Black Diamond Productions

Large version is on Flickr – Much more detail

Stitched with Photoshop – I will definitely have to do more pano work in the near future.

Experiment with heavy and light vignette options. In the end editing is all about personal opinion or the job you are trying to complete or get … Which one do you like more?

So while chatting with a fellow photographer today and I give him full credit for the idea for this post, I was showing him the latest  feature Adobe will be releasing in CS5 – Content Aware Fill. Go to 2:40 and watch that demo:

There sure were allot of oooo’s  and ah’s in the audience – I assume none of them were thinking about the possible consequences.

So how does this help photographers – Well it helps greatly by allowing us to fix massive mistakes & possibly save huge jobs. But the real question is what happens when Adobe empowers editors with the ability to remove anything easily from an image? It is really a problem we have daily and that is how to mark or watermark your images to hopefully maintain some kind of control over the images and the content you created. This incredible tool like many things great in our world can easily be used for evil.

I believe we all know that we as photographers should not impede the creation of such great time saving tools but on the flip side i ask Adobe: Can we please have a good way to secure our content when tools like this are released?

Adobe has very smart people working for them, they have and to this day create great products, now its time to make a reliable, secure way for photographers to lock down their images. We have asked for it for years and with the introduction of  Content Aware Fill it’s time to see some better options.

In diving a bit deeper into this topic it does seems Adobe is working on solutions as I could only image they would be, this article: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phscs2ip_digintegr.pdf and a few others show the high level of concern we all have but in the end we still have no real tools available to secure images.

Will any of these unknown security tools solve the problem, doubtful. But just like with “The Club” on your car steering wheel the harder we can make it the better.

So you have made a few very cool web templates for showing off your latest photos and since you have had so much fun with photography you decide to upgrade you old computer with a new one. You finally get done with the hours of moving to a new machine and you have reinstalled Lightroom. You go looking and your web templates are gone?

Where did they go?

Well here is the bad news – More than likely if you did not back up your USER file on your old Windows machine those templates might be gone for good.

Here is where to look in Vista and Win 7:

C:/Users/Your User Acct/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Templates

And you thought it would be located in your lightroom catalog? So did I till I lost them all and had to recreate them.

Remember to back up your templates! I would recommend backing up the entire Lightroom user folder under Adobe – Just in case!

Worst case you can just import them in the reinstalled version of Lightroom if needed but at least you have not lost all your hard work.

See my latest post on Photofocus.com – Click the image above or this link:

http://photofocus.com/2010/01/08/glamour-photography-that-sounds-expensive-2/

Adobe’s Photoshop.com iPhone app goes live

from John Nack on Adobe by jnack

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I’m pleased to see that Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone has gone live on the App Store (see screenshots).

[Update: Don't be confused by the name: the app is useful for on-phone editing, not just uploading/sharing.]

According to the product page, with the app you can:

• Transform your photos with essential edits like crop, rotate and flip.
• Correct and play with color by adjusting the saturation and tint, enhancing the exposure and vibrancy, and converting images to black and white.
• Use the Sketch tool to make photos look like drawings, and Soft Focus to give photos a subtle blur for artistic effect.
• Apply dramatic changes with effects such as Warm Vintage, Vignette and Pop. Edits or changes can be undone or redone so you can experiment without the worry of losing your original photo.
• Upload photos to Photoshop.com. The app provides the ultimate digital photo wallet, providing access to your entire Photoshop.com library. Photoshop.com offers 2GB of free online photo storage (equal to more than 1,500 photos).

The app is free. Happy shooting!