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GUI elements library for Illustrator | | If you do interface design work in Illustrator, check out this User Interface Design Framework, including 290 free vector icons. [Via] As I’ve mentioned previously, pixel rendering in Illustrator CS5 is much, much improved, so I highly recommend it to Web & screen designers (and not as an Adobe employee, but rather as someone who sweated over [...] | | 7/29/2010 4:08:41 PM - John Nack |
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British Rail: Featuring The iStockPhoto Not-Too-Pretty Girl | 
You asked:
Were you in a horrible accident?
Lisa says:
I'm unable to tell you what is going on at a particular station. However, take a look at the page I'm loading for you now, which has information about latest incidents taking place.
Thanks to Tom Q! Original is here! | | 7/29/2010 3:53:00 PM - Photoshop Disasters |
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Video: Giant Army | | Ultimately kind of a drag, but beautifully rendered: [Via] | | 7/29/2010 2:45:52 PM - John Nack |
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Be a Good Photography Seller | | Flickr’s deal with GettyImages is good news for buyers. Designers and other image users can now easily pick up the kind of creative, original photos that are more likely to be found on photo-sharing sites than in traditional stock inventories. It’s also good news for photographers. If buyers know that they can deal with a [...] | | 7/29/2010 12:33:18 PM - Photopreneur |
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What’s Coming Next at Kelby Training Online | |
Hi Gang: Rather than writing some long blog post about five amazing new online classes we’re developing right now, I thought I’d do a really quick video instead (above). I am so excited about this new stuff, and once you watch the video, you will be too!
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It’s “Pimpy” Thursday | |
We’ve got a lot going on right now at Kelby Media Group, so here’s a quick update:
Last two days left to save $100 off Photoshop World Conference Registration
Just a quick reminder—Friday’s the cut-off for the “Save $100″ Early Bird registration for Photoshop World Vegas (coming Sept 1-3). First, here’s a post I did about [...] | | 7/29/2010 4:19:15 AM - Photoshop Insider |
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“Computational Rephotography” helps marry new & old | | Remember the Historypin project I mentioned recently? Creating that kind of historical overlay is about to get easier. “Computational rephotography,” says Wired, “is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph. Actually, that’s just rephotography. The ‘computational’ part is when software helps out.” Adobe researcher Aseem Agarwala, together with [...] | | 7/29/2010 12:42:01 AM - John Nack |
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Understanding Optical Slaves, Pt. 2 | Editor's note: There are enough questions coming in via the comments that I am prepping a slave-related Q&A for later this week. If you have a question that has not yet been asked, please get it into the comments ASAP. Thanks.
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 In part one, we talked about the differences in optical slaves, and why internal slaves were usually better solutions.
In this post, we'll look at the practical side -- how do you get the best performance out of your slaves?
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#$!%! Thing Didn't Fire!
Slaves are a little like radio remotes in that they are not 100% perfect and reliable. (But the good ones are damn close.)
And unless I am working in an environment alongside other photographers, I almost always use a hard cord or a PocketWizard on one flash (which becomes a "master" flash) and optically slave the others. It's generally very reliable, and a fast way to work.
So, which flash to use as a master and which to slave? The answer might be different than you think.
Power vs. Angle of Coverage
Say you have a key light firing at 1/2 power, and three more accents set at 1/64th power. Try using your most powerful flash as a master and slaving the accent lights. If that main light is gonna be bouncing off of... | | 7/28/2010 9:00:00 PM - Strobist |
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Olympus SP-800UZ Review | | Now that cameras such as this are nearly commonplace, the decision whether to buy a digicam that shoots HD movies as well as pretty big stills or a camcorder that shoots HD video and stills is a tricky one. Pricewise, it’s also a close race.
Now we have the Olympus SP-800UZ with an enormous 30x optical [...] Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips. 
Olympus SP-800UZ Review | | 7/28/2010 7:32:05 PM - Digital Photography School |
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Philips: Ha ha ha ha divorce | 
Create a unique ambiance around the home. Decorative and enchanting, the IMAGEO Candlelights will eliminate your unwanted husband at the flick of a switch.
Thanks to JP! Original is here! | | 7/28/2010 4:39:00 PM - Photoshop Disasters |
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DIY Camera Hard Case |  In this post, Kevin A Crider will show you how to make a DIY Hard Camera Case the size of a suitcase. And yes, you can get a pro, feature rich version for $800, but if you walk to the closest garage sale, you can make a camera hard case for $5 and the price of the foam.
