5/31/2005 RAW File Encryption and Competition Law (Luminous Landscape)

One of Canada's leading competition law lawyers looks into this issue.

5/30/2005 New Frontpage Photo

5/28/2005 Epson 4800 Experience (by epson4800blog)

Read some interesting findings about the new Epson Ultrachrome K3 printers.

5/28/2005 Adobe CS2 Bridge 1.0.1 Update available

Use the Bridge update functionalty (in the help menu) to install the update.

5/28/2005 RawShooter 1.1.3 released

The main new features are improved copying of settings (via Ctrl+c/v) and a preview cache that allows faster comparison of 2-4 images (depends on the preference settings). The speed of preview generation was improved as well as bug fixes and other improvements.

5/28/2005 Qimage v2005.300 released

From the press release: "This latest edition of our popular batch image printing and processing software includes an all new folder browser with full network compatibility for accessing and managing images across a network using "My Network Places". We have also improved the visual interface substantially by redoing all tool buttons using brand new full color icons for a cleaner look that improves usability.

5/27/2005 Alain Briot's "Antelope Canyon-Navajoland Workshop"

5/26/2005 New Front Page Photos

5/25/2005 New GretagMacbeth’s Eye-One color management solutions

5/25/2005 "Imacon Flextight 949" by Giorgio Trucco

Giorgio Trucco checks out one of the finest Imacon scanners.

5/24/2005 "The RAW Flaw" by Michael Reichmann and Juegen Specht

This is a petition to open up raw file documentation of adopt a universal raw file standard format. Digital Outback Photo is in full support of OpenRAW and this additional initiative. A must read by all RAW users.

5/24/2005 Neat Image v5.0 and v3.0 (Win/Mac) (via DPReview)

5/23/2005 Our new E-Book: The Art of RAW Conversion 2005

Our best and most complet RAW book so far.

5/22/2005 Photoshop Scripting using JavaScript

Jeff Tranberry shares his experience while checking out scripting Photoshop with Java Script (story via "Where is Ben?").

5/21/2005 Seminar "Managing the Digital Workflow" 6/8/2005

Uwe Steinmueller presents a 6 hour seminar 6/8/2005, 10am - 4pm at Keeble & Shuchat in Palo Alto. The price is $99 and you can sign up directly at Keeble & Shuchat: 650.327.8515. Ken and Jim at Keeble can be reached Mon-Fri during the hours of 9am-5:30pm. This time we will also show Photoshop CS2.

5/19/2005 New Nikon D2x and Canon 1ds Mk. II raw files posted

5/19/2005 "Literal versus Expressive Representations: Is this color Real?" by Alain Briot

Alain opens a new series here at Digital Outback Photo: "Thoughts & Photographs". Uwe Steinmueller is contributing some notes to Alain's articles. Please use our news groups to discuss the content.

5/18/2005 Spam Blockers and e-book delivery

When you use one of those fancy spam blockers for your e-mail and order one of our e-books then please allow a delivery from us. We got today an Earthlink request to confirm our authenticity but the link did not work. We want that you receive your books ASAP, but can hardly do anything in these case. Please contact us if you did not receive you paid book we answer normally pretty fast.

5/18/2005 "Being an Artist" by Alain Briot (Source Luminous Landscape)

This excellent article by Alain Briot is a must read. Maybe worth some more discussion in our new group.

5/17/2005 PixelGenius LLC announces updates to PhotoKit, PhotoKit Color and PhotoKit Sharpener

For use with Adobe Photoshop CS2. The updates are free for all registered users and available for download. We ran the updaters and they worked without any problems.

5/15/2005 Wilhelm Research Permanent Ratings for the new Epson K3 inks

Now you can be sure that you are dead when your prints fade :-).

5/15/2005 Improve performance in Photoshop CS2 on computers with more than 1 GB RAM

Our friend Jack Flesher brought this Adobe technical document to our attention and it seems to work.

5/13/2005 Our latest E-Book: The Art of RAW Conversion 2005

We are proud to present our latest e-book on RAW workflow:

• Our latest and most complete E-Book about RAW conversion
• Photoshop CS2 Camera Raw 3.x
• Pixmantec RawShooter, Phase One Capture One, Canon DPP, Nikon Capture, Bibble 4.x
• Understanding the full RAW workflow
• Introduction to DNG
• Understanding basic color management
• Converting to B&W with your RAW converters
• Perfecting images by removing image artifacts like: Noise, Chromatic Aberrations, Lens Distortions, dust and sharpening
• Upsizing, dark/light halo and edge mask sharpening
• Based on real-world experience
• Optimized for working on the screen

You can upgrade from DOP2000 for only 27.95

5/11/2005 More info about the new Ultrachrome K3 printers

Via Luminous Landscape we found an interesting article by Joseph Holmes. Joseph Holmes is one of the beta testers for Epson and knows printing inside out.

5/11/2005 Watch your Histogram

We repost this article as exposure is and will be the key to optimal images. Read also "Histogram Hell".

5/10/2005 Epson Ultrachrome K3 Ink based Printers announced

This time Epson announces 4 models at the same time with the same ink sets. We try to get one ASAP.

5/10/2005 Ben Willmore new book "CS2 Up to Speed" announced

You can now pre-order Ben's new book.

5/9/2005 Portfolio Invitation #001: Trees #1 closed

We want to thank all participants. Too bad we could not display all entries.

5/9/2005 Portfolio Invitation #001: Trees #1 (15 of 15 maximal entries)

Inspired by a discussion in our news group (see below) we start our first "Portfolio Invitation". Up to 15 entries will be published. This time it is about trees.

5/7/2005 Smudging on some prints

5/7/2005 Fine Art Photography? (from our news groups)?

5/6/2005 New RSS Feed

We thank our reader Andrzej to supply us with this RSS feed.

5/6/2005 Nikon D2x Review by Thom Hogan (source bythom.com)

5/6/2005 Camera Raw 3.1 Update (source Rob Galbraith)

This update supports now Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D and Nikon D2X. The Update 3.1 also works in Elements 3.0 (with the more limited features of Elements 3.0 though).

5/6/2005 California Gold Country: Hornitos

There are so many amazing places in California that offer a real view to California history. The Gold Country is full of surprises.

5/4/2005 Windows XP Crashed? Here's Help (by Charlie White)

We just had a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) on our main Windows XP workstation and the machine did not reboot anymore. For the record this was the worst crash we had in over 10 years using Windows NT, 2000 and XP. This article got us back on track big time. Maybe we need to install and correct some more applications but it helped a lot. Thanks, Charlie White!

5/3/2005 New Series: Ben Willmore's Photoshop Tips

We are very pleased that Ben will share some of his useful tricks with our readers. The first issue is "Smart Feathering of Selections".

5/3/2005 Want some Fun? DIRKON – THE PAPER CAMERA

If somebody builds this camera please send us an image taken with the Dirkon.

5/2/2005 Alain Briot's Epson R1800 FAQ

Thanks to Alain Briot we have now a second opinion on the new R1800 online.

5/1/2005 Epson R1800 Diary started

Just got the Epson R1800 in. Here is our first impression.