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A Few New Things

Sure, Adobe has gotten a lot of attention with the release of Photoshop Lightroom 2 and the announcement of Abobe Photoshop CS4, but no one seems to mention the pending release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. Of course it’s only for PC. What surprise! Adobe seem to leave the Mac users way behind when it comes to Elements. They finally released version 6 last spring and didn’t even bother with a version 5 for us lowly Mac users.

Notice the cool art work on the box for Elements 7 compare to the Photoshop box. I think the attractive, attention getting box will work when the software hits the shelves of retails outlets. I’m not sure why Adobe uses such boring graphics on their profession high-end software packaging?

NEW SEARCH:
Check out the new feature function I added to the site with the new RapidWeaver plug-in, RapidSearch 2.0 from Josh Lockart. Just click on the new menu item on the left.

MY MOM’S PHOTOS:
I added a menu button on the left so it’s one touch for everyone to finds my Mom’s artistic “Wheels of LA” photographs. New photos coming this weekend.

NICE SOFTWARE:
Take a look at the JPEG Extration Utility
“Instant JPEG From Raw” from RawWorkflow.com.

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More Deke, More Kelby

The new dekePod video podcast by photographer and graphic artist, Deke McClelland is out. Just under six minutes of pure Deke. His videos always give me something to look forward to. This time it’s Deke’s approach to lab color. Sounds boring, right? Only Deke can give lab color an interesting spin. OK, now that we’re talking about how lab color is boring... I don’t use it but, if it’s good enoungh for Deke, it must time for me to give it a try..



Deke pitches his Photoshop book and his Lynda.com tutorials after the video. The lab color tutorial looks like it would be nice. I need more knowledge!

Scott Kelby’s taking pre-orders on his new book, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers. This one could be tough to beat. I am still on the fence about Adobe’s Lightroom and Apple’s Aperature it’s tough to know which one to go with. I still don’t shoot RAW images very much. The book might just be the push toward Lightroom for me. It would fit perfect next to my dog-eared Photoshop CS2 Book by Kelby. But then, it all starts to add up, because I would need to upgrade to a Canon G9 point-and-shoot which will give me RAW images. It a viciuous circle of spending. It never ends. Great and cool technology is never cheap.
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