PMA Australia 2009
PMA Australia 2009 PMA Australia will be held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, 25 – 28 June 2009. Robert Edwards will be presenting a keynote presentation (135KB PDF) on Sunday 28 June. PMA Australia is the southern hemisphere’s largest, annual photographic trade show. It encompasses equipment exhibitions, conferences and workshops, the Australian Professional … Read more
DAM Workflow Newsletter 7
Mistake #1. Not using DAM Some people are put off DAM because it sounds boring or worse seems irrelevant to their photography. News Flash: DAM applies to everybody; pro photographer, designer, amateur, family snapper, videographer… If you create any digital content, be it pictures, Word documents, or invoices you need some sort of DAM. DAM … Read more
DAM workflow seminar Sydney
As part of our commitment to training DAMsimple are presenting a DAM Workflow seminar at L&P in Sydney on 17 March 2009. Download the registration form (280kb) to book your place now.
Google cloud storage?
Google leaks signs of their Cloud Storage GDrive: “GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone.” From Google Operating System blog.
Picasa for Mac released
Google have released a beta of Picasa for Mac. Targeted at amateurs Picasa is a lightweight, well featured, free image editor and DAM application for Windows (and more recently Linux).
Top 10 DAM Mistakes
Top 10 DAM Mistakes has been published in the latest issue of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.
Lightroom 2 Workshops
A series of Lightroom 2 Workshops are being held in Australia kicking off in Queensland. AIPP are sponsoring the first workshop in Brisbane on 25 November 2008. Click here for more information.
DAM Workflow Newsletter 6
DAM Sexified – Thanks Steve Jobs When Apple announced Aperture, their DAM and Raw conversion software, they made a huge impact on digital photography. For too long DAM was mostly presented in an ugly database interface. Aperture’s biggest influence is the Steve Jobs ‘black skivvy’ interface. As they did to mp3 players and mobile phones … Read more
Network speed with Raw files
While this is not news recently I’ve found network speed a real pain to deal with using image browsers. Even on a Gb network opening and zooming high megapixel RAW files is slow. Now I use catalog apps for a first look at images instead of an image browser. The catalog app (Expression Media 2.01, … Read more