Oct
03
2008
Whenever I get a chance to visit the Napa Valley region of California. I try to stop at V. Sattui Winery located in St. Helena.
In addition to decent wines and a great little deli, V. Sattui Winery has a really neat stone Winery building which, to my eye, is a great photographic subject.
The first image, [...]
Jun
10
2008
Matt Kloskowski of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Blog, posted a new preset he calls “Sin City Look”. Basically what Matt is doing is draining all the colors out of an image and leaving just the reds.
I did something similar to this in a previous posting but I never created or saved a [...]
Apr
17
2008
Paul Revere never said “the British are coming, the British are coming”, since he, like all the other colonist considered themselves British. He actually called out - “the regulars are coming”, meaning the regular British Soldiers.
Well this weekend, the regular tourist are coming to Lexington Green, where on April 19th, 1775, the regular British Army [...]
Apr
02
2008
Adobe Systems has released Adobe Lightroom 2.0 public beta at Adobe labs.
This is a significant update and includes many of the features that I personally have been looking for in Lightroom.
New enhancements are included in all the modules of Lightroom under the 2.0 beta .
The most significant to me are:
Addition of multiple monitor support
Improved integration [...]
Mar
03
2008
A few weeks back Matt Kloskowski of Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips demonstrated a technique for simulating a Pano by creating a Lightroom Template he called 5 Across. See previous post
Well, this weekend, I was revisiting Dave Cross’s book - Photoshop Finishing Touches
and I ran across Dave’s technique for creating a film strip [...]