It's Tip Tuesday, and today I'm answering Firgs request to demonstrate why RAW is better than JPEG when it comes to adjusting White Balance. This video continues the thread started in yesterday's post on using RAW vs JPEG. In the video I demonstrate white balance adjustments in both Lightroom AND Adobe Camera RAW. Check it out:
The Lightroom 2.0 beta is available for download over at Adobe Labs. This beta can be run simultaneously with your current Lightroom 1.3.1 install, and is not meant to import catalogs from the current version.
Adobe launched a new Media Player alongside its new Adobe TV channel. A review of the Adobe Media Player is up at Ars Technica. I agree with the initial assessment that limited channels & limited file support will not do much to peak interest. However, as an AIR-based application, the Media Player is a cross-platform…
The weekend was a blur. Saturday morning I participated in a NTPC photo shoot led by Reuben Mendiola. Reuben is a fellow photographer/instructor who offered his time to members of the NTPC for a great learning experience. The shoot was taken in downtown McKinney at the Cotton Mill, and our models for that morning were…
There are quite a number of great photographers I have had the pleasure of meeting personally during my travels around the country. They’re the folks with the books, the seminar series; the photographers every wants to meet, and say they’ve met. The trouble with the famous or up-and-coming, is they generally know they’re famous, and…
It’s inevitable. If you’re going to take on Adobe products, you’re going to get your hands dirty (and your head full) of keyboard shortcuts. The following shortcuts work in Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign. Knowing the shortcuts for the toolbar is a good start, and then I would commit CMD+Spacebar (for the Zoom tool), and Spacebar…
“The great thing about InDesign is that preferences live with the document.” “The worst thing about InDesign is that preferences live with the document.” Top on my wish list for updates to InDesign would be a “Reset to Default” option for preferences. If you weren’t aware, preferences for InDesign reside within the created document. This…