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» Saturday News

 

It was supposed to be early Saturday but things got interupted and it is not later instead, but here are still some news for you from today and yesterday. Have a great weekend!

» ACR Preset - BoomContrast

 

Another week, another preset. This time it is another Adobe Camera Raw preset called BoomContrast which will boost the contrast up tremendously to a point where it can be too much for some photos. Feel free to tweak to your liking and use, after all it is created for a reason!

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» ACR Preset: The Old Bleached

 

Here is a little cool newly created Adobe Camera Raw preset. We have a ton floating around for Lightroom so I figured I’d create a few for camera raw, because it is just that nice to have presets.

It is called "The Old Bleached" just because what it will do (as you see on the preview up top) is bleach out the photo a bit as well as giving it a higher contrast and shift the tint to a little more yellow look. It’s a little all-in-one.

To install it, open any photo inside of Adobe Camera Raw. Click the little flyout icon in the sidebar at the right of the panel name and in it, choose Load Settings and load the .xmp file that you’ve downloaded into there. You can also copy the downloaded files to the Settings folder, on a mac located here:

Users > [username] > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Camera Raw > Settings

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» Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1

Adobe has just released the updates to both Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 fixing the problems that arised in 1.4 and 4.4 respectively. It’s the same new features as preivously with added camera support but without the bugs. Download links are available below for both Lightroom and Camera Raw for Mac and Windows.

 

Lightroom 1.4.1: Macintosh | Windows
Camera Raw 4.4.1: Macintosh | Windows

» Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 released

 Adobe has today released updates to both Lightroom and Camera Raw, bringing them booth up to .4 releases and the change in booth is that they now include support for the newest cameras like the Canon 450D and the Nikon D60.

• Lightroom 1.4: Win | Mac
• Camera Raw: Win | Mac

» It’s “Finally Friday”

Today is “Finally Friday” and I really mean it, I’m so happy it is Friday again and weekend because I’ve been so very busy during the week I’ve hardly gotten time to be on the computer. Anyway this was always going to be the most busy because it is the end of the term and yeah it is always most busy then. So here are the weeks hottest stuff

I won the contest I was nominated in…

I gotto start with some more self centered stuff eh, that’s all because I’m just totally psyched about it! If you remember I posted a little while ago that I had been nominated for Photograph of the Month over at the Photography Corner website and I’m stunned that I won the voting and my “Summer Memories” photograph became the photograph of the month of December over there, meaning it has now won two awards!! The prize was a one year pro account to SmugMug where I will be setting up a site where you’ll be able to buy my photos from! Cool eh

Wacom Cintiq 12WX

Wacom has announced a brand new tablet in their Cintiq lineup, it is a smaller 12″ tablet (active screen size) that works just like a regular drawing tablet, only it has a screen built right in. It looks super cool and the resolution is 1280×800. You can read more about it here!

Adobe News!

• Adobe has released Camera Raw 4.3.1 that addresses some bugs in the 4.3 release. You can download it for free here!

• Adobe has also redesigned their entire company website over at Adobe.com to match the new creative suite! To me I think the design is well organized and it looks very stylish, so go and explore and enjoy the interactivity as well! By just taking a quick look at the source it appears that they have used a couple of their own suite programs (apart from the design side) such as Dreamweaver (I see presence of DW Templates) which is pretty cool in and of itself!

» Adobe releases a few upgrades!

Today, Adobe has released quite a few updates today and it is one especially very awaited one. It is Lightroom 1.3 as well as ACR 4.3, Photoshop 10.0.1 and Bridge 2.1.1. I have a brief rundown of the changes in the upgrade the most awaited again being Lightroom 1.3 with support for Mac OS X 10.5 and some additional cameras! So hit the Read more button for a rundown or follow the links below here to download the updates from the Adobe site or just use the Adobe Updater to download the updates!

Lightroom: Mac | Win
Photoshop: Mac | Win
Bridge: Mac | Win
Camera Raw: Mac | Win