Podcasts about photoshop elements

I talk about my migration from Adobe Photoshop Elements to digiKam as photo catalog software, or DAM Digital Asset Management as it often is referred to nowadays. My latest was release 14 which I bought 2015, which also was when I migrated from Windows to macOS. Photoshop Elements is without hesitation a good software. One major drawback is that is a proprietary software from which I cannot export data on my conditions. After a few of years on release 14 the geotagging stopped working. The error message told that this was caused by a change by Google. Adobe Photoshop Elements had a fix for this error - but only incorporated in the next release of the software. No fix was planned for my release. So to get geotagging working again, I would have to buy a new release. I also got problem that it now and then crashed and needed to be restarted. Something needed to be done. I considered if I should buy a new release of Photoshop Elements or change to any other software. At the same time I also became more attracted to Linux. I also became more interested in free and open software. A big drawback with changing to something else than Adobe is that I most certainly will loose some of the work I have put into photos in Photoshop Elements. The Photo editing data and raw conversion settings for individual photos will be lost. This is almost impossible to migrate between software. What can be done is to save what I have edited as new photos. I am fine with this, it will not stop me from changing software. Meta data is very important to me. Meta data contains not only information about the shooting from the camera itself. But also my tags, description texts and more I had added in Photoshop Elements. Meta data also includes face tagging. This goes both for digital camera photos as well as digitized analog photos. Criteria for my new software: Preferable free and open source Available on multiple platforms, in particular available on macOS and Linux That meta data can be migrated including face tagging The one that I found to best meet my criteria is digiKam. DigiKam is mostly known for its catalog capabilities. But digiKam also includes import and export functions as well as raw conversion and photo editing. My migration. Photoshop Elements stores the data in a data base. It is possible to export metadata to files and sidecars. But not all data. Face tagging cannot be exported. The name of the person can be exported but not the coordinates of the face tag which only is stored in the data base. The data base itself cannot be read by other software, except by Adobe software: Adobe Lightroom Classic can import the data from Photoshop Elements data base into its own data base. This was very important for my migration success. Lightroom can export also the face tagging. I discovered an issue with the time- and datestamps. In Photoshop Elements it is possible to give incomplete date and time, for example only state the year if I do not know all details. Already Lightroom had problem to interpret this information correctly and I had to implement a workaround with tags. In general, several time and date attributes exist and it is something to understand what is what and how each of the is defined, displayed and managed in the software. From Lightroom Classic I exported meta data including face tags to files and sidecars. And migration to digiKam worked good enough. I still have access to my Photoshop Elements database if I want to go back and check anything. My next step was to migrate from digiKam on macOS to digiKam on Linux. This migration was relatively easy. My current settings in digiKam is to always write data to sidecars, in addition to the digiKam data bases. So I copied photo files and sidecars from macOS to Linux. I took the opportunity to rearrange my folder structure. Then I imported into digiKam and digiKam built new data bases in Linux based on photos and sidecars.

The Mogollon culture was an indigenous culture in the Western United States and Mexico that ranged from New Mexico and Arizona to Sonora, Mexico and out to Texas. They flourished from around 200 CE until the Spanish showed up and claimed their lands. The cultures that pre-existed them date back thousands more years, although archaeology has yet to pinpoint exactly how those evolved. Like many early cultures, they farmed and foraged. As they farmed more, their homes become more permanent and around 800 CE they began to create more durable homes that helped protect them from wild swings in the climate. We call those homes adobes today and the people who lived in those peublos and irrigated water, often moving higher into mountains, we call the Peubloans - or Pueblo Peoples. Adobe homes are similar to those found in ancient cultures in what we call Turkey today. It's an independent evolution. Adobe Creek was once called Arroyo de las Yeguas by the monks from Mission Santa Clara and then renamed to San Antonio Creek by a soldier Juan Prado Mesa when the land around it was given to him by the governor of Alto California at the time, Juan Bautista Alvarado. That's the same Alvarado as the street if you live in the area. The creek runs for over 14 miles north from the Black Mountain and through Palo Alto, California. The ranchers built their adobes close to the creeks. American settlers led the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846, and took over the garrison of Sonoma, establishing the California Republic - which covered much of the lands of the Peubloans. There were only 33 of them at first, but after John Fremont (yes, he of whom that street is named after as well) encouraged the Americans, they raised an army of over 100 men and Fremont helped them march on Sutter's fort, now with the flag of the United States, thanks to Joseph Revere of the US Navy (yes, another street in San Francisco bears his name).  James Polk had pushed to expand the United States. Manfiest Destiny. Remember The Alamo. Etc. The fort at Monterey fell, the army marched south. Admiral Sloat got involved. They named a street after him. General Castro surrendered - he got a district named after him. Commodore Stockton announced the US had taken all of Calfironia soon after that. Manifest destiny was nearly complete. He's now basically the patron saint of a city, even if few there know who he was. The forts along the El Camino Real that linked the 21 Spanish Missions, a 600-mile road once walked by their proverbial father, Junípero Serra following the Portolá expedition of 1769, fell. Stockton took each, moving into Los Angeles, then San Diego. Practically all of Alto California fell with few shots. This was nothing like the battles for the independence of Texas, like when Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission.  Meanwhile, the waters of Adobe Creek continued to flow. The creek was renamed in the 1850s after Mesa built an adobe on the site. Adobe Creek it was. Over the next 100 years, the area evolved into a paradise with groves of trees and then groves of technology companies. The story of one begins a little beyond the borders of California.  Utah was initialy explored by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540 and settled by Europeans in search of furs and others who colonized the desert, including those who established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons - who settled there in 1847, just after the Bear Flag Revolt. The United States officially settled for the territory in 1848 and Utah became a territory and after a number of map changes wher ethe territory got smaller, was finally made a state in 1896. The University of Utah had been founded all the way back in 1850, though - and re-established in the 1860s.  100 years later, the University of Utah was a hotbed of engineers who pioneered a number of graphical advancements in computing. John Warnock went to grad school there and then went on to co-found Adobe and help bring us PostScript. Historically, PS, or Postscript was a message to be placed at the end of a letter, following the signature of the author. The PostScript language was a language to describe a page of text computationally. It was created by Adobe when Warnock, Doug Brotz, Charles Geschke, Bill Paxton (who worked on the Mother of All Demos with Doug Englebart during the development of Online System, or NLS in the late 70s and then at Xerox PARC), and Ed Taft. Warnock invented the Warnock algorithm while working on his PhD and went to work at Evans & Sutherland with Ivan Sutherland who effectively created the field of computer graphics. Geschke got his PhD at Carnegie Melon in the early 1970s and then went of to Xerox PARC. They worked with Paxton at PARC and before long, these PhDs and mathematicians had worked out the algorithms and then the languages to display images on computers while working on InterPress graphics at Xerox and Gerschke left Xerox and started Adobe. Warnock joined them and they went to market with Interpress as PostScript, which became a foundation for the Apple LaswerWriter to print graphics.  Not only that, PostScript could be used to define typefaces programmatically and later to display any old image.    Those technologies became the foundation for the desktop publishing industry. Apple released the 1984 Mac and other vendors brought in PostScript to describe graphics in their proprietary fashion and by 1991 they released PostScript Level 2 and then PostScript 3 in 1997. Other vendors made their own or furthered standards in their own ways and Adobe could have faded off into the history books of computing. But Adobe didn't create one product, they created an industry and the company they created to support that young industry created more products in that mission.  Steve Jobs tried to buy Adobe before that first Mac as released, for $5,000,000. But Warnock and Geschke had a vision for an industry in mind. They had a lot of ideas but development was fairly capital intensive, as were go to market strategies. So they went public on the NASDAQ in 1986. They expanded their PostScript distribution and sold it to companies like Texas Instruments for their laser printer, and other companies who made IBM-compatible companies. They got up to $16 million in sales that year. Warnock's wife was a graphic designer. This is where we see a diversity of ideas help us think about more than math. He saw how she worked and could see a world where Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad was much more given how far CPUs had come since the TX-0 days at MIT. So Adobe built and released Illustrator in 1987. By 1988 they broke even on sales and it raked in $19 million in revenue. Sales were strong in the universities but PostScript was still the hot product, selling to printer companies, typesetters, and other places were Adobe signed license agreements.  At this point, we see where the math, cartesian coordinates, drawn by geometric algorithms put pixels where they should be. But while this was far more efficient than just drawing a dot in a coordinate for larger images, drawing a dot in a pixel location was still the easier technology to understand.  They created Adobe Screenline in 1989 and Collectors Edition to create patterns. They listened to graphic designers and built what they heard humans wanted. Photoshop Nearly every graphic designer raves about Adobe Photoshop. That's because Photoshop is the best selling graphics editorial tool that has matured far beyond most other traditional solutions and now has thousands of features that allow users to manipulate images in practically any way they want.  Adobe Illustrator was created in 1987 and quickly became the de facto standard in vector-based graphics. Photoshop began life in 1987 as well, when Thomas and John Knoll, wanted to build a simpler tool to create graphics on a computer. Rather than vector graphics they created a raster graphical editor.  They made a deal with Barneyscan, a well-known scanner company that managed to distribute over two hundred copies of Photoshop with their scanners and Photoshop became a hit as it was the first editing software people heard about. Vector images are typically generated with Cartesian coordinates based on geometric formulas and so scale out more easily. Raster images are comprised of a grid of dots, or pixels, and can be more realistic.  Great products are rewarded with competitions. CorelDRAW was created in 1989 when Michael Bouillon and Pat Beirne built a tool to create vector illustrations. The sales got slim after other competitors entered the market and the Knoll brothers got in touch with Adobe and licensed the product through them. The software was then launched as Adobe Photoshop 1 in 1990. They released Photoshop 2 in 1991. By now they had support for paths, and given that Adobe also made Illustrator, EPS and CMYK rasterization, still a feature in Photoshop.  They launched Adobe Photoshop 2.5 in 1993, the first version that could be installed on Windows. This version came with a toolbar for filters and 16-bit channel support. Photoshop 3 came in 1994 and Thomas Knoll created what was probably one of the most important features added, and one that's become a standard in graphical applications since, layers. Now a designer could create a few layers that each had their own elements and hide layers or make layers more transparent. These could separate the subject from the background and led to entire new capabilities, like an almost faux 3 dimensional appearance of graphics..  Then version four in 1996 and this was one of the more widely distributed versions and very stable. They added automation and this was later considered part of becoming a platform - open up a scripting language or subset of a language so others built tools that integrated with or sat on top of those of a product, thus locking people into using products once they automated tasks to increase human efficiency.  Adobe Photoshop 5.0 added editable type, or rasterized text. Keep in mind that Adobe owned technology like PostScript and so could bring technology from Illustrator to Photoshop or vice versa, and integrate with other products - like export to PDF by then. They also added a number of undo options, a magnetic lasso, improved color management and it was now a great tool for more advanced designers. Then in 5.5 they added a save for web feature in a sign of the times. They could created vector shapes and continued to improve the user interface. Adobe 5 was also a big jump in complexity. Layers were easy enough to understand, but Photoshop was meant to be a subset of Illustrator features and had become far more than that. So in 2001 they released Photoshop Elements. By now they had a large portfolio of products and Elements was meant to appeal to the original customer base - the ones who were beginners and maybe not professional designers. By now, some people spent 40 or more hours a day in tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.  Adobe Today Adobe had released PostScript, Illustrator, and Photoshop. But they have one of the most substantial portfolios of products of any company. They also released Premiere in 1991 to get into video editing. They acquired Aldus Corporation to get into more publishing workflows with PageMaker. They used that acquisition to get into motion graphics with After Effects. They acquired dozens of companies and released their products as well. Adobe also released the PDF format do describe full pages of information (or files that spread across multiple pages) in 1993 and Adobe Acrobat to use those. Acrobat became the de facto standard for page distribution so people didn't have to download fonts to render pages properly. They dabbled in audio editing when they acquired Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium Software and so now sell Adobe Audition.  Adobe's biggest acquisition was Macromedia in 2005. Here, they added a dozen new products to the portfolio, which included Flash, Fireworks, WYSYWIG web editor Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flex, and Breeze, which is now called Adobe Connect. By now, they'd also created what we call Creative Suite, which are packages of applications that could be used for given tasks. Creative Suite also signaled a transition into a software as a service, or SaaS mindset. Now customers could pay a monthly fee for a user license rather than buy large software packages each time a new version was released. Adobe had always been a company who made products to create graphics. They expanded into online marketing and web analytics when they bought Omniture in 2009 for $1.8 billion. These products are now normalized into the naming convention used for the rest as Adobe Marketing Cloud. Flash fell by the wayside and so the next wave of acquisitions were for more mobile-oriented products. This began with Day Software and then Nitobi in 2011. And they furthered their Marketing Cloud support with an acquisition of one of the larger competitors when they acquired Marketo in 2018 and acquiring Workfront in 2020.  Given how many people started working from home, they also extended their offerings into pure-cloud video tooling with an acquisition of Frame.io in 2021. And here we see a company started by a bunch of true computer sciencists from academia in the early days of the personal computer that has become far more. They could have been rolled into Apple but had a vision of a creative suite of products that could be used to make the world a prettier place. Creative Suite then Creative Cloud shows a move of the same tools into a more online delivery model. Other companies come along to do similar tasks, like infinite digital whiteboard Miro - so they have to innovate to stay marketable. They have to continue to increase sales so they expand into other markets like the most adjacent Marketing Cloud.  At 22,500+ employees and with well over $12 billion in revenues, they have a lot of families dependent on maintaining that growth rate. And so the company becomes more than the culmination of their software. They become more than graphic design, web design, video editing, animation, and visual effects. Because in software, if revenues don't grow at a rate greater than 10 percent per year, the company simply isn't outgrowing the size of the market and likely won't be able to justify stock prices at an inflated earnings to price ratio that shows explosive growth. And yet once a company saturates sales in a given market they have shareholders to justify their existence to. Adobe has survived many an economic downturn and boom time with smart, measured growth and is likely to continue doing so for a long time to come.

