tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40037883914445611282024-03-08T09:39:03.700-07:00Pathways of LightBistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-59806354570053861652011-02-14T12:20:00.000-07:002011-02-14T12:20:04.417-07:00How Revolution Grows<center><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Egyptian People Revolt</span><br />
Recent big news centers around removal of Egypt's dictator by peaceful protesters. But, that's only a tip of this Internet marketing video iceberg...<br />
If you haven't heard of Wael Ghonim, here's his story. Ghonim (Egyptian; age 30; Google employee) communicated with Egypt using Facebook before the uprising. Facebook has over 500 million members. Ghonim oversees Google Inc.'s Middle East and Africa marketing from Dubai. He vanished two days after protests began on Jan. 25. He was snatched off the street by security forces and hustled to a secret location.<br />
Ghonim's ties to Google and the Internet are part of his appeal. "If you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet." He helped create a Facebook page devoted to a victim of police brutality. Internet social networking services like Facebook and Twitter are credited with playing an important role in Egypt’s uprising. They helped protesters organize and communicate.<br />
Internet access was shut down in an early Egyptian protest phase. Google engineers hacked a way to allow Egyptians to use Twitter by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail message. <br />
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<span style="color: red;">Facebook’s Contribution to Freedom</span><br />
Released February 14th, Ghonim gave an interview Monday night. He sobbed over those who have been killed in two weeks of clashes and insisted, "We love Egypt ... and we have rights."<br />
Over the next 20 hours, about 130,000 people joined a Facebook page titled, "I delegate Wael Ghonim to speak in the name of Egypt's revolutionaries."<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Video Challenge – Google Earth and Lightroom 3</span><br />
Well, you ask, "Just how <i><b>bol</b></i><b><i></i></b>this relevant to trying to sell photography?"<br />
In today's world, you can even do videos with point-and-shoots.<br />
If you're a fine art still photographer, you can put your stills together as a fine art portfolio. If you're adept in Lightroom 3, you can create a video with audio superimposed over music from that portfolio.<br />
In other words, you are the storyteller. You can easily market your photos on the Internet. Create your video and post it on YouTube. Perhaps, just perhaps, it might go as viral as Ghonim's Facebook page...<br />
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While I don't think it'll be quite that fast, the people's revolutionary message is clear, "Let's see what YOU can do...!" The people use - iPhones, iPad's, iPods, Droids, Motorola's XOOMs, smart phones, laptops, etc. The list grows longer as I write! Most, if not all devices allow you to see videos!<br />
Last quarter (4th 2010) Apple sold some 20 million iPhones and 7 million iPads. The recent Consumer Electronics Show had over 100 new tablets and Smartphones coming up as competition.<br />
Videos are just one way to begin your marketing growth. We created a bold video for nature photographers to make our point. Take a look at what Google can do with Google Earth 6 beta… for comparison, we show their mathematical restoration of an iconic landmark Ship Rock and our award-winning photo <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pQocpei0E">here </a>in a 1 minute narrated video.<br />
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We will have much more to say about bold videos and tantalizing workshops later… </div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-21474438679198641192010-10-02T17:10:00.000-06:002010-10-02T17:10:28.847-06:0032 Float - Realistic HDR Plug-in for CS5<div style="text-align: justify;">Maiden voyages in new software usually create challenges!<br />
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I downloaded a trial version of <a href="http://www.unifiedcolor.com/download-32-float">32 Float</a> (1.0.1.6703) from Unified Color. 32 Float installs as a 32 bit HDR plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 (also CS3 and CS4). Sandy Corless recently talked about its strength and ease of use for realistic HDR images. I also installed an NVIDIA GeForce 210 1 GB video card. Dual CPU Windows XP, NVIDIA card, and a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet are my normal HDR workflow environment.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">When Installed, 32 Float Didn't Work. </span><br />
Okay, where was the bug?<br />
I did a detailed bug report, sent it to John Omvik, Unified Color, late Friday afternoon. To my amazement - I got an e-mail within 90 minutes telling me ~ disable Wacom and try it.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">32 Float Works!</span><br />
John's done a good video explaining 32 Float. Combined with a clear user's manual, most operations are easy to understand and perform.<br />
So I began the first trial run of 32 Float - without the Wacom. In a prior step, I had compiled and saved a 32 bit HDR2 file at default values using CS5’s HDR Pro. It became my <i>de facto</i> input for 32 Float...<br />
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So, this morning, I sent John on another note indicating we had gained significant traction on my initial bug report.<br />
Unfortunately, I've been using the Wacom since 2007 … it's very deeply embedded in my workflow!<br />
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Huzzah, John! Your initial quick bug report response is highly encouraging.<br />
I also began to get the distinct feeling ~ 32 Float is going to become a significant part of my HDR future!<br />
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<span style="color: red;">32 Float Flexibility</span><br />
Because 32 Float allows you to save individual tone mapping steps as separate layers in CS5, you can now adjust highlights, mid tones, shadows, white balance, color tuning, and saturation independently of one another as separate layers.<br />
Talk about real HDR Power...!<br />
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<span style="color: red;">32 Float Image Enhancement</span><br />
For comparison, the top image is a 16 bit HDR file from 32 float with all actions mentioned above under flexibility. No final finishing touches have presently eliminated highlights etc - which might be questioned by some. The bottom is the 16 bit HDR Pro image supplied to 32 Float.<br />
Combinatorial intricacies for tone mapping provided by 32 Float clearly step well past Local Adaptation of a 32 bit file in Photoshop CS5.<br />
And I've just barely begun use of this fascinating tool... it’s like seeing just the very tip of an enormously exciting ‘Artic’ iceberg!<br />
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There will be more about 32 Float in blogs to come...!</div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-39361816615716794892010-09-02T10:41:00.011-06:002010-09-04T16:53:43.352-06:00Virtual ‘Try Before You Buy’<center><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A search on Google Earth, Tour Leaders, photography, and nature provided insight into a breaking new adventure travel trend in online communication. TUI Adventure* has a Passport to Adventure brochure with interesting stats. In an analysis of current and future trends in UK adventure travel market, they show<br />
• Unique visitors to The Adventure Companies’ websites have doubled every year since 2006, forecasted as 50 million unique visitors during 2010.<br />
• The UK outbound tour operator market for adventure travel is currently over 200,000 passengers a year.<br />
• Since 2006, average passenger expense has grown by 21% to £1198.<br />
The next 3 year growth is predicted to increase by category:<br />
• 145% for Special Interest Holiday,<br />
• 181% (double) for Nature and Wildlife Holiday.<br />
• For TUI, it’s a $300 million business projected to double in 3 years.<br />
Typical savvy customers want:<br />
• More than sun, sea, and sand experience.<br />
• An authentic, ‘off beaten track’ skill they can’t find in guide books.<br />
• Geographically and environmentally aware.<br />
• Active (from walkers to full blown mountaineers).<br />
Online networking before and after travel<br />
• Social media networking is increasingly important with customer generated Facebook pages and Twitter campaigns.<br />
• Our brands’ online communities have 30,000 active members regularly blogging, sharing photos, and discussing upcoming trips.<br />
COMMUNICATION<br />
• Growing another way; naturally inquisitive, adapting to new social media world with ease. We talk in their world via Facebook, Twitter, live chat forums, and brand sites.<br />
• Better information; online technology and development give customers a virtual ‘try before you buy’ experience with videos, trekking routes with Google Earth, and customer testimonials and photos.<br />
Now, that is quite a impressive concept – particularly using online communication to enhance adventure travel…<br />
*<a href="http://www.apassporttoadventure.com/index.html">http://www.apassporttoadventure.com/index.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In early 2010, Google Announced Google Earth Tours (GET). </span><br />
