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Creating a White Border for your Photo in Photoshop

Robert Thompson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:52:01 +0000

Took way to long, only reinforcing the fact that I still need a book or something. But now I have my stock 450px template for photos. This is a cha hua, anyone know the name of it in English? I thought it was the camellia? They were on sale in Chuxiong, Yunnan last month, some for up to 100,000 RMB.

How to Add Google Adsense to your Lightroom Web Photo Gallery

Robert Thompson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:42:06 +0000

SEE THE NEW GOOGLEFIED GALLERY!

It’s just wrong. Why am I putting ads on my photo galleries?

Anyway, it’s not difficult to do, but if I get enough interest I’ll post a step-by-step guide on how to add Google Adsense to your Lightroom gallery. Takes less than a minute.

Note to self: Next time create web gallery 768 wide. Use CSS to margin add in the right place. Can lower JPG res.

Adobe Lightroom Review with Video Tutorials and Screenshots

Robert Thompson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:25:02 +0000

Lightroom Tutorials, Screenshots, Review

I just finished my review of Adobe Lightroom. Basically, it is the answer for people who:

Don’t use a Flash on a mountain shot
You know how to shoot, you have a digital SLR, and you take good pictures

Are tired of iPhoto’s poor layout and weak architecture
You liked it in the beginning, but after your library grew, iPhoto couldn’t keep up

Are looking for “a better way” to manage and present their photos
File management, slideshows, export to web, print — Lightroom has it all.

Read and learn here. 6 hours to create this tutorial.

Some Photo Apps I Now use for OS X

Robert Thompson — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:42:55 +0000

After this latest trip to E Jia I took about 800 RAW format photos. Now I’m faced with the task of selecting a few, editing them, exporting, creating galleries, making prints, etc. I’ve found that by converting them to DNG format I can save space while keeping the RAW format options available.

Adobe DNG Coverter is a useful app to “compress” your RAW files down a little (but keep the RAW functionality) and at the same time is creating a standard for all those different camera types.

Some stats: DNG compressed (loseless) some NEFs down about 35%, and some CRW down about 18% (average of 800+ files).

I found a detailed web site explaining the benefits of DNG.

onOne’s Mask Pro 4.0 is hella cool. Masking software, I know, it’s been around forever, but I never used it until now (someone was showing it to me when it was still Extensis, and it was cool then.)

It has about a 5-minute learning curve, but if you watch their online tutorials, it’s very easy to use and works very well. Their tutorials are inline with what I would make if I were a developer trying to sell software. Anyway this app is very useful, well worth the $150+ USD.

I hope these two little apps will help me along with this major photo project.

Photoshop CS3 Bug Page

Robert Thompson — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:54:21 +0000

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.