom, LR3, Photoshop, vs

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RAW vs JPEG – Practical Use for Designers & Photographers

by A.J. Wood August 2, 2010 Adobe

Last week Firgs opened up her Designer Roundtable discussion with the topic RAW vs JPEG and whether it matters to designers. I responded in the comments that designers could simply use the JPEG provided to them or take advantage of what RAW has to offer for more creative post-processing.  She followed up with a question [...]

Tagged as: ACR, Adobe Camera RAW, camera raw, designers, graphic design, JPEG, lightroom, photography, Photoshop, RAW

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Friday Recap – Where’s A.J.?

by A.J. Wood July 30, 2010 Arts/Media

Happy Friday everyone! For those that are wondering about this week’s Tip Tuesday, my apologies as I’m still having some hardware/tech issues. I’m working to resolve them as quickly as possible amongst my other daily duties. Don’t worry though, I managed to post a quick Lightroom 3 tuning guide over at TipSquirrel this morning. Imagine [...]

Tagged as: Cali Lewis, conference, Dallas, Geekbeat.TV, Lightroom 3, local events, OpenCamp, Trey Ratcliff

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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 [...]

Tagged as: community, copyright, facebook, photography, printing, theft, Walmart

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