Between 2006 to 2010, customers could only get <span style="color: #e69138;">static </span>pictures - a mountain pass trail shown as a GPS trek. Our Google search had 48 hits.<br />
Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013<br />
<i style="color: red;">Google Earth</i> 1 1 2 2 5 10? 10? 25? 60?<br />
With GE Tours, online communication becomes an entirely new ball game…<br />
Tours pique customer interest – they show where a trip is planned, provide satellite data of terrain, then create intimacy in a <span style="color: magenta;">video </span>with pictures and stories.<br />
Tours can:<br />
• Be created in Google Earth (free).<br />
• Contain intimate photos showing unusual scenes.<br />
• Be narrated to stimulate dramatic memories.<br />
• Be shown online as a video 24x7x365 Planet wide!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="color: red;">What Is Our Response to Static Adventure Company Online Communication?</span><br />
Get up to date by creating <span style="color: magenta;">dynamic </span>adventure travel videos; use advanced KML technology, provide photos, satellite views, and tell stories to really stimulate, then arouse a customer’s intense, innate desire to go there and see for themselves!<br />
<i style="color: magenta;">See a Tour for Yourself from the web…</i><br />
Single tour example – <a href="http://www.geocompa.com/kml/CombRidgeTour.kmz">Comb Ridge, Utah</a><br />
Regional tour example – <a href="http://www.geocompa.com/kml/GoogleEarthTours-rec.kmz">Photography Tour, Four Corners, USA</a><br />
Brief How To – <a href="http://www.geocompa.com/CreatingGoogleEarthTour.pdf">Creating Google Earth Tour</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Update: You must have Goggle Earth 5.2 or greater installed to run the 2 tour examples files...4 Sep, 2010 </span></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-8364119456472452282010-08-31T04:53:00.003-06:002010-08-31T05:10:16.531-06:00Applying Google Earth Tours to Outback Photography<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/989362415_XvxJo-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/989362415_XvxJo-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Nasa, navstar, camera in the sky, google earth tours" title="Nasa, navstar, camera in the sky, google earth tours" width="200" height="250" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NASA</div>The Photographic Society of America defines travel photos as images that "express the feeling of a time and place, and portray a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state." Travel photos have "no geographical limitations."<br />In 2005, Dr. Leroy Chiao was an astronaut circling the globe every 92 minutes. When taking pictures from a moving space station, timing is everything. Propped on one hand, with one foot strategically wedged between hand rail and wall to keep from floating away in low gravity environment, Dr. Chiao would carefully position telephoto lens of his 6 MP digital camera over one of three small windows. As his target came into view, he'd have just a split second to snap a photo.<br />According to Chiao, "Since Earth is moving past at 17,500 mph, one must pan the camera as shutter is released, otherwise the image will smear - out of focus." But, he did shoot the Great Wall of China. <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Source: Eyes on the Sky II, Week 9, Chiao</span></span><br />Google Earth (GE) was in its infancy in 2005…<br /><br />January, 2010, saw the first integrated presentation of Eyes in the Sky II – a geospatial information technology course for teachers in high school science and technology. The objective – show teachers how to teach students the fascinating use and exploration of spatial data. In geological terms, geospatial data is study of Earth from a terrain satellite. Their last module involved Google Earth. The theme – introduction, getting to know, then using GE. Let’s focus on the last category – using Google Earth to create a dramatic tour!<br /><br />Google Earth, described as "a view of the world on steroids", is a free tool for exploring geo-spatial data in an interactive 3D environment. In its simplest form, you choose your local and view it in 3D. If you use GPS, a waypoint becomes a placemark. You can title, describe, and use a limited list of icons to show where that special place (placemark) is. A simple description might be, “Monument Valleys’ Mittens are world famous.” You can put GPS routes on GE. You can even geotag your photos from a trip, then post them on GE. <br />In a more advanced stage, GE provides tools to customize your icon, logo, and placemark balloons. Here is where your branding becomes far stronger. Show your own photography. Create a custom Icon to differentiate your images from the thousands placed on Panaramio. Write the dramatic story of capturing a memorable icon in sunsets rosy glow using elaborate HDR images.<br /><br />Landscape photographers are somewhat slower to adapt to using a birds-eye view of scenes they love to shoot. To date, they principally use GE as a tool just to estimate trails to a wilderness outcrop; or gauge shadows for a locale near Magic Hour.<br />With many highly treasured nature shots either already shot or at disposal of a limiting bureaucracy, photography is getting less easy in search of that exquisite Earth landscape icon. <br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color:red;">But _and it’s a big BUT_ </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With advent of GE Tours in February, professional landscape and nature photographers can add inestimable allure by creating tours and enhancing their presentations. <br />They can learn to manage a space camera as “a video-on-steroids instrument capturing their treks, scenes, and emotions amidst exuberant story telling”! By using Google Earth’s Tours function, a photographer can make a video to tell their story. They can captivate you with an exciting sense of actually trekking into gorgeous wilds, outback, or wilderness.<br />Google Earth both provides a way to show where you want to go and show your photos at each locale. BUT, its expanding technology now lets you tell the story of why you sought the most fascinating, yet to be ‘filmed’ shots our ever-smaller Planet holds…<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, yes, you do it with Goggle Earth Tours!<br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-68881250729310661072010-08-30T19:20:00.001-06:002010-08-30T19:21:41.361-06:00How do Landscape Photographers Presently use Google Earth?<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/802902391_igixC-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Broken Bow Arch, Escalante Desert, Utah" src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/802902391_igixC-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" title="Broken Bow Arch, Escalante Desert, Utah" wc="true" width="396" height="660" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With release of Google Earth 5.2 (GE), Google provides a marvelous opportunity for landscape photographers to use enhanced creativity in stalking light! Stalking the light is a way of using GE for visualization of when and where shadows might fall at Magic Hour.<br />In April, 2009, I took a photo trip to Escalante Desert in southeastern Utah. Using Google images, I’d found a small tourist shot of Broken Bow arch in evening shadows. With a GPS, I knew where to wend my way through the canyons. Using GE, I knew when to set HDR up for shadows across the arch. Matter of fact, I was able to take a nap, wake up, then grab the exquisite shot above!<br />Eighteen months later, I took a survey of some 15 well known landscape photographers. The question was, “How are they using GE today?”<br />In November, 2008, <a href="http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/11/google-earth-location-scouting/">Dave duChemin</a> was using an iPod touch to examine GE for travel plans. In 2009, Joe Bridwell, <a href="http://scolephoto.blogspot.com/2009/01/scouting-for-photos-in-age-of-google.html">S Cole</a>, and <a href="http://fieldreport.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/location-scouting-google-earth/">Richard Wong</a> were using GE for trails and shadows. In 2010, <a href="http://bretedge.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/visualize-candlesticks-and-clouds/">Bret Edge</a> and <a href="http://baconphoto.com/blog1/2010/06/14/google-earth-5-2/">Scott Bacon </a>used GE to stalk shadows. In 2010, Joe Bridwell used the tour capability in 5.2 to document his photo trips.<br />The remaining nine photographers were cited because others used their images in material connected with GE.<br /><br />When you’re using GE, if the Layers panel has Panoramio checked, you can examine images from other people about an area of interest. It’s a first cut at freely guessing where to set up and when to shoot. <br />Once you have a 3-D view in GE, if you click on the Sun icon, GE will give you an estimate of shadow projection based on topography and time of day. I’ve coined the phrase “Stalking the Light…” And to think you used to go out and do that yourself!<br />You can trace your way along tortuous trails, up canyons, etc… all by controlling an imaginary camera which can look either from far above or down close to earth toward any direction you wish. <br /><br /><span style="color:red;">How Can Landscape Photographers See the Future?