247 Affinity - der "günstige" Weg für Bildbearbeitung, Desktop Publishing und VektordesignIch habe vor langer Zeit einige Jahre für Adobe gearbeitet, somit stellte mich die neueste Version von Photoshop oder auch Acrobat nie vor ein Problem. Aber nach dieser Zeit habe ich nicht jede Lizenz weitergepflegt, sodass eines Tages der Tag der Wahrheit kam: bezahlen, Alternative oder einfach lassen. Bezahlen nervt mich als Privatperson, seitdem Adobe Milliarden über teure Abomodelle absaugt. Lassen, klar, kein Ding - aber würde ich das hier schreiben, wenn ich es gelassen hätte? Nur gut, dass gerade vom Liebling Photoshop die "kleine Bruder"-Version wieder ausgegraben wurde und somit bezahlbar blieb. Aber was, wenn ich mein CorelDraw nicht mehr zahlen möchte? Oder ich doch plötzlich wieder mehr Desktop Publishing in mein Leben bringen will - und schon ist der Funktionsumfang von Photoshop Elements zu wenig! Generell gefragt: Geht das für Privat, Verein oder Einzelunternehmer überhaupt zu Kosten, die nicht erst wieder über Monate hinweg verdient werden wollen? Oder nur mit so viel Einschränkung in der jeweiligen Software, dass es auch keinen Spaß macht? Kurz gesagt: Es geht und es muss auch kein Vermögen sein. Das Zauberwort ist Affinity! Affinity Photo - preiswerte Alternative zur Bildbearbeitung, die sich nicht hinter großen Konkurrenten verstecken muss / Bild/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Photoshop sagt, so meine Erfahrung, mehr oder weniger jedem etwas. Und, sofern derjenige nicht selbstständiger Designer oder Fotograf ist, geht sofort das - zu Recht! - Wehklagen über das Abo- und Preismodell von Adobe einher. Meine erste Photoshop-Lizenz war für Version 2.5, in der Box von meinem damaligen Scanner. Allerdings kann ich mich noch an Zeiten erinnern, da hat eine "volle", also kein Update oder Upgrade, Photoshop-Lizenz knapp 1.500 Mark gekostet - mit voller Update-Power über die Jahre. Mit den Euros waren es dann später um die 1.200 €. Dann kam die Creative Suite, die mehrere Software-Produkte in eine Box gepackt hat und schon stand mindestens eine Zwei ganz vorn. Und heute? Heute gibt es Abos der sogenannten Creative Cloud. Und hier liegt Photoshop im Abo bei einem monatlichen Preis von 24 €, also unter 300 € pro Jahr - und das immer in neuester Version, mit allen Funktionen. Dafür, dass man immer die aktuelle Version bekommt, hört sich das preislich sicherlich nicht schlecht an. Aber... es kostet eben Monat für Monat, ob man es nun nutzt, benötigt oder eben Geld damit verdient. Und wenn du inzwischen mehr als Photoshop benötigst? Dann steigt der Preis, ein Acrobat obendrauf sind im Monat gut 24 €, und als Designer hast du meist noch InDesign und Illustrator auf der Platte, weitere zweimal 24 €. Also, 4x24 €/Monat, somit knapp 96 € im Monat oder 1.152 € im Jahr. Gut, das bekommst du günstiger, wenn du für etwas über 62 € gleich alles von Adobe aus einem Segment, also Druck oder Video, im Monat abonnierst, dann landest du bei um die 745 € im Jahr. Allerdings sind Abomodelle wie ein Casino: Es gewinnt immer nur die Bank! Entweder bindest du dich für ein Jahr - oder du lässt es. Und dann sind aber auch alle bisher genutzten Lizenzen weg und die zurückbleibenden Daten wertlos, gerade die Adobe-eignen Dateiendungen schreien nach den Software-Werkzeugen der Firma! Somit ergießen sich hin und wieder ein paar Shitstorms auf Adobe, die dieser aber bisher alle überlebt und weiterhin seine Gewinne gesteigert hat und so zahlen seine Kunden auch brav die entsprechenden Lizenzgebühren. Und schon könnte hier Schluss sein - wäre da nicht die Frage nach ebenbürtigen Alternativen. Und ja, die gibt es. Aber meist eine Anwendung von einem Anbieter, somit habt ihr für einen Bild-Layout-PDF-Workflow gut und gerne mal vier Produkte von fünf Anbietern im Einsatz. Und "Workflow" ist auch eher viel manuelle Arbeit, die in den Anfängen viel Mühe kostet und auch den Kauf bzw. Ersatz einer Software, die sich nach Installation doch als unpassend herausstellte. Umso besser, dass es für Photoshop, CorelDraw oder Illustrator und auch InDesign ebenbürtige Lösungen gibt. Aus einer Hand. Mit Sachverstand und hoher Qualität. Und nicht im Abo. Und, ganz frisch, in Version 2 und nun auch mit einem Funktionsumfang, der sich sehen lassen kann. Und preislich sowohl für privat oder eben gewerblich problemlos bezahlbar: Affinity! Bisher, so mein Eindruck, eher noch ein Geheimtipp - aber seit alle drei Anwendungen neu als Version 2 auf den Markt gekommen sind, spülte sich die Nachricht quer durch die Nachrichten-Portale. Und auch die preislichen Black Friday Angebote konnten sich sehen lassen. Aber keine Panik, wenn du das verpasst hast oder jetzt zum ersten Mal hörst: Die drei Produkte zusammen oder nur eines allein kannst du dir problemlos leisten! Schauen wir doch mal rein, von grob nach fein: Affinity Photo, eine Software zur Erstellung oder Retusche von Bildmaterial auf Pixelbasis aller Art. Mit Ebenen, Effekten und alles, was man von einer modernen Bildbearbeitung so erwartet, Kostenpunkt: 85 €, in letzter Zeit gab es immer mal wieder Aktionen, der Tiefstpreis bisher lag, soweit ich es mitbekommen habe, bei knapp unter 50 €. Ich fürchte, die meisten von euch hören hier mit lesen auf und klicken sofort auf die Seite. Aber langsam! Da gibt es noch zwei Produkte mehr! Mit Affinity Designer konnte ich endlich meine etwas ergraute Version von CorelDraw von der Platte fegen: Logos erstellen, Vektorgrafiken bauen und bearbeiten und, wenn es eilt, auch mal einseitige Layouts gestalten, mit Profiwerkzeugen. Besonders schön: Designer ist nicht nur auf Vektorgrafiken limitiert, es gibt auch Erstellungs- und Bearbeitungsmöglichkeiten für Rastergrafiken. Auch hier, im Einzelkauf unter 85 € - oder eben einem aktuellen Sonderangebotspreis, auch hier überwiegend unter 50 €! Affinity Designer mit mitgelieferter Vorlage, damit habe ich mein CorelDraw ersetzt / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Tja, was fehlt nun noch im Agenturalltag - richtig, Desktop-Publishing. Wie wäre es mit Affinity Publisher? Seitenlayout für Print, Broschüren, Berichte oder Großformatiges. Und, ich glaube, ihr kommt schon darauf: unter 85 € oder nach aktueller Sonderrate. Endlich Schluss mit den endlosen Versuchen, ein vernünftiges Layout mit Word oder auf Umwege in CorelDraw zu zaubern. Kein InDesign mehr nötig, es macht der Publisher von Affinity! / Bild-Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Und das beste: der Gesamtpreis aller drei zusammen kostet sagenumwobene 200 € (oder nach Aktion weniger)! Aktuelle Version aller drei Produkte: 2.0.3. Und das schönste: die Version zwei ist erst seit ein paar Monaten auf dem Markt. Am besten über die offizielle Webseite kaufen! Und ja, ihr Macianer, die drei Apps gibt es neben macOS ebenfalls käuflich für des Designers iPad. Soweit ich auf der Webseite gesehen habe, den Sinn mal dahingestellt, ist der Publisher 1:1 auf dem iPad verfügbar. Und ja: es handelt sich hierbei um installierbare und Update-berechtigte Versionen, die ihr wirklich einfach so behalten und nutzen könnt! Kein Abo. Keine weiteren versteckten Kosten - von den Erweiterungen, die je Paket optional angeboten werden, wie z.B. Kreativ-Pinsel und Ähnliches abgesehen. Jetzt mal ran an die Details: 1. Photo Ich muss gestehen, auch wenn viel Ähnlichkeit zu anderen Produkten besteht, man muss sich in die Arbeitsweisen und auch die Werkzeuge reinfuchsen. Am deutlichsten, weil ich einfach am meisten tagtäglich damit arbeite, merke ich es selbst heute noch mit Photo. Kleines Beispiel: In Photoshop möchte ich auf die Schnelle aus einem "großen" Bild ein Passfoto meines Gesichts ausschneiden: Freistellungswerkzeug, Maße eingeben (4,5 auf 3,5 cm) und den Rahmen aufziehen und freistellen. Fertig. In Photo habe ich zwar ebenfalls ein Freistellwerkzeug, auch hier kann ich Werte eingeben - allerdings schneidet mir der Rahmen dann fix die Größe des Rahmens aus und nicht die Maße, die ich hinterlegt hatte. Die Möglichkeit, den mit Maßen versehenen Rahmen aufzuziehen und er schneidet und verkleinert in einem konnte ich in Photo bisher nicht so einfach nachbilden. Und Affinity hat sich meiner Meinung nach viel Mühe gegeben, dass wir Photoshop User uns mit den Paletten und auch in Teilen der Menüs sofort zurechtfinden. Was alle drei Anwendungen eint, sind Spezialworkfunktionen, die sogenannten Personas. Folgende Personas sind in Photo: Photo ist die Hauptoberfläche, in der die Musik spielt. Erstellen von Pixelbildern oder Bearbeitung und Retusche von Bild-/Aufnahmen aller Art Liquify kann auf eine Ebene des Bildes angewandt werden und tut genau, was der Titel der Persona sagt: mit einem Pinselschwingen verwische ich wie feuchte Farbe, was auch immer auf der Ebene liegt. Schick! Develop ist für die RAW-Künstler unter euch das Modul, in dem entwickelt und optimiert oder angepasst wird Tone Mapping lässt euch das Bild dank Vorlagen von schwarz-weiß bis detaillierte Farben betonen Export macht erwartungsgemäß, was man erwartet: Ich kann das Bild zerschneiden ("Slice") und dann in einem gängigen Format exportieren. Schön, wenn auch aktuell wohl nicht mehr lange der "neueste" Schrei, direkter Export ins WebP-Format möglich. So genannte "Personas", ich übersetze mir das als "Spezialfunktionen" bieten alle drei in den jeweiligen Anwendungen. Schicke Erweiterung für den Funktionsumfang im täglichen Arbeitsablauf, hier von Photo / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de 2. Designer Aber auch Designer denkt anders als mein bisheriges CorelDraw. Und ja, es kann mehrseitige Layouts, aber per Umweg über die sogenannten Artboards, die ihr beim Anlegen einer neuen Datei unter den Einstellungen für die Papiergröße per Klick hinzufügen könnt. Und auch, wenn ihr noch ein paar CorelDraw-Dateien habt, werdet ihr enttäuscht sein, dass das direkte Öffnen nicht klappt. Wartet also noch mit der Deinstallation von Corel, ihr braucht es wahrscheinlich noch: Die gewünschte Datei, egal ob ein- oder mehrseitig, in Corel öffnen und als PDF3/X-3 exportieren. Diese Datei kann der Designer öffnen - und in den meisten Fällen kann ohne Nacharbeit oder Korrekturen sofort im Designer weitergearbeitet werden. Auch und erst recht bei mehrseitigen Dokumenten. So genannte "Personas", ich übersetze mir das als "Spezialfunktionen" bieten alle drei in den jeweiligen Anwendungen. Schicke Erweiterung für den Funktionsumfang im täglichen Workflow! / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Originär ist der Designer ein Vektor-basiertes Werkzeug. Allerdings stoßen Vektorgrafiken immer wieder an Grenzen, somit werden "Mischgrafiken" gebraucht, die auch mit Pixeln arbeiten können. Nur so kommt die heutzutage gewöhnte "Realität" auch in kantenscharfe Vektorbilder. Affinity löst dies beim Designer durch eine Pixel Persona, eure Vektorgrafik wird in diese Spezialfunktion übernommen und kann nun mit speziellen Pixel-Ebenen und -Werkzeugen entsprechend überarbeitet oder ergänzt werden. Die dritte Persona ist der bekannte Export-Bereich, ihr habt hier wieder die Möglichkeit, auf alle Dateiformate zurückzugreifen. Aber Vorsicht: es ist kein CAD- oder Architekturwerkzeug, daher bleibt bei den bekannten Bild-Formaten. Was mir fehlt, ist eine Umwandlung in Vektorbilder. Ich brauche das nicht oft, aber wenn ich es benötige, geht es schon um Vorlagen, die man nicht unbedingt händisch nachziehen möchte! Eine passende Funktion versteckt sich nicht in den Menüs, auch in der Pixel-Persona konnte ich nichts finden. Ebenso würde ich mir eine Import-Funktion für bekannte Mitbewerber wünschen. Muss zwar für die "Vektorisierung" CorelDraw ganz hinten auf der Platte halten, aber blöd, dass ich das auch für die Umwandlung der Dateien brauche, wie zuvor beschrieben. Da ich mit Illustrator nie bis gar nicht gearbeitet habe, kann ich hier keine Parallelen ziehen. Was CorelDraw angeht, ist Corel eben ein paar Versionen und Reifungsgrade weiter - allerdings fühle ich mich bei der Oberfläche und den gebotenen Werkzeugen wohler als bei CorelDraw, trotz Jahre der Nutzung. 3. Publisher Wie schon ein paar mal erwähnt, hier kann ich am wenigsten sagen, da ich zuletzt mit Quark XPress auf einem Mac vor über zehn Jahren das letzte Mal echtes und druckbares Desktop Publishing gemacht habe. Ich habe seit 2004 meine Schwerpunkte von Print auf Web verändert, daher keine Entwicklungen bei InDesign oder Quark XPress verfolgt. ...und eine letzte, sogenannte "Personas", ich übersetze mir das als "Spezialfunktionen" bieten alle drei in den jeweiligen Anwendungen. Schicke Erweiterung für den Funktionsumfang im täglichen Workflow, hier von Designer! / Bild-/Quelle: ibdnhubzs.de Ich fange hier mit den Personas an, die Nutzern schnell sehr bekannt vorkommen: In Designer verstecken sich unter den Personas Photo als auch Designer. Somit habe ich die geballte Funktionsvielfalt der kompletten Suite in Designer mit einem Mausklick. Was mich ein wenig geärgert hat, ist die Tatsache, dass die Layouts und die zugrunde liegenden Seitenformatierungen sehr starr sind. Ich fertige hier meine monatlichen Mediadaten. Wenn ich nun die erste Seite in Form ihrer alleinstehenden Titelseite für meine 1. Seite nutze - analog zu letzter Seite, Seite 4 - bekomme ich diese im Druck immer und ausschließlich als A4-Seite gedruckt. Und die letzte auch so. Nur der Doppelbogen wird, wie gewünscht und angelegt, als zwei A5-Blätter auf einem A4-Blatt gedruckt. Das kenne ich von früher komfortabler. Dazu kleine Anekdote: Ihr habt vielleicht im obenstehenden Screenshot schon erkannt, dass ich meine Blog- und Podcast-Mediadaten mit dem Publisher mache. Praktisch und schick, nicht mit der früheren Notlösung "Word-Version" zu vergleichen. Allerdings, obwohl ich 1:1 die November-Final-Version verwendet habe, hatte ich im Druck und auch im PDF auf der linken äußeren Umschlagseite, also Seite 4 von 4, aus dem Nichts eine feine 1-Pixel-Linie. Für mich unerklärlich, erst recht, da sie im Layout am Bildschirm nicht zu finden war. Die Kernbestandteile des Layouts habe ich ohnehin gegen Veränderung geschützt, in erster Linie ersetze ich Zahlen und Fakten jeden Monat. Wo kommt also diese Linie her? Irgendwann spät abends dämmerte es mir: Das ist keine Linie, das gehört zu der Box, die auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite, also Seite 1, ganz am linken Rand steht. Da hatte ich für die Dezember-Version ein wenig gespielt und optimiert - und siehe da, unbemerkt die Box um genau ein Pixel auf die gegenüberliegende Seite "geschoben". Nachdem ich es endlich gefunden hatte, war ich echt begeistert, über die absolute Genauigkeit des Publishers! Dafür bringt der Publisher eine schöne und fast fehlerfreie Import-Funktion von Word-Dokumenten, auch in Hinblick auf Fußnoten. Auch probeweise hat mich die mitgebrachte Inhaltsverzeichniserstellung überzeugt. Dies täuscht aber nicht darüber hinweg, dass die aktuelle Version noch nicht durch Plugins im Funktionsumfang erweitert werden kann. FAZIT: Wer also Bildbearbeitung, Vektorgrafiken und/oder Desktop-Publishing nicht nur vom Marktführer, sondern zu einem soliden Preis und dann ohne Abo haben möchte, aber auch vom Funktionsumfang nicht zurückstecken will, besucht die Affinity-Webseite. Ich habe mittlerweile Photoshop Elements, was mich die letzten Jahre jährlich die Kosten einer neuen Update-Version gekostet hat, komplett vom Rechner entfernt, die alte CorelDraw-Lizenz steht in den nächsten Wochen ebenfalls kurz davor. Ich bin bisher weder in Photo noch einem der beiden anderen Tools, wobei ich die nicht tagtäglich nutze, an Grenzen oder fehlende Funktionen gekommen. Allerdings klappt nicht alles so, wie ich es gewohnt bin bzw. bringt unerwartete Resultate. Klar ist auch, dass ich mich über durchdachte Bezahlversionen, die nichts zu Wünschen übrig lassen, freue. Erst recht zu diesem Preis - und mit Update-Garantie für die aktuelle Version. Schaut euch die drei Softwares mal an, würde mich nicht wundern, wenn die auch morgen plötzlich bei dir auf dem Rechner im Einsatz sind! PodCast abonnieren: | direkt | iTunes | Spotify | Google | amazon | STOLZ PRODUZIERT UND AUFGENOMMEN MIT Ultraschall5 Folge direkt herunterladen

