Our brand new E-Book: The Art of Digital Fine Art printing     
"....I am very impressed with the book you are about to read. It’s information like this that has helped to raise the quality of digital output and reduce the traditional art world’s resistance to the use of digital tools in art. It is a book written by someone who KNOWS fine art digital printmaking. Uwe’s style is concise and to the point. This comprehensive and complete guide to fine art digital printmaking should be included in the library of anyone who is serious about making fine art digital prints...."
from the foreword by Mac Holbert (Nash Editions) 4/17/2006

4/16/2006 Rob Galbraith's forum closed for posting and for sale

Uwe has been a moderator for some years now. We will miss this place.

4/16/2006 Disable VM Buffering plug-in fix for OS X over 4 gig ram issue (Source PhotoshopNews)

4/15/2006 Click WB issues in Aperture 1.1

Some Aperture 1.1 users realized a major bug in the Aperture 1.1 "Click WB" correction.

4/15/2006 Aperture Hot Folder 1.1 available for download (source Rob Galbraith)

4/14/2006 Mac Holbert shows his own photographs at the Benham Gallery March 29-May 20

Master printer Mac Holbert (Nash Editions) shows fine art prints of his own work.

4/14/2006 Our first look at Apple Aperture 1.1

4/14/2006 Apple releases Aperture 1.1

• New lower price $299 (early adopters of Aperture 1.0 can claim a $200 (US) coupon)
• Universal Binary
• Improved RAW decoding
• New Color Meter Control
• New documentation with over 500 pages

We will have a closer look at 1.1 soon. Here is our Aperture 1.0 diary. Clearly $299 put Aperture at a much better price point and honoring early adopters with a $200 coupon is a good move.

4/14/2006 Apple MacBook Pro Experience Report (source diglloyd)

4/13/2006 Extensis Announces Updates for Portfolio 8

The Portfolio Raw Filter 3 update adds support for quite a few cameras (you can find the details in the press release),

4/13/2006 Update: "Add Noise/Grain to your Images" by Mark Saperstein

We added a reader's tip on how to add a simple noise layer.

4/13/2006 "Add Noise/Grain to your Images" by Mark Saperstein

We are told that noise is the big enemy in digital photography, right? Looks like this is not always true.

4/12/2006 Don't miss our Summit 2006

The 4th Photography & Fine Art Printing Summit will take place November 10th to 13th, 2006, in Page, Arizona. Seats are limited. In addition to studying color management and color spaces, we will also do field photography in stunning locations such as Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell and Horseshoe Bend, as well as study Raw conversion, Photoshop processing, image optimization, printing. Joe Holmes who joins us as a guest instructor is considered an industry leading expert on fine art printing for many years. We have support from Phase One (P45) and Canon (both plan to be on location). We also will be able to print on different papers from Hahnemuehle and likely other paper brands.

4/11/2006 Alain Briot publishes the audio CD: Travis Terry, Navajoland

You may ask what an audio CD has to do with photography. Music is the purest form to express our emotions. This means music and photography go well together. In this case even more as the roots of this beautiful music by Travis Terry are an integral part of the Navajoland. Highly recommended.

4/11/2006 Helicon Filter 4.20 released

4/11/2006 Updated: "Print It Yourself" Print 2006-01 also in B&W

We added a short section how you can convert the image to B&W and print it. Hard to say for us what we like better.

4/10/2006 "Print It Yourself" Print 2006-01

We launch a new exciting gallery project: "Print It Yourself" portfolio prints. We hope our readers like this entirely new form of print gallery. Even if you don't buy any prints you can inspect full sized sample images (15" wide).

4/9/2006 Adaptive shadow and/or highlight correction

This article tries to explain what is so different with adaptive corrections compared to traditional levels/curves.

4/9/2006 Digital Photo Professional Batch Processing Performance Tip (source diglloyd)

This article shows how to speed up batch processing with Canon's DPP and also why the same trick does not work with Nikon Capture.

4/8/2006 Bibble 4.7 released

Version 4.7 includes a new feature: Perfectly Clear image correction from Athentech Technologies Inc. We plan to evaluate this feature soon.

4/6/2006 "The P45 39 Megapixel back–It’s even better than we thought" by Charles Cramer

Charles Cramer compares P45 image conversions with Capture One and RAW Developer.

4/6/2006 Apple releases software to boot Windows XP on Intel-based Macs (source Rob Galbraith)

Even better would be running both at the same time.

4/5/2006 "Silkypix Developer Studio 2.00" by Stewart Hemley

Thanks to our reader Stewart Hemley we can now feature a review about Silkypix. We have used Silkypix on our Mac and can second that this is a serious RAW converter.

4/5/2006 RAW Developer 1.4.7 released

• Support added for Canon 30D.
• Support added for Olympus E-330.
• Much improved detection and elimination of "dead" columns and "dead" pixels for Phase One digital backs.

4/5/2006 Phil's Canon 30D review (source dpreview)

His "highly recommended" rating comes to no surprise because already the 20D was an excellent camera.

4/5/2006 Tonality & Colors in Photoshop: Lobster

If you did not read this article then you need to check it out anyway. We added a link to a Photoshop tool called "Lobster" that has a very interesting approach to separate image editing into strictly Luminosity and Color operations.

4/5/2006 Portfolio Invitation #12: Motion (voting closed)

4/4/2006 Aperture TIFF export tweaked in OS X 10.4.6 (source Rob Galbraith)

4/4/2006 New WhiBal G6 version available (press release)

4/3/2006 DOP Filter Bundle Special

Special Bundle offer with 3 of our popular filters:

• EasyS Plus Sharpening Toolkit
• DOP Variations
• DOP Tonality Tuning Toolkit

Receive 3 of our popular workflow plugin filters for just $69.95 (instead of $89.85 if bought as single filters). If you are already a DOP customer (e-books or filters) then you can save even more (check out the update price).

4/3/2006 Uwe's Fine Art Paper List

This is now a permanent list of fine art papers that we find useful for our art work.

4/3/2006 New updated version DOP3002-6 "The Art of RAW Conversion 2006"

The new release also includes introductions to: Lightroom, Aperture, RSP and RAW Developer.

If you bought DOP3002 the last 30 days then you can just download the new version for free. For all other customers of DOP3002 there is an update available at $12.95.

4/2/2006 Lightzone 1.3 released