</span><br />If you want to get fancy, just process a photo in the digital darkroom, write an emotional memory of that event, then post it in an advanced KML placemark balloon. Oops, I’d better watch it here; don’t want to stray too far into technical language…<br /><br />Tours are the newest GE 5.2 feature… what if you want to talk about several photos in several locations?<br />Well, then you have the distinct advantage of moving a virtual camera from point A to point B. In effect, you can create a ‘video’ where you show satellite terrain data for a particular locale, tell it’s story with your photos, then move on to the next locale. The resulting KML (a language for geo-browsers relating camera to earth view) can play in GE just like a video you create for YouTube.<br />What’s that old adage, “Fly Away with Me…!”<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Present Landscape Photography Limitations</span><br />At present, landscape photographers principally use GEjust to plan their trips. <br />But, if they knew how to create or use Tours, they could explain each exciting adventure story with a fascinating video GE would play on any computer 24x7x365 planet wide…<br />Now, that really ain’t too shabby!</div><i><span style="color:magenta;">Enjoy…</span></i>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-79648711383420940132010-08-10T11:58:00.003-06:002010-08-10T12:05:53.459-06:00Quick Brush ReSize Using a Wacom Pen Tablet<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/965242044_ZZDWz-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/965242044_ZZDWz-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Photoshop CS5, CS5, Wacom, Wacom Pen, Wacom Pen Tablet, Resize, Hardness" title="Photoshop CS5, CS5, Wacom, Wacom Pen, Wacom Pen Tablet, Resize, Hardness" width="396" height="317" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I recently sat with several people working on digital photography for final prints. In CS5, the brush is being used for quite a variety of tasks. The teacher would tap a key, then drag the brush to change either size or hardness. The approach was quite a bit faster than either hitting bracket keys or opening brush panel to modify hardness.<br />As I keep CS5 and Wacom manuals on the laptop, I did a Q&D search. Neither manual told me in simple language either what key or button to push. Situation normal...<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Adobe Photoshop CS5 Manual p 21</span><br />Resize or change hardness of painting cursors by dragging<br />You can resize or change the hardness of a painting cursor by dragging in the image. As you drag, the painting cursor previews your changes.<br />To resize a cursor, press Alt + right-click (Windows) or Control + Option (Mac OS), and drag left or right. To change hardness, drag up or down.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Wacom Graphire4 Users Manual p. 12</span><br />Hint<br />Use a right-click to bring up application-specific or icon-specific menus.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Simpleton’s Pleasure</span><br />Put your pen on an image where you want to obscure blown highlights. Hold <b style="color: red;">Alt</b> (Windows) and <b style="color: red;">right click</b> (Wacom Pen) ~ viola, depending on which way you drag, you change brush size or hardness.<br /><br />You know, it took about an hour to figure this out. I think that time can be quickly saved on the first image where I have a lot of dodge and burn to do. After that, it's all gravy!<br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy...</i><br /></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-4464148234798566852010-07-30T13:55:00.001-06:002010-07-30T13:58:15.260-06:00Why the Silence?<div style="text-align: justify;">Monsoons and all – we come to the very earliest possible beginnings of fall. Once Abq rains started, we just begin to sort of cool off here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not so – our intrepid knowledge quest! While Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 are already on our desktop, it has been a period of hack-your-way thru new stuff, hoping videos gave you enough grounding – because books are JUST beginning to come out. Fortunately, it’s frosting on the cake vice new learning. Thank goodness for in depth CS3 and CS4 training. Same goes for LR2…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: red; text-align: justify;">Full Range HDR Panos</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a penchant for full range HDR panos, its been a learning experience to get images into LR3, develop them through HDR Pro in CS5, HDR Tone them in the change from 32 to 16 bit formats…</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The big bugaboo – its actually several fold. First, my Nikon D300 can Automatically Exposure Bracket up to 9 images. If I’ve slacked off and simply used the automaton approach, there are times when including too many images on the +EV side will create unwanted high lights. Second, settings in HDR Toning, particularly Edge Glow, can over emphasize high lights. Third, not properly using Corner Points near the blown high lights (BHL) can be a major pain…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nevertheless, I can speak to a number of HDR Pano fine art images from several trips to Utah and Arizona.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: red; text-align: justify;">Google Earth</div><div style="text-align: justify;">GE 5.2 is full of new, exciting twists-and-turns. One is making Tours which convey a fine art viewpoint using digital photography. Another is creating unique views, timelines, and including your own precious HDR images. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">While the learning curve can be steep for some, I am beginning to think perhaps I am on the right track. Now – with God’s help, maybe I can get over the hump rather soon… clearly, its been blocking my writing capacity!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-70044341407561929682010-07-09T08:23:00.001-06:002010-07-09T08:28:11.983-06:00High Dynamic Range Toning (HDRT) - CS5<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/928678184_66Zfe-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none ; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/928678184_66Zfe-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" wc="true" width="396" height="600" alt="High Dynamic Range Toning, HDRT, Photoshop CS5" title="High Dynamic Range Toning, HDRT, Photoshop CS5"/></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyone who uses Photoshop CS5 for HDR <b><i>must </i></b>master HDR Toning. If you submit n images at constant aperture and white balance but different shutter speeds, CS5 will create a 32 bit file called Untitled_HDR2.hdr. I always save that file so I can try more conversions later.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This 32 bit file should under go multiple3 transformations before it becomes web-ready. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Save as .hdr</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Convert to 16 bit using HDRT.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Tone Map in LR3 with active Histogram; careful 200% scan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Spot Heal (content Aware Fill – CAF) all blown highlights (BHL).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Sharpen region where you applied Spot Healing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Save final tif and jpg.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. Make jpg Keeper in Smart Collection.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most monitors won’t let you see 32 bit files in true color. Hence, CS5 created HDR Toning. HDRT is a dialog box to ‘help’ you estimate what that 32 bit file should look like as a 16 bit tif.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: red; text-align: justify;">What Does HDRT Do?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">HDR Toning considers 4 functions; Edge Glow, Tone and Detail, Color, and Toning Curve and Histogram. Rather than repeat dry information from your help file, I want to talk about important aspects of creating landscape HDR fine art. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clearly, my emphasis about Presets and Corner Points provides a starting place for an HDR conversion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">HDR Toning transforms a 32 bit hdr file to a 16 bit tif file so LR3 and CS5 can perform tone mapping to create a fine art piece.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Click here to download a <a href="http://www.geocompa.com/HighDynamicRangeToning-HDRT-CS5-Tutorial.pdf">tutorial </a>on in-depth intricacies and tips on HDRT…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: red; text-align: justify;">Finale</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you’ve carefully read our tutorial, practiced on several HDR Pro images, then got one tone mapped to your liking - you’re done, save the final image as a tif file, then make a jpg as well using LR3’s Export command. You can save that final jpg in a Smart Collection. I usually put keywords in this image, including setting Keywords to kpr for each image I’ve labored over to create another fine art piece.