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

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I'm Fred Fishkin.        Adobe is once again out with updates to its Elements programs…Photoshop Elements for still images and Premier Elements for video…and both feature more AI…and features that are much easier and less expensive than Adobe's...

Episode 352 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer Hugh Mitchell In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener:Photographer, Hugh Mitchell. Thanks Hugh! Sponsors: - Fujifilm's 52 weeks of FREE education.  Build Your Legacy with Fujifilm- Get 20% off at Tenba.com with offer code PetaPixel20 - Get 20% off at BenroUSA.com with offer code PetaPixel20- Get 20% off at PhottixUS.com with offer code PetaPixel20- More at LensShark.com/deals. 5DayDeal's Photography Bundle 2021: - bitly.com/thatdeal Stories: A Karen causes a photographer trouble on a plane. (#) Fiverr acquires Creative Live. (#) Luminar AI sees some fixes and updates. (#) Photoshop Elements 2022 is released. (#) A 40mm macro is released by TTArtisan. (#) Capture One rights a wrong. (#) Canon's dual 5.2mm lens is oddly familiar. (#) Panasonic's new L-mount box camera. (#) Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We'd love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you're listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

We are talking about all things mindset! This is something that I have decided to do in 2021 and I am taking massive actions to accomplish this goal. I just want to talk about leveling up our mindset and some steps that we can take to do that. Did you know, we are on autopilot 45% of our day? This is because we are all in a habit loop.  Habit loops are things that we subconsciously complete during the day. So let's talk about, for example, showering. If you get in the shower and do all the things, have you ever noticed that you do it in the exact same way every time? Think about it. That is because you are in a habit loop. You get in the shower, get out, and probably don't even remember the order you did anything in because you were on autopilot. Okay, now this habit loop is most likely serving you because you don't forget.  Let's now think about habit loops that may not be serving us and the goals that we are trying to reach in our lives. First, become aware. If you are not aware of the loop or problem, how can you change it? I am going to apply this to photography because that is what I do. When I first began, I used Photoshop Elements. For those of you who don't know what this is, it is a very basic photo editing program that was super simple to use. I started to outgrow it and I knew that I needed to change but, when I did it was hard. I wanted to cry and pull my hair out but I didn't; I made it through it. Honestly, Photoshop was like second nature, I was in a habit loop, editing photos in the same order every single time. This is the same for the things that we are doing in life. Are your habit loops taking you where you want to go in your life?  Have you ever thought, “I want that amazing job” or “ I want to chase after that amazing dream”, but you don't know why you haven't gotten there or why you have not been successful yet? Back to the habit loops that we are stuck in! We need to become aware of the habits that we do everyday that are potentially not serving us. Now, I know this is kind of hard to admit this and I know that I am kind of embarrassed, but something that has held me back for the last 14 years is web surfing. Web surfing! When my husband and I first got married we did not have a lot of money so I went online and searched for hours trying to find the best deals. I could have just hopped on and got exactly what I needed. Sure I might have spent a couple more dollars but the time that I could have saved, I am not going to lie, it blows my mind!  Maybe it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to some of you guys but I can see how that has been holding me back in my business as well. If there is a new product or program that I want to buy, I will research the crap out of it for days! That is not serving me! Your time and mine is way more valuable than that. Get what you need and be done. Save the time! If you were to pay yourself for that time spent web surfing, it would have cost you a heck of a lot more than if you would have just paid a little extra the first time you found it. Ultimately I was wasting so much of my time that could have been spent doing better things like growing my business or chasing my dreams. Think about something that you want to accomplish.  Are there habit loops or thoughts that are keeping you from getting where you want to go? Is there something in your day that you consistently do that maybe you haven't thought about before? Maybe it just hit you; maybe you had an epiphany and realised that there are habit loops in your life. Well, I am here to push you forward!  Let's create new thought processes, habits, and change your life! It's up to you! Stop blaming other people and finding excuses. Become aware of the thoughts that come through your mind during the day, think about them. Try this, when you walk past a mirror, what is your immediate thought? Is it positive? Negative? As women, we are so hard on ourselves, we need to work towards letting go of that. Get rid of the bad habit loops and reach for some new ones so that we can put them in our brains and cross out the old. If we can't do this we will never be able to change our lives. We will be stuck in the same habit loops all our lives! I have big dreams and if you are here, I think you do too! This is what we are going to do, get a notebook or open the notes app on your phone. Use anything you can to write it down. When these thoughts pop into your head, write them down. Whether they are negative, positive, or whatever. If the thought is negative, cross it out; this is called black journaling. Don't dwell on negative thoughts, push them out and try to put positive ones in their place.  First, catch the thoughts and how they are helping you get to where you want to go. Second, upgrade those thoughts. Now, we do not have to go from zero to 60 right away, but we have to reach out of the negative and search for the positive. Set yourself up with reminders for success to set yourself up to reach your goals. Whether it be a sticky note on your bathroom mirror or an alarm reminder on your phone, find what works for you to push yourself forward.  Catch your thoughts, take control, change your lives! Once you catch your thoughts, your actions should not be far behind. We begin to see opportunities that you did not have before and things will start to fall into place. You will be able to finally start creating a life that you love living in. You have to spend the rest of your life with the brain you're in, so let's make it great. You've got this!

Photos! We’re taking more of them now than ever before! We can keep them, share them, and even print them onto a variety of things. But one thing that hasn’t changed is people often want to use Photoshop to do simple changes like resizing, touching up, and more. Photoshop Alternatives Frankly, you don’t need a bulldozer when you want to make a sand castle, right? So, when considering an alternative consider how easy/simple it is to do what you need, how often you want to use it, and how much you’re willing to spend. Full-fledged Photoshop is $20.99 a month, so unless you’re making money? Best to find something cheaper! Windows Photos and MacOS Preview can do all the basics many folks need. GIMP is a free program, but has a bit of a learning curve behind it. https://www.gimp.org/ Paintshop Pro is a longtime alternative. https://www.paintshoppro.com/ Affinity Photo is the total overhaul of Serif Photo Plus aimed at professionals at a steal of a price! https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ And how could we forget Photoshop Elements? https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html  

Have your heard of Digital Scrapbooking? Ever wondered how you can create something special with your photos? Join Fiona Staff and Chantal Imbach as they chat with Melissa Shanhun from Digital Scrapbooking HQ to introduce you to the world of digital scrapbooking.In this Episode we chat with Melissa and discuss how she started her journey with digital scrapbooking, back in Kalgoorlie, WA. Melissa loves using Adobe’s Photoshop Elements and she shares some great insights into the features of the program and how it could be something you may wish to look into further to help you with editing and organising your own photos.We chat about:The benefits of Photoshop ElementsClasses available to teach you about Digital ScrapbookingWhere to find digital scrapbooking embellishmentsHow to start with your first Digital Scrapbooking pagesJournaling and scrapbookingForever - Online StorageLinks discussed in this EpisodeDigital Scrapbooking HQ http://digitalscrapbookinghq.com/IG https://www.instagram.com/digiscraphq/FB https://www.facebook.com/DigitalScrapbookingHQPin https://www.pinterest.com.au/digiscraphq/SweetShoppeDesigns https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/Aussie Designer! Studio Flergs https://www.flergalicious.com/Forever https://www.forever.com/ambassador/melissashanhunWe would love to see you over at our Facebook page www.facebook.com/diyphotoorganising and our Instagram page www.instagram.com/diyphotoorganising.If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:www.diyphotoorganising.comFiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au orChantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.auIf you are not in Melbourne and need a personal photo organiser check out www.appo.org to find help closer to home.AuthorFiona Staff and Chantal Imbach

Adobe has designed Photoshop Elements for people they call "Memory Keepers" and the just released 2020 version of the application brings lots of improvements and several new features. In Short Circuits: If you'd like to refresh your ability to read, write, and speak a foreign language or learn an entirely new language, Duolingo is a good place to start, and it's free. • You've probably heard about malware being planted on websites. Nothing absolutely guarantees safety, but SiteLock's monitoring service is used on many sites, including TechByter Worldwide, to even the playing field. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Several actions are important if you want to avoid being "doxed" by someone who is seeking to ridicule you. • Do you still write checks? If so, security expert Frank Abagnale says you should re-think the practice. • Twenty years ago: The world was becoming increasingly concerned with January first 2000, expecting a Y2K disaster. But there were some voices of reason.

The just-released verson of Acronis True-Image backup adds what the company calls "dual protection" to ensure that you'll always have a backup of your backup. In Short Circuits: Adobe's Elements applications, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, continue to add features that are powered by the company's Sensai artificial intelligence engine. Facts are important and they seem to be in short supply these days. Snopes.com isn't the only fact-checking operation so let's take a look at some of the others. In Spare Parts (only on the website): The first rule of the internet still applies: Trust nobody. • Jam Audio has just released water-resistant ear buds that look like they'll be perfect for a workout in the gym or a walk in the rain. • Twenty years ago: IBM was boasting about the performance of its new Power4 line of CPUs.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 484 This week we welcome artist Winona Nelson. Winona studied classical realism and art for the entertainment industry at the Safehouse Atelier in San Francisco, then worked as a concept artist at Flagship Studios and Planet Moon Studios. She now works as a freelance in illustration, concept art, comics and fine art. Her work has been seen in gallery exhibitions in Connecticut, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York City. As usual, the Meltdown perspective looks at how our guest was inspired and influenced by film and other media. And what we learn is Winona didn't begin the way most of our movie geek guests... her path starts a little differently... but of course still leads to crossovers into movie fandom - and eventually her own terrific art. Then Winona sits-in for this week's Sofa Theater discussion of Interview with the Vampire. The book was instrumental in her youth, so what does she think of the often maligned movie? And as we realize sometimes playing with magnets - can be destructive, we also bring up… Magic: The Gathering, Xenogears, Akira, VHS intro, Lord Byron, RoboCop, Primitivism, Kirsten Dunst, take a piece all the way to finish, Anne Rice, Rutger Hauer, freelance indie comic book coloring, this lust-driven disgusting man, it changed me, abstract art, we are monsters, John Travolta, family drama, it's been to my benefit to have a diverse skill-set, Neil Jordan, drawing before I even have conscious memories, Daniel Day-Lewis, oblivious to the world, John Boorman, having more physical strength, Alexander Godunov, Ghost in the Shell, a crotchety old man, Brad Pitt, the carnal ideas, Jon Voight, it feels like being possessed, Tom Hanks, online resources for getting into doing art for comics, Antonio Banderas, the dreamiest being mortal or immortal that has ever existed, Christian Slater, having a diverse skill-set, the one monster who seems to have control, John Malkovich, Photoshop Elements, Final Fantasy VII, Johnny Depp, art and baristas, YouTube… where all of the horrible secrets come out, going through puberty, his personal physician, bloodlust, Peter Weller, Cubism, Tom Cruise, drowning in hormones, learning everything about how the world works… and all it’s ugliness, the old cathode-ray tube and talking around the fangs. “So I think like, the whole genesis of vampires comes from that kind of… that sort of fight that we all have between how do you respect yourself when you can get taken away by this passion and what even is sexual drive...and how much it controls our behavior.” For more on Winona’s art, go to: http://www.winonanelson.com/

The home theater and automation questions continue as we discuss the uses of smart thermostats. Plus, computer questions are tackled as well with a listener dealing with Photoshop Elements repeatedly crashing. Bob answers questions about NVR and DVR video surveillance systems and gives advice on recommended systems. A listener wonders how to access a computer of a relative who has passed away. Dealing with monitor that will not "wake up" after the computer goes to sleep. Fixing wireless printing problems with an HP Officejet printer.

