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Archive for December, 2006
See Photoshop CS3 Beta Bug Page
Maybe this is useful for PS developers at Adobe. Will keep it updated as I use PS.
Update: Get the latest news about the bugs in Photoshop at Adobe Labs.
You remember the PS CS2 tutorial I just finished? The same guy (Deke) teamed up with Lynda.com, an online training subscription website, and goes through most of the new features of CS3, step-by-step, in the same fashion as the tutorials I watched. I can’t believe they’re giving this away for free! I just watched the new Photomerge in CS3, coupled with the new Warp function, and yes, it is about 100 times better than even CS2.
VIEW FLASH PHOTO GALLERY - Click the “?” in the lower right corner for Captions
ADOBE
First, I’ve been studying Photoshop CS2 for a week and learned some useful stuff. Quality stuff, I’m impressed with CS2 and InDesign CS. My favorite new features are the Bridge, Smart Sharpen, Warp and HDR. Vanishing point, I haven’t used yet, but HDR and warp are great features of CS2. Color coding your menus is cool, and the custom keyboard shortcuts are easy to use. Also, I’ve created a bunch of homemade Actions, and while not a new feature, is a great one anyway. I’m loving my new look at the Levels and Hue/Sat commands and knowing what they do, and successfully manipulating layer masks for the first time.
I’m glad to see that there is a PS CS3 Intel beta. I heard it took Tom 2 minutes to download, well you’ll be happy to know it’ll take me another 13 hrs 22 mins to get the last 500 megs.
KUNMING
We made it back to Kunming to find that our internet was shut off. Official explanation? “The plug dropped.” Yeah I don’t remember the last time an RJ-45 cord “dropped” out of the snapped-in connection. Something smells fishy, but it’s back and slow, and that’s all that matters!
PREVIEW EXAMPLEJust learned about Camera RAW, DNG, and HDR 32-bit mode in CS2. I have a lot of photos I’ve already shot at different exposures, some in RAW mode, so I’ll have to test this out on my own pictures later. I remember you guys talking about this like a year ago so… It must be cool.
If anyone knows how to export from Photoshop CS2 in web mode, using ’save for web’ WITHOUT washing out all the colors, please advise. In Adobe it looks great, export for web, it looks like dog doo. Furthermore, ‘Save As…” then JPG takes way too long and only lets you export at ambiguous “Quality” levels, 1-12, not 0-100 like in Fireworks.
ENLARGE
ENLARGEI just adjusted levels a bit, an ounce of curves, unsharp mask for the tower, and crop.
Details
Chuxiong, China, facing North
9/17/06 7:29 pm local
See me taking the picture! (almost…)
3072×2048 orig
1.0s shutter
f/5.6 (max)
ISO 100
200 mm focal (max)
with, of course, the Italian Tripod
ENLARGEThere is no story, other than deleting things with masks.
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In other news, Jeremy Cohen’s Quartet San Francisco’s Latigo album was nominated for not one, but two Grammys - Best Classical Crossover CD and Best Engineered Classical CD. He recorded it at Skywalker Ranch.
Just FYI, last year the Turtle Island String Quartet won the Best Classical Crossover CD with their CD Four + 4, performing with the Ying Quartet, totalling eight performers playing classical and jazz compositions.
The fact that Jer got nominated for that AND Best Engineered Classical CD is simply amazing and I hope he wins.