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During Adobe MAX, Canva dropped a bombshell announcement: the entire Affinity suite—Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher—would be free forever. In this episode, David Blatner, Theresa Jackson, and Mike Rankin share their reactions to the news and unpack what it means for creative professionals. They discuss how Canva's move shakes up the design software landscape and whether Affinity can ever rival Adobe's Creative Cloud. The team also explores why this announcement might be good news for everyone, from professional designers to the next generation of creatives. Episode Highlights Canva's surprise move announced during Adobe MAX Why David says "free" doesn't necessarily mean "professional-grade" Theresa's take on Adobe's shifting focus toward hobbyists Mike's look at Affinity's strengths (and key limitations) The gap between Adobe's "everyone" tools and enterprise solutions How Affinity compares for pros: what's missing and what's impressive The bigger picture: education, accessibility, and competition in creative software Resources Canva's official announcement: Affinity now free forever Affinity Suite overview (Photo, Designer, Publisher) Adobe MAX on demand sessions CreativePro InDesign Conference  

Matt Evans is a technology enthusiast that is soon launching a new monthly tech news podcast entitled Ctrl Cmd Tech. In this episode, we discuss how he uses his 13” M2 iPad Air including how he uses SuperList, GoodNotes, Affinity Photo, Google Docs, and much more. Early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts!Show notes are available at www.iPadPros.net. Feedback is welcomed at iPadProsPodcast@gmail.com.Links:https://goopply.com/@mChapter Markers:00:00:00: Opening00:01:07: Support The Podcast00:01:19: Matt Evans00:07:19: SuperList00:08:57: Development Work00:10:01: Your Podcast00:15:20: The iPad00:29:20: Goodnotes00:35:32: Affinity Photo00:35:42: Google Docs00:36:30: Procreate00:46:30: External Monitors00:49:04: Where To Follow You?00:49:34: ControlCommandTech.com00:51:08: Closing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode, we take a look at the best methods for finding ad graphics for book advertising. TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 224 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 25th, 2024 and today we are discussing the best methods for sourcing images for ad graphics. We'll also have an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. Let's go right to that. I am currently 61,000 words into Cloak of Illusion and am hoping to have that out before the end of November, since 61,000 words puts me about halfway through the rough draft, I think. I'm also 14,000 words into Orc Hoard, which will be the 4th Rivah book, and if all goes well, the final book I publish in 2024. In audiobook news, recording is underway for Shield of Conquest. That will be excellently narrated by Brad Wills, and it's also underway for Cloak of Spears and Ghost in the Tombs, which will be narrated by Hollis McCarthy. I think probably Cloak of Spears will come out first, but we will see how things play out for the rest of the month. So that's it. That is the update on my current writing project. Next month and next week, I want to do a new podcast series for the month of November that I'm going to call Moeller Writing Tips Month as sort of a gentler alternative to National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) for a couple of reasons. The NaNoWriMo organization has had a number of problems over the years, especially recently, so I don't feel comfortable endorsing it anymore. I've also begun to wonder if NaNoWriMo is a bit like a shock diet. If you talk to doctors and other medical experts about weight loss, they say the best way is always to make small, sustainable changes that you can keep up with over time. It's better to lose like a pound a month and keep it off than it is to lose like, 5 or 10 pounds a month in a shock crash diet only to gain it all back once you go back to your own old habits because that kind of a weighty yoyoing is very hard on the body. I wonder if National Novel Writing Month, where you write 50,000 words in a month is like that for a lot of people; it's sort of a crash diet. For someone like me, Ghost in the Tombs was my 156th novel. I typically can write a rough draft or novel in a month if I don't have anything else come up. So for me, that's normal, but for most people who don't have that kind of experience, I wonder if National Novel Writing Month would be the sort of writing equivalent of those crash diets that might leave you worse off than you were to begin with. So with that in mind, next month I'll start a podcast series discussing gentler ways one can ease into the regular habit of writing. More discussion on that topic next week and next month.   00:02:45 Main Topic: Sourcing Ad Graphics Now onto our main topic for the week, sourcing ad graphics. Before we get into that, a disclaimer. I am not a lawyer and none of what I'm about to say is actual legal advice. You obtain actual legal advice by hiring a lawyer who is qualified to practice in your jurisdiction. It is very important (to continue the disclaimer) to be on firm footing with the copyright of your ad image. If you don't own the image or the right license to use it, you're infringing on someone's copyright and they can respond either legally or through the places where your book is sold. This is less of a problem with ad images than is with book covers, but it still can happen. With that in mind, some of the free stock images sites have restrictions on commercial use or modification of the images. It's a good idea to read the licenses carefully. Some of these sites have often not gotten the appropriate clearances from the models in the pictures, so be cautious of using images with identifiable faces from those types of sites. If you're not familiar with the legal term, a model release is when a model or someone in a stock photograph appears in the stock photograph. They sign a release that gives the rights for their likeness to be used for the commercial image and not all free stock image sites do that. Good stock image sites like Shutterstock or iStock Photo or Dreamstime will clearly state on the image page whether or not a model release has been included. If a model release has not been included, you can't use it for commercial purposes, and though it is not terribly likely, you can open yourself up to legal liability that way. In that vein, be also cautious about Creative Commons sites, since copyrighted work frequently ends up on those sites. This is also true of the free stock image sites, where sometimes people will pirate images and post them there. Also, many Creative Commons photos are restricted from commercial use, modification, and/or the artists require attribution. Tread carefully and make sure you understand the conditions of using images with any of the various Creative Commons licenses. And before we get into further details, it's also important to understand the difference between creating book covers and creating ad images. The number one thing to remember about ad images is that ads are ephemeral, and they should change often because you often get diminishing returns for using the same ad graphics. Ads can be tailored for different audiences. Ads can be tailored for different platforms. In fact, you kind of have to tailor ads for different platforms because, for example, Bookbub and Facebook, the two ad platforms where indie authors are most likely to use ad graphics, have very different requirements for images. People are more tolerant of AI images in ads than in book covers, but AI is very polarizing, and if you use an ad image that is easily and immediately identifiable as AI, you will probably get some pushback for that. So with all that in mind, let's first look at some free places to get images for ads and then some paid options. The number one free option is public domain images from the US government pages. It is the law of the land in the United States that images produced by the US government or federal employees in the course of their duties (with some exceptions) are in the public domain. Some of these are great as using as backgrounds or components of an ad. For example, are you a sci-fi author in need of a planet you can put behind a spaceship? You're in luck; NASA has plenty of those images and you can find them quite easily. However, sometimes U.S. government websites use stock images or government created images that have some types of restrictions. For example, NASA forbids use of images of current astronauts for commercial purposes for any reason and has some pretty strong feelings about people using their images to create NFTs. You do not want to go through life getting sued by the federal government, so you probably want to avoid that. Sources that are easiest to be confident in, images that are explicitly included in public domain collections on U.S. government websites such as the Library of Congress free to use and reuse sets website or NASA's Images Hub (this page also includes some guidance on NASA specific researchers) and the National Gallery of Art Open Access Images page. All of these have ample supplies of images that are in the public domain, and you can look over them for images you can use for ads or components of ads. Another free option is other public domain collections. Some libraries and some museums have created public domain image collections or let you filter for public domain images on their site. Very large institutions tend to be cautious about using this type of copyright language and their staff generally have training on what is or is not public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has a public domain filter on their search page and The Met museum in New York has an Open Access filter in their search page where you can look for images in the public domain. The third free option and one that I have done myself a lot is take your own photos and use your own photographs for backgrounds components in an ad, etcetera. Since you're the creator, you hold the copyright. I have done this in a lot of the books I have published in 2024 and the ad images I created in 2024. A fair bit of them have my own photos because I took some trips to some fairly scenic parts of the country this year. I was fortunate enough to be able to do that, so while I was there, I took lots of pictures with an eye towards using them in ad images and book covers because as you get more practice with graphic design, your projects tend to have more layers to them. You often come across things and think well, this wouldn't be a good image by itself but would be a great background or great foreground and I can use pieces of it to assemble a better picture. So I've done that a fair bit and since I own the rights to all the photographs, I am one hundred percent in the clear. Now let's move on to a few free or low-cost options and one that might be a bit controversial. In fact, it is controversial: AI generated images. The pros of this are that the US government has consistently ruled so far (this might change after the election, but it might not) is that AI images cannot be copyrighted in any capacity. This means you can quickly make eye-catching art that matches your specifications instead of hunting for stock art. The con is that many people will assume that the book is AI generated if they see an AI generated ad image and many people strongly dislike AI art in general, or object to AI art on principle, viewing it as a form of theft. For myself, I've decided that my personal ethical line on this (barring changes in circumstances or laws) is that I will not sell anything that was created by AI. If I am selling anything or giving away a free ebook, it is 100% written by me and the cover was either made by me or someone I hired to do it. And in the audio books I sell, they are 100% narrated by an actual human being. That said, I have, I'd say, from time to time, used AI for ad images for the reasons we've discussed. Ads are ephemeral and phased out pretty quickly, but I have found that it's generally unwise to use an unmodified AI image, because it has such a very clear and obvious AI look to it. It's a good idea if you are going to use an AI image for an ad to run it through Photoshop a bit and change the look and maybe eliminate some of the more obvious AI tells such as extra fingers or misshapen eyes, that kind of thing. So if you are comfortable using AI, it can be a good source of ad images with some work, but otherwise, if you're not comfortable with it and you think your audience would be offended by it, it's probably best to avoid it. So those are the free/slightly free options, and now it's time to move on to the official paid options. The first paid option we're going to discuss is Shutterstock. You pay by image. It's simpler than the credit systems that Dreamstime uses, and the interface is easy to use. I have not generally used Shutterstock all that much because it tends to be a bit more expensive than the other options. However, you can find some very high-quality photos there if you are patient enough to look. The second paid option we're going to look at is Dreamstime. You can either pay images a la carte with credits you buy or by subscription. I have used Dreamstime quite a bit and quite a few of my covers have images I have licensed from Dreamtime. I'd say the pros of Dreamstime is that it has a very large and very strong library. The con (and this is true of stock photo sites in general) is that it's very easy to find an image that is like 95% perfect, but that 5% would be a lot of work to fix in Photoshop or just isn't right for some reason. Additionally, I don't agree with this decision on Dreamstime where they've begun including a lot of AI generated stuff on their page. It's clearly labeled as AI and you can use filters in the search engine to filter out the AI stuff, but if you're looking for stuff for covers because like I've said before, my personal ethical line (barring changes in law) is that I won't sell anything that was made by AI. If I'm looking for elements for a cover, it's really annoying to have to double check to make sure that the image was not AI generated, which is another good reason to use your own photos because you can then be certain it wasn't AI generated. The final paid option that many authors and many professional graphic designers use is Adobe Stock. Adobe Stock is probably the gold standard for stock photos. It has a large library with a range of image types and very clear license terms. The flip side is it's expensive. You can often include it with an Adobe subscription (which is in itself quite expensive) and then you get a limited number of image credits every month and that can be quickly expensive. If you have an Adobe subscription, you can also use Adobe's Firefly AI image generating service. It's not quite as powerful as Midjourney or some of the other ones available, but that said, it is trained only on stuff that Adobe technically has the legal rights to do. In my experiments with it, I found that Adobe Firefly's AI generator is not good at generating scenes. It is good at generating components of scenes, like you could tell it to generate a forest or a beach or a mountain, or a castle or something, and that'd be pretty good. Then you can modify it and add in other elements later, but it's not so good at generating a finished scenes the way that something like Midjourney would be. Now that we've looked at sources for stock images, let's look at a couple of paid sites that can help you use the ad images you have found. Obviously, you can work on them in Photoshop or GIMP or Affinity Photo editor, but those are fairly complicated programs that can take quite a bit of effort to learn. There are websites that now specialize in helping you to create specific ad graphics. I'd say the most valuable one for indie authors is Book Brush. It is a specialized image editing website designed for indie authors. It lets you make things like 3D covers of your books or audiobooks to include as part of an ad, and it also has a variety of ad templates, where you will have ad templates that are the right size and resolution for the various ad platforms, and then you can drop in the elements you need to make an appropriate ad graphic. So if you're an indie author who just wants to make ad graphics or maybe even some basic covers, Book Brush would be well worth your time to investigate, in my opinion. A second option would be Canva Pro. Amazon has explicitly said in their guidelines they don't like people using it for book covers, but ads are a different game and Canva is reliable for this purpose. It's good for beginners and those starting out. It's quick and easy to reuse. The downside is that since Canva is so popular, people have gotten used to the Canva look and you get bored with seeing those, especially if you've only minimally modified a template, but with some creativity, you can make an ad graphic that looks fairly nice. So that is it for this week. I hope you will find that helpful for finding sources for your ad graphics. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

