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Adobe Lightroom for video editors
Video editors and producers frequently have to deal with photos. This is especially true of many documentaries where a large portion of the story consists of still images. No motion film or video was...
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Cool Tools for Spring
Time to catch up on a few items that will improve your editing and make your daily tasks easier. (Click on the images below for an enlarged view.) DiscCatalogMaker Editors are increasingly using...
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Photo phun
I’m strictly an amateur when it comes to photography, though I still like to take my share of snapshots. Sometimes I’m lucky. As a holiday break I decided to play around with a hodge-podge of images –...
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
For the fourth iteration of Lightroom, Adobe has enhanced the processing capabilities and added features to aid photographers with handling modern photographic challenges, such as the integration of...
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New Plug-ins for 2012
Plug-in developers have had their hands full. Not only are they rolling out refreshed versions of their products, but they are having to adapt to a range of new hosts, including Apple Final Cut Pro X,...
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Magic Bullet PhotoLooks 2
Red Giant Software launched the preset-based “looks” market, when it originally released the browser version of Magic Bullet Looks. Visual effects director and software designer Stu Maschwitz...
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Photo phun II
Time to come back with a look at photography – just for the fun of it. Earlier this year I talked about using Pixelmator as an alternative to Photoshop. When I work with photos, I prefer to use...
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Photo Phun 2014
I’m back again this year with another post about stylizing photography. Thanks to Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription model, the interest in alternatives to Photoshop has increased. One application I...
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NLE as Post Production Hub
As 2009 closed, I wrote a post about Final Cut Studio as the center of a boutique post production workflow. A lot has changed since then, but that approach is still valid and a number of companies can...
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Affinity Photo for iPad
UK developer Serif has been busy creating a number of Mac, Windows, and now iOS applications that challenge Adobe’s stranglehold on the imaging industry. Newest of these is Affinity Photo for the iPad....
View ArticleStocking Stuffers 2017
It’s holiday time once again. For many editors that means it’s time to gift themselves with some new tools and toys to speed their workflows or just make the coming year more fun! Here are some...
View ArticlePixelmator Pro
Pixelmator made a big splash among Apple’s Mac App Store offerings when it was first launched. To close out 2017, the developers are back with Pixelmator Pro, a next generation version of the original....
View ArticlePixelmator Pro Revisited
Many Final Cut Pro X users prefer the software precisely because it does not require an ongoing subscription. If you bought all of Apple’s ProApps products, then you have largely replaced the need for...
View ArticleBoris FX Optics
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are ubiquitous digital photography processing tools that hold a place in nearly every pro and semi-pro photographer’s toolkit. From straight-up image correction and...
View ArticleLarry Jordan’s Techniques of Visual Persuasion
You may know him as a speaker, trainer, or web presenter. Or from the long-running Digital Production Buzz podcast series. Or his 2 Reel Guys series with the late Norman Hollyn. Regardless of how,...
View ArticleFive Adobe Workflow Tips
Subscribers to Adobe Creative Cloud have a whole suite of creative tools at their fingertips. I believe most users often overlook some of the less promoted features. Here are five quick tips for your...
View ArticlePhoto Phun 2022
Let’s polish off the year with another post of stills from my photography hobby. These stills were taken during this fall and Christmas season, plus a few oldies from other posts about Firstlight and...
View ArticleBoris FX Optics 2024
Every photographer knows that you can turn average-looking photos into stunners with Adobe Photoshop. But, unless you are a Photoshop ninja, that can sometimes be harder and more time-consuming than...
View ArticleMusebox for the Mac
Many photographers miss Aperture – Apple’s ground-breaking photography application, launched in 2005. Cupertino chose to go a different direction, dropping Aperture and developing Photos instead. That...
View ArticleFinal Cut Pro + Pixelmator Pro
Apple acquired Pixelmator Pro Team last November. Once final regulatory approval is given, it will be a done deal, adding some needed applications to the Apple creative software lineup. (EDIT: This...
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