Adobe has released their latest public beta of their popular photography management software, Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Here are some of the new features:
Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)*
for you to see exactly what’s changed without having to stumble around. It’s hosted by the premiere Lightroom trainers Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski, so you know it’s good.
Then you’ve come to the right place. Photoshop World 2009, which is coming to the Mandalay Bay in Vegas on October 1st, is the world’s largest Photoshop convention. But it’s not just a big press release event, it’s learning and training from the experts. Photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and beginners can all learn something at this huge 3 day event. So go, learn, and come back better at Photoshop. You can impress your friends, co-workers and even your boss.
This is a great video put together by Mike Kus of him preparing slides for a speech at the “Future of Web Design” Conference in London. It’s an interesting process to watch as it’s all done in Photoshop. Too fast to be educational on technique but definitely inspirational for style.
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Not really Photoshop related, but since I’m a web developer by trade, this is very very funny. According to Wikipedia
Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed many artists to produce more precisely tuned recordings.
Captured at a live show in Melbourne, Nine Inch Nails seems to be a pretty good subject for showing off the video capability of the 5D Mark II (again).
Scott Kelby and friends have started a new podcast series revolving around the Nikon digital SLR series called “D-Town TV” (D Series, D Town, get it?) and the premiere episode is this week. The first episode features Scott and Matt Kloskowski showing you some quick tips and techniques as well as getting into Capture NX and showing you some cool accessories. Check out the website at www.dtowntv.comA Clockwork Orange download
Then you’ve come to the right place. Photoshop World 2009, which is coming to the Mandalay Bay in Vegas on October 1st, is the world’s largest Photoshop convention. But it’s not just a big press release event, it’s learning and training from the experts. Photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and beginners can all learn something at this huge 3 day event. So go, learn, and come back better at Photoshop. You can impress your friends, co-workers and even your boss.