#174 The news of Canva buying Affinity and its parent company Serif has shocked and outraged designers worldwide. Find out more about the Affinity acquisition and what it means for designers.

In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia. US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check Picks of the Week: Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI Download StressFace robinhood.com/boost zocdoc.com/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity. Windows Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform. Surface Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum. AI In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US Xbox It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming. Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia. US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check Picks of the Week: Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI Download StressFace robinhood.com/boost zocdoc.com/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity. Windows Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform. Surface Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum. AI In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US Xbox It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming. Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia. US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check Picks of the Week: Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI Download StressFace robinhood.com/boost zocdoc.com/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity. Windows Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform. Surface Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum. AI In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US Xbox It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming. Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia. US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check Picks of the Week: Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI Download StressFace robinhood.com/boost zocdoc.com/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity. Windows Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform. Surface Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum. AI In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US Xbox It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming. Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia. US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check Picks of the Week: Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI Download StressFace robinhood.com/boost zocdoc.com/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity. Windows Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform. Surface Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum. AI In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US Xbox It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming. Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity. Windows Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform. Surface Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum. AI In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US Xbox It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming. Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia. US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check Picks of the Week: Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI Download StressFace robinhood.com/boost zocdoc.com/macbreak cachefly.com/twit

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If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today I wanted to talk to you about the forest fires in Oregon, my parents called me they were living in Southern Oregon, and they were talking about the huge amounts of forest fires that came out, I think from a set of lightning strikes that occurred from a storm that passed through over the weekend, that's a really dangerous thing about summer storms that pass through those hills and Oregon off the coast, is that they bring with them some charge. And that ends up in lightning. And then we end up with some strikes. And these remote regions have hills out in the Siskiyou mountain range. And those start fires. In those rural, I mean, just like remote wilderness areas of forest. And that's where we've had a couple of burns over the last couple of decades that have been very seriously maybe some of the most serious forest fires in the nation of the United States have occurred in those locations outside of some of the places in California last year where we saw property damage, that sort of thing. But that is regions of acreage, I think some of the largest areas had been in the wilderness areas of Southern Oregon in the last couple of decades, I guess it is now but it's been kind of tough. We went out on a drive recently. And we were in Central Oregon, which is probably a couple of fires out there, which is you know, there's no shortage of timber and fire danger in some of those locations, especially because of you know, lightning strikes and that kind of activity like that. But last year was dense and difficult to get through the summer because of smoke and because of fires that were going on in the forest fire damage. But this year, too, it's tough. So hopefully this is maybe a shorter-lived experience. And I hope that the firefighters can get a handle on it and get containment on here pretty soon. But it was something that was affecting our ability to get out you know, there was like visibility down to just a couple miles. It was nice that it was at least that but there was a lot of interference from the smoke. That was out even up in Central Oregon, 2:12 I was surprised. You can see more of my work in Billy Newman's photo calm, 2:21 you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon, I think you can look at that Bitly numen under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism, camping, and cool stuff over there. I ran into another guy out there. And he was like an agate picker. This is something I want to get into too. I was talking a little bit about agates, how they're formed and how they show up and all that and I'd be interested to find out the geology of how some of these creeks have agates formed in him here along the west coast. I think it's kind of cool to the land formation I would the geology is over here. And however, that goes back to the history of the agate formation of what went on over at the coast. But I think just north of Newport there's a beach called agate beach, apparently a place where there's going to be agates found, but this guy that I was talking to was saying what he was saying like if you kind of Prowl around town in this kind of these older, smaller, you know, coastal cities here in Oregon and probably in Washington or wherever they might be. But if you kind of Prowl around the town you'll sort of see these almost kind of just it says rock shop or gem shop or something like that at some sort of little shack kind of place with the old sort of weathered sign on it that sort of looks goofy looks like an old-time prospector kind of just works there and kind of does it himself but I guess he did some of those people some of those guys there are some of the more invested rock towns in the area. And some of those guys if they've retired, I guess you know, the lead up some of their picking spots or their lead up some of their information on what they've done to collect some of these cool rocks and gems over the years. But some of those people in those local town spots, have some good kind of easy starter information for people that are getting into some of the rock counting stuff. But I was told recommended by a guy over Newport to try to find a man named rooster. So I could find out about the good rock hound in spots. Sounds fun, I haven't taken it up on it yet, but the guy gave me an agate that he had collected and I guess he was telling me that the good time to go is in the wintertime after some of the bigger winter storms come in off the coast and then dredge up well I guess not dredge up but I guess they wash out the light I guess like we were talking about the wash out the sand, it's kind of come into sandbars they wash out then it exposes some of the gravel beds, some of those rock beds that are a little bit lower down in the sediment, and that exposes some of the beds that have the agates in them and I guess those come out during low tied in the winter time, I guess after what January February, something like that. And that's when this guy has found most of the agates that he's spotted out there in areas like agate beach up to up to where I don't know what's up north of there is at the corner head or is that below it? I can't remember now but it's cool. Yeah, so it's fun going out and doing some agate-hounding stuff. 5:32 You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Numan photo.com, forward slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value-for-value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo. And Lightroom stuff, I'm gonna try to like develop a lot of photos like with the travel stuff that we did the trip and like the trip that I did with my dad out to Christmas Valley, and some of the stuff around like the teepee rings that I was photographing. We're trying to like edit a few of those. And I've been doing most of that in Lightroom. But I've been trying a couple of different other pieces of software and haven't gotten super far with it. So we got to do more research, this will be an ongoing segment for our podcast, which will be fun, too, we should try out some betas I don't know where we can get a hold-up. But there's Lightroom. And see like, there's some news about how like Lightroom is switched over to the Lightroom Creative Cloud, which is going to be sort of a cloud-based photo editing system, I think it's going to be a little bit more lightweight, I think it's going to be a monthly subscription system. And then there's also going to be Lightroom classic, which is going to be the current Creative Cloud, a professional Lightroom system. And I think that's going to be like your disk management system, like how to put files onto your computer hard drive and how to edit them, and then how to like process them out and put them somewhere. So that's still going to be around and I guess going on, but it's only going to be a subscription system from now on. I think that's kind of pushed a lot of people including myself to consider what other editing options are going to be out there like file management systems for your photographs. And there are a few new other systems that are coming up that also seem a little bit more modern, in some ways, too. But I think it'd been kinda interesting. And it's been cool, checking them out a little bit. One of them was Capture One. And you and I had looked at that one a little bit. 7:46 Yeah, you showed me that one a little bit. When you put on your computer. 7:49 It's cool. I want to learn a little bit more about it. I know there's a lot of content out there about it. There's the phase, the phase one camera system, have you heard a little bit medium format, digital camera system, it's really expensive, real nice, apparently, I only know like a little bit about it. But those raw files, they're immense, medium format, digital, raw files. And so the processes, they kind of constructed their editing software, that was this Capture One software, and I think it was supposed to be a more modern system of rendering your raw file adjustments. And I think it's supposed to be kind of tuned specifically to the raw files produced by this phase one camera, which is an interesting piece of software, you know, it's technical. And I see like a lot of professional photographers kind of shifting over to it, but at least I see I see it popping up a little bit more in sort of a higher-end fashion system or like people that are using phase one systems or a lot of Sony systems because I think it's so specific to the Camera RAW file that's produced. It's sort of strange, right? I think it's built for the phase one camera. Right and like for a lot of other file types, yeah, for those file types and a lot of the Sony file types. So I think a lot of like the Sonyadditionalographers are getting the Capture One Pro software, and they make like a free Sony editing software that's a little bit stripped down. It's like the Sony Capture One express or something like that. Who knows what it is, but I pulled that on my computer, I've been messing with it and I pulled a demo for Capture One Pro. And it was cool kind of messing around with a different raw editor. It's different than Photoshop different than Lightroom. But it's, it's still kind of like the same panel and slider idea. You have a panel you have like hue and color and sharpness and haze and whatever. And you can kind of make some adjustments to it. But it was interesting, to do something different with the raw processing. And I guess it's supposed to be faster. So the idea is supposed to be a more modern system. It's one of those things where Lightroom was built years ago like back in 2006 and 2007. I guess there wasn't the ability to throw a lot of processing I went to the graphics processor. I don't think it was as important back then they use your graphics processor for rendering and processing and crunching some of the graphics stuff, the editing. So I think a lot of that was built to like run and process the raw files through the, just the main processor. So I guess there are a lot of things about Lightroom that just aren't made to run slow, given the modern computer architecture that people are using, and other people are developing. And so I think that's where like there's an advantage to maybe some future new Adobe software, but also for some of these current players that are trying to do some of this photo editing software stuff like the other one. Affinity Photo, which is one that I think you'd see 10:42 a little just a little bit. Yeah, I really, I've not put anything on my computer. 10:50 Yet, I haven't put anything on. I know, it looks like a lot is going on there It looks like and I hear a lot of people talking about how impressive the iPad app is if you have an iPad Pro, I guess the affinity pro app on an iPad is really powerful for tablets, tablets. And you can do a lot of stuff like with the pencil, the Apple Pencil, or with your finger to do like healing adjustments, a lot of stuff like that, that you really couldn't do with software outside of Photoshop before. So it's cool that they made some progress on that. And I guess Affinity Photo is also producing digital file management software to go along with Affinity Photo, which I like the Lightroom part of 11:32 it. Yeah. Yeah, kind of like Lightroom. 