Aperture VS Lightroom
Macworld have reviewed and compared the Aperture to Lightroom and here’s why they think the Aperture is better than Lightroom for digital photographers;
“Aperture will appeal most to photographers who largely compose in-camera and want an application that will make quick work of culling images. The program offers better options for importing and storing your photos, and its project structure is better tuned than Lightroom’s collections- and folder-based approach… ”
Pantone Huey
The Pantone Huey Monitor Color Calibrator designed for calibrating and profiling all types of monitors – LCD and CRT. Each individual package includes a huey measurement device (emission only colorimeter) with ambient measurement capabilities, and software for monitor calibration.
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Reviews, Videos & Resource Roundup
Last Updated: Photoshop CS3 Review by PCMag (added on 01 May’07)
Adobe has released the successor of Adobe Photoshop CS2. The Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 beta is prerelease software and is designed for evaluation purposes only. Installing Photoshop CS3 beta will also install new beta versions of Adobe Bridge, Adobe Device Central, ExtendScript Toolkit, Adobe Version Cue®, and Adobe Stock Photos. You can register and download the software here
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Nikon Capture NX Tips and Tricks
Do you want to master your Capture NX? Nikon has recently published 20 downloadable tips and tricks documents for its Capture NX editing software. The documents are easy step by step guides which will allow you to get more from your software. All tutorial documents are provided in .pdf format.
You can donwload the .pdf reader here for easy download and print.
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Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Extended
Photoshop CS3 will be available in two editions — Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended — to meet the diverse needs of professionals in a wide range of fields.
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show that it will expand its digital imaging product line, offering two editions of Adobe Photoshop CS3. In addition to the highly anticipated Photoshop CS3 software for designers and professional photographers, Adobe will also deliver Photoshop CS3 Extended, a completely new edition of Photoshop which allows cross-media creative professionals to stretch the limits of digital imaging.
PANTERASoft Announces Flash File Recovery 2.1
Flash File Recovery is an application that capable of salvaging pictures from damaged or corrupted flash drives (including camera’s built-in memory) and memory sticks.
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Creating Comic Strips from Your Digital Photos
Do you want to tell story to your family/friends by showing a comic strips from your digital photos? Thanks to Comeeko, now you can do it easily with their online comic editing software. Comeeko lets you take your photos and put them into our photo strips.
Your photos can be uploaded or imported from Flickr, and you can then add speech bubbles, captions and more. The comic strips can also be rated, emailed, commented on and downloaded.
Nikon Capture NX 1.1
Nikon has announced the latest update of its Capture NZ software. The Nikon Capture NX version 1.1 offers several new improvements including increased performance, full support for Intel-based Mac OS X computers, and optimization for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It also uses a simpler user interface that has added improvements such as resizable palettes for histograms and curves & levels adjustments.
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Canon DPP VS Adobe Lightroom
Oat Vaiyaboon has done some tests comparing the Canon Digital Photo Professional, a free RAW Processing software comes with Canon DSLR cameras to Adobe Lightroom. He concludes;
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“As you can see in this picture, LR works a lot better with jpg to bring out the colour while keeping all the detail that otherwise blown out to bits in the clouds and sandpit. Again, because DPP only have 3 sliders VS LR which has 10millions slider to keep you busy for the next few years. BUT When it comes to RAW processiong, DPP give you more natural loooking colour with less fringing, noise, colour information, details, etc then LR or PS raw converter for that matter. RAWs - Canon’s Digital Photo Professional wins; JPGs - Adobe’s Lightroom wins”
GIMP Vs Photoshop
Grimthing has an article comparing GIMP, a free open source image editor program to the famous Adobe Photoshop. And the winner is….
“The winner for commercial printing – Photoshop. The winner for home use – The Gimp. Bet you saw that coming, didn’t you. The truth is, they’re both winners when they’re used in the proper context. The Gimp just doesn’t have support in the areas that are necessary to make it useful in a commercial application. However, you cannot justify the price of Photoshop for personal use when the Gimp will do everything it can do outside of commercial printing. I know I’ve beat the horse to death, but unless you want to pirate software, there is no reason to use Photoshop if you’re not producing a print publication – use the Gimp.”
