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Computers & Software for Photographers
With a little work, your old Monaco Optix-XR Monitor Calibrator (also know by its model number DTP94) and Monaco EZColor Software will work perfectly with the 64-bit version of Windows 7. Here is how to get past a few pitfalls and install them.
Buy a new camera and you might find you can’t process its raw images in Photoshop or Lightroom until Adobe updates its raw converter software. Use Adobe digital negative (DNG) as your raw format until then. Learn how.
As traveling photographers, how do we keep the capture time of our images in sync with changing time zones? Adobe Lightroom 2 makes it easy. Learn how to quickly edit the capture time on multiple images using Adobe Lightroom 2.
Travel with a laptop? Learn how to import photographs from your CF card to your laptop using Adobe Lightroom. Then import your catalog to your desktop when you get home. All the work you’ve done in the field to keyword and caption your images will be preserved. Lightroom makes it easy – with a few caveats.
Learn how to customize a slide style in ProShow Gold 4 and save it as your own so you can use it again in a future slide show production. Watch the 10-minute video and then follow along the step-by-step instructions. Start with one of ProShow Gold 4′s built-in slide styles. Change the motion effects, image sizes, caption, background, and colors. Then give it a name and save it in a new slide style category. Slide styles are a powerful new feature found in Photodex ProShow Gold 4.
Slide Styles are one of the most powerful new features of ProShow Gold 4. In this video lesson, learn how to use ProShow’s amazing built-in slide styles.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 is only $60 for a limited time. It’s an excellent choice if you can’t afford it’s big brother,Adobe Photoshop CS4.
See some complex effects that can be accomplished using ProShow Gold 4, Adobe Photoshop, and a bit of work. Add pizazz to your slide shows.
Travel planning is a chore and we need all the help we can get. As travel photographers, we need to do a lot of research before, and during, a trip. Here are five websites that I never leave home without. They will help you choose a hotel and an airline seat, check the weather, get directions, and find the best prices for accomodations and flights.
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 is here and it is a big improvement over version 1.4. There are many subtle improvements and a few major additions. The adjustment brush tool is brand new. With the adjustment brush, you can selectively paint in all sorts of adjustments that you used to have to do in Photoshop: exposure, saturation, and more. Watch my video and learn how to use the new adjustment brush in Adobe Lightroom 2.0 here.
The Optix-XR monitor calibrator with software version 2.0 does not work with Windows Vista. But, there is a way to update the Optix software so that your Optix-XR doesn’t turn into an expensive doorstop. Follow these steps and the Optix-XR CAN be used with Windows Vista.