11:36 I think it's the Lightroom part and the part where you can apply adjustments to multiple files at the same time. Oh, sure. Stuff like that. I think it's like a lot of those features that they're trying to build out this year, because of the changes that Adobe has made to the Lightroom system. And how they're changing over to like the Creative Cloud system and the, you know, kind of Lightroom Express system. 12:00 Yeah, not as much of a pro tool. 12:02 That's what I've heard it sounds like yeah, so I think that's why a lot of professionals are a little bit unhappy with that adjustment into their workflow, you know, they're just looking for that, that professional system that they have to increase and get better in the ways they need. Yeah, I think I think Adobe is trying to hit a wider market of hobby photographers or Instagram, you know, kind of it's more about adjustments. Yeah, yeah. One-click kind of adjustments. Yeah, sort of thing. Yeah. 12:29 It'll be interesting to see how that ends up going. 12:33 Yeah, it will be interesting, you know, that that's sort of the shift in modern computers in a lot of ways. And if you were working on an iPad, I bet it'll swell a bit. It'll be pretty cool, you know, to run a bunch of photos off on an iPad through that system. You know, probably they work. Okay. I don't think it's the direction that I'm gonna go. I don't know, I just actually seem like it's the right, the right zone. 12:57 That was what I was thinking. I'm hoping that the change encourages these other companies to Oh, yeah, develop theirs, their products were, 13:07 I was, yeah, I 13:08 was hoping they'll be there'll be something to kind of replace what Lightroom is right now. They like Lightroom. 13:15 Before Lightroom, there was an aperture that was built by aperture, and then they stop producing aperture. I don't know what's gonna happen with Lightroom. I'm sure that it's going to stick around. And I'm sure it's going to be like the top of market share for a long time for photographers editing software, it'll likely kind of remain in my workflow for a long time, too. I was looking around at Capture One, it's not the thing I want to use. Yeah. affinity there's some future, you know, but I haven't any, there's not the thing that I'm looking to use in the way that I use Lightroom right now, 13:47 that was what I noticed when I was looking through other photo editing software. There really, there are a lot of things that look cool. And like they could be something useful. Yeah. But it's just not realistic. It just doesn't seem like it's there yet. Kind of editing. I'm trying to go for it. 14:06 We'll see what pops up in the next year. And I you know, I guess the cool thing is like the given version of Lightroom that I have right now is it's totally fine for me. 14:15 Yeah, this old version of Lightroom. Anyway, 14:18 yeah, they come out, but I'm still always happy with the older ones for a long time. So I'm kinda interested. I'm only interested in buying software that I own. I'm not interested in leasing software, even as a working professional, even if I'm making money from using the software. Yeah, it's got to be a really special kind of business software license that I'm working on. But it can't I don't want to rent software. It can't be my color correction software for my photographs. I need to own that database. Yeah, it's a really good thing. Yeah. And for as much as I'm working it, I think I need to I mean habits, no service. 14:56 Right? Yeah. It's just something that is part of your daily 14:59 work. I get Paying for storage, paying for the website paying for hosting paying for processing, and something like that. But then I don't want to pay for the thing in total, if it's just raw processing and color correction, cropping, and exporting of a file like there are a lot of image editing systems out there. And everything I can do, I can do on an older system. But I'm interested if we go forward with some new software, I'm interested in trying like, like affinity, or you know, one of these other more modern just buy outright systems. It's like, yeah, it's like $100. It's not like there's Pixelmator Pro. That's it a new program coming out. Yeah. And that's supposed to be kind of a Photoshop-level replacement for stuff. I think that's like, definitely when you're like, working with layers working with, you know, textures. And so yeah, you can do a lot with it. Yeah. 15:45 I think that I had looked at that one briefly. And yeah, that one is more like Photoshop. Yeah. Or has more Photoshop capability? Yeah. 15:52 Yeah. I've heard people are really into that and are like really surprised with the level of quality that they can do and the speed that they're able to process that stuff. As an as like were we talking about? It's built to work on metal? Like, I think a couple of these things that we've been talking about are Apple apps. And I think metal is that system where it writes, it writes quickly to the graphics card. Right? Yeah. So what is that I can't remember, I can't remember the names of these, like these graphic layers, these graphic options used to work. But yeah, this is supposed to be a way faster system of processing some of that graphic stuff. And guys, this was to be a big benefit. But that's the sort of thing I want to try out with you is that, and I want to try to kind of invest in that stuff, just because we would own it, we have a license, we get to use it for as much as we'd want to. But yeah, we should try and check it out a little bit. Also, I kind of think it'd be kind of fun to get some of the software, and just do like little videos about 16:46 it. Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, I'm just like, trying it out checking it out. Like hey, like we're, yeah, we capture one. Yeah. 16:55 We just kind of check out. Yeah, yeah. But I want to try some of these. I want to try, like, you know, tech checks out and, and see if some of these other tools are better, or more modern, or kind of make a different, more creative result. Yeah, a bit of that in Lightroom, where you seem to kind of fall in like a little bit of a rut of like, how Lightroom edits a photo? Oh, my 17:19 gosh, Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, you can get a little stuck in routines, or just like how you kind of have to adjust it? 17:26 Yeah, yeah, there's a little bit of that. And I'd like to see if there's some new thinking around that workflow that makes it a little bit or breaks up my creativity a little bit, make something a little different. So I think it's worth it just in the sense of that kind of investment. But, but yeah, overall, I think I mean, you know, everything's fine. So I'm one of those people that kind of says, Yeah, I usually use the old or use. I don't know, Adobe Camera Raw, if you have to, it's probably like most of the adjustments that you need to do anyway, I think I'm not big into retouching stuff. You know, but like, I think you need to like work a raw file. Yeah. process its color. Correct. It makes sense it. So yeah, I think there's a lot you can do just with about anything, but it's kind of interesting, just seeing like, some of these new software's come out and how they're being developed. There's another one like one, it's up in Portland. Yeah. Seems like a Lightroom competitor. So the idea behind it, I've not gotten into it, I think that like a beta comes out. And I was a little confused about how to use some of it. But, again, like that's the main thing I'm saying is all these new photo editing software's it's like, I'm kind of confused how to use them. So grants are ingrained in using the stuff in Oh, yeah, just the layer? Yeah. Yeah. It's been cool. He's just been like, what I've gotten used to for a long time. So I know, we're kind of making a transition. But it's that bad. 18:46 Yeah, it'll be interesting. Just check out some of these new things. Yeah. Alright, 18:51 check out more stuff with you. I don't know. We'll have to figure it out. We got to figure out some new editing stuff. But really, I think for a long time, I want to want to jump into a bunch of these raw files that we have from the last month or so. One of them is I want to try and compare presets. This is something we haven't done much before. But I want to try and get into some presets for Lightroom stuff. Yeah, and I want to try and do a little investment into like affinity or into Pixelmator or you know, one of those other alternatives. I think with affinity at least there are a bunch of preset systems for the photo editing stuff there too. I want to try and compare them a little bit or run some of our other photos through it and see what kind of creative results we get. I like working with some of these preset packets over in Lightroom or some of the new stuff that you could do over in affinity just be kind of cool to try and experiment a little bit with that. 19:40 Yeah, I think that would be cool to get into the preset stuff a little bit. I see that as like a huge part of a lot of photographers' workflow. Yeah, I'm curious about like, what, what that is like to use 19:51 um, yeah, I'm pretty interested too I see tons of people on the Instagram kind of promoting their preset systems. 19:57 Oh yeah. selling their preset time. 20:01 I don't know if I'll do that so much as watching a YouTube video about how one built such and such preset package. 20:10 What I'm interested in, 20:11 there's lots of stuff out there, we can find that that could kind of be a creative start for us to find something to do. But it's interesting to see the levels of editing that go into some of the color corrections that happen on these photographs. Oh, yeah, yeah, some levels of editing that I'm not familiar with. So I guess there's a lot that I should learn about it. You know, 20:29 really, like, that's a big part of why I'm interested in seeing other people's preset packages. Yeah, I just want to understand like, four presets that are for photos that I think look better. Oh, yeah, like, Good, right. I'm just, I'm just interested in seeing like, what does that look like? I'm trying to figure out when someone else is putting a photo together. Like, 20:50 I'm trying to figure it out, too. Yeah. What is the system of stuff on the side that you're looking at? What are the adjustments that are going on? Like, what hue and tint stuff is being pulled around? It seems like there's a lot of stuff going on in there. Like there are a few kinds of granular changes in color correction stuff that I'm probably not getting into, in my photographs. And I bet there's a lot of stuff that could be pretty cool. 21:12 Yeah, I think it'd be really interesting to get into 21:15 Yeah, I want to do some imagination, some photographs that have, yeah, 21:19 I've been going back through really like my portfolio, I guess, and trying to reevaluate what my best photos are, and also just re-edit a lot of stuff. Oh, that's great. Yeah, but yeah, I'm trying to get into better finer editing. 21:36 See, yeah, I'd like to try and figure that out, too. Yeah, I've noticed that that's like an element of the post-processing, post-processing stuff that I want to get into, more heavily is like the level of editing stuff that I'm able to do, or just the level of choices I'm able to make when I get into something like Lightroom, or affinity in the future. So it'd be cool that we should develop on that it'd be cool to try and push ourselves on that a little bit and see if we can learn some new tricks. Yeah, man, I like that I process probably 200,000 and 300,000 photos, and the last couple of years. I usually export stuff. And so with that, I don't know what I did, or, you know, there's not, it's just, it's just sort of automatic. Or, you know, like there's a lot of things that like aren't setting now. It's a weird thing. Like, I've just kind of moved through Lightroom for a long time. 22:25 Yeah, I know, there's a lot of stuff that you probably kind of just like, auto-work through. I know, that's how it is for me. Yeah, a lot of pictures. And I think it's fun as much time on. 22:35 It's like, it's when like when Tiger Woods was playing golf. And like halfway through, he needed to get a new coach for swing. I don't know, golf. But yeah, you're like any coach, because he was like hurting his shoulder. After all, his swing was wrong. So we need to like to correct his swing. But it's one of those things where it's like muscle memory, right? It's like so ingrained in like the way you do something, I should hold something. So it takes a lot to kind of break that habit of yourself that muscle habit yourself and then kind of figure out a new way to do the thing that you do. So we got to kind of break ourselves a little bit, but I want to do a bunch. Like as we get more and more into wedding photographs, I want to try and figure out some interesting stylistic things that we can do in those photographs through our post-processing. 23:16 Absolutely. Yeah, I've been really because that's what I've been doing for photo editing. Yeah, mostly the last couple of months as well like wedding photo stuff from work that we've been doing. Yeah. And yeah, I want to get into more of a stylized way of doing that. A little bit more of a particular kind of quality. Yeah, I like their photos are awesome. They're so good. But I want to, I mean, that's kind of what I like about going back to like the Sony cameras and stuff like, like, they don't even have to be edited. They look beautiful, already. But I want to get into making them look a little bit more like a style. Yeah, not just that it's a really beautiful photo, but that it's like, 23:58 No, I want to work in a good way, I want to be selective about our lens use. 24:04 Oh my gosh, I 24:05 think there's a lot that we know to do in that that we're not able to execute right now for some of our projects. And that's something I want to change, you know where we go, we get some stuff in there. But that's that, that right piece. So I want to focus on that. And then I want to focus on our post-processing element on top of that, to get the right kind of texture in the file when we make it and the right kind of colors and you know, just that the right photo. And then I want to try and do a great job in Lightroom or our post-processing stuff to kind of pull that out and make it the most and make it look a little style is a little different, and a little better. Yeah, it'll be cool. I think we've got a pretty distinct style with the things that we've been working on over the years. I want to try and push that visually into just the new directions. 24:55 Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys Check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage some good links to other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode at the back end.

