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Daylight Saving Time: Remember your cameras!

Posted in Cameras, Digital Photography, Taking pictures, Video, tagged , , , , , on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Don’t forget to include your cameras when you adjust your clocks for Daylight Savings Time.

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Color Management without the Jargon video: now available!

Posted in Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Color management, Digital Photography, Printing, Training videos, tagged , , , , , , on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Are you a photographer or designer and still not quite sure how color management works? Confused about how to use color profiles? Have you tried to read books and articles about color management, but are overwhelmed by the terminology? Learn the basics of color management in my new training video.

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List of Canon SLR error codes

Posted in Cameras, Digital Photography, tagged , on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Tallyn’s blog has posted a list of error codes you might see in Canon digital SLRs: Canon Error Codes Revealed What, no Error 99? (Actually, the post says the list is for the 5DMkII and later models.)

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Adobe Bridge: Workspace not saved on Mac OS X

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, Apple, Digital Photography, Mac OS X on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You want to save a workspace in Adobe Bridge in Mac OS X, but it won’t “take.” The next time you start Bridge, the workspace isn’t available or doesn’t apply when you select it. It just does nothing. The fix is to open Apple Disk Utility, select your startup volume, and click Repair Disk Permissions. [...]

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Canon announces PowerShot G11 and S90 compacts

Posted in Cameras, Digital Photography, tagged , , , , , , on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I don’t write about every camera announcement, but these two are noteworthy. While Canon announced six new compact cameras on August 19, there were two in particular that I knew my friends and I would be interested in. The PowerShot G11 is the successor to the G10, a rather large compact with professional features. The PowerShot [...]

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Epson inkjet printers: Printer preset forgets settings

Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, Epson Stylus Pro 3800, Mac OS X, tagged , , , , , on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you use an Epson Stylus Photo/Epson Stylus Pro printer in Mac OS X and you save printer settings as printer presets (a recommended practice), there may be times when you choose a preset and realize that some of the settings mysteriously deviate from the way you saved them. For example, you might swear that you saved [...]

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Epson inkjet printers: Solving paper feed problems

Posted in Digital Photography, Epson Stylus Pro 3800, Printing, tagged , , , , , , on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If paper doesn’t feed through your Epson printer, look out for the following: Leading edge problems. If there’s anything wrong with the leading edge of the paper (the edge that goes in first), the printer may not be able to load it. Check for creases, folds, tears, or other damage. Proper loading depends on the [...]

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Camera Raw: Detailed image inspection with one key

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Digital Photography, tagged , on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Camera Raw 4.1 and later add a very useful feature that appeared first in Lightroom. If you want to inspect an image closely for dust or other defects that need retouching, the Page Down key takes you through the entire image, from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Here’s how it works: [...]

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Open Raw files in Adobe Camera Raw by default

Posted in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography, tagged , , , on January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

If you use Adobe Camera Raw as your raw converter for digital camera raw files, you might want to be able to open your raw files in Camera Raw when you double-click them. For most files, you would do this in your operating system by changing which application opens the camera raw file type. But [...]

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Apple keyboards are now safe for calibrated Apple LCD monitors

Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Apple hardware, Color management, Digital Photography on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

If you’ve carefully calibrated your monitor and you use the white Apple keyboard that came with the iMacs and Mac Pros, you may have encountered that nasty surprise when accidentally pressing the F14 and F15 keys: They change the monitor brightness. Changing the monitor brightness is obviously a big no-no if you’re maintaining a color-managed [...]

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