Whatever the reason, I could not run any Adobe application this afternoon. This was after all my trials and tribulations as outlined in some earlier posts, frustrating. As I launched Photoshop or Acrobat, I received a message window to tell me that "The license for this product stopped working" on … [Read more...]
Single File HDR, really?
Well, not exactly but perhaps a mini HDR; but a very useful one at that. There are numerous articles, Web tutorials, books written about the high dynamic range image processing and for a good reason. The process yields remarkable results with detailed highlights and detailed shadows. Images obtained … [Read more...]
How I Installed Adobe CS4, an Ordeal
Note added on 12/15/2009. See my last post about Adobe Air application installation solution. Note added on 1/18/2009. I wonder if Adobe Installer sets up a MiniSQL to facilitate copy protection and module integration. If it does, could that clash with MS-SQL? I believe Adobe uses Bonjour, and … [Read more...]
Adobe CS4 Install Problems, Royal Pain …
This is a copy of my post to an Adobe forum, with a couple of additions (in italics). In the next post, you will see a more to the point explanation of my problem and how I ended up resolving them. There is a happy ending to my misery, but shame on you Adobe support personnel and principal … [Read more...]
Atmospheric FX by JP Caponigro
A while back I ordered one of the DVDs from John Paul Caponigro's R/Evolution series, Atmospheric FX. Frankly, I was not quite sure what the product included and I told John at a workshop last July to explain the contents a little better. It arrived almost two months ago but I have not had a chance … [Read more...]
Better B&W Conversion in Lightroom
I have been using Adobe Lightroom since it became available as public beta for Windows. It is a great front-end for Photoshop and much of the work can be done in Lightroom. I like that, the interface is more intuitive and controls more visible. One of the steps I started doing in Lightroom … [Read more...]
Workshop
I have just finished the workshop "Fine Art of Digital Printing" with John Paul Caponigro and Mac Holbert and I cannot say enough favorable things about the whole experience. Both John and Mac are extremely knowledgeable about photography, digital workflow, Photoshop, and the printing process; I … [Read more...]
A Short Vent
Photography is a process of selection and abstraction, a series of them at that. First, we put frames around a frameless world and choose one from among an infinite number of them. Then, we flatten and reduce the three-dimensional space down to two dimensions. Third, while our eyes can focus only on … [Read more...]
On Giclée and Understanding Digital Photography, I
Yesterday evening I attended a panel discussion at the Bert Gallery in Providence. The topic "What is original art? Is it a giclée?" was interesting and the panelists were mostly informed about the digital art and digital photography. I thought of Graham Nash and Mac Holbert as they ventured into … [Read more...]
Photographic (digital) Workflow
The term workflow has been closely associated with digital photography. I think this is a misnomer. The core idea is, and should be, photographic workflow. Indeed, before the advent of digital photography, photographers talked about this very subject, perhaps not with the same name, but the same … [Read more...]