The holiday spirit rolls on with MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide #5, featuring Rosemary Orchard, Peter Cohen, and David Ginsburg. The picks range from the expensive to the affordable, health to tech, comfort to power tools. (Yes, power tools.) (Part 1)  This edition of MacVoices is supported by Kolide. Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here. Show Notes: Links: Rosemary Orchard's Picks: EOOUT 25pcs Mesh Zipper Pouch, Waterproof Zipper Pouch, 8 Sizes Organizer Bagshttps://amzn.to/3FpfdFH HidrateSpark PRO Smart Water Bottle Stainless Steel - Tracks Water Intake & Glows to Remind You to Stay Hydrated , Straw Lidhttps://amzn.to/3H9SQWm Peter Cohen's Picks: Handerpants by Archie McPheehttps://mcphee.com/products/handerpants EGO Power+ CS1600 16-Inch 56V Lithium-ion Cordless Chainsawhttps://amzn.to/3B8Qjrj David Ginsburg's Picks: Spruce Charger - Fast Charge 140W Desktop Charger, 3 USB-C, 1 USB-A 1 Dual Coil Wireless Pad, Safe Charge, Smart Charge, for Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone, Smartwatch, Handheld Gaming, Morehttps://amzn.to/3iFjNGQ Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) Wireless Earbudshttps://amzn.to/3B8fMkF Chuck Joiner's Picks: OWC ThunderBay 8 RAID 5 Edition 8-Bay External Drive w/Dual Thunderbolt 3 Ports https://amzn.to/3ULfgAp Affinity V2 Universal License (Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher (Mac, iPadOS, Windows)https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/   Guests:Rosemary Orchard is a nerd, automator, and chocaholic. When she's not making Shortcuts or podcasting about them, you'll frequently find her discussing her love of iPads and other Apple technology on RosemaryOrchard.com, Automators, Nested Folders, The Sweet Setup, and ScreenCastsOnline. She is runs WhenWorks to help you schedule appointments more efficiently. Originally from the UK she now calls Vienna, Austria, home…until she returns to the U.K. Follow her on Twitter. Peter Cohen is the Technology Editor at RCRWireless. You can find his Twitter account at @flargh and read more of his ruminations on tech and other stuff at his personal web site, peter-cohen.com. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Serif recently announced version 2 of all of their apps are now available including Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher. This marks the first time Affinity Publisher is available on the iPad. On this episode to discuss these new apps is Denny Henke; who was on episode 30 of this show to discuss the original Affinity apps for iPad. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus content and early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts! Subscribe today to get instant access to iPad Possibilities, iPad Ponderings, and iPad Historia! New episodes of the bonus shows release the first week of every month. Show notes are available at www.iPadPros.net. Feedback is welcomed at iPadProsPodcast@gmail.com.Chapter Markers00:00:00: Opening00:02:14: Support the Podcast00:02:41: Denny Henke00:05:43: Current Setup00:06:51: Moft00:08:49: The Affinity Apps00:13:07: Same File Format00:21:52: Designer00:31:14: Mac vs iPad app?00:32:32: How do you use Designer?00:34:11: Removing background?00:36:04: Missing from Illustrator?00:36:45: Publisher00:44:28: Multiple Chapters00:46:29: Linked Files00:47:42: Custom Tables00:50:27: Final Output00:52:29: Photo00:54:19: Help system00:55:47: Stacking00:57:01: Command Controller01:02:12: BeardyGuyCreative.com01:02:29: BeardyStarStuff.net01:02:57: Closing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The MacVoices Live! panel of Chuck Joiner, Eric Bolden, David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Brittany Smith, Web Bixby, and Kelly Guimont started of this session with an examination of the loss of Pantone color support that was part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Why it happened, how to get it back, and some work-arounds are all part of understanding that your legacy projects are not lost. (Part 1)  This edition of MacVoices is supported by Zocdoc. Find local doctors who take your insurance at Zocdoc.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links:Pantone colors now cost $15/month in Adobe products – with old files otherwise unusablehttps://9to5mac.com/2022/11/01/pantone-colors/ Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter by email at embolden@mac.com, and on his blog, Trending At Work. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, and jeffgamet on LinkedIn., and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65. Kelly Guimont is a podcaster and friend of the Rebel Alliance. She hosts the Daily Observations Podcast at MacObserver.com, and appears on The Incomparable network as well as hosts I Want My M(CU) TV. You can also hear her on The Aftershow with Mike Rose, and she still has more to say which she saves for Twitter. Brittany Smith is a trained cognitive neuroscientist who provides ADD/ADHD, technology, and productivity coaching through her business, Devise and Conquer, along with companion video courses for folks with ADHD. She's also the cofounder of The ADHD Guild, a community for nerdy folks with ADHD. She, herself, is a self-designated “well-rounded geek”. She can be found on Twitter as @addliberator and on YouTube with tech tips.    Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Kev attempts an unboxing, camera short-cut secrets, how to clean your cameras, using Affinity Photo and we talk about grain; what's the best way to apply it and is it really necessary? We find out that Kev has a new ‘not so secret now' Instagram page for lovers of black and white photography, what do you say to famous folk you meet in the bathroom, syncing your camera clocks part 2, copying settings between camera bodies, why you shouldn't delete in camera and more. Also this week Kev and Andreas get behind the scenes in Japan at ‘the factory'.

Dzisiaj poruszamy temat Photo AI, rozmawiamy na temat DALL-E 2, opowiadamy o porządkowaniu biurka, kabli i o podklejaniu urządzeń, chwalimy pakiet od Affinity (Photo, Designer i Publisher), a na koniec rozmawiamy o realityOS i zbliżającym się headsecie XR od Apple’a. … Czytaj dalej → The post 390: Apple XR headset, realityOS i organizacja przestrzeni na biurku first appeared on Retro Rocket Network.