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There’s an example of success in <a href="http://pathwaysoflight.blogspot.com/2010/07/cs5-spot-healing-blown-high-lights-with.html">Spot Healing</a> in a prior blog…</div><br /><div style="color: magenta;"><i>Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-2066028364628722552010-07-07T07:59:00.004-06:002010-07-07T08:14:49.577-06:00CS5 - Spot Healing Blown High Lights with Content Aware Fill<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/926452205_io4mE-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Winged Marvels, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico" src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/926452205_io4mE-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" title="Winged Marvels, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico" wc="true" width="396" height="224" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Winged Marvels, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These magnificent hoodoos stand resplendent against sun’s golden rays in late evening. If my imagination takes a flight of fancy – I would say these hoodoos resemble large winged B 52’s seeking safe landing. Or, pterodactyls circling ancient marsh lands beside a Cretaceous Seaway - these rocks were created just before dinosaur’s demise…<br />The combination of ancient shapes, <span style="font-style: italic;">bas relief</span> of sunset emphasizing the quaint hoodoo caps, and richness of color – full range HDR helps, but our magic lies in capturing evening’s aura of emphatic golden light!<br />I never cease to be amazed at the incredible panoply of landscapes scenes our Bisti Badlands provides enterprising digital photographers…<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Setting the Stage…</span><br />This composite panoramic image was processed with Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), LR3, and CS5. Individual tone mapping controls in LR3 are built on ACR (as is CS5). But, only HDR Toning and Spot Healing (w Content Aware Fill) occur in CS5.<br />LR3 does early processing (Merge to HDR Pro, Merge to Panorama, and global tone mapping of 16 bit tif files from HDR2). For more sophisticated handling of 32 bit HDR files in CS5, you start with HDR Toning; Warning, it is not a universal panacea. In other words, HDRT takes some getting used to; you need to fiddle around with it to learn the range of options which fit your shooting style. Finally, if your files seem to have persistent blown high lights (BHL), you will want to zero in on offending regions using Spot Healing.<br />We try to give a general workflow for this series of activities; you can try one or you can go the whole gamut. What ever works…<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Development of HDR Panorama</span><br />Two full range HDR image sets (9 images each) were Merged to HDR Pro from LR3 to CS5. Each file was processed with Local Adaptation by varying all parameters to convert the 32 bit HDR2 file (saves as HDR) to a 16 bit tif. Resulting 16 bit tif files were Merged to Panorama (same route). Then Lightroom 3 provided basic, curves, noise reduction, dust spot removal, and sharpening, before some final HSL adjustments on the 16 bit tif.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color:red;">BHL – Blown HiLites (Blown High Lights)</span><br />A recent full range HDR landscape capture created that pesky old problem “Blown HiLites (Yes, I know: Blown <span style="font-style: italic;">High Lights [BHL]</span>)”…<br />On close inspection at 100% zoom, some sun reflections were blown out where direct sunlight hit hoodoo underbellies. Can we do to reduce this problem? We Merged to HDR Pro in LR3, converted 32 bit HDR2 files to 16 bit files using HDR Toning in CS5, Merged to Pano, attempted to reduce blown high lights, then ultimately, resorted to Spot Healing in CS5.<br /><br /><i><span style="color:red;"> Merge to HDR Pro</span></i><br />Using CS5’s Merge to HDR Pro, 1st step – ALWAYS put White Point Slider on max – as far right as possible. Then, Remove Ghosts, choosing 0EV shot (presumes you shot manual - no blown hilites). Hit OK to convert 32 bit HDR2 file to 16 bits.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;"> <i>HDR Toning</i></span><br />But big changes come when addressing HDR Toning. Re-open 16 bit tif in LR3, choose Edit in Photoshop (Ctrl E), then choose Image > Adjustments > HDR Toning. Don’t forget: 32 bit HDR Toning will be out of visual range of your screen, so you will want to ‘learn’ how to read/sense significant color and tonal variations… BHLs usually ‘glow’.<br />Immediately reduce Edge Glow – pixels <30, detail <0.22 (reduces high light size). This helps reduce BHL, but NOT completely. I usually reduce Gamma to 0.89, modify Shadows and Highlights, add Vibrance, reduce Saturation, etc…<br />Now for some subtle, but gigantic changes.<br />Curves shows the original tif histogram (does not change as you modify working file <span style="font-style: italic;">[arrggghhhh… c’mon LR3]</span>). Scale image to 100%, use Home and Page Down keys to scan whole file, looking for BHL and chromatic aberration.<br />When you find one, play with pixels and details in Edge Glow – can you reduce this irritating low-quality image situation?<br /><br /><span style="color:red;"> <i>Corner Points</i></span><br />Click on BHL with cursor; this places a mark on Curves section of Local Adaptation. The manual’s Corner Point description sucks (any surprises here?) But, that does not stop you from playing around with nonlinearity corner point creates. For example, set the curve point, then make it a corner point. If you move it to the left, you darken the BHL. Neat, eh? Just don’t overdo it…<br />You can also lighten some shadows and darks by simply clicking the curve and moving that point up. I find it pays to click where I have a particularly pesky dark; that adds more control to the lightening process (and does it with nonlinear curves control since HDR Toning is 32 bits).<br />BTW, although CS5 has been out 2 months, there are very few, if any, tutorials which talk about the process of converting a 32 bit file to 16 bits. I have not found any dealing with corner points, although I have been experimenting and find them quite useful.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">When ALL Else Fails – Use Spot Healing with Content Aware Fill</span><br />Simply zoom to 600% (you can see individual pixels), choose Spot Healing, turn on Content Aware Fill, sample all layers, then go to town…<br />Simply add an adjustment layer above the background, then, holding down Alt key, choose a representative area near, but not on HBL, and begin Spot Healing. Representative area – a region whose color and saturation is slightly below that of your HBL. The [ and ] bracket keys let you quickly change brush size. I usually choose a small spot for my healing region, then increase brush size during the healing process. A Wacom pen tablet, with its more delicately controlled brush placement using the pen, comes in extremely handy for this step…<br />I am amazed at the awesome power of Content Aware Healing – one quick way to reduce those pesky HBLs so your images will pass state fair judge critiques with flying colors.<br />AT 600%, some of BHL consists of a few pixels of different colors with high intensity (local specular highlights). I chose Spot Healing, a background color not in direct light as my source, then carefully penned Content Aware Fill changes onto blown high lights. Occasionally, I found a few strokes would reduce the region to a more appetizing gold without specular effects. Truly, it was as if I was painting with a magic brush…<br /><center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/926452188_UPmGb-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/926452188_UPmGb-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Photoshop CS5, HDR Pro, Lightroom 3, Spot Healing, Content Aware Fill, Fixing Blown HDR Highlights" title="Photoshop CS5, HDR Pro, Lightroom 3, Spot Healing, Content Aware Fill, Fixing Blown HDR Highlights" width="392" height="244" /></a><br /></center><br /><br />This composite image shows before and after Spot Healing… while I could not control BHL w LR3, CS% did a superb job!<br /><br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-13476051010763235412010-07-05T11:43:00.005-06:002010-07-05T11:55:33.849-06:00Lava Falls from Toroweap, Grand Canyon<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/923927823_HYGXK-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/923927823_HYGXK-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Grand Canyon, Toroweap, Lava Falls, HDR Pro, Lightroom 3" title="Grand Canyon, Toroweap, Lava Falls, HDR Pro, Lightroom 3" width="396" height="600" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: center;">OF Equality—As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself — As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1900</i></span></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">When standing on imperious ramparts,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Breathing clean, fresh air,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Letting your soul fly free,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">As your eye simply tries</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Encompassing all piquant visions...</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are precious times when freedom and equality transcend mundane daily life. One such time occurred for me as evening’s light reached probative arms deep into the Grand Canyon, gliding down ancient lava flows, bouncing off vertically sculptured cliffs, with one gorgeous ray illuminating river and green of life at Lava Falls, as if a blessing.