Adobe TV

A new resource to check out for Adobe CS3 tips!

Adobe TV looks like a pretty good start of something good. I have only watched a couple of videos so far but they were good and had some good CS3 tips. Like a YouTube channel for Adobe it looks like it will be a good tutorial resource. I’m glad that Adobe is heading this direction.

Sigma DP1 Full Size Sensor Point and Shoot

A full sized sensor in a point and shoot sized camera. The Sigma DP1 has a full sized DSLR Foveon X3 full color sensor. It should be able to produce higher ISO lower noise pictures than other small digital cameras. The DP1 site also says that they have produced a very high quality lens for the camera.

“The DP1 uses the same 14 megapixel (2652×1768×3 layers) direct image sensor as the SD14.”

The price has been reported at $999 US.
Reportedly available in Spring 2008.

Sigma DP1 site

Sigma DP1 announcement on DPReview

Sigma DP1 on DPReview

Come on Canon do this with the G 10!

colormunki from X-Rite & Pantone

colormunki is a color tool from X-Rite and Pantone which will profile your monitor, printer and projector and integrates with design applications to capture and create color palettes. You can capture colors from photos and anything that you can scan over with the device. Price is $499.

Check it out it looks cool.

Miniature Photographer Lori Nix

- photo used with permission -

I found this photographer on Cool Hunting. Her photography is very interesting and has that certain something that makes you want to keep looking at it. For me it’s the same feeling that I get from looking at very interesting historical objects.

Check it out I think you’ll like it and may be inspired by it, I was.
Make sure you watch the video.

Lori Nix’s website
http://www.lorinix.net/

Video about Lori Nix on Cool Hunting
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/07/lori_nix.php

I hope my title is how you would like to be described Lori?

Strata Foto 3D

Strata Foto 3D allows you to take photographs of an object using a special printed mat so the software knows the positioning and turn the photos into a 3D object with the photos added for texture.

Watch videos of it in action here.

Interact with a 3D shoe on a web page which was made with Strata Foto 3D here.

Library of Congress Photo Archives on Flickr

The Library of Congress has a flickr  account. They currently have two collections, News in the 1910s and 1930s-40s in Color.

History of Photography Podcasts

A free podcast course in the history of photography concentrating on the 19th and early 20th century.

Jing Screen Capture for Mac or Windows

You all should check out this application. It is free right now as it is in development. It is a screen capture (video or image) application from TechSmith, the makers of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt, that makes it very quick and easy to upload and share with others. You can use Screencast.com, Flickr or FTP. I took a screen shot of the Jing logo on the Jing website for this post and uploaded to Flickr and then used Flickr’s “Blog This” feature to post this very quickly.

Here’s the link for Jing.

I Want A Drobo!

You ask what is a Drobo?

Drobo is a exactly what I have been looking for to manage my hard drive space and data protection requirements.
It has 4 drive spaces which your computer will see as one big drive. The drive spaces are hot swapable with 3.5″ SATA I or SATA II hard drives in any mix of drive sizes and brands and Drobo employs data protection. It manages all of the drives and data protection automatically without user input. I could keep trying to explain it but it would be much easier for you to watch the demo video and check out their site.

Also check out Drobolator a capacity calculator that shows you how much useable space you would have by dragging different sized drives into the on screen Drobo.

When a drive starts getting full or is having problems a light next to the drive let’s you know and you can just pull that drive out and put in a larger or more stable one. The only drawback that I see right now is that it only interfaces with USB 2 but they are adding more options in the future. Something like this is exactly what I have been looking for to add storage and protect data.

Here’s a review of the Drobo from Aperture Users Professional Network.

Flickr Export Plugins for iPhoto and Aperture

I use the one for Aperture and it ROCK’s.
They are not free but if you use Flickr a lot they are well worth it.
They do offer a Demo.

They are from Connected Flow and if you use iPhoto or Aperture and have a Flickr account you should get one.

They offer super easy export with nice options while exporting.

– From their site –

iPhoto
“Features
FlickrExport for iPhoto provides a comprehensive set of features for getting your images from iPhoto to Flickr:
• Edit photo titles and descriptions, and add tags to them.
• Save time – FlickrExport can update iPhoto’s database with the titles and descriptions you give your photos.
• Save your Flickr bandwidth allowance – FlickrExport for iPhoto can resize your photos before uploading.
• Create a new photoset with your photos, or add them to an existing photoset.
• Automatically send your photos to a Group Pool on Flickr.
• Choose from a list of your Flickr tags and add them to your photos before uploading.”

Aperture
“Features
FlickrExport for Aperture provides all the features of the iPhoto version, plus:
• Automatically add an Aperture keyword to each photo uploaded.
• Add Flickr photo ID and URL to Aperture metadata.
• Replace existing photos on Flickr with updates versions from Aperture.
• Edit Geo data before uploading.”

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I really like the photo sizing feature. You can use their presets or easily add your own
presets to use. Below are screenshots from the Aperture version.

Below is the main dialog box with the add to pool feature shown.

Below is the main dialog box with the add photos to feature shown.

Below is the main dialog box with the photo sizing drop down shown.

Below is the photo size presets editor where you can add your own.

Below is the same as above with different options of W or H max px.

They make adding photos to Flickr as easy as adding them to iPhoto or Aperture.