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Intermediate

Live Training 200 — A Migration Discussion — Watch for Free

By PhotoJoseph

December 21, 2015 - 12:54am

This session is entirely discussion — trying to help users find the answer to the big question, “where do I go after Aperture?”

Intermediate

Culling Photos with ON1 Browse Before Importing to Lightroom

By Scott Davenport

December 7, 2015 - 11:30pm

Lightroom does a lot of things really well — however, quickly importing photos isn't one of them. Since migrating from Aperture to Lightroom, I use ON1 Browse to do an initial cull of photos from a shoot to weed out the obvious cruft before importing anything into Lightroom.

Intermediate

Lightroom Round-Tripping and Keywords

By Scott Davenport

November 18, 2015 - 9:00pm

Do you have Lightroom plug-ins that are in both the Photo > Edit In menu and the File > Plug-in Extras menu? Do you care about how tidy your keyword hierarchy is? If you answered yes to both questions, pay special attention to how keywords are handled when round-tripping photos through your plug-in.

Intermediate

UPDATE: DxO 50% Off Offer Now International

By PhotoJoseph

November 18, 2015 - 2:00am

There was a promotion going on to “Give DxO OpticsPro a Second Look” which was U.S. only, but it appears that this has been extended to all their apps and opened up internationally — and available through December 25th!

Intermediate

Aurora HDR App from Macphun Preorder

By PhotoJoseph

November 17, 2015 - 12:15am

Macphun has another brand new app about to be released! It’s called Aurora HDR, and is developed in conjunction with Trey Ratcliff, who if you’re into HDR, you’ve most certainly heard of. Pre-order now and save a chunk off the retail price!

Get 20% off Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan with the Purchase of a Panasonic LUMIX Camera

By PhotoJoseph

November 11, 2015 - 11:21pm

If you’re in the market for a new camera or lens and an Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan subscription, 20% off could help sweeten the deal.

Live Training Broadcast Test

By PhotoJoseph

November 8, 2015 - 10:00pm

The live broadcast room is (almost, so very almost) ready! I ran some successful tests this week, and while there are quality issues I still need to address, I’m ready to get to work.

Digital Camera RAW Update 6.17 adds DxO ONE, LUMIX and Pentax Cameras

By PhotoJoseph

October 23, 2015 - 6:00pm

The latest Camera RAW update for OS X has been released, including support for the DxO ONE, LUMIX FZ300/FZ330, and the Pentax K-3 II and K-S2 cameras.

Intermediate

Introduction to HDR (Part 2—dSLR & Desktop)

By Matthew Morse

October 21, 2015 - 6:00pm

HDR is a powerful, but often misunderstood capability in photography. In this second post, I’ll have a look at HDR using a full size camera and desktop processing software.

Intermediate

Catalogues or Sessions in Capture One Pro?

By Lee Harris

October 19, 2015 - 7:00pm

Catalogues seems like the logical way to go when switching from Aperture… but are they?

Macphun Creative Kit 2016 Now Available!

By PhotoJoseph

October 15, 2015 - 6:30pm

The latest version of the Macphun Creative Kit — including Tonality, Intensify, Focus, Noiseless, Snapheal and FX Photo Studio — is now available. And the best news? If you already own the 2015 version, this is a FREE upgrade!

Intermediate

HDR Panoramic Photos in Lightroom

By PhotoJoseph

October 13, 2015 - 6:00pm

Last week I was at Adobe MAX, and attended a seminar where instructor Jack Davis showed that not only can you make HDR and Panoramic images in the latest Lightroom, but that they can be combined into massive RAW files that are *not* your grandfather’s HDRs!

Beginner

Photos for OS X Basic Training FREE Update Now Includes Extensions Video

By PhotoJoseph

October 12, 2015 - 6:00pm

The “Photos for OS X Basic Training” course has just been updated to include a new video on the new Extensions architecture — and there’s no cost to existing customers!

Intermediate

Petitioning Adobe to Add RAW+JPEG Support to Lightroom

By PhotoJoseph

October 9, 2015 - 9:00pm

Adobe Lightroom has minimal support for a RAW+JPEG workflow. Their position is that this isn’t a workflow that their customers need or want… but together we can prove that wrong and convince them to add it!