<br />Except for three photographers, Toroweap Point was devoid of people. Not so beauty! Subtle intermingling of light and shadow strategically emphasized the river and this particular falls – to transcend an ephemeral moment.<br />Yet, my eye flattened some points and de-emphasized some marked piquancy light’s tricks played, whether direct or reflected. I would need a steady tripod and full range capture in HDR mode to ingest full beauty.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3</span><br />Technology, created by humans, is not all equal.<br />When I began addressing Lava Falls, I had Photomatix, Bridge, and HDR Pro. Let me go on record - I'm not a devotee of Bridge. It's simply too cumbersome and rather limited, although I can use a less fluid version of Adobe Camera Raw. Nevertheless, I tried both HDR Pro and Photomatix paths for HDR. Unfortunately, I couldn't get what my eye recalled.<br />With Lightroom 3 and new Adobe Camera Raw 6.1, not only will the tools add range more conveniently, they let me clearly delineate Lava Falls in this awesome fine art image.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Dust Spots and Four Corners Capture</span><br />For just a moment, I'm going to rail against equality...<br />It's hard to shoot in Western United States deserts without getting dust spots on your sensor. When using Bridge, to try to remove dust spots, I found it difficult to recall exactly where that spot was after processing several tens of photos (Yep, the old brain was tired).<br />It's hard to shoot full range HDR without collecting noise in negative EV shots.<br />Yet LR3 provides a simple although not so straightforward path to quickly resolve multiple issues such as noise reduction, spot removal, and sharpening.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">LR3, Noise Reduction, Sharpening, and Spot Removal – All in One</span><br />In a recent blog, I commented on Tom Hogarty's view regarding the new noise reduction algorithms in LR3. Under Detail, Sharpening and Noise Reduction have associated panels.<br />Here's my preferred LR3 workflow...<br />1. Zoom image to 200% [repeated Ctrl +).<br />2. Click Home key (takes you to upper left corner).<br />3. Check out Luminance Noise (move the slider right until noise goes away).<br />4. Under Presets, choose Sharpening-Narrow Edges (Scenics).<br />5. Zoom image to Fill [repeated Ctrl -).<br />6. Hold down Alt key.<br />7. Move Masking slider right to a value of about 5.<br />8. Check out the sky for round dust spots<br />9. Click Spot Removal Tool, size properly, and place over a dust spot.<br />10. Click to remove dust spot (repeat at will until you have a clean sky).<br />11. Repeat the 200% zoom, carefully examining all aspects of your photo before you leave (you may find chromatic aberration or fringing as well).<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Light’s Freedom </span><br />While light is not evenly spread across Lava Falls, subtle slashes of light bounce off near lava crests, pointing to the southern cliff. Some of that light bounces across the river, giving a reddish cast to the reflecting northern cliff mid-ground.<br />But, it's the combination of light and shadows on the river which makes this shot. At the falls, a few light ridges (right) lead the eye to the fall, but the dark cliff beyond makes the eye bounce to the river below the falls.<br />The combination of light and dark cliffs, bisected by direct and reflected light on the tantalizing river, creates an equality in this image.<br />In essence, it’s lights freedom to go where it can and as it wishes which creates depth, power, and piquancy for Lava Falls...<br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy...</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-48300533280212605632010-07-04T17:14:00.002-06:002010-07-04T17:17:19.496-06:00Canyon’s Sentinel<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/923133133_5XKLq-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/923133133_5XKLq-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="4th of July, Grand Canyon, Toroweap, Canyon's Sentinel" title="4th of July, Grand Canyon, Toroweap, Canyon's Sentinel" width="396" height="600" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;">“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal…” </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>T. Jefferson, 1776.</i></span></div><br />With dawn’s quiet panoply of color done, the silent canyon was coming alive. Sitting on the Grand Canyon’s edge before dawn, still silence brought deep peace. Only a faint ribbon of light faintly reflected from the Colorado River far below.<br />The freedom to wander, to seek beauty at one’s choosing, to revel in a national treasure as another day’s light began its subtle, yet seemingly too rapid changes – these freedoms are almost a self evident tone poem of inordinate beauty.<br /><br />With the sun up, back to Toroweap’s camp. Collapse tripod, stow camera, begin trek. Away from the canyon edge, dawn’s silence was no longer. A lizard here, scurrying for perceived safety. A couple of deer there, disappearing over the nearby ridge as hooves clacked on rock.<br /><br />Not quite at the edge, yet standing in nearby majesty – the rare yucca. A dash of yellow, a sharp tincture of green, a stately form – with gear out again, the yucca strategically bisected distant, shadowed canyon walls adding a simple elegance. Click, click, click …HDR images quickly buffered home. A moment of time freely captured…<br /><br />Whether subtle yet full color, symbolic majesty, or just fine art – Canyon’s Sentinel signifies our 4th of July celebration of freedom and the many indelible honors time has awarded our country. To walk freely; to shoot without censure; to revel at will in such natural beauty <i>_even to be able to blog your feelings on such a historic day_</i> all are inalienable rights we fight and stand for.<br />Perhaps Canyon’s Sentinel is a wonderful fulfillment of Jefferson’s memorable words, <i><span style="color:magenta;">“…all men are created equal!”</span></i><br /><br />May you always walk in such freedoms…</div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-90439574206036788492010-07-03T12:16:00.003-06:002010-07-03T12:22:22.602-06:00Lightroom 3 Podcast - Worth a 2nd Listen<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/921873152_RXYYU-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/921873152_RXYYU-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Lightroom 3 Release, Hogarty Podcast, Camera Dojo" title="Lightroom 3 Release, Hogarty Podcast, Camera Dojo" width="396" height="300" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday, returning along twisty Jemez Mountain roads, I was listening to Tom Hogarty discuss LR3 roll out. Granted – this <a href="http://castroller.com/podcasts/CameraDojoDigital/1701026-Podcast%2083%20-%20Conversation%20with%20Tom%20Hogarty%20-%20Talking%20about%20Lightroom%203">podcast </a>was taped the day of LR3 release; but it’s worth a couple listens if you want to use LR3 to its fullest potential.<br />What impressed me was how well Hogarty communicated the Lightroom crew's excitement about this new release. Though I had listened once before, I found it refreshing to hear these points clarified once again. Particularly, since I just installed LR3 on the studio PC this morning and need to play ‘catch up’!<br /><br />Having just used Bridge CS5 for a few weeks, I am really looking forward to easy work flow in LR3. It will help me get some remaining Arizona/Utah images tuned and then on to my granddaughter’s shots. She was acting as intrepid back country explorer and fearless mountain lion challenger yesterday (fortunately, none appeared – although they were reported in the region)…<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Enjoy…</span>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-8887590404108164412010-07-01T14:11:00.002-06:002010-07-01T14:17:05.478-06:00Lightroom 3 and Booksmart - Integrating Technology<center><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It’s a blog called Blurberati – you can translate it with a new advanced technology sense.<br />
Image left – a Mac screen with LR3 image being developed. Image right – a Blurb hard cover book with images produced by LR3.<br />
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In between – a video which covers<br />
1. Getting Started w Booksmart<br />
2. Book Creation Guide<br />
3. Design Tips and Techniques<br />
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That’s about an hour of free video training. I have not watched the video yet. <br />
But, since video training is the big trend with CS5, LR3, and Booksmart, I expect it to be another step up on my ladder of photographic learning.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">The Result</span><br />
Simpler, more direct connection between companies who are hooking different software packages together to allow users to simplify workflow. My first pass at Booksmart was 3 years ago. I got LR2 2 years ago. I just loaded LR3 yesterday.<br />
Seems destiny and demand are pointing to solutions which allow intelligent users to simplify, simplify, simplify – rather than charge headlong into a piece of software which has not quite reached minimum maturity. I’m 3 computers beyond that initial Blurb experience and don’t have present access to those ‘ancient’ files stored on an inactive 2tb backup device.<br />
