July 13, 2007

Summary from Adobe:

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Photoshop CS2 and CS3 that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious BMP, DIB, RLE, or PNG must be opened in Photoshop by the user for an attacker to exploit these potential vulnerabilities. Users are recommended to update their installations with the patches provided below, and Adobe encourages all customers to be cautious before opening any unknown file, regardless of which application they may be using.

Get the updates here!

BEFORE YOU UPDATE:

Make sure you do a full back up of your system and  of course your photos. Updating usually doesn’t bother anything but I’ve known people who have lost EVERYTHING from updates and didn’t have a back up.

 

Until Next Time,

Jarrod Michael

 

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July 10, 2007

Well, with all the hype of the iPhone and the unconfirmed estimates of 500,000 – 700,000 iPhones sold in the first week alone, photographers who now own the iPhone may want to know how to get their images from Lightroom to their iPhone without worry. And for you Mac users out there you can download an Automator script to make this process even more workflow friendly. James Duncan Davidson of Inside Lightroom from O’Reilly posted this great tip. Check it out here.

Until next time,

Jarrod Michael

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July 1, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS Special Edition, Photoshop, and Creative Suite CS3 Review Audiocast
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CS3

  • Audio Review Time Index…
  • Introductions 1:40 — Photoshop CS3 13:00 — Photoshop CS3 Extended 31:09
  • Bridge 37:05 — In Design 40:35 — Illustrator 49:00 — Acrobat 52:49
  • Dreamweaver 56:30 — Flash 1:01:38 — Fireworks 1:05:50
  • Device Central 1:09:05 — Contribute 1:10:37 — Closing Thoughts 1:15:20

With so many application in the Adobe Creative Suite, and since we wanted to cover all of them I’ve put together a special episode entirely on CS3. If you don’t like the shows that get down to details on software than you may want to skip this one. If however your eager mind wants to know more about Creative Suite Design, and Web editions then this is the place to be. You’ll also find that the Photoshop review (which is the first one) is the most in depth, so if your just a PS user you can simply listen to that part. Also post you comments about your thoughts on the new Creative Suite Products, and let Adobe hear what you have to say.

Knowing that it can be a hassle to muddle through all the new choices in the Creative suite I’ve outlined the primary programs that each includes. All suites include the new Adobe Bridge. Programs in todays review are all from either the Web, or Design editions of CS3, and include Photoshop, Photoshop Extended, In Design, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, and Contribute. All the applications can also

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May 26, 2007

Click Button To Listen, PPS #31 Pro Photo Roundtable1

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Show Notes…

Well here is your first PPS Roundtable discussion. We had a few sound glitches, but we’ll get better. Hope you enjoy, and here are some links for things we discussed.

Gavin Reviewed Action Runner, a tool for automating the Photoshop action process with a whole bunch of images. Go check out the trial.

Also discussed was the free Wow lightroom presets by Jack Davis, and How to import your presets from Bridge to Lightroom. Dennis got the Eye-One Display2 for color correction. The Adobe Studio Exchange is good, but we don’t like it as well after the redesign. FredMiranda.com is a great place for lens reviews.

Gavin’s pick of the week was Photo Drop, a Mac tool for automated resizing of images. Jarrod said everyone should go to PhotoshopUser.com, and join NAAP And Dennis loves his lab Whitehouse Custom Color. I think that about wraps it up…. Cheers

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May 22, 2007

Scott Kelby’s new Lightroom Seminar had Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) as a guest. He showed the audience some new features that will be coming in the upgrade.

Here is what Scott Kelby had to say:

“Here’s a quick rundown of what Tom showed the crowd:

He showed how you can now easily export one library of photos (now called “catalogs”) and import that catalog into an existing library (perfect for people who work on a laptop on location, then need to merge these photos with their desktop studio machine).


The “Keyword Stamper” has evolved into a much more useful tool, which now lets “Spray” (rather than individually stamping, so it’s much faster), anything from keywords to Develop settings, or rotation settings. This totally wow’d everybody when they saw it in action.


Version 1.1 brings order to your presets and templates as these sections now have folders, so you can easily separate your custom presets and imported presets and templates from the default sets.
But the big, big hit of his presentation was definitely the new Sharpening panel, which pretty much blew everybody away, especially when used with the new Clarity control. This brought cheers from the crowd, which were only matched by Tom’s announcement that Adobe was making this update available for free!!! (we don’t have an official release date, other than “it’s coming soon). “

Credit: (Kelby, Scott http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/)

So as you can see we are all in for a great treat when the upgrade is released. Oh, and the upgrade is FREE… so that’s going to be great.

Read the full story on Scott Kelby’s Blog.

Read more about the Lightroom Seminar here.

Until Next Time,

Jarrod Michael

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