Could there be life on Mars? Is the iPhone 8 set to take Samsung's battery issue title? It's a fast moving week covering a lot of ground including some pretty bold claims from Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018, some expensive boneheaded moves with domain names and news from the Google Pixel 2 event. Don't worry, no digitalSoup episode would be complete without some great laughs and discussion around movies, this week it's Harrison Ford in the news. We even take a walk down memory lane and look at some tech that flopped hard but may have just been ahead of it's time! What are you waiting for, dig in! Weekly Riddle: White Bird, featherless, flyin' out o' paradise, flyin' over sea and land, dyin' in my hand. What is it? **Be sure to send in your riddle answers to jason@digitalsouppodcast.com and don't be shy, send in that audio so we can hear more of our amazing Souper Friends! There be water on Mars! With the recent discovery that there is more ice/water on Mars than originally thought, will this make future Mars missions a bit easier since they may have a water source there instead of bringing their own? Does that mean there can be life on Mars and does this make things easier for Elon Musk and his SpaceX program as they still plan to send humans to Mars in 7 years? iPhone 8 Plus splitting open from charging A real concern or is this a random occurrence? Will these reported battery issues take the heat off of Samsung and their flaming batteries and put it squarely on Apple? Adobe Announces Elements 2018 Looks like they are bringing in some interesting upgrades to the Photoshop Elements line, but is it worth the money when you can get the Photography CC bundle from Adobe for $10/month? How forgetting to renew a domain name cost 3 million dollars A Utah based telco company neglected to renew its domain name in 2016 resulting in a complete outage of relay services to deaf, hard of hearing, and speech-disabled people. As a result, the FCC fined them $3,000,000. Oops. Here are some of the biggest domain expirations in history! Also, does anyone have $2600 so Jason can get his old domain, nostalgiagaming.com, back? News from the Google Event From the Pixel 2 to the new voice for the home assistant, this was a very hyped event from Google. Did they fall flat or is the excitement worth it regarding the announcements?

Adobe's recently released Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bring some powerful new features to the consumer-focused applications. Phishing emails are becoming increasingly dangerous to businesses and steps being taken there often have applications for home users who want to be safer. In Short Circuits: Alien Skin's Exposure X3 adds new ways to adjust photographs. It's a plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom, but also functions as a free-standing application. Graphic designers who spend a lot of time looking for images will find some welcome new features from Shutterstock. In Spare Parts (only on the website): There's a growing demand for personal photos on objects such as mugs and calendars. • Kodak says it has a way to help us identify and print the photos that mean the most to us. • Bluehost makes it easier for people to set up WordPress enabled websites.

Episode 218 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Panasonic LUMIX Ambassador, Emma Drabble In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Panasonic LUMIX Ambassador, Emma Drabble opens the show. Thanks Emma! Sponsors: - Get 20% off your order at MeFOTO.com using code PetaPixel20. More at LensShark.com/deals. - Get FreshBooks cloud accounting free for 30 days by entering PetaPixel in the "How Did You Hear About Us?" section at FreshBooks.com/PetaPixel Stories: Nikon's D850 takes DxO's top spot...but is it the best ever? (#) Seagate releases another "biggest and fastest". (#) More rumors of Canon's upcoming full-frame mirrorless system and a possible timeframe. (#) A copyright small claims court may become a reality. (#) Adobe Portfolio now integrates with Lightroom. (#) Photoshop Elements 2018 is released with some handy features and may be enough for most. (#) Outtakes My other podcast with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

Episode 114 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Featured: Photograher Felix Hernandez In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Sponsor:  FreshBooks. Get your FREE 30 day trial at FreshBooks.com/PetaPixel and enter PetaPixel in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. Photographer Felix Hernandez opens the show. Thanks Felix! Sony stuns and announces the a6500 just 8 months after releasing the a6300...with in-body image stabilization and more. But is it worth upgrading for? (#) A photographer's gear is stolen in a church pew just minutes before a couple was to wed. The importance of insurance and personal responsibility is discussed. (#) Sony announces the RX100 V, further improving this class of camera. (#) Bowens announces two new solid lighting solutions. (#) Photoshop Elements turns 15. (#) Noted Canadian artist and photographer Barbara McClatchie Andrews is killed in Mexico. (#) NYC-based photographer Christopher Serrano dies while trying to shoot photos from the roof of a moving train. (#) Outtake Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

