The age old phrase of “let me count the ways” seemed like as good a theme as any to announce the newest contest from the blog here for the Learning Digital Photography podcast. I just got word from the folks…
Month: June 2009
Wacom Bamboo Fun: Hardware Review
The good folks at Wacom were kind enough to donate a Bamboo Fun to me for review on the blog a while back. In order to really get a full handle on it though, I wanted to use it within…
Painting with Light
About a year ago, Joe McNally gave a talk at Google where he referenced the roots of the word photography. The two roots are photo and graphos, and the meanings are light and write. We so often hear of people…
And the winner is…
Blooming Orchid, by photographer John Dunne, of Ireland. He’s got quite a nice portfolio of images too over on his Flickr photostream, so do stop over and give him a little kudos, pat on the back, congratulations, etc. as he’s…
And then there were three…
First off, some software news that we all may want to stay abreast of – Adobe has released the latest updates for Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom. The ACR update applies to CS4 users, Elements 7.0 users, and Premiere Elements…
Software Review – Genuine Fractals 6.0
Don’t get too excited – no software giveaway on this one folks, as I’ve not had a chance to call OnOne yet and see if they’d be interested in participating in a contest. Instead, I am working off a trial…
Rocket Man!
Cleaning your gear is a maintenance ritual each of us must develop that suits our own style and behaviors. For me it’s lists…logical lists that I formulate after thinking about what makes sense to me, so I can do things…
Extra Extra, read all about it!
It’s a rare Saturday that I make a blog post, but while waiting on a contractor to install some wireless at work, I had some time to do some writing and in the process, I came across an article I…
Friday Fab Five
For something new here on the blog, I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop. The idea here is that people will share their top five in the comments area and we…
Seven Super Summer Tips
Since the podcast went live yesterday, the compositional theme was kind of put on the back burner, so I’d like to bring that back to the forefront today with something everybody likes…a list! For some reason lists of bullet points…