TeachMeToShoot blog

Users of Photoshop CSx, Elements and Paintshop Pro can all benefit from a cool filter from OprikverveLabs. Their VirtualPhotographer filter is available for nothing from their website. It has about 50 presets built in and lots of others you can grab from them. They’ve recently updated it to be compatible with Vista.
My favorite use for [...]

Quick, go run and get the Lightroom 1.2 update at the Adobe website. And if you also use Photoshop CS3 or Elements 5 (or Elements 4.01 MAC) you’ll have to get the Adobe Camera Raw 4.2 Update too. The ACR (and DNG) update will give you full compatibility when moving between Lightroom and your [...]

Wacom has introduced a new line of pen tablets called Bamboo. The basic Bamboo is only $70, comes in black only and ships with no extra software. The Bamboo Fun starts at $99, but is available in two different sizes. It’s made in 4 different colors: Black, Silver, White and Bright Blue. The Fun model [...]

Previously onOneSoftware had released these presets for Lightroom. So many people asked for them for Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) and now Jack Davis delivers. Users of Photoshop Element 5 won’t be able to take advantage of these time saving tools. Dang!! The install files looks for Photoshop CS3 and ACR 4.1 or it won’t install.
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos allow you to capture good detail in the highlights and shadows when photographing scenes that exceed your cameras capabilities. Many Digital SLRs can only effectively handle 4-5 Fstops of scene brightness.
After Capture magazine has 2 articles in it’s latest issue (and online) detailing the shooting methods and software to do [...]

After mentioning the DNG video from Lightroom Killer Tips I decided to look into it a bit more. During the past few years I’ve amassed almost 20,000 digital images shot with 4 different cameras and 2 RAW formats. Maybe DNG is an appropriate storage solution.
After some informal tests on my D70 NEF files I found [...]