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Friday News Nuggets

By Scott on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 1:26 am | updates.

Hi Folks. The week before Photoshop World is pretty crazy, but it’s all coming together, and I’m pretty psyched. I know some of you will be there, so if you’re there and read the blog, make sure you stop me and say “hi.” Well, here’s what’s goin’ on:

Witness the birth of a new planet, as Planet Photoshop.com just revealed their new totally updated site, with new features, a streamlined look, and an expanded Photoshop news blog from the Photoshop Lad himself: Mr. Corey Barker. The site has been really growing in popularity this year, and if you haven’t seen the new site, make sure you stop by and check out the Laddy and company. Here’s the link.
I had a lot of people asking about the rig I used to hold my laptop while shooting tethered during that wedding shoot on Monday. Joe McNally turned me on to the whole rig, and you can find out all the details, complete with a link to the gear, on Joe’s blog (here’s the link to his list).
For the first time ever, we’re going to have live reporting from Photoshop World direct from the event as it happens, starting with the pre-conference sessions, through the keynote, to the sessions, show floor—you name it. Jennifer Bontempi will be covering the show for us, on our new Live from Photoshop World Blog, and if you can’t be there, this is the next best thing. She’ll have photos, new product news, special announcements, and more so make sure you check in with Jennifer every day of the show, starting on Tuesday with her “Behind the scenes” and pre-conference sneak peeks. Here’s the link so you can join the party.
National Geographic Traveler had a nice little online article called “National Geographic Traveler’s 10 tips for photographing your family,” and you can check it out right here.
This week’s new online class on “Kelby Training.com” is from none other than Photoshop Hall of Famer, Eddie Tapp, and it’s called “Creating a Color-Managed Friendly Workflow,” which is a very hot topic right now. In the class, Eddie guides you through simple steps for obtaining consistent, professional results in your digital workflow, including the key color management whether for printing our own images in-house, or sending them out to a professional lab. Here’s the link to his new online class.
Everybody’s talking about Matt Kloskowski’s new book, “Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature,” but now you can hear Matt talk about it himself. He’s did a quick little video clip that tells you, in his own words, what the book is all about, who it’s aimed at, and more. Take a minute to jump over and hear what Matt has to say right here.
In Matt-related news: I just saw that both Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com have my and Matt’s new book, “The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers” now in stock and ready to ship!
Lastly, sports and adventure photographer Michael Clark has posted the latest issue of his excellent free online newsletter, and besides being nicely laid out, and full of great info—at the end he includes some really nice photos from his portfolio. Start your weekend right by checking out his newsletter (it’s a free PDF—click right here to check it out).

That’s it folks. I’ll be working on the final preparations for Photoshop World this weekend, but if you need me for anything, you can just give me a shout on my cell phone (The number is 727-415-Yeah-Right). Have a great weekend, and we’ll see you on Monday!

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^#1

Lightroom and Camera Raw updates pulled off of Adobe’s site?
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2008/03/important_lightroom_14_and_cam.html

Erin Allin on March 28th, 2008 at 1:46 am

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Scott,

I can tell you wrote this late at night… might want to fix the following sentence for posterity’s sake.

“…you’ve haven’t been seen the new site…” in the first bullet point about PlanetPhotoshop.

Jared on March 28th, 2008 at 2:33 am

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Hey Scott,

I wrote this comment last night, about this time, but it didn’t post. It’s nice to see that others have to be up so late to get it all done. Which is exactly what I’m doing until I leave for Orlando next week! To all of the midnight oil burners!

zac on March 28th, 2008 at 2:49 am

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Hey Scott I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you put out. I hope I did you some justice with the following post.

http://macnwin.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/scott-kelby/

Andy on March 28th, 2008 at 3:30 am

^#5

Super informative post today. Going to the States to attend Photoshop World would be a trip of a lifetime for me, (maybe I’ll be able to save the £000s some day), so the live blog is excellent news. I’ll be one of your regular cyber-conferencers!

Balliolman

Balliolman on March 28th, 2008 at 4:39 am

^#6

I can’t get through on the phone number. I’ll keep trying, but can you make sure it’s correct?

Thanks,
Josh

Josh Garretson on March 28th, 2008 at 9:18 am

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Scott,

I am a big fan of your books and I watch photoshop tv religiously (if you can believe that). BUT, your Digital Photgraphy 2 book has one minor blemish on the cover. The curiosity is killing me to find out if you know about it. The reflection of the camera onto the surface is a bit off. You can see in the reflection that the button for the depth of field preview which is on nikon cameras set just below the lens mount (which of course you know) can be seen but is not on the camera in that spot. Actually, the button in the reflection could be a number of buttons. It could be the lens release button or the assignable function button. Anyway, tiny little things like this eat away at me so I had to comment. Sorry for this not having relevance to the post! Love your show!

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin on March 28th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

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Hey Scott:

I purchased Matt’s book a couple of weeks ago. It is great!! I’m still using training wheels for CS3 so all of the books have been a tremendous help.

Have fun at the conference. Wish I was going Can’t afford it this year.

Cynthia

Cynthia Sobkowich on March 28th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

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One of your articles is reproduced here:
Cooksfriend

Link Roundup 03-29-2008
By Brian Auer
Shooting Tethered From Your Camera Into Lightroom Photoshop Insider A five step tutorial for using your camera tethered with Lightroom. Photography 101 - Lenses, Light and Magnification digital Photography School …
http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/29/link-roundup-03-29-2008/
Epic Edits Weblog

Frank Severa on March 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am

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Scott,

Here’s an idea for one of your miscellaneous “nuggets.” Would you speak to the subject of the best way to compensate for spectacles when using your camera?

Dan Brown on March 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

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In your new book CS3 for Digital Photographers page (168) you offer a method of resizing to poster sized prints with a 6MP camera using 360 resolution. Can you elaborate on this formula so those of us with cameras using more or less than 6MP and different enlargement needs can try this method? In other words, what’s the formula so we can use different enlargement sizes and different MP densities?

Doug on March 30th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

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Scott, the crossbar part of your Tripod rig is no longer made by Manfrotto. What a bummer. All sites previously selling them say “No longer available from manufacturer” and no replacement is offered on the Manfrotto or Bogen websites. Rats!

Jim Cutler on April 1st, 2008 at 1:30 pm