If your business sells a product or service and using stock images then you may be losing sales. Usability expert Jakob Nielsen’s research showed customers focus on images that depict real products and real people. Generic images are less attractive to customers who choose to ignore them and go to your competitor’s website. Nielsen’s summary: … Read more
Adobe have announced a Release Candidate for Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4. Mostly bug fixes with new camera lens profile support. Full list here. A Release Candidate means it is still not a final product and not (yet) supported. But if you have a new camera and/or lens and want to use Lightroom it … Read more
To celebrate Photo Mechanic’s 15th anniversary Camera Bits have a special price of $60 for version 4.6. Normally $150 with one year’s free updates to any version, this special offer (only) gets you updates to v4.6. This is a bargain for newcomers to Photo Mechanic who can still upgrade to v4.7 for $90 when it … Read more
For those who automatically add copyright and contact info as you download images (click here if you don’t!) – don’t forget to update your templates for 2011.
Season’s Greetings! Peter Krogh posted a couple fun and poignant video links on his DAM Book blog. The Backing up song is really catchy. So should be the practise of backing up! Looking for a new year’s resolution for 2011? How about establishing a back up system for your photos, videos, documents and all that … Read more
Adobe commissioned Robert Edwards to write a whitepaper on Digital Photography Workflow using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. If you’re serious about photography, you own Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite. It can do amazing things with images even if most of us only scratch the surface of its capabilities. Combine Adobe Photoshop with the visual Adobe Bridge media … Read more
John Beardsworth has a great blog post on the the dangers of social media for photographers (link to archived version). It’s a timely reminder for those posting images on photo sharing sites. And a wake up call if you’re unaware of the pitfalls, especially those who use photo sharing websites for image storage!
Adobe announced the Lightroom 3.3 Release Candidate along with Camera Raw 6.3 and the DNG Converter 6.3. This release also introduces the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader. The Lens Profile Downloader is a free companion application to Photoshop CS5, Photoshop Lightroom 3, and the Camera Raw 6 plug-in. It allows customers to search, download, rate and … Read more
Richard Anderson is presenting two sessions on photo archiving and workflow at the Nikon AIPP Event in Australia during October. Richard is project leader of dpBestflow and co-author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook.
Peter Krogh has created a series of DAM Workflow videos demonstrating Phase One Capture One 5.1 and Expression Media 2. Peter’s emphasis as always is maintaining the integrity of the images and metadata. View the free videos at Phase One.