When the holidays hit folks will take photos. Photos and your Computer! Lots of them. Maybe you want to adjust the lighting, perhaps get rid of red-eye, or just sharpen it a little. Getting those photos ready for printing and framing, making cards or calendars and just sharing around is a great thing but doesn't require Photoshop! So we're talking about alternatives to Photoshop that are better suited to normal folks like us! Photoshop Elements is the Diet Coke of Photoshop meant for consumers. https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html Windows Photos and MacOS Preview are included with your operating system and can do many basic tasks. Even your smart phone has built-in tools in its photos apps. GIMP is a free, open-source program but has a bit of a learning curve. https://www.gimp.org/ Paintshop Pro is a longtime alternative. https://www.paintshoppro.com/ Corel offers a whole suite of graphics tools, including a photoshop alternative! https://www.coreldraw.com/en/ Affinity Photo is a professionally aimed program with a budget friendly price. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ And do you want better photos? Starting with how you take them will help! https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/10-quick-tips-to-fix-your-bad-photos https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-take-good-photos-with-your-phone/ https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/10-easy-tips-and-tricks-for-better-smartphone-photos

Bring your old photographs back to life by restoring them. Ant Pruitt shares how to restore old photographs in photo apps such as Photoshop and Affinity Photo on this episode of Hands-On Photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Bring your old photographs back to life by restoring them. Ant Pruitt shares how to restore old photographs in photo apps such as Photoshop and Affinity Photo on this episode of Hands-On Photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Bring your old photographs back to life by restoring them. Ant Pruitt shares how to restore old photographs in photo apps such as Photoshop and Affinity Photo on this episode of Hands-On Photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Bring your old photographs back to life by restoring them. Ant Pruitt shares how to restore old photographs in photo apps such as Photoshop and Affinity Photo on this episode of Hands-On Photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Bring your old photographs back to life by restoring them. Ant Pruitt shares how to restore old photographs in photo apps such as Photoshop and Affinity Photo on this episode of Hands-On Photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Bring your old photographs back to life by restoring them. Ant Pruitt shares how to restore old photographs in photo apps such as Photoshop and Affinity Photo on this episode of Hands-On Photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

"Happy Like Joplin," is a movie from French director Jean-Baptiste Mauduit and we wanted to share it with you. Mauduit says, "I always wanted to make a short that encompassed all forms of filmmaking from live action to animation. During the development phase of 'Happy Like Joplin, "' I could see how the internal expressive nature of the characters allowed for these stylistic choices." A stone carver by trade, Mauduit is a self-taught filmmaker. He watched tutorials from Mark Spencer on line to learn Motion, downloaded Affinity Photo and Procreate for his iPad, filmed with Blackmagic cameras, and a work of art was born. Truly an independent film, he operated on a near zero budget with a crew of two. This is truly a labor of love. Listen in and learn a lot about filmmaking and life. The film will be coming out soon, but you can watch a trailer at the movie's website HERE. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. We are always up for new ideas! ABOUT OWC: Other World Computing, under the leadership of Larry O'Connor since he was 15 years old, has expanded to all corners of the world and works every day to create hardware and software that make the lives of creatives and business-oriented companies faster, more efficient and more stable.  Go to MacSales.com for more information and to discover an ecosystem that serves your needs. As Larry says, "Our dedication to excellence and sustainable innovation extends beyond our day-to-day business and into the community. We strive for zero waste, both environmentally and strategically. Our outlook is to the long term, and in everything we do, we look for simplicity in action and sustainability in practice. For us, it's as much about building exceptional relationships, as it is about building exceptional products." ABOUT CIRINA CATANIA: Cirina Catania, is a successful filmmaker, former Sr Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at MGM-UA and United Artists and one of the co-founders and former director of the Sundance Film Festival. Her movie, "The Purple Heart," is nearing completion. She is the founder, CEO and Executive Director of the non-profit, High School Media Collective. Cirina is Founder/Lead Creative at the Catania Group est. circa 1989, Showrunner and Host of OWC RADiO and partner, Lumberjack System, as well as Tech Ambassador for companies such as Blackmagic Design.  She is a long-time member of the Producers Guild, Writers Guild, Cinematographers Guild, the National Press Club, National Press Photographer's Association, and more. She has worked as a writer, director, supervising producer, cinematographer, post-producer, or marketing exec on over 150 film, television and new media projects for the big screen as well as for networks such as National Geographic and Discovery. Cirina is based in San Diego, D.C. and Berlin when she is not on the road filming in the Amazon or other exotic locations. She is very proud of the fact that she has not yet contracted Malaria and that after all these years, she still loves her job! Instagram:  CirinaCatania - LinkedIn:  LinkedIn.com/in/cirinacatania

View in HD at . While Photos has a lot of adjustment and cropping tools, you can also use your favorite image editor directly with the Photos app. You can choose to edit the photo in an editor and have the results saved back to your library, or you can use an editing extension for even tighter integration. See examples using Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro.

Susan calls Tech Guys Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent to ask about replacing her laptop with an iPad to edit photos and if the Apple Watch Ultra will be good for snorkeling. For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1925 Host: Leo Laporte Guest: Mikah Sargent You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/

Susan calls Tech Guys Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent to ask about replacing her laptop with an iPad to edit photos and if the Apple Watch Ultra will be good for snorkeling. For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1925 Host: Leo Laporte Guest: Mikah Sargent You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/

Susan calls Tech Guys Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent to ask about replacing her laptop with an iPad to edit photos and if the Apple Watch Ultra will be good for snorkeling. For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1925 Host: Leo Laporte Guest: Mikah Sargent You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/

少年不识众软件，爱上 Ps。爱上 Ps，为做新设强说愁。而今识尽众软件，欲用还休。欲用还休，却道天凉好个秋P.S. 可能因为本期怀旧气息太过浓郁，引发了不可消除的时空回波干扰，导致部分段落有点儿呲呲呲的噪音，请大家见谅，好怀念已经快三个月没去过的录音室了~# 内容提要08:03 · 有些软件，退订之后才开始珍惜13:11 · 怀念 Photoshop 的原因们18:47 · 从 Photoshop 到 Figma 们，时代真的变了33:07 · 除了 Photoshop，还有 CDR 和 Xara44:24 · 当然也少不了「网页三贱客」# 参考链接2013 年开始已不再更新的图形软件 Fireworks 2:11Photoshop 的浮雕效果界面 2:40经常被叫做「在线版 Ps」的 Photopea 10:03另外一款图像编辑软件 Affinity Photo 11:53纸上原型 14:31Phtoshop 的投影「等高线」设置 23:50JJ 写的 Sketch 光滑投影模拟插件 24:35Figma 的 SmoothShadow 平滑阴影插件 27:08早年间的历代 Photoshop 图标合集 33:23JJ 大学时候画的 Nokia 8800 35:03本台嘉宾、Fireworks 曾经忠实的拥趸步果断 40:18当年的图形软件 Xara 现在还在而且有了云端版本 40:40周振动（Knock Zhou）在 YouTube 上的图标绘制频道 40:56Iconka 小部分的图标绘制视频找到了 41:15也可以看看其他他早年的图标了 41:30Leon 的胶囊图标绘制过程视频 41:56Leon 很喜欢的 icoeye 工作室早年间的图标作品 42:30Macromedia 的矢量软件 FreeHand 44:36已经免费了的 Glyphs 曲率显示插件 Speed Punk 48:44发现 Figma 其实也有一个显示曲率的插件 50:08云型尺 51:50终于恢复了的我台 Instagram 账号 56:14# 会员计划在本台官网(Anyway.FM) 注册会员即可 14 天试用 X 轴播放器和催更功能~ 开启独特的播客互动体验，Pro 会员更可加入听众群参与节目讨(hua)论(shui)~

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Portrait photography tends to use a technique known as frequency separation for skin retouching. On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt discusses how to use the frequency separation technique in both Affinity Photo and Photoshop for portrait photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: nomadgoods.com/TWIT

Portrait photography tends to use a technique known as frequency separation for skin retouching. On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt discusses how to use the frequency separation technique in both Affinity Photo and Photoshop for portrait photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: nomadgoods.com/TWIT

Portrait photography tends to use a technique known as frequency separation for skin retouching. On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt discusses how to use the frequency separation technique in both Affinity Photo and Photoshop for portrait photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: nomadgoods.com/TWIT

Portrait photography tends to use a technique known as frequency separation for skin retouching. On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt discusses how to use the frequency separation technique in both Affinity Photo and Photoshop for portrait photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: nomadgoods.com/TWIT

Portrait photography tends to use a technique known as frequency separation for skin retouching. On Hands-On Photography, Ant Pruitt discusses how to use the frequency separation technique in both Affinity Photo and Photoshop for portrait photography. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: nomadgoods.com/TWIT

So schnell, stromsparend und leise rechnet kein anderer PC: Der Mac Studio scheint das zu sein, wo Apple mit seinen M1-Prozessoren immer hin wollte. Doch das Ding kostet eine Menge -- kaum vorstellbar, dass die Windows-Welt nichts vergleichbares hinbekommt. In dieser Folge des Podcasts c't Uplink schauen wir genauer hin, was am Hype um den M1 dran ist. Zuerst diskutieren wir die Vorzüge des Mac Studio und Mac Mini, beides sind kleine, stromsparende und leise Rechner -- die aber auch schlecht erweiterbar sind. Die Kollegen erklären, wie ein Windows-PC aussieht, wenn man diese Maßstäbe anlegt. Einfacher wird es für AMD und Intel mitzuhalten, wenn das Gehäuse größer ausfallen darf. Wir erklären die Sweet Spots. Was bringt das nun alles? Die üblichen Benchmarks reichten uns nicht, sondern wir haben alltägliche Aufgaben ausgemessen: Videoschnitt, Fotobearbeitung und Musikproduktion mit jeweils mehreren Anwendungen. Die haben wir auf dutzende Hardware-Kombinationen losgelassen, mit oder ohne Grafikkarte, mehrere Prozessoren, verschiedene Speicherausbauten. Die Kollegen erläutern ihre aufschlussreichen und teils überraschenden Ergebnisse, unser Videoproducer berichtet aus der Praxis. Spoiler: Ein schneller Prozessor alleine macht das Rennen nicht, sondern auf das Gesamtpaket aus Hardware und Software kommt es an. Zum Schluss geben wir einen ganz kurzen Ausblick , ob eine baldige Entscheidung zwischen M1, Intel und AMD sinnvoll ist oder ob spannende Architekturänderungen bevorstehen. === Anzeige / Sponsorenhinweis === Diehl: Eine Gruppe. Fünf Teilkonzerne. Unzählige Möglichkeiten. In unseren Teilkonzernen Metall, Controls, Defence, Aviation und Metering arbeiten rund siebzehntausend Menschen weltweit an den Technologien von heute und morgen. Werden auch Sie Teil einer Unternehmenstradition des gelebten Vertrauens: https://www.diehl.com/career/de/arbeiten/unzaehlige-moeglichkeiten/ === Anzeige / Sponsorenhinweis Ende ===