In this week’s episode, we discuss the creative process behind the latest StudioPress.com redesign … In this 29-minute episode Brian Gardner and Lauren Mancke discuss: The goals of the StudioPress redesign Changes to the existing logo Choices in typography and color Design of the Studicons font Styling and shooting the site’s photography Updates to functionality Plans for the future Listen to StudioPress FM below ... Download MP3Subscribe by RSSSubscribe in iTunes The Show Notes StudioPress.com StudioPress 101 Shop for Themes Unsplash Brian Gardner on Twitter Lauren Mancke on Twitter The Transcript The Creative Process Behind the StudioPress.com Redesign Jerod Morris: Hey, Jerod Morris here. If you know anything about Rainmaker Digital and Copyblogger, you may know that we produce incredible live events. Well, some would say that we produce incredible live events as an excuse to throw great parties, but that’s another story. We’ve got another one coming up this October in Denver. It’s called Digital Commerce Summit, and it is entirely focused on giving you the smartest ways to create and sell digital product and services. You can find out more at Rainmaker.FM/Summit. We’ll be talking about Digital Commerce Summit in more detail as it gets closer, but for now, I’d like to let a few attendees from our past events speak for us. Attendee 1: For me, it’s just hearing from the experts. This is my first industry event, so it’s awesome to learn new stuff and also get confirmation that we’re not doing it completely wrong where I work. Attendee 2: The best part of the conference for me is being able to mingle with people and realize that you have connections with everyone here. It feels like LinkedIn Live. I also love the parties after each day, being able to talk to the speakers, talk to other people who are here for the first time, people who have been here before. Attendee 3: I think the best part of the conference for me is understanding how I can service our customers a little more easily. Seeing all the different facets and components of various enterprises then helps me pick the best tools. Jerod Morris: Hey, we agree — one of the biggest reasons we host a conference every year is so that we can learn how to service our customers, people like you, more easily. Here are just a few more words from folks who have come to our past live events. Attendee 4: It’s really fun. I think it’s a great mix of beginner information and advanced information. I’m really learning a lot and having a lot of fun. Attendee 5: The conference is great, especially because it’s a single-track conference where you don’t get distracted by, “Which session should I go to?” and, “Am I missing something?” Attendee 6: The training and everything, the speakers have been awesome, but I think the coolest aspect for me has been connecting with both people who are putting it on and then other attendees. Jerod Morris: That’s it for now. There’s a lot more to come on Digital Commerce Summit, and I really hope to see you there in October. Again, to get all the details and the very best deal on tickets, head over to Rainmaker.FM/Summit. Voiceover: StudioPress FM is designed to help creative entrepreneurs build the foundation of a powerful digital business. Tune in weekly as StudioPress founder Brian Gardner and VP of StudioPress Lauren Mancke share their expertise on web design, strategy, and building an online platform. Lauren Mancke On this week’s episode, we’ll discuss the creative process behind the latest redesign of StudioPress.com. Brian Gardner: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to StudioPress FM. I am your host, Brian Gardner, founder of StudioPress. Today, as always, I’m very excited to have Lauren Mancke come alongside again as the co-host of the show. Lauren, how are you doing this morning? Lauren Mancke: Good, how are you? Brian Gardner: I’m doing good. We get to talk about more fun stuff with StudioPress today. We are going to be talking about something fun and something that you and I worked together with. That is the latest redesign of the site. We figured the first couple weeks we’d talk about our stories. We would talk about the StudioPress redesign in the third part of this initial series here on the show. The Goals of the StudioPress Redesign Brian Gardner: Let’s just go right into it. January of this year, we launched a brand-new redesign at StudioPress. I think it had been three years. I think it was, what, back in 2013? And that was a Rafal design back in the day. Am I right there? Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I think the previous one was at the end of 2013. Brian Gardner: Okay, so a good two, two and a half years, which in my world is forever because I like to redesign every two months. As we know, it’s important for brand consistency to not do that. I think even before that, that must have been my design, the one that predated Rafal’s. Believe it or not, I went onto Google and searched Google Images under StudioPress to see all of the various site design and things like that. It’s quite embarrassing because the way it looks now is incredible compared to the stuff that I did back in the day, which is completely embarrassing. So good job. And yes, by the way, we are going to give all design credit to everything StudioPress these days to you. How do you feel about that? Lauren Mancke: Okay. Brian Gardner: You’re good with that, right? Lauren Mancke: Yeah. Brian Gardner: All right. Here’s the thing. Let’s start at the top. You and I talked about the best way to talk through the redesign. We thought it would be maybe helpful or interesting to people who are fans of StudioPress for us to just break it down and just talk about the design process, from top to bottom, of the current site. Changes to the Existing Logo Brian Gardner: It’s interesting, the logo that we have, even though it’s evolved a little bit and the colors have changed, that was the original StudioPress logo from back in the day. I don’t know if you remember this. Kevin Flahaut, he’s the one of the guys that works at Rocketgenius, the guys behind Gravity Forms, he actually came up with the original StudioPress concept for me back in the day, the three little rectangles and squares thing. Of course, since then, you’ve cleaned it up and have made it look much better and tighter. It’s cool to see the evolution from the silver gradient black and orange days to the flat black and blue and white days. Let’s talk about the logo. I’m going to let you take the mic and just talk briefly about what we did with it and maybe why. Lauren Mancke: Overall with the goals of the redesign, we really wanted to update the entire look and feel of the site. I think that first started with the logo design. We talked about tightening up that mark and making sure it was pixel perfect down at the favicon size all the way up to regular size, full size. The logo has transitioned over the years to different iterations. We took that previous blue color and made it bolder, stronger, and brighter. We switched the font to Proxima Nova, and it’s very similar to the previous font. I think really the most noticeable letter is the R is a bit different. Brian Gardner: Do you remember, I can’t remember off the top of my head what the previous font was that we used for the logo? Lauren Mancke: I think it was Museo Sans. Brian Gardner: Yeah, that sounds right because that’s Rafal’s favorite font. Everything Copyblogger and Rainmaker is Museo. To be honest, I think even before that, the original, original logo may have been Arial, which of course is laughable now. Yet people think Proxima Nova has been around for a while, but it’s such a timeless typeface. I’m looking at it now. I’m looking right at the screen. It looks so good. I like the rounded S’s and stuff like that. You did a great job tightening up the squares and just making it to a point where we can scale it up and down. Lauren Mancke: Yeah, I think I started with that because it always bothered me that the lines weren’t crisp on the favicon. I started with that one pixel line. Brian Gardner: That’s Lauren’s way of calling me out, by the way. That’s what happens when you’re not a trained designer. You open up Photoshop Elements and put some blocks together and then make it smaller and bigger, and it doesn’t quite look the way it should. Your designer steps in and takes care of it for you. There you go. Okay, that’s the logo mark. Choices in Typography and Color Brian Gardner: Also, when we talked about doing the redesign, there was some color things that we wanted to incorporate just top to bottom throughout the entire site, front to back as well. Lauren Mancke: I think our first discussions were about really deliberate color choices and using more bold colors. The full site, we talked about using full-width imagery, large-scale typography, a lot of intentional whitespace, pulling back the blue texture and removing some of that green color, adding a little more white to the site was where we started. Brian Gardner: It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of minimal design, whitespace, and emphasis on typography, which, of course, it worked well because you and I, even though we have different tastes to some degree, we also are very like-minded. It was easy and fun to work together on this. I would just throw a few things out there and let you run with it. I didn’t have to worry about you coming back with something I didn’t like. I think the intentional part of this with the colors, the spacing, and the typography, I’m thrilled with the way it turned out. I know that we went through a few minor evolutions within this redesign process, but I’ve been pleased with it. Lauren Mancke: Also we talked about really creating a well-organized light interface so that the content could shine through. I think that is the goal of minimal design, to let what you really need speak for itself. Brian Gardner: Well, obviously at Copyblogger, for us, content is pretty much everything. Obviously, that is not blasphemous to design because that is just as important, especially here at StudioPress because we are the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins. We need to maintain that. For us to do a redesign — which felt like the design before was around five years — by the time we got to the redesign, I was really ready to move forward and do something new. As we’ve discussed, Proxima Nova, like I said, it’s a timeless font. I love it. Some of the elite designers have a tendency to look down on it because it’s so used all over the Internet. I think there’s a reason for that. What do you think about that? Design of the Studicons Font Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I wanted to stay true to the brand identity. We had been using Proxima Nova on a lot of things with Museo Sans. I thought it would definitely fit with keeping that consistency. We went with a thinner version though for the large titles, I think made it look a little bit fresher. We continue to use that bold uppercase version for small titles to keep that consistency with the previous versions. Brian Gardner: As I think about it, we approached StudioPress’ site from a design standpoint. When we designed Copyblogger, it was obviously different audiences. The bold headlines work more in a content or marketing-based industry. For us here at StudioPress, more design-focused and more emphasis on keeping up with the latest trends and all of that. I love the thin headlines, and I think they stand out. I think it was a departure from what we had. I think they look great. Lauren Mancke: I think, too, that this wasn’t really a complete overhaul of the structure of the site because we had already done so much conversion testing for what was there that we were really just focusing on the look. I think lightening up that typography really helped. Styling and Shooting the Site’s Photography Brian Gardner: All right. Let’s go to the homepage. Let’s talk a little bit about that. Obviously, we talked about the logo and the branding up there on the header. Obviously the links need to be there. Those are very intentionally placed. The photography and we’ll talk and about this many times here in the