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The occasion of rebuilding a computer means that you can clear away the clutter of years of aggregated software installs, previous versions and flat-out mistakes in strategies. It also means that old, disused, obsolete and no-longer-compatible software doesn’t make the cut. Recently I decided to take...
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Although promised by year’s end in 2009, Apple announced today the release of Boot Camp 3.1 with support for both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. It appears you must have Version 3.0 of Boot Camp installed prior to performing the 3.1 update. Version 3.0 can be found on your Snow Leopard...
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It is time to dust off those images you captured in the dawn of digital and reprocess them in the software from the decade of the teens. This image, Stone and Spray was one of my very first bracketed sequences. I had heard (in May of 2005) that you could bracket exposures and capture shadows [...]
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Fleeting Glimpse Images is pleased to announce the availability of a new Lightroom Keyword List. The newest list is born of the popularity of the Mammals of North America and the work I’ve done previously on the Birds of Costa Rica keyword lists. 2000+plus species of birds found in North America*, arranged...
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Consider keywording your images today-if you aren’t already. Building a database of images with attached keywords has become easy and necessary in the world of digital capture. If you want to find a specific photo or photos in that sea of thousands of RAW and JPG files on your computer, you stand your...
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On the heels of the successful launch of my Birds of Costa Rica keyword list, Fleeting Glimpse Images, LLC is pleased to announce the availability of a new keywording list detailing the Mammals of North America. Whether you are cataloging your images for Stock Photography or for your own satisfaction...
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Black-crested Coquette
Keywording your photos is critical to future image management and potentially to additional revenue. To make things easier for you photographers who are traveling to Costa Rica, possibly via Worldesigns Tours, photo tour with yours truly as your guide, I am happy to announce a...
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I never realized how much I depend upon CorelDraw to dovetail into and out of so many other software packages. When working with PowerPoint, for example, CorelDraw turned out to be a perfect tool to feed custom graphics into my presentations. As it happens, it also works well in the Digital Asset Management...
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Along with a little commentary of the future of image editing software.
The evolution of RAW processing software begs the question: Are we seeing the downfall of the Image Editing Package, or its gradual absorption? If not, the lines of what a Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool and a full-blown pixel...
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The Lightroom Journal blog is featuring an article I wrote on using Adobe’s Lightroom to create a PayPal™-functional web gallery. This article was written in response to those who attended my March 11th seminar at the Lightroom User’s Group and wished for detailed notes as well as those who were unable...
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You guessed it:
Seven days have passed since I began my great Mac/Windows experiment. Though there were a few bumps along the way, I can report that I now have a fully functioning Mac with a fully functioning Windows environment co-existing in one machine. All software is installed and functioning. ...
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Do they have to make it so darn hard to install?
Anyone who has recently bought a new computer and had to go through the arduous task of reloading all their software knows exactly what I am talking about. I recently purchased a MacBook onto which I installed Windows so that I could teach to a [...]
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Turning the key on a cross-platform system-an update as promised
24 hours ago, the Fed Ex truck delivered a MacBook that had seen China, Alaska and Memphis on its way to me. Here is a brief chronology of what followed. 09:15 AM – Unpack box.
10:45 AM - All Mac updates installed. Fooled around exploring...
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Come along with me as I dabble in and have my butt kicked by the cross-platform experiment. As a PC Guy, (remember when PC referred to IBM branded equipment?) of some 21 years now, I find myself at the crossroads. My computer career began in the late seventies courtesy of the TRS-80 series of computers...
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And a new Lightroom Preset!
The primary reason for working in RAW is to gain access to your sensor’s unmanipulated data: the pristine pixels captured. Standard procedure is to-somehow-get your pictures into an image editing program so that you can create a version of your picture for output to...