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By: wygrzebane.. | Artur Matysik - fotoblog

wygrzebane.. | Artur Matysik - fotoblog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:19:01 +0000

[...] bloga Scotta Kelby’ego, fotografa, autora wielu ksiaÅ¼ek o cyfrowej edycji obrazu [...]

By: Joshua Houk

Joshua Houk — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:34:59 +0000

Scott,

Great article, and you hit the nail on the head with the new MacBook Pro.

I really appreciated your link to the Douglas Sonders portfolio. I have a tutorial request, as I’ve seen his style of post-processing a lot lately (even a couple from you). That style of processing almost looks like an HDR shot, but obviously there is only one picture being taken. Any info would be very appreciated.

Thanks!

By: Rad Hugeth

Rad Hugeth — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:42:53 +0000

And best part sign above it in window Classic Literature. Got few of your books before I moved to Poland and I am big fan always recommending you to new photographers when I find out that your books are in Polish.

Rad

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:03:00 +0000

Hi Scott,

I needed a new phone so I went ahead and finally bought an Apple product with the G3 iPhone Friday evening. Wanting to learn what to do immediately I bought your iPhone book, at retail, through Barnes & Noble. If I wasn’t so impatient about getting going, I would have ordered it from Kelby Training. Yes, I would have saved a couple of bucks, but I wouldn’t have had this book for a few days. I think it was worth the extra money for the extra time. I still like my PC especially since I teach Windows, Office 2007 Suite and a PC based Photoshop, but I do indeed like my new iPhone and its features.

I knew your book would come in handy, but I didn’t know how valuable it is. Like all of your other books I own, this is an invaluable resource. THANKS!!

Well, my Cowboys can’t lose today and your Bucs can’t win today.

See ya,

Mike

By: Jaket Wajoneski

Jaket Wajoneski — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:53:23 +0000

Scott: If you read the description of your books in Polish, such as:

Kelby jest rÃ³wnieÅ¼ wielokrotnie nagradzanym autorem bestsellerowych

ksiÄ…Å¼ek; you can easily translate this by just turning the page upside down.
It really gives you a full translation this way in pop English!

By: Charlie Putnam

Charlie Putnam — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:13:15 +0000

Hay Scott, I have a Zune and it woks great and it does have a lot of cool features.
All so I went to my sons Friday nite football game just to see how i was at taking action. After reviewing my photos I need a new lenses and lots of practice. I was using a a AF Nikkor 180mm set to full auto. My first mistake was I only brought one lenses. and my second was the lenses I brought. All my photos were blurry. Now could be because I was too far away or that it was 37 degrees with 40 mph gust. any way they lost I will have wait till next year to try some more football photos. One day I’ll learn, and your blogs will help thanks

By: Bharat

Bharat — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:02:25 +0000

I am surprised you don’t use the Magsafe airline adapter and carry so many batteries with you. Aren’t the Magsafe airline adapters useful?

Cheers,
Bharat

By: Larry Becker

Larry Becker — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:02:36 +0000

Jason S-

A couple of quick comments about your post here. I’m somewhat confused about your comment that you can’t get NAPP’s Photoshop User magazine in the mail any longer. In fact you can, it’s just that it costs us considerably more to ship the magazine overseas and the “lost magazine in the mail” happens far more often AND replacing 1 or 2 lost magazines for an overseas member starts to cost us a LOT of money. Truth is, we end up PAYING people to be NAPP members once we replace 2 or more magazines overseas and that happens far more than you would think. As a result, we offer the more expensive hard-copy magazine and the much less expensive electronic version (that can’t get lost in the mail). The choice is yours

Ultimately NAPP is a Photoshop training organization with a huge laundry-list of benefits. People join to learn about Photoshop & Lightroom or ask Photoshop or LR questions, or watch videos, or participate in forums, or search and watch or read hundreds of Photoshop and Lightroom tutorials. It just so happens that one small benefit is a collection of discounts, and while a nice little perk (in some cases a big perk) most people join for the Photoshop education and the discounts are just a perk. Even though NAPP is the largest image-related association in the world, fewer than 10% of our members are outside North America. Additionally, most companies have different management structures and policies which affect non-US discount offers. As a result of these two factors, many discounts are not available to NAPP members outside the US. (Believe me, we ask all our vendors for non-US discounts, it’s just that they can’t for one reason or another). Since all of the available discounts are provided at the digression of individual vendors, and because vendors chose what to offer and how to offer it, many discounts are not provided outside the US.

This may seem like a long answer but actually, this is the short answer. There is much more detail on this topic in our NAPP member private forums here:
http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/forum/showthread.php?t=23322

By the way Jason, you (and all of our NAPP members) are always welcome to contact me or customer service any time about anything related to NAPP. In fact, here’s my email address:

Lbecker (at) KelbyMediaGroup (dot) com

and customer service is:

cs (at) KelbyMediaGroup (dot) com

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:47:35 +0000

Thanks for the quick review and being honest about your frustrations.

BTW, Scott, I know you’re a believer in DNG. There’s an online petition going on that will be sent to the major camera manufacturers to trying to get them to embrace the DNG format.

Here’s the link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/dng01/petition.html

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Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:19:51 +0000

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By: Steve Beck

Steve Beck — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:03:50 +0000

Time for a PC huh? Seems Mac doesnt have much to offer anymore. just kidding of course.. Lots of these type of complaints and feelings may make people switch.

By: Jason Swales

Jason Swales — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:21:18 +0000

Hi,
Just a note from us in the UK. Again, with the ever ongoing problems we have in trying to get the same prices for Adobe products as you do in the States, it appears again that our NAPP membership prevents us from having the magazine delivered to our mail boxes, for some bizarre reason.
I for one, am getting hacked off with the offers that NAPP provide that hold a little clause that we here in the UK, can’t get the same discounts as those on the other side of the Pond. With the renewal of my yearly membership coming up, I dont think I will be renewing it, as there seems little benefit or justification to folk out here for renewing something that doesn’t provide me with the same service as others get.
Whilst I will continue to subscribe to Kelby Media and the excellent subscription it offers for the online training, I cannot, as it appears with many other UK residents; justifiy the cost of membership that doesnt really deliver. Sorry guys, you do a great job, but these little things matter to us all, so when the email arrives for renewal, I’m afraid the answer is to hit the delete button……..