April 5, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS Episode #28

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PPS #28 Show Notes…

  • News

Yep your on the new Pro Photography Show site ( just in case you didn’t notice) Don’t forget to bookmark the new address. This is the new home of PPS

Adobe Photoshop CS3 announcements.

New Photoshop, Flash, and the whole suite coming at the end of April. Dreamweaver replaces GoLive, but Go Live will still be in production. check out the launch day videos on adobe’s sit.

Adobe announces Creative License training conferences
So you want to get an edge on the new Creative Suite from Adobe. Check out the conferences, and chances are you’ll find one in a city near you.

Canon updates firmware on digital SLR cameras.
Yep there should be one for every EOS digital body, covering various simple enhancements, and bug fixes. You can fin your here on the Canon update site

  • Main Topic…

Getting Really Vivid Images
I won’t go into all the details here, as you can hear all those on this PPS episode. But as promised I do have a free Gavin Seim official PS action for you. This is confirmed to work in Photoshop CS2 & CS3. It should also work in CS, and perhaps even earlier versions. But you probably have the latest version anyway so that you can use all of Gavin’s future actions… Right???

Well anyway here is Visual Razor 1 free and ready for download. It’s a good action for a general vivid enhancement of just about any image. Usually you would run this first (maybe even in a batch) and then apply any other effects you need

That’s goona wrap it for this week gang.My wedding is this Saturday so you may not hear from me for a bit, but don’t worry I’ll be back. In the meantime don’t forget to stop here and keep up with all the great news, and content that will be coming up on PPS from our other authors. I also plan on posting updates, and maybe even some images from the honeymoon on my personal blog

Gavin

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PPS is a Gavin Seim Production. Gavin Seim Wedidng & Portrait Photography, Ephrata Washington USA


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April 3, 2007

Well I’ve been waiting to write this post for quite awhile now. The PPS site redesign was actually done weeks ago, and I’ve had all kinds of hassles with domain names, DNS names, and the like.

As you can see the PPS URL is not prophotoshow.net Though prophotographyshow.com will still be directing here I thought it would be better to go for an easier name.

Hope you like all the upgrades. Take a minute to explore a bit. You can not easily search, and get related posts for your query. You can look at items by category (not fully updated yet, but keep watching the categories). You’ll also find the vavigation always on your lest so you can check out the notes or recent podcasts, review in itunes, and more.

Also PPS now had four new writers helping you stay up to the minute with news, ideas, and information. Even during those tedious moments between PPS podcasts you can now feel at peace, knowing that there’s content for you here.

This is all bread spanking new folks so don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you see a problem or bug.

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March 24, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS Episode #27

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Show Notes… News
Photoshop CS3 will be announced on Mar 27. You’ll be able to see the event live online by going here. Adobe also released xmp 4.1. It will be in Photoshop CS3, and you can also dowload it here.Yet another Lightroom site, Lightroom Tools is a resource you can use to get more out of Lightroom. Check it out.

I also mentioned that Cory Polis, a photographer from Seattle will be shooting my wedidng, so check out his work.

Mail
We mentioned the Four Thirds when talking about the Olypus SLR’s, and you can learn more about Four Thirds Here
Pick of the week
Was Photovision bi-monthly DVD’s that show other photographers at work. A great way to learn more about what other photographers are using to get great shots.
Check em out at photovisionvideo.com. You can also check out the renew page for some subscriber discounts if you’ve had Photovision before. Or maybe just see if you can get the better deal.
Catch ya all next week…. Gavin

~Gavin Seim Photography~ www.seimphotography.com
Washington wedding & senior portrait photography. Ephrata, Moses Lake, Wenatchee, Spokane, Seattle, Kent, Leavenworth, Sequim, Bellevue Winthrop

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March 10, 2007

 

Direct MP3 Download – PPS Episode #26
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Show Notes… News
Olympus has some new digital SLR’s and the Better Light 416 megapixel camera back will be available this springMail
Listener Laurie wanted to ideas on where to learn more about photoshop. Check out NAAP
for lots of resources, and videos. They also produce a great podcast called Photoshop TV also look for it on itunes. Also try checking out Matt Kloskowski’s Photoshop Killer Tips.

lso to help pick a great new lens check out FredMiranda.com for lots of user reviews.

More tips
My tip this week was about what you need to make killer online slideshows. There’s a program for mac, or pc called ShowIt Web 2.0 and it works super. Just check out my Gavin Seim Photography site to see implementations. All the sideshows you see were made with it.

Organize and Backup
Here are the links to the automatic backup soultions we discussed this week.

(Mac)
Carbon Copy Cloner download (free, with donation suggested)
Carbon Copy Cloner Rating Source (highly rated)

Synk (this is what Gavin uses) ($25-45.00)

.mac web based storage (good for small things, but low capacity) (mac Only)

(PC)
2nd Backup 2007.1 (highly rated)

Backup-2006 Studio 5 (well rated)

Carbonote. A new online based backup with lots of space (PC Only)

Now for hard drives

Here’s my favorite external hard drive enclosure
Aluminum case, usb or firewire, for 38.00

Then you’ll need to add a 3.5″ IDE hard drive.
Heres a 250 GB Seagate Barracuda ($80.00)
Hers a 500 GB version ($159.00)

That will do it. Except my movie suggestion Facing The Giants

Have a great week all… Gavin

~Gavin Seim Photography~ www.seimphotography.com
Washington wedding & senior portrait photography. Ephrata, Moses Lake, Wenatchee, Spokane, Seattle, Kent, Leavenworth, Sequim, Bellevue Winthrop

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March 4, 2007

 

Click Button To Listen, PPS Episode #25

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Show Notes… News & Reviews
Lexar updates image rescue (Win/Mac) to version 3
Photoshop is coming to a web browser near you

Topics
Listener Ben wrote in with a rave about “PC Inspector” file recovery software for Windows
I talked about wedding contracts. You can download a text file of my wedding photography contract, and feel free to mod, and use it for your own weddings. More tips
Heres is a great article about lighting on the go, such as with on camera flash at a wedding.
You can also find more great stuff from it’s author at PlanetNeil.com
And…. you can listen to Neil Van Neekerk on PPS Episode 9Picks Of The Week
FredMiranda.com is a great resource not only for photography talk, but also for lens, and equipment reviews.
StoneKast Studios recommended Say Cheese Backgrounds for some great deals on large vinyl backdrops.


Have a good week… Gavin

~Gavin Seim Photography~ www.seimphotography.com
Washington wedding & senior portrait photography. Ephrata, Moses Lake, Wenatchee, Spokane, Seattle, Kent, Leavenworth, Sequim, Bellevue Winthrop

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