http://www.cameragrease.com Photo and Camera Info Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:53:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, Adobe has a lot of my money! dobe builds great creative solutions, and through the years, I've purchased, upgraded, and cross-graded a slew of their products. My primary focus has been Photoshop, and I was surprised to find that I had a stack of Photoshop versions dating back fifteen years ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2007/05/31/cs3-is-out-so-i-bought-cs2/ Adobe has made many of their CS3 applications available for download, including Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator, Flash, and others. They are actually the full versions, provided you have a valid serial number. Otherwise, you can choose to run them for 30 days for free (supposedly). Installation Woes My system is a Windows ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2007/05/10/adobe-cs3-trials/ As you're probably aware, there are two editions of Adobe Photoshop CS3, regular and Extended. What's so great about Extended? Why would you want to shell out more cash for Extended? The upgrade for Photoshop CS3 Extended is $150 more than the upgrade for Photoshop CS3, while the full package ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2007/04/05/whats-in-photoshop-cs3-extended/ Adobe has released a Photoshop CS3 Beta (and Bridge CS3) for customers with a valid Photoshop CS2 serial number. It is available for Windows and Mac, including Intel-based Macs. New features in this beta of Photoshop CS3 include (from the release notes): Non-destructive Smart Filters Smart ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2007/02/01/adobe-photoshop-cs3-beta/ In old news (well, a couple months old), Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1 is available for download in both Mac and Windows flavors. Check the release notes for what's new. I have found Lightroom to be a bit slow, particularly when importing, but nevertheless intriguing. It clearly feels like a photographer's tool, ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2007/01/05/adobe-lightroom-beta-4/ Sony has released the 10.2 megapixel A100 DLSR body-only configuration ($899 at Amazon) and in a kit with their 18-70mm lens ($999 at Amazon). It has built-in image stabilization Sony is calling Super SteadyShot, which gains you about two stops, and it performs nicely between ISO 100 and 400. Sony ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2006/08/17/sony-a100/ What comments would famous photographers get if they posted their work online? The Online Photographer has a good guess. http://www.cameragrease.com/2006/07/04/great-photographers-go-online/ LeAnn Prescott at HitWise, a company that analyzes internet usage behavior, compares traffic to online photo sharing sites, including flickr, Kodak gallery, Snapfish, Photobucket, Slide, and others. Top of the pile is Photobucket, followed by Yahoo! Photos. She is surprised that flickr, with all the online buzz about it, comes ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2006/07/01/top-photo-sharing-sites/ Forget Lensbaby, a group at flickr called Through the Viewfinder is all about using one camera to shoot through the viewfinder of another camera. Typically this means using an SLR to shoot through the viewfinder of a TLR camera. Check it out, and check out Mr. E's work. Good stuff. http://www.cameragrease.com/2006/06/27/through-the-viewfinder/ flickr has been a wildly successful photo sharing and community website, but has suffered from slow performance, small workspaces, and navigational issues that hamper its usefulness. However, they are releasing some much-needed changes this week, including navigational and performance improvements, along with organizational tweaks to better relect how people like ... http://www.cameragrease.com/2006/05/16/flickr-improvements/