March 27th, 2012
Just recently I read the book Seal Target Geronimo about the seal team operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Seal operators have this saying, “One is none and two is one”. Which means when you are dealing with physical equipment you have to have a backup if you want a high probability of having one [...]
March 22nd, 2012
Russell Preston Brown introducing Photoshop CS6. Russell Brown is a classic circus guy, I love his style. Just in case you don’t have your weekend scheduled yet, a Beta release of CS6 is available for you to download and play with. I don’t even remember if there has been a free beta of Photoshop before. [...]
March 4th, 2012
Since early February Adobe has been previewing pieces of new functionality coming in Photoshop CS6. You can see video clips of these previews on the Adobe Photoshop YouTube channel. This stream of previews suggests that Photoshop CS6 is coming soon. To me one of the more compelling features is content aware move. It is certainly [...]
February 27th, 2012
You probably didn’t even know there was a PFRE sky library did you. Yes, since March of 2006 there has been one. Many readers over the years have donated public domain skies for everyone to use and even though I haven’t had a link to the old the free sky library on the blog for a [...]
February 19th, 2012
After using the new re-designed Basic controls in the Develop Module of Lightroom 4 Beta for a while it’s beginning to sink in how great these improvements are. In particular I’m talking about the Highlights and Shadows sliders. Everyone that has ever shot an interior shot with bright windows has dreamed of having an slider that [...]
February 14th, 2012
Over the years I’ve used polls on the PFRE blog to better understand and illustrate the trends that are going in real estate photography. The poll I have on the PFRE poll page on photo-editing is very old (8/2007). And although it’s been up for almost 5 years the results are fuzzy because practices have [...]
February 9th, 2012
I’ve been working with a new ebook author the last couple of weeks on a new PFRE ebook on real estate photography post-processing. In the process of comparing all the possible photo-editing software for correcting barrel distortion, converging verticals and horizontal alignment I became aware of an issue that I’d not realized before. It’s this: When you [...]
February 2nd, 2012
Nick Jones reminded me last week that I pointed out in Nov that Adobe initially announced that only CS5 users could upgrade to CS6. But I did not pass on the fact that Adobe finally caved in to public pressure and changed their upgrade policy. Here is Adobe’s current upgrade policy for the up coming [...]
November 14th, 2011
Thanks to Harry Lim in Orlando, FL for pointing this video out to me. This is a meticulous demonstration by Roger Brooks, a Architectural and Interior Photographer in Vancouver, BC demonstrating a lighting/post process layering technique commonly used in high-end Architectural Interior photography. Note that I show it here as an educational illustration of how many Architectural [...]
October 17th, 2011
My current software recommendation for real estate photographers are as follows: If you want just the bare essentials to do the real estate photography job, PSE is the photo editor you are looking for. It runs everywhere, costs $79 and does everything you need to do as a real estate photographer. If you can afford [...]