future and probably have in the past. One of the great things about Lauren is that not only is she a great graphic designer, she’s a complete creative. She edits these podcast episodes, believe it or not, and she’s a great photographer. A lot of the photography that we see in the themes that we’ve recently released have been shots taken by Lauren. Anyway, it was important for us to not just grab stock photography for StudioPress. We had a reputation to uphold. As pioneers in the creative world, it just made sense that, as part of the design, that you would go out and organize shoots and do photography so that we can use that on our own site. Lauren Mancke: Yeah, the previous site we discussed, when we were talking about the redesign, the goals for the redesign, the previous site didn’t have any specific photography. There was a few head shots from testimonials, but really nothing for the site itself. I thought since a lot of what we do is based on this awesome online community, I really wanted to show people, along with the product, a lot of thought went into the styling of the shots. I wanted to use natural lighting — light, bright, really organic feel. A lot of the photos are very high contrast. The subject matter isn’t very colorful. It’s mostly a desaturated color palette. Brian Gardner: Yeah. One of the reasons, aside from I think it just looks better to have, I’m talking more so now in our own themed demos and stuff like that. The photography that we use, we talked probably years ago about starting to do our own photography. The reason behind that is because everyone uses Unsplash. It’s a great resource for people, especially people who are blogging and need featured images and stuff like that. It gets to a point where I think, at least on WordPress-themed demos, it’s almost clichéd to see the same mountain shot, and somewhat boring and, quite honestly, lazy to just default to that. There are times and still will be times where, depending on the theme, I’ll just go grab shots on Unsplash because it just works. Those shots are actually perfect for what we’re going for. Cafe’s a perfect example because, at the time, there wasn’t a lot of food imagery over at Unsplash. It’s like, “How are we going to do a restaurant-style theme without putting shots of trees and mountains in there?” I think that was when we first started talking about it. You said, “I’ll just go out and take some shots.” The same thing with StudioPress. We could have put some boring laptop shot on a homepage, something from Unsplash or from somewhere else. I’m looking right now at our ‘getting started’ page. If you go to StudioPress’ website, if you go to the StudioPress 101 link, which is right next to our logo, you’ll see which one I’m talking about. We can drop this down in the show notes also. The shot itself, it just looks so much like it fits with the rest of the site and the design and the colors and the high contrast, as you mentioned, and the blues and the whites and the blacks. I think it just feels very native where it’s at. Lauren Mancke: The model actually in the photos is my husband Will. He is very good about volunteering for these kinds of things. He stepped in. It’s funny that you mention Cafe Pro because he actually made all the food for that. He made the mussels. He baked that bread, so I could take pictures of it. He’s just always willing to help out in these types of scenarios, whatever crazy thing I come up with. Using Custom Icons Brian Gardner: Okay. Speaking of that page, as I scroll down, there are some great examples of other things outside of just photography and web design. Part of it is an element of web design. It’s the icons that we use, kind of like Unsplash. Yes, we could have gone out and used something that was out there that everybody else uses, but another tool that you have is the ability to design custom icons, which you’ve done for the site. Lauren Mancke: Yeah, the icons are just some simple thin line icons. I think they really mirror that thin typography in the headlines. There’s nothing hugely unique about them. They just really fit with the rest of the design. Brian Gardner: I think sometimes what people do is go out and find icons and then try to craft their content around it. In other words, you can’t go to Ionicons, Genericons, or Dashicons and find spark plugs and car icons. You can find something that may be conceptually insinuated that, but then it wouldn’t look like it really, really fit, that you were trying too hard, or people might get confused. For us, in this case, we had the luxury of having Lauren just create exactly what we needed to have from an icon standpoint. They can scale on various devices and so on. That is another element of the entire site design as a whole that is good. Everything is custom on the site — and that I love. Updates to Functionality Brian Gardner: Moving forward, this is probably by far the most important page and the one that we probably put the most amount of attention and detail towards is our Themes page. Obviously, StudioPress top-level domain is probably what gets hit the most. But then immediately people know us as designing and developing WordPress themes. Their next instinct would be shop for themes, right? Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I think we spent a lot of time playing with the amount of themes on the page. We ultimately settled on a two-column layout to really let those big images showcase the themes themselves. Brian Gardner: Yeah, I struggled with that because we probably have, what, 50-some themes on that page? Instinctively I thought, we got to trim it down to three columns so that it’s not as tall, so you don’t have to scroll as much. When we did that, it just felt really busy, which, of course, goes against what we had discussed previously on the front page and other areas where this breathability and whitespace. I think the old-school way of thinking is the above-the-fold, cram-everything-up so that you don’t have to scroll as much. But times have changed, and especially with the amount of devices and various screen sizes that are out there. For me, it came down to seeing it in two columns was a breath of fresh air. It was like, “Wow.” First of all, you can actually see the screenshot because it’s bigger. Even if you have to scroll more, big deal, right? Everything else on the page looks good. Lauren Mancke: I think we also took that idea and went with that also on the singular theme page. That top section is dark to let that screenshot shine where you can really see the themes. A lot of our themes are white, light color palette. We went with a darker header for those pages individually. Brian Gardner: Yeah, I’m a huge fan of that decision. Typically, I’m not an advocate of white text on black or dark backgrounds and all of that, but because of the fact that, yes, we wanted to emphasize the design of each theme, I think in this case it worked. It also helps the call to action button, which in this case is green. We wanted that very specific thing to stand out a little bit more than just the regular blue. I think it would have blended in more and would have been maybe less converting or harder to see. I love how we inverted the colors of the logo and the navigation as well, the menu items to go white as well. I think that also helps make things a little bit interesting. It’s not quite as templated throughout the entire site where you’ve got a little bit of variety. You get to the Theme page, and all of a sudden you’re like, “Oh wow, this is attention grabbing,” and makes me want to scroll down. With the features of each theme down below the icons and the descriptions of the theme features, I think having the dark above helps contrast and doesn’t wash that out. Again, total fan of what you did. Then, of course, below of that is the pricing section, which is black and white. It is a mix of the two sections above. Huge fan as always. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. I think we also use that mindset of wanting it to be easier to read in with the changes we made to the dashboard. We wanted a seamless experience between switching from the regular site, the sales site into where you log in and you have all of your resources. We wanted to keep a lot of the features that people have come to be familiar with, but we also wanted to make that dashboard really easy to read, really easy to navigate and get to what content you need. Improving the My StudioPress User Experience Brian Gardner: All right. That’s a great segue. We’re going to move from StudioPress.com now over to the My StudioPress member area, which, in and of itself, has a lot of little nuances and things that maybe we didn’t anticipate from a user experience standpoint and having to display certain types of informations and to get people from here to there. I think my favorite part of the My StudioPress experience is the blue bar at the top. There’s no real reason to have that throughout the site itself, but from a member standpoint, you have the additional member profile, the member links that are necessary. We were trying to figure out how exactly we were going to display that. I think you came up with this blue bar. When I saw it, I was like, “That’s absolutely perfect.” It sits above the header, so it feels like just that additional piece. It stays out of the way, but it’s there. That was just a great way of coming up with that solution. Lauren Mancke: The previous site had a blue bar, but it was actually just in a different location. I moved it up to make it more of a dashboard feel. I think we have a lot of GitHub tickets right now. There’s still more work to be done on the dashboard itself. But that’s the nature of the redesign. The design is never done. Isn’t there a Leonardo da Vinci quote, “Art is never finished, only abandoned”? Brian Gardner: Yes. It also reminds me of the whole concept of the Golden Gate Bridge and how, when they get done painting it, it’s time to go back and start over just because there’s so much work to be done. At some point, you got to go back and fine-tune what you’ve already worked on. Lauren Mancke: Exactly. Brian Gardner: Like I said, with the My StudioPress member area, just so many different things to consider — like a downloads page and all the documentation that we have for code snippets, tutorials, and stuff like that. I would have taken the shortcut and just made those regular pages and boring with a side bar. But you’ve done a really good job of, especially on the downloads page, using columns and design and icons just to help make that even a better experience for our users. That was for sure one area where you totally rose above where I would have taken it. That’s why you’re designing the StudioPress site and I am not. Of course, we do have static pages on the site and the StudioPress Blog. You did a great job laying things out there. Plans for the Future Brian Gardner: I just thought it was fun that we would talk about the redesign and just start this whole podcast off with the three part series of who I am, who Lauren is, the StudioPress redesign. The next series is going to be probably my favorite and the one that I’m most looking forward to. We’re going to be taking a break, a week off. We’re going to do segmented series here. I’m hoping maybe four to six shows. We are going to reach out to the community, the StudioPress and Genesis community, and talk to those who are working with our product and have built businesses around our products. There’s all kinds of people, couples and design agencies. You’ve got developers on their own and every type of thing in between. We’re going to reach out to some folks and hopefully have them on the show that will represent different parts of our ecosystem. I am looking forward to that. What about you? Lauren Mancke: Yeah, I’m really looking forward to that. I think that’s what makes StudioPress and Genesis so great — the community. There’s lots of different types of people who are working with it and making it better and creating that community. Brian Gardner: That is something that you can look forward to as much as we will. Thank you for listening to the show, StudioPress FM. See you on the next one.

