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Friday News Nuggets

By Scott on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 5:55 am | updates.

Here’s a quick Friday wrap-up:

Canon and Microsoft, have teamed up with one of my very favorite magazines; Outdoor Photographer, and they have put together a contest that is also a really great resource, and it’s based on the Top 100 Icon Locations in The World (Think of it as “100 amazing Places to Shoot landscape photography”). It’s really brilliantly done, and if you’re an outdoor photographer, you’re going to just love this! Here’s the link.
Congratulations to Adobe; they were named one of the Best Big Corporations to work for in Fortune magazine’s annual list (here’s the link to see why).
Paul Thorson turned us onto this gift only a photographer could really appreciate; jewelry made from old lenses (it’s better than it sounds—here’s the link).
My buddy Matt Kloskowski had a really great post earlier this week on his “Lightroom Killer Tips” blog called “Confessions of a Lightroom addict” and it really got a lot of buzz, because Matt admitted a lot of things a lot of people wouldn’t (and sadly, I’m guilty of a lot of the same things he wrote about. Except the whole “compulsive shoplifting thing,” and the parole violations, and his whole “do-it-yourself Meth-Lab thing,” of course). Here’s the link.
Great news—-Frank’s OK!!! Thanks to all of you who were concerned about Photoshop World instructor Frank Cricchio, who fell ill right at the start of the conference, wound up in the hospital, and wasn’t able to teach his sessions. The news couldn’t be better—Frank is 100% OK, and he’s already back teaching again. It just about killed Frank that he couldn’t do his sessions, but he’ll be back with us in Las Vegas in the fall, and we’re thrilled that everything came out alright, because Frank (who was just recently honored with PPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award), is not only an amazing teacher, but he’s literally one hell of a great guy.

That’s it for this week. David duChemin (of the Pixelated Image) is here at the NAPP Headquarters for a visit today, and we’re headin’ to one of my “top five” restaurants for lunch, and then off for a shoot. It’s a great way to start the weekend—hope you have a great weekend too, and we’ll see you back here on Monday.

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Hi Scott,
This article (see link) was passed on to me today and as a frequent traveller I thought you might find it interesting especially as you have commented before on the tightening of security at airports. Now it seems you’re not even safe on the roads.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/border-agents-c.html

ElliR on April 25th, 2008 at 6:33 am

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Scott,
Thank you for the Camera Raw, Bridge, or Lightroom piece yesterday. I love Lightroom, but have been hanging on, painfully, to Camera Raw and Bridge for some applications. You’re right! Stay with Lightroom. Lightroom 2.0 will give us a few things we used Camera Raw for, and clean up our flow.

Dan F. on April 25th, 2008 at 8:38 am

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Scott you have an inspiring relaxed style. I really enjoy it, and it gives me ideas for my own bog, and the Pro Photo Show… Thanks for keeping things cool. I wish we could get you on the show sometime

Gavin

Seim Effects on April 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

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Scott, I prefer Aperture for all my wedding photography jobs, though I like a lot of things about LR. And though I wish you would write a book about Aperture, I’ve never expected you to necessarily promote the program. I don’t see anything wrong with the fact that you don’t. I think the guy who criticizes you for not promoting Aperture is way off base. Does he think you should be promoting digital management system that comes out? Screw that. I come to you for what you for Photoshop related information, and when I’m looking for Aperture related info, I find lots on other sites.

Bakari on April 25th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

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here’s a pps for the previous post.

If I’ve whetted your appetite enough for you to come to Scotland then just say the word and I’ll be your personal tour guide to some of these fabulous locations
Orrabest

Kenny

Kenny McLean on April 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

^#6

Well said,
He was way off base!
Understand that you reacted….

Mikael on April 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

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hey dont forget to let me known when you are over in Lake Wales, FL.

Scott on April 25th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

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Can you explain about plug-ins for Photoshop? I’ve heard mention of them in a couple of books, on websites, from my local camera club members, but I know nothing about them. What are they? Where do you get them? Are they free or do you buy them? I am a PC user if that makes a difference. Thanks!

Jennifer on April 25th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

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This comment isn’t about the blog entry, but thought you might be interested in this since you’re the one who put me on to the “You Suck At Photoshop” on Youtube… (about the guys behind the series)

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1734883,00.html?imw=Y

Cathy Modica on April 26th, 2008 at 12:32 am

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Jenni,

You can look upon plug-ins as being a kind of expansion slot that allows one to do additional things with the application. A few examples of this are (a) Adobe Camera Raw which is a plug-in for Photoshop and Elements - it is not an software application in it’s own right. The writers of Lightroom did it in such a way so as to make certain components of the application available to other writers and to date there have been a few additions to the web module of Lightroom not written by Adobe. Plug-ins can be described as life-savers to a lot of people e.g. users of Elements. Why? Well CS3 is a pretty hefty application both in terms of what it can do and also what it costs. Elements, whilst extremely good is not quite so versatile e.g. it doesn’t come supplied with Layers. However, there are a few clever people out there who have written there own software and as a result you can now use layers in Elements. Even better - most of the time these plug-ins are provided FREE. Hope this helps somewhat.

ElliR on April 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am

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Scott,

I read your post about traveling light. I was wondering if you have any tips for traveling to NYC with a DSLR. Thanks, Joe

Joe Spoto on April 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

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Scott… No doubt you are already planning an east-coast photoshop world for next april.. Can I suggest you consider Washington DC? It’s beautiful in April… and a target-rich environment from a photog’s point of view.

ron on April 27th, 2008 at 10:08 am