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Here’s the <a href="http://www.blurb.com/help/video/lightroom">link</a>…<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Photography Book Now</span><br />
It’s all part of promoting <i>Photography Book Now</i> – a contest which closes July 15. Two jurors, <a href="http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2010/06/28/pbn-juror-david-fahey-on-the-best-photography-books/"><i>Fahey </i></a>and <a href="http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2010/06/18/pbn-juror-brian-smith-on-the-best-photo-books/"><i>Smith</i></a>, exalt their favorite photography books. On 22 June, Bluberaqti posted <a href="http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2010/06/22/revisited-ten-blurb-booksmart-tricks/">10 advanced tricks </a>for using Blurb to create your own award-winning book…<br />
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You can get Booksmart <a href="http://www.blurb.com/create/book/download">here</a>... <br />
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<i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-38142119244936877992010-06-30T14:29:00.004-06:002010-06-30T14:35:50.250-06:00Time Heals ALL Wounds…<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color:red;">Let's Play Catch Up</span><br />It’s been a long time since I posted… travel and learning new dynamics take their toll!<br />2 trips to distant Anasazi lands, got CS5, installed, use Bridge CS5, learned Merge to HDR Pro from various videos (no books out to teach this old brain), worked up most of the Full Range HDR, and ordered Lightroom 3 (due soon).<br />CS5’s HDR Pro, Content Aware Fill, Color Range masking, and Refine Edge have all helped – taking expertise to new, more rapid, sustainable levels. Bridge – clunky to me, but doing the job. I’m a big fan of LR3b2, so am really excited about the added flexibility when LR3 arrives.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">The Bear Went Over the Mountain…</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Comb Ridge, Toroweap, White Pocket</span> – distant, enticing destinations!<br />AHHH – how does one explain <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">White Pocket</span>? With some 40 years of geology, I simply have seen nothing like WP. I could spend much more time there, testing the rocks, finding dinosaur trails, watching enchanting light turn this candyland mecca into exhilarating scenes fit for a highly sought La Fonda Santa Fe gallery wall.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Toroweap </span>has incredible canyon walls where sunrise and sunset challenge the most advanced camera to capture all the changing light range… its HDR panorama land beyond a doubt – with skilled lens correction for distortion even required.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Comb Ridge</span> is a long scar across Arizona and Utah – inhibiting ancient Anasazi flow to distant lands. At the last, about 12xx AD, they sought dominion high in isolated Comb Ridge canyons. Dawn behind a wide cave mouth can reflect golden sunlight like oft-seen Mesa Arch from ancient, hidden Anasazi ruins – just not when I was there. Another lesson in using Garmin’s celestial information tool to decide when reflected light will deeply enhance this secretive reflected zone.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Full Range HDR</span><br />The new trick in HDR is to ‘read’ a 32bit file, see where highlights could be blown out, then skillfully translate them to normal histogram values in the resulting 16 bit tif file. Warning – this takes a bit of getting used – using the preset save function (upper right edge of dialog box – 3 lines and down arrow activated by left click in Adobe Camera RAW to save then reload presets) will ultimately give you more time to develop vice mess with seemingly continuous slider mods.<br />And, the corner point curves function – only present in HDR Toning (ACR 6.1) – helps with some of the wild ranges in 32 bit HDR. But, I could find no tutorials on its use! OJT – try it til its your slave…<br />I use a 200% zoom to scan the entire photo, remove dust spots, look for fringing, eliminate noise, then begin sharpening, tone mapping, and taking the raw tif from mundane to award winning fine art.<br />I’ve become a devotee of HSL slight tone mapping changes which pop an already clever HDR image.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);">White Balance</span><br />Yep, it really got to me!!!<br />An inadvertent tungsten manual white balance setting turned most of Comb Ridge shots a chatoyant blue. Some 600+ images… at least I found that bug before 2nd trip…<br />Sir Lancelot aka Bridge (and LR3) to the rescue. Simply open in ACR, slide white balance until its pleasing (ly warm), tone map your base image (manual shutter, fstop, and ISO @ 0 EV) til it snaps, then Synchronize remaining full range HDR images, saving them as 9 DNG files.<br />Take them to Merge to HDR Pro and voila…<br /><br />I’ll start showing some of these images soon – a broken ISP dial up server cost several days of frustration, travel to library for email, etc…<br /><br /><span style="color:magenta;">What </span><i style="color: magenta;">did </i><span style="color:magenta;">MacArthur say, “I shall return…”</span></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-63866800631761082812010-05-24T07:10:00.000-06:002010-05-24T07:12:23.920-06:00Time OUT...<div style="text-align: justify;">Photography has its almost indescribable lures – spring, far away places, magnificent scenery…<br />The paucity of bloggin is due to planning for sequential trips to Utah and Arizona. Today is a loading day, tomorrow begins a new adventure.<br /><br />Hopefully, I will have some awesome nature/landscape scenes to report on return…<br /><br />…until then!<br /></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-34974156606080929982010-05-01T07:35:00.002-06:002010-05-01T07:55:09.738-06:00CS5 Mania - It's Gone Viral<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/853116695_2HtUo-M.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photoshop CS5, CS5, Try It, Preorder, Upgrade" src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/853116695_2HtUo-M.png" style="border: 0px none;" title="Photoshop CS5, CS5, Try It, Preorder, Upgrade" wc="true" width="396" height="515" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><i><b>Mayday!, Mayday!, Mayday!... </b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The distress call for voice radio, for vessels and people in serious trouble at sea. The term is anglicizes the French "m'aidez," (<i style="color: red;">help me</i>).<br />Two friends called me yesterday on April 29th saying, "Joe, you can download CS5...; Joe, I'm already playing with CS5…" <i style="color: red;">looks like CS5 has gone viral!</i><br />This morning <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare/">Adobe lets me have a DVD CS5 version for Try It with a 30 day limit</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65048599-Photoshop-CS5-Upgrade/dp/B003B32B2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1272715817&sr=8-1">Amazon lets me pre-order a version to be shipped May 25.</a> Well, maybe it's <i>not </i>Mayday ...after all.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Helpful Videos</span><br />In a neat advertising <i>coup d’état</i>, Amazon adds another fillip - <i>Checkout Related Media!</i> This is an amalgamated video feed essentially featuring Scott Kelby to begin explaining CS5.<br /><center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/853116694_6ywtk-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/853116694_6ywtk-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Amazons CS5 Videos" title="Amazons CS5 Videos" width="396" height="266" /></a><br /></center><br /><br />BTW, a number of more advanced videos are also available. If I were you, I'd watch these knowledgeable sources for future, perhaps more in-depth video tutorials.<br /><a href="http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/"><b>PhotoshopUser TV</b></a> - a free iTunes weekly video with the Photoshop Guys<br /><a href="http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-complete-picture-with-julieanne-kost/painting-in-photoshop-part-1/"><b>Julieanne Kost</b></a> - Adobe TV evangelist<br /><b><a href="http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html">Russell Brown</a> </b>- Adobe guru with 10 new CS5 videos<br /><a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John Nack</span></a> - Adobe blogger reaching throughout the company<br />I'll be digging deeply through these and succeeding tools!<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Hardcopy Learning Tools</span><br />Amazon also provides me with other learning tools. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Digital-Photographers-Voices-Matter/dp/0321703561/ref=pd_bxgy_sw_text_b"><i>The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)</i></a> - Scott Kelby, shipping date TBA. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Camera-Adobe-Photoshop/dp/0321713095/ref=pd_bxgy_sw_text_c"><i>Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5</i></a> – Schewe and Fraser, shipping date TBA.<br /><br />While it's quite a plethora of data, diligent attention may let you learn a lot before you actually read those books...<br />Of course, for this Mayday, you may want your own particular writer.