This week I answer a listener question about adding copyright information, resizing images for the Web and adding watermarks to images using Photoshop Elements. Details on Blog: https://mbp.ac/524 Music by Martin Bailey

This week I answer a listener question about adding copyright information, resizing images for the Web and adding watermarks to images using Photoshop Elements. Details on Blog: https://mbp.ac/524 Music by Martin Bailey

In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, Terry White shows how to migrate your images from Photoshop Elements into Lightroom CC as a NEW member of the Creative Cloud Photography Plan. He also shows advantages of Photoshop and Lightroom CC over Elements.

Lightroom or Photoshop The 2 most popular photo editing software's and so many choices to make. First of all should you choose to use Lightroom, Photoshop, or both? I know photographers who only use Photoshop Elements or they are purest"s and do minor touch-ups with Picasa or none at all. Some days I feel like photo editing had ruined photography and other days I couldn't be happier that I had that there to assist my vision. Both Lightroom and Photoshop have more features than most of us photographers will ever use. I am in my 7th year in business and I know I have about 10% of Photoshop covered. Giver or take 5%. This isn't because I am not good with the software it's just that enormous of a program. Lightroom takes a few try's to get used to. On the one hand it feels like the RAW editor from Photoshop on steroids. On the other hand it has workflow that feels foreign at first. For example the need to import rather than just open, the fact that you can close the program and open later as if you never left, or the need to export the images and deal with the time consuming process that goes along with that. In short I feel that Lightroom is for batch or large volume editing (a wedding or sporting event) and Photoshop is for those individual images that require one on one attention from start to finish. As a Thank you to you Photo World I would like to give you a few of my FREE Lightroom Presets. Download, unzip, and install in your Lightroom presets. Happy Shooting! Get your FREE business coaching call with Rob! Sign up for one of the last few spots here! 2015 © Take&TalkPics

Experian, the company that T-Mobile uses to confirm customers' credit-worthiness has been hacked, exposing data about 15 million customers who signed up between September 2013 and last month. Adobe's updated Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bring welcome features to the consumer-level applications. In Short Circuits: Skype offers a gift that most people won't be able to use; In Los Angeles, Adobe Max wowed the 7000 who attended; and Microsoft announced the new Surface Pro 4. In Spare Parts (only on the website): A small party that's participating in Swiss elections calls itself the Anti-PowerPoint Party, It's October, so stores want you to start thinking about spending money for Christmas presents, and a beer fridge (available only in California now) connects to your Wi-Fi system so you'll know when you're running low.

You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Call 1-206-333-9308 or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the show. In this episode: If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. This Week in Photo host Frederick Van Johnson opens the show. Jim Harmer with the Improve Photography podcast gives an audio response to a story we reported on Episode 6. U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump goes on the attack over a photo shot at a campaign stop. (full story) Should animal rights extend to copyright? Find out who has sued on a monkey's behalf. (full story) Lens Battle helps you compare the quality of lenses in a more logical, interactive way. (full story) Photoshop Elements 14 features cool new features. Do you need the full version of Photoshop? (full story) Japanese photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima dies at age 94.  (full story) Is 360 degree interactive video on Facebook important to you as a photographer? (full story) A photographers makes over $900,000 with photo composites. Find out what it is.  (full story) An Australian wedding photographer donates $3 for every time her photo is shared for charity and the photo goes viral in a big way. (full story) GoPro releases the more affordable Hero+ and drops prices on the Hero Session. (full story) Another "professional" photographer fails to back up photos and loses 21 hard drives with over 70,000 photos along with 8 of her cameras. (full story) Today’s listener question:Rolf in Germany wants to know what camera gear he'll need to achieve maximum depth-of-field and produce a 3' x 8' print. Thank you and connect with us:Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. Listener questions needed: Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget or call us at 1-206-333-9308. Alternatively, you can comment below or via social media. But we’d love to play your question on the show! Cut a show opener for us to play on the show!  As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

‘Objectif Numérique - Épisode #65 - Le Panasonic CM1 annoncé // Photoshop sous ChromeOS // Adobe lance Photoshop Elements 13 et Premiere Elements 13 // Adobe Max: nouveaux logiciels et nouvelles fonctions // GoPro HERO4 // Erreurs communes en photo de paysage // 5 pensées et citations photographiques... façon humoristique! // 3 idées pour relancer sa motivation en photo // Suggestions de la semaine: Le photographe Marc Adamus / Le photographe Matt Stewart / App iOS ProCam2’  

Show Notes & Links David Blatner Anne-Marie Concepción Previous 3-Way Episodes on The Busy Creator Podcast #4 and #11 Three-way Calling InDesign Magazine Anne-Marie had aspirations to become a teacher … until she met Mac LaserWriter Font/DA Mover ClarisWorks “As a teacher of software to adults, you could charge whatever you wanted.” ← Click to Tweet Design Geek, an early newsletter-turned-blog from Anne-Marie David is an author, but NOT a novelist QuarkXPress, powerhouse page layout software in the 90s  Aldus PageMaker, predecessor to InDesign Armin Vit's episode of The Busy Creator Podcast Remote Keyless Entry on your car S-Shaped Curve aka Sigmoid Function, for learning “The hardest part is not learning the feature, it's remembering to use the feature.” ← Click to Tweet The Paint Format tool in MS Word Pet Peeve: Using Character Styles where a better tool is more appropriate Paragraph Styles panel should be called “Text Styles”  Unsharp Masking or Appearance Panel — wishlist features for InDesign Smart Objects created in InDesign should be placeable in Photoshop ePUB – the open-source standard for ebooks “Dangling Modifiers” Prescott's name for features unbuilt or errors-not-fixed since 1996  Gradient Mesh or 3D Revolve in Illustrator Prescott is a member of the Pre-release Team for Illustrator Scrubby Sliders in InDesign – an oft-requested feature from Photoshop Anne-Marie invented “Mr. Spanky” aka Pan Tool “The Donut” aka Content Grabber Real World InDesign by David Blatner Lynda.com videos Tools Adobe InDesign A two-button mouse The Apple Menu Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop Elements, Muse Adobe Dreamweaver, which can't open ePUB files, btw InDesignSecrets.com has a ton of resources, downloads, tutorials, videos, forums, etc. Adobe InCopy InDesign Secrets Podcast, and the Obscure InDesign Feature of The Week! Techniques Use the Text Frame in InDesign rather than an image frame Utilize GREP styling and Text Styles more generally Use Quick Apply Remove Character Styles and replace with Paragraph Styles for longer passages of text Use InDesign for page layout … NOT ILLUSTRATOR (Japan) and definitely NOT PHOTOSHOP (psychopaths) Learn ePUB from Anne-Marie, she's the best (fixed-layout or flowable) Habits Repeatedly use features so they become a habit Continue to learn by watching videos, experimenting, reading articles Try Audible.com Free and Register with Bluehost.com Visit BusyCreatorBook.com for your free Audible trial Register your website with Bluehost.com Get The Episode Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 38(MP3, 37:45, 18.3 MB) Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 38(OGG, 37:45, 33.1 MB) Subscribe to The Busy Creator Podcast on iTunes Something to add? Leave a comment below to participate in the conversation.

‘Objectif Numérique - Épisode #39 - avec Benoit Chamontin de Geeks and Com, Différence entre objectifs APS-C et plein capteur, Retour sur le ComicCon de Montréal et trucs photo, L'appareil photo social theQ, Trucs contre le vol d'équipement, L'app photo de l'iPhone 5S, Le Nokia Lumia 1020, Des trucs de pro avec un smartphone, Adobe lance un abonnement CreativeCloud pour photographes, Adobe annonce Photoshop Elements 12 et Premiere Elements 12, Critique du Sony RX100 Mark 2’  

Drowning in a sea of new Adobe products, I grabbed the latest version of Photoshop Elements for closer examination; my favorite Mac FTP program comes to Windows; and in Short Circuits: the Double Irish may come to an end, tablet sales are poised to rise more slowly, the New York Times reports that Russian hackers are taking advantage of a Windows flaw, and I'll share a few whispers about TechByter 2015.

