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» Worldwide Photo Walk, Saturday August 23rd

On Saturday, August 23rd there will be a worldwide photowalk held in promotion of the upcoming Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby. I’m going to be hosting the one in my home city of Gothenburg, Sweden. Go and check out the full deal over att Scott’s Blog and view the video below that explains it as well. I haven’t finalised the details for the walk here in Gothenburg just yet but they will be in a day or to. So if you want to join in my photo walk, check out the page here.

» Friday Goodies

There is no hard explanation to why I never posted anything yesterday, I was just so tired after a long day filled with unexpected things. However some Friday Goodies is always needed before the weekend.

• Scott Kelby posted on his blog, Photoshop Insider, today about his latest book, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers and said that it was a complete rewrite of his old (about 95% new stuff). According to himself he’s streamlined his workflow, learnt a bunch of new things as well as learnt the most asked questions and how people use it. I can say that it is going to be a killer book!
   
• Mark your calendars, August 23rd. Something cool is coming. Just mark them and be with me there. No info as of now.
   
• A few votes in the poll are telling me that they don’t know what Photoshop World is so I thought I’d end that right now be telling. Photoshop World is a semi-annual convention for all Photoshop users. It’s held in the US once on the east coast on the spring and then on the west coat in Las Vegas every fall. This time it is coming up in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on September 4th through 6th. It’s an amazing conference and to read more, check out the Photoshop World website.
   
• Finally, if you need a mantra for all those times when clients are being a pain curtsey of my fellow NAPP member Michael. "I get paid either way, I get paid either way."

And with that nice mantra have a nice Friday eve and weekend. I’ll probably get some stuff up over the weekend as well.

 

» Happy Birthday to Scott Kelby!

These things happen once a year for all of us. Today it is Scott Kelby’s turn to become a year older. I want to wish him a great and happy birthday! Hope you are having a truly amazing day!

» 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!

» No Blogging Wednesday

Got a lot to do today which means that there will be a no blogging Wednesday. Instead go and check out a guest-blogger post over at Scott Kelby’s blog by Matt Kloskowski that talks about a fun project that involved photoshop! Matt did a wonderful post there and it is worth your time!

Tomorrow is going to be an article Thursday with some coolies! The picture above also from my recent weekend trip! Cool things are happening, more on that tomorrow!

» Late Thursday News

I’m pretty tired after working a full day in the camera store and I’m going to be early because the day is repeating itself tomorrow. Fun but tiresome. Here are at least a few late Thursday news.

• From screenshots of the new Apple App Store we can see that they are imposing restrictions in both price and application size. The maximum size is 2gb and the prices range between $0.99 to $999, where the latter probably is for more enterprise styled applications.
   
• A new build of the Parallels Desktop shows support for both Linux as well as 3D graphics inside of Windows. To get the free update, just go under the help menu and chose Check for Updates.
   
• One of the site visitors sent me a comment yesterday noting me on a tutorial error which is indeed a realism miss. In the Pixelmator tutorial about Creating a realistic sunlight effect I missed to at the end, flip the copied image vertically so that the small piece of the window comes at the top. So for anyone being affected by this miss in the recording, now you know how to fix it.
   
• Over at his blog, Scott Kelby has posted a review of the Ray Flash. The Ray Flash is essentially a ring flash that attaches to a normal hotshoe flash to make it a ring flash. It sounds like a cool product so go and check that out.

That’s that for the news today, tomorrow I’ll be back with the Friday goodies, so stay tuned. Oh and until then, don’t have too much trouble, it is Friday 13th.

» Professional Portrait Retouching Class by Scott Kelby

Today on Kelby Training a brand new class (like most weeks) are launched. This time however it is an amazing class by an amazing man. Scott Kelby is launching his brand new online class called Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques. It’s going to teach you the best ways to retouch your portraits, without making them look unreal or overdone. It’s all the real retouching stuff used by professionals worldwide every day. After the jump you can see a promotional video that Scott did for the class where he himself explains what is covered.

