The Monday News Thingy
Jun. 4
9:57 am
Good Monday everybody!!!
First, a quick thanks to everyone who came out to the Atlanta stop on my Lightroom Tour last Friday. I met some really great people (they definitely rolled out the Southern Hospitality), and I really had a great time all the way around. Thanks for making me feel so at home up there. 
Now, onto the news thingy:
- Congrats go out to our friend, digital video genius, and Photoshop World instuctor Richard Harrington, the proud daddy to an adorable bouncing baby girl (Mom and baby are doing just great) Way to go, dad!!!! They named the baby “Sorenson Codec Harrington” (not really, but you know he probably considered it).
- By now you’ve heard that Adobe released a major update to Camera Raw, and the new 4.1 adds a number of very cool features. Well, Jeff Schewe over at PhotoshopNews.com did a wonderful in-depth article on all the new features and if you use Camera Raw, this is absolutely a must-read article. Click here to go there.
- I’m up in New York on Thursday with my Lightroom Tour, at the Jacob Javits Center. If you haven’t signed up yet, click here to get on board with the New Digital Photography Workflow using Lightroom and Photoshop CS3.
- If you haven’t downloaded the free Adobe Media Gallery (AMG) for creating Flash and HTML Web Galleries from directly within the CS3 Bridge, it’s really well done and a big improvement on anything Photoshop’s offered before. You can (Note: you’ll need the download it from Adobe Labs.free update to Bridge 2.1 before you can use AMG, so download that first, then download AMG).
- Next week I begin my week-long workshop at the amazing Santa Fe Workshops in Santa Fe New Mexico. If you’ve never had the chance to take a workshop there—I highly recommend it. I can tell you, as an instructor, teaching there is one of the most fun, energetic, exhausting, and exhilarating experiences an educator can have. One can only imagine what an incredible experience it must be for a student to learn in such an energy-charged creative environment). It’s a first class educational experience top-to-bottom and if you’re serious about photography, or Photoshop, or both, click this link to see the list of their upcoming classes for the rest of 2007.
That’s it for now, gang! Have a great Monday (well, have the best Monday you can), and we’ll talk again tomorrow.
Scott,
I have been using Lightroom from the beginning (the first beta) and bought your book as well. Having a good understanding of Lightroom I wondered if I should attend the seminar. I must say that I was Completely impressed with your seminar in Atlanta!!! I drove from Charlotte, NC through morning & evening rush hour traffic (you did promise us that you would get us out just in time for Friday rush hour). I had a GREAT time and learned a lot!!!
I hope you had a chance to take a look at drobo.com and see what a great solution they have for storage. I am using one and it works well !!
Thanks again,
Kevin
Looking forward to the show at the Javitts on Thursday. I’m trying to see if fellow photographers are interested in having a classy dinner while in NYC down at Delmonico’s… Costco has $100 in gift certs for Del’s at a price of only $79.99, details here:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=320053
In all the instruction I’ve seen, read, and digested, I’ve never seen any discussion on framing treatments for photography. Lots on framing in Photoshop, but not on the best way to actually frame the photo once printed. Some of this bleeds over into printing, I realize. For example, for photos to be framed:
1. Best paper look (full matte, semi-gloss, canvas/glicee)
2. Best relationship of matt size to frame size.
3. Glass or no glass. If glass, UV?, non-reflective.
I have found my self well-instructed in taking the picture, finishing the picture in Lightroom/CS3, filing the picture. But I’ve not been good at taking the last step of getting the photo into a physical frame.
Thanks.
I really enjoyed the seminar and your book on lightroom I feel for the first time since starting with the beta version I am using it correctly and my new photos show it. thanks for hard work and all the info you shared with us.
Hi Scott,
Very much enjoyed your seminar in Atlanta and learned much. Where are the Lightroom shortcut keys? Has anyone seem them? I may have missed a link somewhere. PW
Hey Scott,
Great siminar in Atlanta, yes you are a funny guy, and a mere sliver of the previous self! I’m up and running the right way now in Lightroom thanks to your tips and instruction. I’m going to have to reimport the shots I loaded prior to the seminar, but your system will be far better in the long run and make my life so much easier!
Seminar was so good I’m wondering what I missed as I was sitting there with my mouth open watching. Looking at the dates to attend again. A definate recommend to anyone and everyone.
MC