Archive for November, 2007
Random Acts of Dao
Craig November 18th, 2007
Went out for an after dinner walk last night. As I was about to leave, I heard the sounds of lots of fireworks being let off, and remembering that I’d seen a lot of Gods walking through the streets earlier in the day, I grabbed a camera and some earplugs and went in search of the noise. I finally caught up with everything down near the train station and found that it was a decent sized Daoist march through the streets, complete with fireworks, flares, KTV girls, flags, decorated cars, the 8 generals and some Gods. All these were shot at ISO1600 on a Canon EOS40D, and have had minimal or no noise reduction applied. The 40D is just fantastic when it comes to dealing with noise at high ISOs. Okay, I won’t give any commentary about the pictures, I’ll just let you enjoy them.
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom updates available.
Craig November 17th, 2007
Adobe have posted updated to Lightroom to 1.3 and Photoshop CS3 to 10.0.1 Click on the following links to go to the update sites, and read below for a list of changes.
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Lightroom for Windows. Macintosh.
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Photoshop CS3 for Windows. Macintosh.
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Here are the changes in updates.
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Lightroom
New file formats supported in the 1.3 release are:
- Canon 1Ds Mark III
- Canon PowerShot G9
- Nikon D3
- Nikon D300
- Olympus E-3
- Olympus SP-560 UZ
- Panasonic DMC-L10
Lightroom 1.3 includes corrections for the following issues:
- Writing XMP metadata automatically has been corrected for performance issues
- Printing with the native resolution option enabled no longer sets the wrong dimension for portrait oriented images
- Prior to Camera Raw 4.3 there was the possibility that artifacts in edge transitions could be introduced through the
- Bayer demosaic and luminance noise reductions algorithms. This has been corrected.
- The Canon sRAW format and the Fuji compressed RAF formats are now supported.
Lightroom 1.3 includes the following enhancements:
- The import dialog now offers the option to render 1:1 previews as part of the import process
- The export dialog layout has been enhanced
- A Lightroom Preview Export SDK is available for developers to create and distribute Export Plug-ins. Further details are located on Adobe Labs
This update also brings OS X 10.5 compatibility with Apple’s new Leopard OS which itself was updated today to 10.5.1.
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Photoshop CS3
The Update addresses these Windows version issues:
- A crash that could occur when Microsoft Intellipoint software is installed has been fixed.
- The speed of moving objects contained within multiple layer sets has been improved.
- The speed of closing large documents has been improved.
- Converting images to CMYK using certain profiles no longer results in black files.
- A crash that could occur when saving a 4-bit BMP file with 16 or fewer colors has been fixed.
- The Save for Web feature now includes an option to “Include XMP†(metadata) in the settings menu within the main Save for Web interface, making the existing capability easier to access.
- When using Save For Web with “Include XMP†enabled, all XMP data is now included in the optimized file.
- A problem that could cause the incorrect printer to appear within the print dialog box has been corrected.
- Images no longer print with odd-sized margins on various Epson printers, or print smaller and off-centered.
- Printer settings in Windowsï¾® are saved with a document while that document is open. If a document has not had Page Setup settings applied to it, the document will get the previous page setup used during the current session of Photoshop.
- Photoshop now turns off Windows ICM (system color management) when “Photoshop Manages Colors.â€
- Print color matching has been improved.
- A problem that caused certain laser printers to show distortions when printing to a nonsquare resolution has been fixed.
And the following issues in the Macintosh version:
- The speed of moving objects contained within multiple layer sets has been improved.
- Converting images to CMYK using certain profiles no longer results in black files. \The Save for Web feature now includes an option to “Include XMP†(metadata) in the settings menu within the main Save for Web interface, making the existing capability easier to access.
- When using Save For Web with “Include XMP†enabled, all XMP data is now included in the optimized file.
- Print color matching has been improved.
- Images saved as DICOM and reopened in Photoshop CS3 are no longer corrupted on PowerPCï¾® based Mac computers.
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Thai Buddha
Craig November 14th, 2007
Apologies for the lack of posting lately. I’ve had the flu for the past few days and haven’t felt like sitting in front of a computer. Here’s an old shot from Thailand in the meantime.
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