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When, what was it when they switched over from whatever like Mac OS nine to Mac OS 10. And that was the transition when they kind of switched the framework over to a Unix based framework, I think where they call it Darwin on the Macintosh. Really interesting love the way that that works. That's really what makes the Mac OS mac os 10. So stay was so so useful was a lot of the work that was done to set it up on an older framework of a Unix file system. But but really cool stuff. So I talked a little bit about that on the last flash briefing, what I wanted to talk about today was a specific command the sips command. So as this is a photo oriented flash briefing, the sips command is really cool, it allows you to do all this, this internal image processing that that I really didn't think you would be able to do in it right away. But like for, I guess, for instance, you can resize a whole folder of photographs to some preset resolution. So if you're in a hurry, and you had a folder of images that were maybe full size, and you wanted to have a copy of those images, but you wanted to have a web size version, say there were only 2500 pixels across, you know, you've seen one or two, like kind of shrink them down a little bit from their full size JPEG version. So you maybe would make a copy of that folder on your desktop, let's say you go to terminal, you'd orient yourself to that directory and then I think you'd type in sips and then I think it was like space z or something like that. And then you'd like list the file directory for where the photos are located. And then you like type in like a certain syntax to give you the the files or sorry, not the file size, but the JPEG resolution that it's going to re render that image to and then when you hit enter, it executes the command and then within terminal renders out or you can you can kind of watch it render out as it kind of goes to each of those images and reframes it resizes it and then gives you the new file size and the directory of Finder. It's really cool to see it's kind of fun to to try out, especially if you're kind of in a hurry. And if you want to kind of get geeky into into stuff in Terminal but the sips command you can do terminal man space sips si PS. And you can learn a little bit more about the image processing system inside the Mac. 2:56 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at that Bitly Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping and cool stuff over there. I wanted to touch him today and talk about a trip that I just just finished up going on out to have to Central Oregon over to the high desert area in Eastern Oregon I guess it's Eastern Oregon kind of over near the bend area we went up to Smith rock this last week and did some camping out over there had a great time is it's pretty nice but we did the the hike over there at Smith rock and I guess I wanted to do just to kind of short podcast about about the area over by by Smith rock some of the hiking that you can do and some of the trip and photo stuff that we were working on over there but yeah, I had a great time and nobody Smith rock took off for a pretty quick easy weekend trip. You know what's great about living here in Oregon on like the I five corridor is you can just kind of jump over to Eastern Oregon over over the cascade pass which is definitely tracking a drive it's different than that just being on the freeway, but it's pretty cool Yeah, jumping over the highways and getting over kind of into the backcountry in the Cascades and then heading over over the past and then down into the high desert area of Eastern Oregon over there. So yeah, when three sisters headed over to Terra bond, and then went into the Smith rock State Park area. Really man the thing I guess I should say is Yeah, Smith rock is just world class camping or hiking area. You really can't camp there. I guess you can kind of camp out in a tent. You can kind of bivouac there. I guess some of the rock climbers do that. But there's also like another spot the area we can to is this campground called skull hollow, which is about maybe five miles away or so it's really not too far of a drive but yeah, hop in the car, go around the mountain. And then on the backside of that you can you can hang out and set up a camp. I think it's there. We were at was Probably I guess I guess it's BLM maybe it's like state forest or some of the stuff but it was dispersed camping areas so you can kind of drive up this road pull out on the side and kind of walk your tent over and you know just go feet and set it up hang out is all free and you're just sitting out there in the, in the scrub of the sagebrush and on some lumpy ground and I think there's like open range cattle that walk through there to other times we would camp there in the past I think Marina and I had been there maybe years ago and we had camped just a couple spots off and the place that we were this weekend we put up the tent hung out there had the car parked there and then that morning we woke up in the tent we could hear like a bunch of big footsteps around and sounds and animals and we were thinking oh man, that's weird. And we had zip the screen on the tent looked outside and we were surrounded by cows. Were you out? Yeah, I don't know because because it's going to walk through in their little group during the night or during the morning and ended up in the acreage around where we were yeah kind of cool about open range cattle and stuff but it's fun hanging out over there yeah check it out the Scott Hall campground was cool get our camp set up over there was cool had a couple tenths going and yeah, took off went over to Smith rock did the hiking trip over that that was pretty cool. That's where we did some of our photo stuff most of the hike was like kind of a cool afternoon hike. It's really a great one because it's it's a couple miles it's definitely challenging. If you're not super used to hiking you could do it but you could you should try it out for a little bit. We're not trained for Urbino get ready I got busted up my feet I got some hotspots and stuff so it's like maybe there's three miles four miles I'm not sure it takes about four hours or so you got to take in like an average sort of mellow pace you but it's cool you know the the lower part you know goes around like the crooked river maybe it's only two hours I don't know we went around the lower part around the crooked river which is really cool how the way that the area was formed is really like if you kind of look at it from the outside me the ranch land it's all surrounding is this pretty high or it's higher in elevation is just kind of this this flatter area and then it comes up to the crooked river where it drops off into this rim Rock Canyon and then Smith rock is the volcanic 7:18 remnant that's been left there as the erosion of the river is kind of wrapped by it and pulled away all the sediment that was there that would just kind of make it look like a average boring hillside and so now you have these these really exposed like vivid kind of crisp volcanic rocks that are just alien to the activity that we see and erosion commonly across the earth here so smooth rock get pretty cool pretty unique spot to go hike around at but yeah really fun to kind of jump in there really interesting kind of spot to be yeah did the hike around the crooked river side up to the backside were like monkey faces I was really cool with with a couple people that hadn't been there before so we got to catch on that that area for the first time. And yeah, monkey face is such a cool phenomenon because really when you come around that corner it does. And through is the anthropomorphic I guess it's animal Yeah, anthropomorphic look like and like that's when you make an animal a person right? What is it when you make a rock an animal hmm I don't know that word, but it looks like a monkey it just looks like a monkey's face. So it's called monkey there's no way so so yeah, we hiked around that spire of monkey face and started going up the misery Ridge trail. It's just a bunch of switchbacks. It kind of gets you up in elevation to get you to the top of the Smith rock rock there and yet walked around the top here for a bit and then hiked down the backside of it yeah really cool spot to check out over on the Smith rock side there's a bunch of other camping and hiking and stuff you can kind of do there other than just the the top over loop of the trail but there's there's other shows that kind of go around the east side of the park that's got some really cool stuff and then we're just talking about hiking and taking pictures and stuff a little bit so far but really the cool thing there is all the rock climbing stuff that you do all the the sport climbing that goes on and and I think that's really cool we there's there's a there's really a lot more hikers there today than there were there were sport climbers there's there's definitely like a handful of people that were out there but I didn't see and it's probably because the conditions were I think scheduled to be pretty bad like I think it was raining a lot of the day so I don't think a lot of people probably set up their their rock climbing rigs for a day in the rain but but I've definitely seen people there and really odd times of the year like super early March middle of the winter, early April and stuff maybe there's better time of the year to to do some of the types of climbs and stuff but yeah, I was hoping to find some people do like a multi pitch climb. I remember seeing that a couple years ago on one of the surfaces where you're just thinking like Wow, those people are hundreds of feet up. That means you like to bring the rope up once and then pull it all up and then lead climate again and then like bow I just like wow, how do you do that? That's so so yeah really scary kinda interesting stuff how to do all the all the rock climbing stuff. But man I wish I wish I knew a little bit more about I got to do it kind of 10:14 what I don't know as, I guess would be like gym sport climbing for weeks not not months even. And it's fun it's fun to check out from the learning about but man like being on the rock over and Smith rock is a lot different I got to go climb over there one time years ago. And just like getting on the rock and trying to like fill out the routes and stuff is so much different than kind of going for that hole on the wall and the rock gym and stuff it's just really interesting kind of get the experience of being hot and cold. And having all your like outdoor gear on and stuff and you know, you just kind of exposed to the wind and the elements and stuff. And then you're also trying to like pull up this pull up this mountain side too at the same time. So it's kind of fun. It's it's cool getting used to data, no trying to rock climb stuff. But man Yeah, interesting during the climb and being delayed and doing all that stuff. As far as stuff goes, we did a couple a couple 360 things that was kind of cool going over to Smith rock and shooting. But trying to get into some 360 photo work where last year, we did like a lot of a lot of video clips, which is really cool. I really liked those stock video clips, we produced a lot of places and we shot a ton of photos too, which is awesome. But But now I'm also trying to get into a bunch of a bunch of pieces where we can, well, I want to try and get the I want to try and get like collections of photos. And then I'm sort of starting to learn about where you can put these in like virtual tours. So you could put maybe four or five or whatever would take you know, you kind of go to the specific spots in a location or something and then you you get the 360 photograph and then you can kind of pieces together as a tour. So you can go from one 360 to the next 360 is sort of this immersion well, so I'm trying to check that out trying to learn about if, if that'll work for me very well. But But yeah, I've tried to do some 360 photo stuff where you take the photo, then you pull it into Affinity Photo, that's another program. I'm using it on the Mac right now, I think it's available on PC as well. It's sort of a Photoshop competitor, you can buy outright, I think for maybe $79 or something like that. It's it's really not as expensive as the the Creative Cloud purchases for continuation. But the reason I guess I bring up affinity photos, it's kind of noted as one of the better tools right now to project your stitch two 360 photo as an actual actual rectilinear projection in the program. And then you can still use the editing programs in the program. So so like, I guess, like the new Final Cut Pro has an ability to project the 360 photograph while you're editing it. So you could add in new materials to it like, I don't know, like just plates of information, they'll stay up in the 360 space that you're at as you move through it. It's interesting how it is you can kind of stitch things into the fabric of the scene within Final Cut in the video, and you can heal your Nadir point. So the base view is your Nadir at the top of you as your Zenith point. So the native point and a 360 photograph is where that tripod is going to be or where you are going to be in the photographer is going to be below it sort of thing. So So that's kind of an interesting part of it, where you got to kind of go through and I guess this is what affinity is for is you open up the photo after it's stitched, you open it in affinity and then you can go down and heal out the base there where your tripod was or where the person was that was taking the picture. And then you can have this kind of full 360 photograph without kind of a block at the bottom that said it's just a couple people. So yeah, it's kind of cool. So I'm trying to open it up in affinity and do a couple color adjustments to it, which is cool, that you can go through and do do kind of like post color correction stuff to some of the photographs, you can kind of do that with the 360 video, but you also kind of can't do it with the 360 video as well. And kind of add some color correction. Like you can't have been Final Cut. But it's really not the same as photo editing, I guess, you