Lightroom

Lightroom Classic Performance Update Coming?

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Adobe Lightroom

Many photographers have been complaining to Adobe for a very long time about Lightroom performance (or lack of it) and Adobe mentioned that they were going to look into it – see my post here. It looks like Adobe are taking some action. Apparently, Adobe are working on a significant update to Lightroom Classic, which […]

Photography

Fujifilm X Raw Studio

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Fujifilm X-System

Fujifilm recently made their software – Fujifilm X Raw Studio – available to download. Initially, the software is only available for Mac users but is is going to be available for PC users in February, too. What’s very interesting about Fujifilm X Raw Studio is that the raw conversion software (that’s what it is in […]

Events

The Societies Photo Convention 2018

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The Societies convention 2018

It’s  this time of the year when photographers from all corners of Britain (and maybe even abroad) are coming to London for the Societies convention. It always takes place in January at the Hilton hotel on Edgware road. This year it wasn’t any different. I always attend on Sunday and so I did this weekend […]

Adobe Creative Cloud

Creative Cloud All-in-one for Dummies book

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Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One book

We’re all familiar with “for Dummies” series of books. This time they came up with something quite unique – a one book described as “7 Books in One!”. One book that covers the whole Creative Cloud. Interesting. When you look at complexities of the entire Creative Cloud suite this may be a good companion for […]

Lightroom

Lightroom CC gets a Major Update

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Adobe have announced a major update to Lightroom CC (cloud-based one). New Lightroom CC now has Tone Curve and Split Toning. Tone Curve and Split Toning (if you ever use it) are now available on Lightroom CC. Tone Curve is now available in the Lights panel, next to Auto button. You can choose between: Parametric […]

Web Technologies

Pantone Colour of the Year 2018

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Pantone Colour of the Year 2018

Every year experts in the field of colour at Pantone come together and from the entire design industry choose the colour of the year. This decision affects a number of industries, including fashion, graphic design, web design, and art just to name a few. For the coming year, 2018, Pantone experts chose PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra […]

Photoshop

AI-Powered Subject Selection coming to Photoshop

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Select subject in Photoshop CC

Adobe have shown a sneak peek into a new feature coming into Photoshop CC. Using Adobe’s artificial intelligence technology, Adobe Sensei, it seems to take making selections into another level and make it easy. Even though Photoshop is a very advanced image editor it is still difficult, in many cases, to make selections especially selections […]

Technology

IBM creates Font and saves $1,000,000

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IBM Plex font

We are all familiar with IBM logo and their typeface. It’s one of the most recognisable logos/brands in the world and has been for over 60 years. However, what most of us didn’t realise was that IBM didn’t have their own bespoke font. They have been using Helvetica Neue and spending over 1,000,000 dollars each […]

Lightroom

Embedded Previews in Lightroom Classic 2018

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Lightroom Classic CC 2018 has introduced a new workflow when working with embedded previews. This new workflow may help you to reduce time you use to select the right images for developing. When you import images into Lightroom Classic CC 2018, select Embedded & Sidecar option for Build Previews: When you import images into Lightroom, […]