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Adobe Photoshop CS5 Forums </span><br />Well, this one got away from me. When I put "Adobe Photoshop CS5" and "forum” in Google I only got 1,390,000 hits... you be the judge! I'm not at all sure <i>any </i>of us can handle this particular Mayday.<br />If you keep your eye peeled, podcasts and videos are quickly spewing out of Adobe and many others as we speak.<br /><br />Well, looks like we've handled the last Mayday! If you were in trouble with the sea of data regarding Photoshop's CS5 release, if you cried Mayday, the information above may act as your rescue rope...<span style=";color:white;" > </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="color:magenta;"><span style=";color:white;" >Enjoy! </span></i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-21869998652076890232010-04-23T18:38:00.002-06:002010-04-23T18:40:28.428-06:00My New Adobe Photoshop CS5 Image Enhancement Mantra…<div style="text-align: justify;">With some of its advanced tools, CS5 proves to be both a great time saver and a post-processing delight for fine art photographers: masking, motion blur, content aware patterns / rotation, and advanced puppet warp.<br />Let’s talk about some new videos<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Russell Brown</span> Russell has taken my learning to a higher level with 5 videos which detailed steps to become part of my new CS5 mantra. Explanations are clear; video examples let me easily understand and annotate mechanics involved.<br />Click on each title to step into a new world of tone mapping and image enhancement! Or, check out <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/04/great_new_russell_brown_cs5_tutorials.html">John Nack’s webpage</a> for more videos…<br /><br /><a href="http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CS5AdvancedMask_SM.mov">Advanced Masking</a>: edge detection for hands w Smart Radius. Refine Edge for hair and paint to find edges. Decontaminate colors and make new layer mask.<br /><br /><a href="http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CS5MotionBlurMask_SM.mov">Advanced Motion Blur Masking</a>: decontaminate colors in white dove wings. Blend results against brick background.<br /><br /><a href="http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CS5RotateImage_SM.mov"> Content-Aware Rotation</a>: Magically fill in missing parts to background of a rotated image with Content-Aware Fill.<br /><br />I like the way Russell shows advancing stages of intricate steps using CS5. I usually have 2 windows open; the playing video (which I can stop at will) and Notepad (I can document each step for future review). I play the video thru to get flow, then replay to document important advances for my continuing Photoshop learning curve.<br />May I encourage you to take a look at all the videos – you will love the new stuff!<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">The Photoshop Guys</span><br />The Guys did a summary to their i<a href="http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/">mpromptu NAPP webinars </a>from last week’s launch. You can find a downloadable video here or on iTunes. Here are my fav’s…<br />Refine Edge – masking every day<br />Plugin Decline – CS5 replaces many older plugins<br />Lens Correction Filter – camera, body, lens – corrections<br />HDR Pro – detail, radius, strength, spot removal, remove ghosts (water), base image<br /><br />I blogged about NAPP’s free webinars (available for 30 days) <a href="http://pathwaysoflight.blogspot.com/2010/04/cs5-learning-coverage-from-adobe-tv-and.html">here</a>. Right click, Save Link As… and you’ve got a copy!<br /><br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i><br /></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-75550946441949851842010-04-12T15:33:00.004-06:002010-04-12T15:36:35.054-06:00CS5 Learning Coverage from Adobe TV and NAPP<object width="425" height="256"><param name="movie" value="http://images.tv.adobe.com/swf/player.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="FlashVars" value="fileID=5657&context=382&embeded=true&environment=production"><embed src="http://images.tv.adobe.com/swf/player.swf" flashvars="fileID=5657&context=382&embeded=true&environment=production" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="256"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color:red;">CS5 Launch</span><br />Adobe’s Launch was exciting and Julieanne Kost presented a short 5 minute overview.<br />You can find some<a href="http://tv.adobe.com/show/photoshop-cs5-feature-tour/"> 23 videos</a> from Adobe TV and <a href="http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs5">17 videos</a> from NAPP.<br />My interest lies in photography; some of the fancier tools discussed by Adobe won’t enhance my workflow. So while I pay attention to selected videos from Adobe TV, my main emphasis follows… but, you can take a careful look by clicking above.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">NAPP Video Teasers</span><br />NAPP has designed a series of 3-8 minute videos by Photoshop Guys. Seventeen Video Teasers:<br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">Content Aware Fill-awesome enhancement of remarkable, highly used healing tool – expands hand-held pano<br />New HDR Pro-finally got some breadth in HDR-2nd live hour suggests ignore presets for HDR Pro – but they do endorse noise reduction in new Pro<br />HDR Single Image-not so sure (one image lacks quality of many)<br />Camera Raw Noise Removal-awesome<br />Camera Raw Process Version-maybe<br />Refine Selection Edges-enhances Smart Edge Detection, then paints with Touch Up Brush for more definition<br />Content Aware Healing-spot healing brush does content aware healing now<br />New Puppet Warp-subtle changes in panos and HDR composites<br />New Grain Features-maybe<br />Layer Improvements-paste in place, change opacities of multiple layers, drag images desktop to layer, layer styles, make default applies presets against multiple images<br />Lens Corrections-no video<br />Mixer Brush-paint your photos<br />Mini Bridge-quick manager of images and collections<br />Bridge Improvements-good for app mixture (eg, writing book w photos)-drag and drop for presets-batch rename (string substitution)-watermark pdf of jpgs<br />3D Repousse Part 1, 3D Repousse Part 2, 3D Repousse Part 3</span><br />As usual, the Photoshop Guys came thru again…<br /><br />Initially, I expect to use about 70% to speed my workflow. It is quite clear several of these tools will reduce, if not stop, the eye-and-back strain from prior versions. With no hands-on experience yet, I can’t really indicate the full extent – that comes when you’ve played enough. Naturally, your workflow may be different and other tools might just make your day!<br /><br />I was a bit surprised several NAPP videos would not play today; I suspect they had a heavy server load all day. On the other hand, much of today also faced a Comcast recast of this multi-computer system, so things were a bit rushed.<br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i><br /><br /></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-40674509616433143492010-04-10T16:56:00.009-06:002010-04-10T17:28:44.880-06:00Learning About CS5<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/832870667_gwXvB-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/832870667_gwXvB-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="NAPP, PhotoshopUserTV, Learning CS5" title=" NAPP, PhotoshopUserTV, Learning CS5" width="396" height="219" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Monday’s launch of Photoshop CS5 will ignite a tremendous flurry of effort to learn it’s newest tools… it’s an awesomely<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> hot topic</span>!<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Googling ‘Photoshop CS5’</span><br />Limiting Google to only those two exciting words, I got 1,080,000 hits today. That’s a big deal, if somewhat hard to wade thru…<br />But, I learn best from reading.<br />Looking for new books with those key title words, Barnes & Noble has one due July 15. I don’t know the writer. Amazon has a big, fat 0!<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">If You Can’t Read, What Then?</span><br />Adobe’s Launch will cover highlights.<br />As soon as Adobe’s Launch Event wraps up, Scott and the "Photoshop Guys" (PhotoshopUser and National Association of Photoshop Professionals [NAPP]) will host their first in a week-long series of LIVE webinars. They'll show you some finer points of Photoshop CS5, answer your questions, and give away one free CS5 upgrade daily during their live webcasts!<br />So ~ this new Learning Center packed with training, overviews, interviews and more is only available to the public for 30 days - before it goes back behind the firewall for NAPP members only.<br />Watch their video <a href="http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs5">here</a>…<br /><br />Past launches have been explained in weekly PhotoshopUser TV freebies available on iTunes. I use an iPod Touch for that.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Hackers Delight</span><br />Or, you can simply try a tool, look at how its sliders change you image, and teach yourself…<br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-82575574094107304242010-04-09T12:49:00.000-06:002010-04-09T12:49:46.223-06:00Golly, Gee Whiz...<center><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">As the <span style="color: red;">CS5 launch</span> date approaches (Monday, April 12), I've been keeping a weather eye cocked on John Nack!<br />
It was worth it this morning ~ John located a geewhiz video.<br />