know, obviously. But it's kind of cool. We've been having a good time trying to edit together those the 360 photos. I'm trying to go through a bunch of the photos I've taken last year as well. And put those together and hope to well no is it? What is that 361 I skip in my mind right now there's like this 360 view here. I think it's V or VR. And it's sort of like a YouTube channel for 360 videos and stuff. YouTube also takes 360s as well as much other places. But it's Yeah, it's kind of a cool little photo and video sharing site for 360 content and social network and app and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, I put some stuff up there and it's we've got two people that are specifically interested in looking at 360 images and content would go But yeah, it's mostly it's kind of fun. So yeah, 360 staff, so photo staff had the Canon equipment out there. I was trying to take some landscape photos was cool. The the weekend weather was I think I had mentioned there was kind of a forecast to rain. Really that was like some thunderstorms that were blowing across the Cascades. I think they're just a bigger weather system 15:06 overall this weekend, not to mention the Perseids, which is you get back to on another podcast that was probably this, but they got kind of clouded out for me. Shoot, 15:15 I want to see some meteor showers. So I'm not talking about the proceeds. But I guess kind of going back. 15:25 Just the campus stuff, it was cool. We were really happy that we got to go out and do the camping stuff. And sorry that we didn't get to see the Parisians. But I don't know, I guess we're camping out and stuff. So that was pretty cool. It was thunderstorms that rolled over the Cascades. And then we have these big hits. We're really fortunate that I guess the big system, which I look really active, I pulled up the weather map on on dark sky, the weather app that I have on my phone. And you can see just this big red hotspot, maybe 25 miles or 30 miles to the north east of us. And it was probably just, you know, a ton of rain, hail ton of lightning. So I'm really glad we didn't get wiped over by that. That's pretty cool. But really, yeah, it was a cool kind of textured night where there's just a lot of clouds. And like a lot of kind of thunderstorms and stuff. It's cool that the airplanes are kind of coming in real low, they had to go around around this huge thunderstorm system. So they were coming in real low, and kind of making these sort of strange routes. But just kind of fun to see that I remember seeing that a couple of times in the past when thunderstorms have come in, and airlines would have to take just these kind of big alternate routes to get around this, this thunderstorm cells. So that was kind of cool. Check it out. We were taking pictures of it as the sun was going down when there's a rainbow kind of right as the evening was coming, coming to a close of our camp. So I was refund got some cool pictures, that and that's what I love. I love that that time of day or you know, right at the end of the day, it's a certain type of lighting effect that happens when there's really like mostly clouds over the sky. But right as the evening the western sky has a gap where it's clear, and the sun is able to shine through that pocket there and you get a lot of light that bounces back between the cloud surface above you and the ground below you where you're kind of in this little pocket where it just sort of sort of reflects against itself but you get this kind of warmer, sort of diffuse town around everything kind of changes the way the shadows are, it's different than overcast, you know where you get a diffusion of the shadows, but this one you get a really crisp kind of saturated quality to the light and it's a lot better than I think the softer sort of white light that you get in the diffuser stances of overcast days. But yeah, you get a lot of cool kind of rich contrast in those landscape photos with that kind of lighting condition sort of during that golden hour time with the right kind of cloud effect and stuff really beautiful really soft kind of easy to expose for photography kind of lights up. Yeah beautiful spot to be really kind of surreal, colorful looking. location and evening and yeah, fun hanging out, watch the thunderstorms, camping out getting rained on, maybe getting one a little bit. All part of the experience of being outside being in Eastern Oregon definitely got a little sunburn sore, all the rest of it. But yeah, going out and camping and stuff. You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com Ford slash Billy Newman photo. 18:53 So I was looking around at different options. I really liked a lot of the Nikon stuff, but I also noticed I really liked the Nikon stuff, I'll leave it at that. I just noticed that sometimes some of the accessory equipment outside of the body that you might buy, I bet some of the lenses are expensive, or they're a little more expensive than maybe some of the commensurate lenses that might be available over in canon. And I remember back in college someone was mentioning to me that they were going to switch from Nikon over to canon because canon was a bigger company. I don't know if this is really a reason or not. It was interesting logic though, to kind of think through at the time that that canon was a larger company selling more lenses, making more cameras making more equipment. And so they had more resources, more staff, more designers, working on cameras, building cameras, and doing research and development to kind of bring that that forward. And I think even maybe now that's still perhaps true like if you if you look at some of the technologies in Nikon versus canon like we're just kind of to take a base idea of it, though I love Nikon stuff a lot but If you were to take like the D five, I think that's a 20 megapixel sensor. Whereas in if you were to look at the newer nine or barmy, canon five D Mark four that's I think like 3136 I don't know it's out there in the 30 maybe I think it's a 30 megapixel camera. And I think perhaps the five D Mark three is a 23 megapixel camera. So it was interesting, just kind of noticing a couple of those things. Now I understand that there's benefits to the lower megapixel rating for some of the low light performance that you get a high SLS. And I think that's maybe sometimes where Nikon performs well. But then there's also Sony who's producing 42 megapixel cameras and they're doing incredible things in low light, but also even better stuff with a seven s, which I think is the the version of the camera that's specifically around some of the higher end video features. And I think it's a 12 megapixel camera that does incredible stuff in low light, like almost like you know, 100,000 so you can get really amazing low light images and low light video. So it's interesting how how that that kind of sensor technology works. But all that being said, it's just interesting that for a long time, even way back in history, like to the beginning of the digital SLR, I think canon was way ahead in what they're producing, as far as their sensors go, and what they're able to produce, like megapixels, or in fidelity of an image I think they had they had a what was the first one, I think Nikon did not have a full frame digital SLR and tell the Nikon d3 came out which was a fantastic camera. And I had that one also as a use camera that about later loved the d3. But it was interesting that they Yeah, like they didn't have a full frame DSLR camera option until 2007, I think when that came out, whereas on the Canon inside, I think that the EOS one, D, the one DS is that right? I think it was the one DS was the first was the first full frame camera produced by canon. And that was way back. And I think that was still like around eight megapixels, or maybe 10 megapixels for the mark two and that they had some technology that was just far more advanced for the time of 2000 to 2003 2004. Then what canon had going on prior to when Nikon, you know what I mean? Right? So anyway, that fast forwards to, to me in fall of 2018 I'm looking around for another camera purchase because I was going to be moving I was going to be taking a job where I was I was going to be working every day doing family portrait photography, and a lot of like wedding photography stuff to where I needed to depend on the memory card system that would be in the camera where like on the Sony side, like I had mentioned before, there were some limitations to it. And one of the other limitations was that it only accepted SD cards, which are right now I'm actually kind of learning are fine, you know, you can use an SD card for just about anything, but I also liked the opportunity, or the option to have compact flash card or maybe it's a USM USM USD. That's $1 I'm not sure but the compact flash card system that that goes in, I always thought that was like a little bit more professional when you put that in. And I just wanted like more memory options. So with the I think the five D Mark three that I decided to pick up used that had the the Compact Flash slot, and it also had the SD card slot, and you had the ability to record to nadp video and you had the ability to take photographs, you had the ability to do like high frame rate burst series for photographs. And it just seemed like it seemed like it was a great workhorse camera that the five D series and I think that's what people have been talking about, even since like the five D Mark two when they announced the the HD video recording features on DSLRs. So I think that when even before that, you know it was just it was one of the top top use cameras for wedding photographers and stuff. So for me, I was trying to find something that would be like a good workhorse camera where it could always kind of count on it and the battery system and the memory card and the lens arrangement that would be available to me that I could really just be hammering away on frames, and and then be bringing those in editing them and then kind of delivering them to clients in a pretty fast manner. So I thought that would be something that would help me out. And I think I was right. I think it was a good choice though. There are fantastic options with like the ACE seven, Mark three, or the a seven, three and the a seven are three. I think both of those have kind of solved a lot of those issues that I've been talking about where they've adjusted the battery system. And they've adjusted the just some of the blackout problems that I was talking about before, but but I was happy to switch over to the cannon side of it. I think also because that reason I was talking about two words. Yeah, no blackout, and I really liked being able to use the through the lens viewfinder of the SLR as opposed to the digital SLR or just looking at it on the screen so all those reasons were kind of why I wanted to get back to the the DSLR system instead of the the interchangeable lens camera system but it was great so so back I think in September I was looking around a lot I sold the a seven are off and then I was trying to hunt around for options for me to get a well priced canon five D Mark three and then I also bought one for Marina so she had a five D Mark three body and then we could kind of share lenses for two so I wanted to get up and running and I wanted to talk about like some of the lens stuff that I was interested in too It's interesting kind of switching over to canon now just kind of seeing you know what's available and what's available in the US market which for me and for you know someone that doesn't want to spend a ton of stuff getting a pretty high level professional level set of photography equipment, it's interesting to kind of comb around through the US market and figure out good pieces to use I think almost every camera system I've ever had it's been something that I've made a purchase of off of the US marketplace in some manner you know, I haven't bought a new film camera that's for sure. So it was interesting kind of tried to figure that out a little bit and I've always had really good luck with that I hear some bad stories out there but really it seems like a lot of photographers take pretty good care of their their camera equipment in a way that at least seems really quite usable for me so what I ended up with it at some point and I save a ton of money doing it too and I don't have to deal with the heavy depreciation because like by the time I I end up wanting to sell it it really hasn't moved that much in the marketplace a lot of the time you know it only ends up being like a few $100 to purchase that camera because when you sell it again you get a lot of that money back and as opposed to well I'll get into that story a second but but like when I made a purchase of it that camera was really quite new and it had appreciated a lot and value from the new price the new sticker price from the in the store in the camera store price to what it was when I bought it used so so it was a fantastic deal to kind of pick it up and find like a good one out there. So so yeah back in was it back in September I was hunting around in Oregon trying to find a good five D Mark three body so I was trying to debate a little bit I was looking around on eBay for five D Mark threes that would be available and I was looking around on kth and those are two locations that I kind of made purchases from before when I was making a purchase online. I like eBay and I sold a bunch of stuff on eBay I sold my a seminar on eBay, I sold my d3 when I that made a purchase the d3 I think from K h and I sold that d3 on eBay and I made my money back it was great, it worked pretty well. But when I was looking around I didn't really find the price point that I wanted for the five D Mark three line I think those are all running around 18 or 1900 bucks for the five D Mark three bodies are being sold but I'm sure I don't know it seemed like the market was a little lower than that at the time. And then when I looked on kth it was sort of the same story were ones that were in bargain condition you know where they'd been pretty beaten up or probably had been the you know, someone's wedding photography camera where it would really hammered out 100,000 or 