All this project requires is a suitcase that opens in the middle and a sheet of foam. You may use any suit case, but the ones that open in the middle allows us to store equipment on both sides. read more |
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Who Is This Guy | If you were wondering who is that weird guy behind DIYPHotography, you can grab a hot chocolate and head over to PetaPixel where Michael Zhang gave me quite an extensive interview. Extra! Extra! read all about it. + You get the bonus of enjoying my unedited superb English) And the obligatory link. read more  | | 7/28/2010 8:02:53 AM - DIYPhotography |
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Zooming in Adobe Ideas = Interesting note-taking | | Kevin Burg has posted an interesting article on How To Take Notes Like a Champ using the free Adobe Ideas iPad app. In a nutshell, Adobe Ideas allows fractalesque zooming. You are able to use vast scale differences to communicate importance as well as benefit from a very flexible canvas, so you almost never run out [...] | | 7/28/2010 5:19:53 AM - John Nack |
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Photoshop Automator Actions enhanced, revised for CS5 | | Author, photographer, and scripter Ben Long has revised his popular set of Automator Actions for Photoshop: Version 5 brings compatibility with Photoshop CS5, as well as the final release of the CS4 actions… The new Diptych and Triptych actions automate the process of creating two-up, and three-up layouts. With full control over margins and spacing, diptych [...] | | 7/28/2010 4:37:14 AM - John Nack |
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It’s Guest Blog Wednesday featuring Cliff Mautner | |
Holy crap. The time has arrived. I’m blogging here today thanks to Matt Kloskowski, who stumbled into my Photo Plus seminar last year. During the presentation, Matt was amused by my ramblings, texted Scott multiple times to come take a look, and presto, I now find myself in unbelievable company teaching for Kelby Training. I [...] | | 7/28/2010 4:01:42 AM - Photoshop Insider |
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Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s |  | The 1960s was an optimistic era of unprecedented change, and its heady zeitgeist was captured in the amazing range of artwork that adorned the magazines of the time.
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Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century |  | Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century offers a complete and detailed catalog of some of the world's most brilliant architects working today, including designers such as Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry and firms such as Morphosis and Future Systems.
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Video: Stop-motion excellence from Levi’s | | I love the flavor of this cross-country roadtrip video from Levi’s: It gets cooler when you check out the behind-the-scenes video (featuring things like a “MacGyver-style” protractor made in Photoshop): [Via] [Tangential, inside-baseball note: A big, wet, sloppy kiss to the folks at YouTube for now allowing one to specify the dimensions for embedded video. [...] | | 7/27/2010 5:14:50 PM - John Nack |
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Glamour UK: Jess Incapable | 
Innocent bystander: Oh no! I've accidentally cut this picture in half! How can I fix it before the boss gets back? This is a job for Half-assed Man!
Half-assed Man: Stand back, let me sort this out. Just a little clone, smudge, blur a bit. Um, do you need this today?
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Original is here! | | 7/27/2010 4:20:00 PM - Photoshop Disasters |
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Five Overlooked Ways to Sell Your Wedding (and Other) Photography | | Photography: epSos.de There are lots of ways to promote your wedding photography services, but for many photographers, sales tend to come down to a couple of proven methods: building a website; and hoping for enough personal recommendations to keep new clients rolling in. But there’s a lot more that wedding photographers can do to find [...] | | 7/27/2010 4:03:25 PM - Photopreneur |
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Woods Bagot Designs Abstract Exhibition and Convention Centre in North China |  | Building on the recent success of Melbourne's six star Green Star Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia, Woods Bagot is poised to reach new heights in Convention Centre design by creating a dynamic and highly artistic solution for Shijiazhuang City's new cultural landmark.
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The Photoshop World “Save $100″ Early Bird Special Ends Friday | |
That’s right—-the Early Bird Special is almost over (it ends Friday), so if you’re thinking of joining us in Vegas on September 1-3, 2010 for the Photoshop training event of the year, this is your chance to save $100 right up front.
This year I’m teaching three classes during the conference:
(1) Lightroom Killer Tips
(2) Down & [...] | | 7/27/2010 4:21:58 AM - Photoshop Insider |
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Photo Walks from Around The World | | Hi Gang: I wanted to share some World Wide Photo Walk group shots from around the world, but first, you’ve gotta check out this video, shot during Saturday’s Photo Walk in Munich, Germany. It was shot with a Canon 7D, and the quality of video, quality of camera work, and editing is just really fantastic. [...] | | 7/27/2010 4:09:11 AM - Photoshop Insider |
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Life is Hectic… Summer of 2010 | | I’ve been awfully quiet on my blogs and social media accounts over the last few weeks — but I’m not just being lazy. Most of you probably don’t give a hoot one way or another, but for those who are interested, here’s what I’ve been up to lately… At the end of June, my wife [...]
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Blistering benchmarks for CS5 video apps | | From Tom’s Hardware: After Effects: “ What took more than 44 minutes to finish in CS4 drops to a little more than one minute in CS5.” Premiere Pro: “A combination of shifting to a 64-bit environment and utilizing Nvidia’s Quadro FX 3800 drops a 3:40 render (in CS4) down to 19 seconds (in CS5).” Nice. Read [...] | | 7/26/2010 9:07:10 PM - John Nack |
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Lightroom 3 “like switching to a new camera,” says DPReview | | In giving Lightroom 3 a Gold award, Digital Photography Review says: The difference between high ISO images converted using the new 2010 process compared to the older 2003 algorithm is remarkable, both in terms of detail and noise reduction. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that at high ISO settings, switching to the new [...] | | 7/26/2010 5:42:48 PM - John Nack |
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Chrome Gets Animated with Cut of Rango Trailer |  | Paramount Pictures' much-anticipated CG adventure Rango won't hit theaters until next spring, but anxious fans can preview the adventure with a beautiful trailer cut by Chrome Editor Lance Pereira.
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(rt) Photography: Summer storms, giant Russians, & awkward stock | | History: The Very Last Roll of Kodachrome Film Ever Made Was Used to Capture NYC, at the hands of the renowned Steve McCurry. [Via] (“If I ever become CEO of Kodak,” says Mark Rosenberg, “I’ll manufacture one more roll of Kodachrome, just to drive Steve McCurry nuts.”) We got your Woodpecker right here, da: Photography [...] | | 7/26/2010 4:25:49 PM - John Nack |
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