8/4/2006 ChronoSync Folder Synchronization for Mac

8/3/2006 Alien Skin announces a new plug-in: Blow Up

8/3/2006 Canon has announced two new camcorders

8/2/2006 Phil Askey's Sony Alpha 100 Review (source DPReview)

8/1/2006 Bibble 4.8.1 released (source Rob Galbraith)

8/1/2006 Canon announces three new Film and Negative Scanners

8/1/2006 Portfolio Invitation #016: Trees #2 (voting close, results shown)

7/29/2006 An Introduction to Photoshop Scripting

7/28/2006 Ted Orland at Capitola Book Cafe 8/1/2006 7:30 PM

Ted Orland is the author of "The View from the Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World"

7/28/2006 "A Photographer's Guide to the Golden Gate Bridge" by Bill Storage

Bill Storage is so kind to share his excellent experience to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge (also one of our most loved buildings. The Golden Gate makes us always smile when we see it)

7/28/2006 Extensis Releases Universal Application for Portfolio 8

7/27/2006 Workflow Buzzwords: Nondestructive, Non-modal, Selective, Layer/Operation-stacks

7/27/2006 The Making of a Fine Art Photograph (Pete Myers at Luminous Landscape)

7/26/2006 Qimage v2007.100 released

This a considered to be a major upgrade of the popular Qimage printing application.

7/25/2006 Photo Shows: Bob Burror

July 29 & 30 at the Pacific Wildlife Gallery, 3420 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, 925-596-0760.

7/24/2006 GretagMacbeth Eye-One Match 3.6.1 posted (Source Rob Galbraith)

7/24/2006 Portfolio Invitation #016: Trees #2 (submissions closed, gallery open, voting till 7/31/2006 8am PST)

7/23/2006 Alain Briot: Being an Artist in Business - 3 (Source Luminous Landscape)

7/22/2006 Photo SF photo fair (7/21-7/23/2006)

7/22/2006 Portfolio Invitation #017: Red #1 (submissions open till 8/15/2006 8am PST)

7/22/2006 New Seminars announced by Alain Briot and Uwe Steinmueller

Alain and Uwe team up for 2 new seminar events in 2007:

• The Expressive Fine Art Digital Print Seminar
• Seeing & Inspiration Seminar

Of course we also already plan a new exciting summit for 2007.

7/21/2006 "The Challenge Of Digital Black And White Part 4: Prints" by George Barr

7/21/2006 Nikon 10.2 mp DSLR in 20 days (Source DPReview)

We guess that Nikon will replace its D70 model. Given that the D200 is an excellent camera this may bring D200 quality to a lower price level.

7/21/2006 Photo SF photo fair (7/21-7/23/2006)

It is time again for Photo SF as photo fair we love to visit every year.

7/19/2006 LightZone 1.5 released

LightZone 1.5 features an improved new raw conversion.

7/19/2006 Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 for Windows available

The wait is over. Now both Mac and PC users can follow this application how it evolves. Read our original Lightroom review.

7/19/2006 Alain Briot workshop openings

Alain Briot has a couple of openings for his Sedona and Tucson Weekend workshops in September and October. These are great weekend getaways and learning opportunities. They are offered on Saturdays and Sundays so you don't have to take time off to attend. You can find all the details and sign up here.

7/18/2006 VisibleDust Arctic Butterfly 724

7/18/2006 NEC MultiSync 2180WG-LED (Source Luminous Landscape)

7/17/2006 Summit 2006: Sold Out!

See you in Page! Send us email to pre-register for next year.

7/16/2006 Any Bay Area Web developer that would like to help to bring DOP to a good content management system (with static page generation)?

Please drop me an email: uwe@outbackphoto.com.

7/16/2006 New versions of 4 AKVIS Plug-ins

We urge you to have a look at Enhancer (our review) and even maybe a second look. This is by far our most used plugin these days. Seems they improved working with larger images and fixed some bugs. Mac users please remove all older versions (keep the *.lic for easier re-licensing and stay for now with 4.0) before you upgrade. If you buy Enhancer via this site you help to sponsor our work.

7/16/2006 Quote of the day

"I'm always amazed by how infrequently photographers talk about photography." - Joseph Holmes

Was just on the phone with Joseph Holmes and we talked about things like reality, vision and technique. In this context he provided this statement. We post it hear as we all (us of course very much included) should think about the implications some more. Clearly something to talk more about in our news groups.

7/16/2006 From our Forums: About the Unibind binder system

7/15/2006 Silkypix version released 2.0.20

See our Silkypix review here.

7/14/2006 Stock Artists Alliance publishes 'Metadata Manifesto' (source Rob Galbraith)

7/13/2006 New updated version DOP3002-6 "The Art of RAW Conversion 2006"

The new release also includes introductions to: Lightroom, Aperture, RSP and RAW Developer. Please check the table of content whether you ordered this version before. New book versions have new names and book numbers.

7/13/2006 Adobe Posts Updated FAQs Regarding Purchase of Pixmantic (source PhotoshopNews)

7/12/2006 Unibind Photo Book Creator

7/11/2006 O'Reilly Digital Media: Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop Adventure 2006

7/11/2006 Digital Outback Photo now offers 1:1 print consulting sessions

We have now the Epson 4800 with Photo Black inks installed and will also feature Image Print 6.1.

7/11/2006 Portfolio Invitation #015: Urban Abstracts B&W #1 (voting closed and results up)

7/10/2006 Moments #3: Sunflower field in the Provence

This is a short note about a nice moment as part of our Moments series.

7/9/2006 Capture NX trial version released (source Rob Galbraith)

7/9/2006 Being an Artist in Business - 2 (Alain Briot at Luminous Landscape)

7/8/2006 X-Rite completes acquisition of Amasys Holding AG (which mean buys GretagMacbeth)

Both X-Rite and GretagMacbeth offered strong color management solutions. There is now less competition but we also may see the best of both worlds.