Click <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/04/video_8-bit_destruction.html">here</a>, and take a walk on the wild side with Pac Man & Co.!</div><div style="color: magenta;"><i>Enjoy...</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-52020854943771671192010-04-07T11:15:00.003-06:002010-04-07T11:18:42.847-06:00Painting in CS5<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/830347536_MAav5-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/830347536_MAav5-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="CS5 Painting, Video" title="CS5 Painting, Video" width="396" height="266" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size:x-small;">Courtesy John Nack’s blog</span></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek starts each voyage with, "Space, the final frontier! These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before...!"<br /><br />Picasso's arsenal; a palette, paint, and the brush...<br />Your new arsenal should you choose CS5 - the ability to take a picture of an incredible model, then paint it into a Mona Lisa!<br /><br />Take a look at the <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/04/sneak_peek_painting_in_photoshop_cs5.html">video</a>. See if it suits your taste. Then, don't forget to watch the CS5 Launch beginning next Monday morning at nine o'clock Albuquerque time...<br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-3804521431330184462010-04-05T14:14:00.004-06:002010-04-05T15:34:05.665-06:00CS5 Launch<div style="text-align: justify;">I searched around, unsuccessfully, for an icon to help describe the CS5 launch. Late last month, I got an e-mail from Adobe telling me, as a Photoshop User, to come register for the launch - which will be Live 12 April, 0900 MST. Click <a href="http://cs5launch.adobe.com/?trackingid=FDJYR">here </a>for your own registration.<br />
My experience has been ~ if I get in about 15 minutes before they're ready to go, get set up, and get my Comcast line ready to receive, Adobe's TV will make all the difference and let me see what the excitement is all about for Adobe Photoshop CS5’s Launch.<br />
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I'd clear the decks for a couple of hours; I've done this before, and it can really be quite exciting! Be prepared to take notes, keep URL's so you can replay some of the videos, and all that sort of preparation...<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Update: Lightroom 2.7 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.7 Released <b>TODAY</b></span><b><br />
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Download LR2.7 and ACR5.7 for Photoshop CS4 <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2010/04/camera_raw_57_and_lightroom_27.html">here</a>.<br />
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<i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-32714584902351144572010-03-27T12:06:00.002-06:002010-03-27T12:11:29.122-06:00Walk on the Wild Side…<center><br /><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/820671313_Cq8w4-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="CS5 HDR, Nik's SilverEFEX Pro, Mystery Ridge, ©Joe Bridwell" src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/820671313_Cq8w4-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" title="CS5 HDR, Nik's SilverEFEX Pro, Mystery Ridge, ©Joe Bridwell" wc="true" width="396" height="266" /></a><br /></center><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Image Capture by Joe Bridwell; Artistry by Eric Jones</i></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s been a while since I’ve just played under expert tutelage of a true ‘painting’ master!<br />Recently, I joined maven Eric Jones to follow up on a question, “Eric, is HDR any better in CS5?”<br />Eric responded, “Joe, bring up some HDR images and let’s play…”<br />“Yep, after balancing and synchronizing several HDR images in Adobe Camera Raw, we did a Local Adaptation on the 32-bit file to produce an HDR image.<br />“And Yep, there are few more sliders in the new dialog box.”<br />Okay, so we’re going to have more HDR capabilities (among other things) when we receive working copies of CS5; but, as it turned out, that was not the real highlight from our flight of fancy.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Nik’s Silver EFEX Pro</span><br />To satisfy his own curiosity and clearly whet my appetite, Eric began playing in <a href="http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php">EFEX Pro</a>, a piece of software which converts color to black and white. I’d never seen EFEX used; first, I was quite impressed with the workflow path. In particular, I like how effective it is to place a Tonal Control Point to lighten or darken an area with brightness, contrast, and structure (detail). For that matter, the rest of their control panel is on par with Lightroom 3…<br />Once we were in black and white, we still had a rather pesky problem. Our capture was of a snowcapped mountain. All along sunlit crestal edges, snow was splotchy and blown out. So we used a threshold layer @ 253 to maintain detail, then masked those blown out snow areas with a low opacity black brush to constrain this wretched by-product.<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Voilà…</span><br /><br />As always, I walked away chock-full of new development ideas!<br />On the way home, I realized EFEX could also be used to create incredibly subtle masks. I’m not a great black and white fan… but this eloquent demonstration gave me a much more real sense of the power of black and white.<br /><br /><span style="color:red;">Why?</span><br />If for no other reason ~ there is an incredible amount of information generated in trying to create a truly subtle black mask. And, I think this image is truly beautiful!<br /><br />I call this image “Mystery Ridge”; although I’ve shown it to a few people, they simply don’t know where it was taken… <span style="color:magenta;">Do You</span>?<br /><br /><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-70147754870467553972010-03-24T10:19:00.001-06:002010-03-24T10:20:29.183-06:00Content Aware Fill<center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/818462239_zTSHX-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/818462239_zTSHX-M.jpg" style="border: 0px none;" wc="true" alt="Content Aware Fill, Release, ©Bryan Hughes" title="Content Aware Fill, Release, ©Bryan Hughes" width="396" height="244" /></a><br /></center><br />John Nack has just posted a video from Bryan O’Neil Hughes about <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/caf_in_ps.html">Content Aware Fill</a>.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you have ever struggled with removing lens flare, cleaning up an image, removing trees, even either expanding a pano or cropping it to some reduced size – then CAF is on your list of must knows! Who knows, you might even buy a new Photoshop version just for this perk…<br /><br />Our image, courtesy Bryan Hughes, shows a pano where selection has both pano and ‘outer limits’ chosen. Using Content Aware Fill, Bryan is nearly thru extending the sky and landscape. I urge you to go play the video to thoroughly enjoy this demonstration in real time…<br /><br />For me, time saved is shootin’ time…<br />Besides, I’m tired of backbreaking labor to bring an image to the ‘fine art stage’ ~ that is, if I can have software help me create faster.</div><i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003788391444561128.post-46113994458438727742010-03-23T13:50:00.005-06:002010-03-24T09:58:36.975-06:00Lightroom 3 beta 2<center><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">… hit the deck this morning – 5 months after the original beta. It’s time stamped to expire June 30 about 2 months from now.<br />
Tom Hogarty shows intro lists for videos and blogs about <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2010/03/additional_lightroom_3_beta_2.html">LR3b2</a>. I recommend Julieanne Kost, Sean Duggan, and Victoria Bampton for your consideration. As I learn best by reading – Victoria will give some respite for new concepts.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">My Workflow</span><br />
I am going to benefit from enhanced speed, import features, and better image processing. I tend to shoot HDR and have been going through older photos shot with a noisy Nikon body; noise reduction improvements are clearly shown about 4 minutes into Julieanne’s Adobe video show next.<br />
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John Beardsworth sez Noise Ware noise reduction seems to have a limited number of days, once photogs really get into this new beta.<br />
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As for me, I will be watching exciting tidbits as new information dribbles out from this release. You might want to take a closer look at Victoria’s book; she writes clearly and has lots of advanced insight.<br />
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Simply down load, make a desktop folder, open the file w Winzip, drag setupxx.exe to the new folder (depending on your CPU where xx denotes bits), click on it, and you’ve installed LR3b2. While it will re-write LR3 catalogs, it is yet to touch LR2 catalogs. Of course, if you use a Mac, procedure is the same, only the words change.<br />
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<i style="color: magenta;">Enjoy…</i></div>BistiArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169778734722155740noreply@blogger.com0