Archive for the 'Photo Editing' Category

Matt Edington From eSiteTours Talks About His HDR Process

April 10th, 2008

eSiteTours.com is a full service tour company in Bellevue, WA that launched at the end of 2007. I did a post on eSiteTours.com when they launched. eSiteTours specializes in HDR images for both their 360s and still shots.
Matt Edington is one of the eSiteTours founders and currently does all their HDR processing. Recently Matt was […]

Landmark New Features In Lightroom 2 Beta

April 9th, 2008

This Beta version is it seems to me unusually “uncooked” to me. Even though Lightroom product managers say not, I think Adobe rushed out this Beta to reveal the cool things they have in the pipeline and counter Apple’s recent release of Aperture.
Michael Clark over at Inside Lightroom has a good summary of the […]

Confessions of A Photoshop Sinner

March 30th, 2008

I need to confess. I’ve committed grievous sins. I’ve used Photoshop to modify the physical appearance of the exterior of a home we are going to put on the market this week. Not just once but twice. The evidence is in the comparison photo to the right.
This all started when my wife Levi […]

Video Intro To the New Adobe Photoshop Express Beta

March 28th, 2008

Over at photoshopinsider Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski made the above video introducing Adobe’s new, free photo editor online photo sharing site. Wall Street Journal also has an article on the new product.I finally got to use Photoshop Express. Turns out the site doesn’t seem to work quite right when I use Firefox on my […]

Stunning Interior Images Without Lighting Equipment

March 18th, 2008

Think you need to use lighting equipment to get a bright interior? Think again! This tour is shot by a company based in Seattle called Vista Estate. Vista Estate’s approach is to shoot with no lighting equipment. This is one of their sample tours that shows what you can do without any extra […]

Enfuse: One of The Most Important Tools For A Real Estate Photographer

March 11th, 2008

I had an interesting time this weekend shooting the same property that I’d shot back in 2004. The property is a funky little A-Frame on a remote lane on Tiger Mt near Issaquah, WA. My wife Levi has sold almost every home on this lane over the last 5 years.

LR/Enfuse: A HDR Like Image Blending Plugin For Lightroom

March 3rd, 2008

As reported over at Lightroom News, Timothy Armes has a new donation-ware image blending plugin for Lightroom that creates images similar to tonemapped images.
I purchased a copy and have been playing around with it for several hours. It is very convenient to use, just select the images you want to blend in Lightroom and launch […]

Aperture 2.0 Is Not A Professional Application

February 18th, 2008

I admit it I’m a little biased towards Lightroom since I’ve used Lightroom since it came out. But since in TWIP #5 Scott Bourne and Alex Linsey were so “ga-ga” over Aperture 2.0 I decided, “OK, I’ll keep an open mind and check out the new Aperture 2.0 just released”. I downloaded the 60 day […]

Walk Through of The New Mac Version of Photoshop Elements 6

January 16th, 2008

Macworld is in progress this week so every thing Mac is being announced and hyped. Terry White has a 45 minute podcast that walks you through the features of the new version 6 of Photoshop Elements in the up coming new version due out the end of March. You can download it directly from […]

Do We Have Any Aperture Users Here?

November 25th, 2007

Jerry Swanson of Eagan, MN says: “… use the Canon 1Ds with Aperture. After ten months I still have not learned all the features. The Apple Store has experts to teach the program but one hour a week is not great. …I have been using Aperture and have found this a long learning experience.”
Is there […]