"California Earthframes" as printed hardcover book for sale now

"You and Bettina should be very proud of this work. The images are truly beautiful. I think the arrangement in the book is excellent -- the facing images complement each other very well." Mark Saperstein 1/11/2006

Our brand new E-Book: The Art of Digital Fine Art printing      

2/15/2006 Looking for a translator from German to English

We would like to work with a technical writer who can translate German photo books into English and:

• Loves photography
• Has basic knowledge in photo editing (Photoshop)
• Writing experience
• Best a native English speaker with good understanding of the German language
• Contract work (one book at a time)

If you are interested send an email to us.

2/15/2006 First look at Lightroom Beta 2

2/13/2006 Looking for a Technical Writer in SF Bay Area

We would like to work with a technical writer located in the SF Bay Area who

• Loves photography
• Has basic knowledge in photo editing (Photoshop, RAW converters)
• Writing experience
• Would like to support writing for books and web articles

If you are interested send an email to us.

2/11/2006 Lightroom Tone Curve

We revisit the new Tone Curve tool in Adobe Lightroom.

2/11/2006 Nikon support sites address D200 banding (source Rob Galbraith)

2/11/2006 Porfolio Invitation "Fog #1" gallery voting results posted

2/10/2006 "California Earthframes"

2/10/2006 Pentax on the bounce back (source BJP)

2/9/2006 Summit 2006 now open for registration

This will be an exciting summit in 2006. We extended the summit by one day and also have Joseph Holmes as full time guest instructor. Joseph Holmes is a very highly regarded master printer and color management expert. The seats are limited, sign up soon.

2/9/2006 DPP first step internally in some cases 8bit

Thanks to our reader Waldek it was discovered that Canon DPP 2.0.3 (not some older versions) sometimes truncates data to 8 bit in an initial processing step. Otherwise DPP works full in 16 bit. In this thread Canon confirms this bug and will be fixed it in the next version. We had made Canon aware of this problem and are glad that Canon responded very fast.

2/8/2006 RAW Developer 1.4.5 available for download

Read also our RAW Developer review.

2/8/2006 New Adobe Lightroom Tutorial Movie

Very interesting tutorial that shows especially the power of the new "Tone Curve" sliders.

2/6/2006 Coffee with Uwe at the Great Bear Coffee shop in Los Gatos?

Many know this picture from our reviews. Why did we use this scene? Because we like the look and the coffee shop. I will be there 2/7/2006 at about 11am. You are welcome to join us if you have time. The Bear Coffee shop is at 19 N. Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos. Please drop me a note if you plan to come. We have no agenda except to meet and chat. In case you want to buy a signed copy of our book ($42.16 including sales tax) also send me a note.

2/6/2006 IR and lens hot spots

2/6/2006 PTLens Version 6.5 released

"Announcing version 6.5 of PTLens, software for correcting lens distortion. The latest version includes automatic lens selection. While convenient for correcting single images, this feature a definite plus when batch processing. Available as a Photoshop plug-in or standalone application, PTLens is compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Available at http://epaperpress.com/ptlens"

2/5/2006 RapidFixer (source Luminous Landscape)

This script can speed up your work if it fits into your workflow.

2/4/2006 Preview note on the new Crane Museo Silver Rag paper

2/3/2006 Alien Skin's Exposure Plugin: Fun with Film Simulations

We worked a few days with this interesting new plugin.

2/3/2006 D200 Gallery updated

2/3/2006 Phase One adjusts production capacity of P-series camera backs (press release)

We are in touch with Phase One to review the new P45 back soon (most likely starting in March).

2/3/2006 Support for Intel Macs described in Adobe FAQ (source Rob Galbraith)

Basically Photoshop CS 2 will not be optimized for Intel Macs and only work under Rosetta (probably quite a bit slower). Adobe plans to have a UB (universal binary) Beta of Lightroom soon.

2/2/2006 Photo Mechanic 4.4.1 release is out (for the Mac even as a Universal Binary!)

Camera Bits just released the final version of 4.4.1.

2/1/2006 Porfolio Invitation "Fog #1" gallery voting closed

2/1/2006 X-Rite announces intent to purchase GretagMacbeth (source Rob Galbraith)

Interesting news. Not sure they manage to get over the regulation hurdles though.

1/31/2006 OpenRAW launched RAW Survey

An International Study of the Experiences, Requirements, Preferences, and Concerns of Photographers regarding RAW Imaging Technology. The goal of the survey is to help all photographers working with RAW images.

1/30/2006 Check out EasyS Plus Sharpening Toolkit

We are confident that our EasyS Plus sharpening toolkit delivers state of the art sharpening for digital images. In case you own EasyS Sharpening Toolkit we encourage you to upgrade and otherwise check our demo version.