Adobe Systems Creative Suite 3 Launch Webcast
March 21, 2007
On March 27, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, Adobe Systems will host a webcast of the official launch of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, live from New York City. And you can participate in it. The detailes are at Adobe site.
OnOne Software presents Photo Presets for Photoshop Lightroom by Jack Davis
March 20, 2007
OnOne Software offers a new, and free, product developed in cooperation with Jack Davis, a renowned Photoshop educator, author, and photographer.
BreezeBrowser Pro
March 15, 2007
Breeze Browser raw converter of Breeze Browser systems provides you with a program oriented on batch raw convertion and reducing the time you inevitably spend on basic manipulations with the digital photos to minimum.
Supported Cameras and destination formats
Breeze Browser is very selective with cameras and file formats it supports, though each new version has more supported cameras and raw file formats. But Breeze Browser Pro still has a few cameras on the list: Canon, Nicon, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji, Sony (embedded jpgs only), and Konica Minolta. Moreover, none of them has the whole product line supported. The most represented camera is Canon - 21 model.
Selecting Images with MaskPro
March 14, 2007
MaskPro is a OnOne Software PhotoShop plugin working within this (or some other) photo editor as a kind of filter. Mask Pro allows not only selection of images but creating of selection paths as well. The program can be downloaded at www.ononesoftware.com as a free 30 day trial or bought for $159 (upgrade $69).
Interface
{mosimage align=right popup=1} MaskPro opens up in a separate set of windows through PhotoShop filters menu. All its panels (5 of them al in all) show on your desktop with it as a background so that you can see all your open programs. That can be distracting. Pity they didn’t set the option of minimizing all the windows when opening the plug-in or set a neutral background for it.
Adobe Camera Raw
March 9, 2007
Camera Raw is an Adobe PhotoShop plug-in allowing convertion of raw files into editable image formats. It opens up automatically at an attempt to open a raw file through PS open menu. It also usually gains primary control over raw files opened out of a file manager.
Camera support and destination formats
Adobe Camera Raw in its latest version (3.0) can work with almost the whole range of cameras. Canon, Nicon, Olympus, and Panasonic – almost all models in the line are supported with 1 or 2 exceptions. Pentax, Fuji, Sony, Konika Minolta, Kodak, Leica, Contax, Creo Leaf, Epson, Sigma, and even Mamiya are in the list with about halves of their lines. The complete list of camera models is in the table. Each new version of Adobe Camera Raw adds new cameras to the list, both new and old models.
Selection of images with Extract
March 2, 2007
Extract is a built-in Adobe PhotoShop plug-in used for selecting images. You would not need to pay for it or install it, which is a good thing. At the same time Extract is not as rich in tools as most of third party plug-ins.