Today, I visit with Katie Nelson, writer and team member at The Daily Digi, about her journey in digital scrapbooking and memory keeping. We also talk a little about her favorite products to use on a layout, how she found her style, and her commitment to PhotoShop Elements. Katie also shares some big changes that are in the works for her during 2014.

It's almost Halloween and maybe you're thinking about buying a new computer before the end of the year. If you've ever tried to figure out how to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop or Photoshop Elements together, I have good news. A surprising number of websites are unsafe but a Swiss agency says there's a solution. And in Short Circuits ... Are you ready for Office 2013? The digitizing of America continues and we're about a week from Windows 8.

Learn how to to use Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements in this video tutorial from photographer Phil Steele. Also includes fill in panoramas and with the healing brush. For the complete course, "Photoshop Basics for Photographers" visit the Steele Training website "SteeleTraining.com

Listen the Photoshop Elements 10 class go over their review questions. Do you know why its called "digital photography". Clue, its a computer/camera.

Melissa Shanhun is a wife, mum of two, artist and digital scrapbooking educator at the website DigitalScrapbookingHQ.com. She's a certified archivist and librarian. She learned and used the earliest digital scrapbooking software and now scrapbooks with Photoshop Elements. That's part of her story. Now let's find out more.

Kate Breuer stellt Ihr Buch “Porträt- und Körperretusche mit Elements” vor. Photoshop Elements ist ein ernstzunehmendes Bildbearbeitungsprogramm, dass vor allen Dingen bei Anfängern der Bildearbeitung beliebt ist. Kate Breuer zeigt in Ihrem Buch, wie man professionell an die Bildbearbeitung von Portrait-Fotos herangeht. The post OBT013 Porträt- und Körperretusche mit Elements appeared first on Olaf Bathke Talk - Audio.

Kate Breuer stellt Ihr Buch “Porträt- und Körperretusche mit Elements” vor. Photoshop Elements ist ein ernstzunehmendes Bildbearbeitungsprogramm, dass vor allen Dingen bei Anfängern der Bildearbeitung beliebt ist. Kate Breuer zeigt in Ihrem Buch, wie man professionell an die Bildbearbeitung von Portrait-Fotos herangeht. The post OBT013 Porträt- und Körperretusche mit Elements appeared first on Olaf Bathke Talk - Video.

Improve your Web searches with a few handy plug-ins. Adobe Audition brings joy to professional audio editors. Scammers may get my PayPal address, but they're still to stupid to fool me. In Short Circuits: An old feature returns to TechByter Worldwide, Microsoft wants the Rustock developers, and Photoshop Elements at the Mac Apps Store.

Photoshop Elements turns out to be surprisingly capable. The Internet has no shortage of weather sites, but only a few exceptional sites exist. In Short Circuits, we take a look at the 1-year anniverary for Windows 7 and the upcoming SP1 for Windows 7.

Join host Tiffany Windsor and feature guest Sherry Steveson, author of When Life Gives You Lemons and The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook. Sherry will be talking about ways to work with your "not so good" photos without altering the image and ideas for editing these lemons with Photoshop Elements. Many ideas featured which are sure to inspire you to make sweet lemonade! Jennifer Blevins from iLovetoCreate.com shares her trend report on Fashion Color Trends and Maria Nerius shares her creative insights.

This week’s episode has been released for the Paperclipping Members. If you’re not a member, you can watch a trailer of the tutorial by clicking on the video above. In this in-depth video I show you step-by-step in Photoshop Elements how to… 1. Isolate a subject in your photo so you can give it/him/her special attention. 2. Boost the color of your subject while making everything else black and white. 3. Make your subject stand out more by darkening your background and boosting the highlights in your subject. 4. Make your subject stand out by blurring the background. 5. Smooth the edges of your isolated subject so it doesn’t have that yucky “cut-out” look. You’ll be able to do the above with your own Halloween zombies, their bloody sores, or with cute little girls at tea parties–whatever you think needs special attention above its background. Check out this Before/After example where I left Blake’s sores a tongue a subtle red and brought him forward from his background, then see the layouts before for two examples:

Bonus Episode: In this special episode I'll show you some of my favorite new features in the NEW Adobe Photoshop Elements 8!

Canvas is a very forgiving medium, with the ability to hide a wealth of sins in many photos, though it is still the usual case of the better the photo the better the end result. However, due to the nature, especially the texture, of canvas you are able to get large high quality prints from even the most basic of cameras. What many (most?) people do not realise though is the huge variation there is in the quality of the canvases you can get printed via the internet, or indeed by walking into a store. A couple of years ago I put quite some time and effort in finding a great canvas printing company for my own prints, and in doing so taught myself what to look for in a good canvas. Rather than simply passing this information on to you entirely myself I decided to go an interview a real expert. So, here you go, my first venture into the world of film making!

As promised, here is the second video to complete our exploration of “levels” in Photoshop Elements.

I remember when I was first learning digital photo editing and I stumbled across something called “levels”. Some of my photos had looked grey and dull, though I did not realize it at the time, and these suddenly sprang to life as I learned how to use the levels adjustments in Photoshop. Although not quite as powerful as the “curves” adjustments in Photoshop (which also has the levels adjustments by the way) the levels adjustments in Elements are something you are going to find very powerful, in fact to me they are a “must check” on every photo I edit.

I remember when I was first learning digital photo editing and I stumbled across something called “levels”. Some of my photos had looked grey and dull, though I did not realize it at the time, and these suddenly sprang to life as I learned how to use the levels adjustments in Photoshop. There are several different types of adjustment layers, such as levels or hue & saturation. In this tutorial I demonstrate the use of an adjustment layer, using a hue & saturation adjustment layer as an example.

Photoshop Elements does not include the layer mask functionality, in its native form at least. However, it does include adjustment layers, and these little beauties have their own layer masks. In this video I show you a rather clever trick whereby you can hijack this mask and use it as you would a normal layer mask.

Within the topic of layers there are two specific areas that I would define as being the most powerful aspects of layers. These are layer masks and Adjustment layers. In this video, and the next, I will address the former of these, the wonderful layer mask. As you may have discovered by now, layer masks are not available in Elements in their native form. I will therefore be using Photoshop CS3 to demonstrate the use of layers. However, fear not, as there is a way you can “cheat” in Elements and work with layer masks the same way you would in Photoshop CS3 … but that is something I will address in the next video. Even though you may not be using Photoshop do watch this video as it explains the principles involved, which you will need an understanding of to then apply them in Elements.

I have had several requests from people (thank you) for some tutorials on using layers in Photoshop Elements. I had intended to leave this until a little later in the piece, but there’s no harm in bringing it forward a little, so here we go. This first video explains the basic principles. Some of you may already know layers at this level but I want to make sure that everyone has the basics mastered so we can attack the more complicated stuff in the next few videos.

Unless you frame every shot perfectly (can anyone outside of a studio?) you will inevitably want to “reframe” some of your photos where your subject is not quite where you want them, or maybe to take out distracting objects close to the edges. If these adjustments can be made by retaining a rectangular section of your photo, and disregarding the rest, then that is exactly when cropping comes into play. This tutorial shows you several ways to crop your photos, a process that is far easier than many people realise. All the techniques shown can be applied in Photoshop or Elements (with one exception with the guided learning feature in Elements).

The most commonly used color space in Photoshop Elements is RGB. This tutorial explores the meaning of RGB and how to make sense of it all. With an increased understanding of this color space you should find it far easier to make subtle color changes to your photos when required.

The first of a series of podcasts on Photoshop Elements 6. This week I give a basic introduction to the user interface in Photoshop Elements 6 with a tour through the Welcome Screen, Organizer and Editor.

In this free episode of Paperclipping, you’ll learn how to position, resize, and recolor digital word art in Photoshop Elements. You’ll also see why Ali Edwards’s digital products are just as perfect for heritage photos and projects as they is for modern ones. You’ll find The Story Word Art + Hand Drawn Brushes by Ali Edwards, featured in the tutorial, at Designer Digitals, and they’re 30% off right now! You can watch the video above or download the high-quality version instead. To learn more about this layout and the hidden tag that contains historical information watch episode 99. If you liked today’s tutorial, follow the link to see why you’ll probably enjoy a Paperclipping Membership. Layouts From A Previous Paperclipping Live I haven’t had a chance to share the scrapbook pages from Dedra Long’s visit to Paperclipping Live a while ago. Here they are below… Hello Kitty two 12×12 pages Hello Kitty The photo on the left is myself around 4th grade–just a little older than my daughter, Trinity, in the photo on the right. I chose pictures of us in similarly shaped outfits and poses to emphasize the theme of commonality. Journaling reads: I adored Hello Kitty as a little girl and still do at age 36. I love her oval round face and the simplicity of her design. As a kid I didn’t get enough of her to feel satisfied so I love getting to enjoy her again through Trinity, who loves her too. Layout By Dedra Long Layout By Dedra Long Journaling to her daughter reads: You and me spending time together…these are some of the times I cherish most…I always love to walk in the studio to see the newest setup you have put together…It usually look something like this…the princess laptop, crayons, paper and scissors…you usually have the princesses singing the alphabet and you join then…then it’s math…in the end you show me your latest work of art…I will never forget. The Details The Details Almost all of the scrapbooking items on both layouts are from Theresa Collins. I salvaged all the Hello Kitty items from actual H.K. stuff–a backpack, a watch, party invitations, plus there are a few pictures. The spinner arrow underneath the tiny H.K. on the clock is a Tim Holtz spinner that I painted pink. Want help layering embellishments the way you see them layered in the center circle? If you have a Paperclipping Membership, I recommend watching Paperclipping 94 where I showed the techniques and principles of layers that lead in a “crescendo” toward a climactic point.

In today’s free video tutorial, I show you step-by-step how to open up an overlay in Photoshop, resize it to meet your needs, and use it like a journaling box for your text. If you have Photoshop Elements, don’t worry–you can do all the same things in Elements.

In this SPECIAL EPISODE I will give you a walk-through of the BRAND NEW Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Macintosh. See the new compelling features of this latest version of Elements.

Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, Writer/Director/Editor, Lidia Sheinin has made her first film Happily Ever After, unique short short story telling a sad romantic tale in four minutes using split screens.  The film was produced by Gary Cohen, who had brief career as a child actor, later working at KROQ-FM in LA, and eventually for Adobe Systems on their Photoshop and Photoshop Elements products. Together, Gary and Lidia formed Scared Mouse Productions to produce Happily Ever After and other projects. Happily Ever After recently screened at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it won the Imagination Award for excellence in artistic vision.

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