December 10, 2010

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news, ProPhotoShow

Give the Gift of Seim Effects.

Christmas, birthdays, just because. Seim Effects photo tools make a great gift for your photographer friends and the process is simple. You simply buy the product you want for your friend, just as you would buying for yourself. When checking out DO NOT select “Subscribe To Updates” since the product is not for you, but for them.

You have two choices for delivery. You can make a physical copy of the product from the download email you’ll receive (I’ll trust you). Better yet you can send me an email after the purchase (effects@seimstudios.com) and I’ll personally send them their download and free updates link, along with a note from you which you can include in your email to me.

If you’re giving as a Christmas Gift just let me know and we’ll send it on Christmas morning. It’s a simple way to give to friends and a great way to share your favorite effects.

If you have any questions let me know… Gav

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December 8, 2010

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Biz Sense, Gavin Seim, news, Photography Podcast, Pro Photo Show Podcast, ProPhotoShow, RoundTable

Pro Photo Podcast #73 – Christmas 2010

Click To Listen>> Photography Podcast. PPS #73
Review in iTunes – Vote on Podcast Alley – Direct Podcast Feed

Today’s Panel... Gavin Seim – Denns Zerwas – Barry Howell – Scott & Adina Hayne – Kevin Swan

This year on the Christmas episode we talk A LOT about the industry business and pricing ideas, what we see for 2011 and even some great tools and gadgets to pick up for Christmas. Note that this is a long show. If it’s a bit much break halfway using the time index below and listen to it as two episodes.

Podcast #73 forum discussion:

Notable Time Indexes:

  • 00:00 Introductions and news.
  • 18:50 2010 Christmas Contest.
  • 21:10 Business Talking about the industry.
  • 31:00 Facebook and other musings.
  • 45:00 Pricing thoughts and more business.
  • 1:23:10  2010 in review and looking to 2011.
  • 1:37:22 The 2010 gadget and gift guide.
  • 2:09:30 The After Show.

Links to things we mentioned.

The 2010 Christmas Contest

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December 8, 2010

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Aperture, Gavin Seim, ProPhotoShow

3rd Annual Seim Effects/PPS Christmas Freebie Pack.

Wow another year almost gone. It was great having so many of you be a part of it. Not a ton of PPS episodes, but from your feedback I gather they were some of the best yet. I’ve been crazy busy and while I can’t say I made every goal for PPS this year, we came along nicely. The last show of the year is posting just after this and I think it’s gonna be a whiz bang.

Anyways on to the goods. Merry Christmas to all of you. This years freebie pack has some good stuff and I hope you’ll enjoy it. For the 3rd year running, Pro Photo Show and Seim Effects have teamed up to bring you the freebie pack. It’s got goodies for Lightroom and Aperture (you read right). And even an album template for InDesign.

To go along with all this, there’s also the PPS 2010 Christmas giveaway where you can pick up some of the $2000+ in prizes.

You can download the freebie pack and get all the details directly from the Seim Effects site where it’s hosted. Download 2010 Christmas Pack.

Enjoy. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Here’s to 2011… Gav

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December 8, 2010

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Cool Gadgets, Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Pro Photo Show 2010 Christmas Giveaway.

Ok folks. The 2nd PPS Christmas giveaway is here and we over two thousand dollars in prizes up from grabs from 5 great sponsors.

No strings here. It’s simple and you can win some great prizes. Go here for all the details and to enter using the simple form…

Enter here – prophotoshow.net/contest

Merry Christmas… Gav

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December 3, 2010

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Gavin Seim, ProPhotoShow, Review

Gavin's Thoughts on Photoshop CS5. The Straight Dope

by Gavin Seim: I’ll keep this brief because Photoshop CS5 has been out for months now and reviews have been floating all over. Rather than get redundant with an ultra in depth review, I’ll just talk a little about what I think. I’ll be frank and you can make your own decision from there.

Photoshop CS5. Full = $699 – $999.
My overall rating 6.5/10.

New features worth noting…

  • Content Aware tools are the big news in CS5. It works when lassoing and deleting sections of an image, using the healing brush and more. Neat tool, but not perfect. More on that below.
  • New “Mixer Brushes” blend color like paint, similar to something like Painter (but less powerful).
  • Crop has a rule of thirds overlay now (finally).
  • Remastered HDR tools and Pseudo HDR with HDR toning. Better, but not perfect.
  • Remastered Refine Edge. Will find more detailed edges for better masking and has automatic edge decontamination.
  • Puppet Warp allows you to modify in a new ways. Move limbs, horizon lines and more by defining control points.
  • New process versions and improved camera RAW.
  • Mini bridge right within PS.

Content aware fill. This feels more like a beta feature. It got hyped a lot prior to release. Probably over hyped. Once we got the product in our hands, reality set in. Content Aware was not the magical tool that Adobe made it out to be in demo videos and they took some flack for it. I think the problem was that they showed it as being so perfected. Erasing entire areas of photos, cleaning out power lines with a single stoke. It looked wonderful in theory.

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