200,000 frames already had a few seasons of weddings over the last couple of years and the person was trying to offload that gear and then you know upgrade to their their five D Mark for their one dx or something like that. So I kind of wanted to stay away from those in a way I'm sure they would have been functioning cameras and the way that they had been reported but there's really no way to like get an observation of the camera and its function in your hand while you have it to see that it's really like as clean or as in good condition as you'd want it to be for something that you're going to spend 18 $100 for when I was buying used cameras it was sub $1,000 purchases so it was like well you know, it's got a couple scuffs on it or something like that, but but really they were always quite nice in in their physical condition. So what I ended up deciding to do was instead of making a purchase on eBay or on kth what I decided to do was try and check out the the local marketplaces so I went on Craigslist to look at the classified listings that were there in the photo and video equipment for sale listing in my area. And I kind of scoured across Oregon to find you know a couple good pieces so I was trying to look in the Portland area. I was looking over in the bend area I was looking in the Eugene area and I was also looking up into like the Seattle and Tacoma area as well because I thought well you know if I need to then I'll drive up a little ways and I might save hundreds of dollars trying to make a purchase for a nice camera system. So I thought that might be a good idea. And then in addition to craigslist I was also getting into the Facebook marketplace where I was selling a ton of mag. My stuff from a house when I was trying to set up this move over here to Maui. So I was looking around at that I was saying well maybe I can check out and see if there's camera equipment that are also listed there too. And that actually worked out really well. I was pretty impressed with it. So for the camera bodies I found two canon five D Mark three bodies one of them I found over I'm banned for $1,000 flat which is incredible deal i think i think i got that brand on that one. It it had been used I think for for just like a single project that that someone had I think they don't need to have a business or they're paid to do it. So they made a purchase of a five D Mark three and then they shot like a series of web instruction like instructional videos for YouTube for a company that had purchased it and then they hadn't used that equipment in a while since then. So they were going to sell that camera off and get some of their money back. So I got the camera for $1,000 even which was fantastic. It really barely even had like rub marks on it on the base of it. You know like when you look at the camera body physically, the rubber was in fantastic shape. And the baseplate like where the tripod would go I think was the only area where there's a little bit of a scuff but it was fantastic. It was really cool that that it worked out so well for me so I made a purchase of that camera for 1000. Then I was looking around and I found another one up in the Portland area that a real estate agent had bought to take photographs of their property and then I think they'd found out that they didn't really want to five D Mark three but they wanted a Sony camera. And so they made a purchase of a Sony camera just a few months after that. And then to make up the cost of that purchase they wanted to sell off the Canon five D Mark three that they had and so I saw and I got the box too which is interesting I got the box for the five D Mark three had the receipt from the camera store that they bought it for it was you know 20 $600 when they bought it maybe 12 months ago or 11 months ago and I looked at the shutter count of it. There's maybe 1900 pictures have been taken on the camera body when I made a purchase of it so it was really almost like a brand new camera. I think I was put 1000 frames on it a day at the job that I had so 32:15 yeah it was I I've already broken it in quite a bit more than it had been when I made a purchase of it so it was really cool getting such a new camera for such a low price so saving a few $1,000 trying to put it put the these this package of equipment together was excellent and I was really happy to do that. And that was one thing I noticed about the the Canon US market is there's just and this is sort of back to that thing it's a bigger company and they're selling more cameras out there so it was cool that there's just so much used gear out in the market where as opposed to you know if I was looking for a D 100 on the Nikon side or or a D four or something like that it would be pretty hard to find those bodies I guess in that condition or you know in that way and then for that price it seemed like and same same goes for like a Canon one dx that I was trying to find that on the US market those are really held by professionals or sports photographers and those bodies were really be and still very expensive when I was looking around for them. But it seemed like there's so many people that were interested in doing wedding photography or doing photography as a hobby that they would kind of lean into the higher price range and pick up a five D Mark three and then find out why maybe I don't want it or maybe I want to switch over to a five D Mark for now. And so they were ditching those and offloading those for way lower prices. So it was excellent time to kind of come in pick those cameras up and and kind of start getting set up but the other thing I noticed is that Okay, so now we have the five D bodies. Now we're going to need lenses to work on these so what I was looking for was the the USM as well what was it the 24 to 70 f two a lenses that were for like the professional full frame cameras and I was fortunate to find those again on the Facebook marketplace I think I found one in the Eugene area and I got a USM 124 to 70 which was a great price and then I also found a USM 224 to 70 that had been used more I definitely could tell that it had been used more this even though was a newer version lens that it definitely had I think some more wear on it and that's that's probably the lens that though still works great still has great optical clarity but it's probably the one that seems the most tired when I'm using it sometimes so it's interesting sometimes but but I'm sure I probably put a ton of work on it to just kind of racking it back and forth trying to get all these different photographs I was trying to shoot so i don't know i lenses don't last forever and they're mechanical pieces. But but these are really well built you know these, these professional hourglass systems are really sturdy and well built and I was really impressed with how they were working. So I had a great time using it and I didn't really I seem to run into any problems while I was trying to produce produce photographs with it but I found yeah I found one of them one of the lenses in the Eugene area and then I found another one up in Portland so I drove up to pick that lens up and then add you know add to five D Mark threes and 224 to 70 f two eight lenses to throw on there to do a bunch of the family portrait stuff and a bunch of the you know kind of lifestyle images that I was trying to do so it was a great starting setup for me to kind of get and then move out from and so I had been working with that for a couple months and I've been trying to kind of expand from that since then and so the stuff that I'm looking for now well so I started looking into like some things for like real estate photography and one of the things that's always required for that stuff is is like a really wide angle lens. So when I was looking around with the company that I was working with they were looking for images between 17 millimeters full frame and 20 millimeters on a full frame camera and so I went ahead and I purchased the the 17 to 40 millimeter f four lens it was actually really quite inexpensive i mean you know, again coming from like the Nikon so when I thought like wow that's gonna be more than $1,000 to pick up to pick up a lens for it was really low price I think it was about $520 to buy a new 17 to 40 millimeter 36:30 lens that was like that Yeah, the f4 that I was talking about. So I picked that one up to do some of the real estate photography and that amortize pretty quickly to get into it to use that for real estate jobs. It kind of paid for itself just in a couple jobs along without the cameras themselves and the 24 to 70 sort of paid for themselves by hammering out a bunch of family portrait sessions with them. So both of those things kind of worked out pretty well but in addition to that what I'm looking for is like the 50 millimeter f one four lens I was looking at that too and I'm looking at those new because and this is sort of i'm saying is it's just it seems like Canon lens prices are sort of dropping down a bit maybe there's newer lenses and I know there's you know the there's way higher end lenses but the 50 millimeter f one for kind of lower end lens perhaps is I think 299 which is really super cheap i think that's that's what I paid for a 35 millimeter dx lens on my on my old camera system, you know, on the Nikon stuff so so I was I think what was it like that the 28 millimeter f two lens I had for my Sony camera that was like 450 bucks when I bought it used right so it was awesome to find to find like that 50 millimeter f1 for for 299 and then in addition to that, for other portrait stuff, if I wanted to do it, I could pick up an 85 millimeter f1 eight for 299 also and I was like wow these are way more reasonable price ranges then then what I thought so it just really for for not that much, you could probably put together a full range of prime lenses that I'd want to use and I could put together a full range of zoom lenses that I wanted to use that were all kind of higher end glass that that would be great for you know, professional stuff, or the lifestyle stuff or the you know, whatever kind of photography stuff I wanted to expand into. And then on top of that I 38:25 was looking at the though I would love an FTA I was looking at the zoom lenses and one thing I've kind of learned from this job that I was working with is is really when you're working with compression and like when you're working like with with zoom and you're using the compression of the lens past you know 70 millimeters like into the 80 millimeter or 100 millimeter out to 200 f two A is a is a real soft and a lot of times if especially if you're taking pictures of a couple people together and you're not trying to just rack right into to focus in on an eye and even when you're taking a picture a portrait of someone you really have to kind of crank it up to f4 f5 to get a depth of field that's thick enough to get their their nose, their eyes in their ear in focus and the way that you'd need to and it seems like well you know, like love super shallow depth of field but it seems like you want to get the person in focus so you got to get a few parts of them and focus. Remember taking self portraits you know like I hold the camera out in front of me with the with the Canon 50 millimeter one eight. I tried to take a picture of Marina and I somewhere and I remember Marina would be just just on the plane in front of me, you know, because we're trying to stand right next to each other and maybe I would be in focus. But then Marina just one or two inches in front of my nose would be completely out of focus. It would look just like a super blurry kind of washed area because the depth of field was so shallow. That's where I was trying to, you know, kind of finally learning like oh yeah, okay, so maybe f1 eight isn't absolutely what you have to have for every photograph that you take or f1 for or whatever might be, so I was gonna find in that part out where Okay, well I'm gonna have to rack this out to like f5 or f8 anyway to get a sharp photograph of the thing that I'm trying to get an image of. So I have kind of rounded out that I'm going to be fine for a lot of the landscape photography that I'm interested in doing, I'm going to be fine kind of jumping into lenses that are around that f4 line. So I was looking at the the USM 72 200 f4 lens that they have. And so I think it's, I think that the two eight, the f2 eight lens that's 70 to 200 is like around 1500 bucks, but the f4 is about 600 bucks, I think it's like 599 to pick up a 70 to 200 USM lens now it doesn't have the image stabilization on Nikon, I call it vibration reduction is that right? But it doesn't have the image stabilization and I think it is probably lacking some of the some other additional features because I know there's two versions after that, that escalate in price quite a bit. But if you're looking for that older one, it's still available on Amazon for 599, which is a great price. If you want to get a 70 to 200 I think that was really cool and there's a lot of things you could do with it. Again, like I was saying with the compression, if you're going out to 225 millimetres and you're shooting it f4 that's going to give you a really nice bokeh in the background. And you're going to get the person in focus if you need to, if you're shooting a portrait and if you're shooting some kind of landscape or wildlife scene, you're going to be able to do a lot with that too. You're just gonna have a lot of flexibility in what you're able to do I love fast lenses I'd really like to always push for you to wait or have 1.2 or something like that but but I'm loving the fact that there's an opportunity for me to get a whole range of focal lengths as I'm trying to transition over into new gear for a much much lower price than what I was expecting so I think that's pretty cool I've been pretty happy with this transition over into canon equipment so far and it's been it's been interesting you know the the thing that I'm thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources, some links to books and links to some podcasts like this a blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode and the back end. Thank you Next

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