» Thursday News Update

Congratulations to Scott Kelby

I want to congratulate Scott Kelby on the news that his Digital Photography Book Volume 1 is the best selling photography book ever right now! What’s even more is that currently his Volume 2 of the book is selling much more than volume one did for the same amount of time when it was released! Many congrats to Scott on this big achievement!

New online class from Kelby Training - Creative Integration with Taz Tally

Kelby Training has launched yet another new online training class called "Creative Intregration" hosted by Taz Tally. In this class you’ll be walked through how to set up the different creative suite applications to work better with eachother and how to use them together in a good way. I’ve watched most of the lessons in the class and I must say Taz has done an amazing job with it!

Web Design Forums

There are a lot of forums on the web and if you are a web designer, chances are that you might be looking for one to be a member on or you are at some already but want more to be on. Smashing Magazine posted a good list today with a little synopsis following each forum in their list. What they’ve done is listing a couple of forums they like with thumbnail and info.

 

» End of the week news!

 Kelby Training News

• If you are in or around the Hartford, CT area on May 13th you might want to know that Scott Kelby is bringing his Photoshop CS3 Power Tour there! Entry is only $99 or $79 for NAPP members for the one-day seminar! Read more over at Kelby Training.
   
• For a seminar more closer in time, Bert Monroy is bringing his Photoshop CS3 Creativity Tour to Bostan, MI this Wednesday the 30th April! Check up all the details here, as before, entry is $99 ($79 if you are a NAPP member).
   
• There is a new Kelby Training online class released and it is from Joe McNally on how to get better results from a small off-camera flash. You can read more about the class as well as an overview of the lessons right here, or if you are a subscriber already, go to the online player to watch.

Great free Credit Card icons!

Over at Smashing Magazine, they had a really good little resource article filled with great free credit card icons. If you have been shopping on the web you’ve probably seen them already. The credit card icons all over, chances are you might have been wondering where to get them. Fear not though, we have an article link right here.

Really cool Parallax Gallery tutorials

Back a year ago or so when I was a subscriber to a magazine called Web Designer, Nick La of N-Design Studio had this really cool tutorial on how to create a scrolling parallax gallery from scratch in Photoshop and Flash. He now has posted a very similar but a little more in-depth version of the tutorial over at his other website. It is an amazing read, right here!

 

» Photoshop World Orlando Week

This is the week when Photoshop World Orlando is going to be! Official dates are the 2-4 with the pre-con day tomorrow on april fools day. I really wish I could be over there visiting as it looks to be a real blast! I guess I’ll be able to make it some day. The theme of this year is "The Evolution". Here is an un-official little guide for Photoshop World Orlando!

Schedule

Here is a little mini-schedule to the Photoshop World week. To find out more about the classes and worshops on the day, just click the Schedule/Workshop Information link after the day. To help plan the classes you want to go to, check out Dave Cross’s schedule planner!

April 1 - Pre-Conferance Day [Workshop Information]  
April 2 - First Day: Opening Keynote, Tech Expo Opening, Classes [Schedule Information]
April 3 - Second Day: Tech Expo, Classes [Schedule Information]
April 4 - Final Day: Tech Expo, Classes, Wrap-up and Giveaways [Schedule Information]

About The Tech Expo

Even if you haven’t registered for the full Photoshop World Conference but live in the area nearby, you can still go and visit the Tech Expo, where most of the companies in the market will be having a both. There are also free mini-classes right on the show floor, and of course the taping of Photoshop User TV, live! To get into the Tech Expo for free, just follow this link, to get a free Expo Pass that is $20 otherwise! Also present on the tech expo is the Help Desk, live on the floor as well as a lot of other cool things.

• Bonus Classes
• Free Expo Pass
• Help Desk Live
• Exhibitors

Special Photoshop World Events

There are a lot of special events that are happening on Photoshop World and on of the more famous one, apart from the opening keynote, is the Hall of Fame where two new people get inducted there, right in the keynote. Now you also have the very cool Portfolio Reviews where you get the chance of getting your portfolio reviewed by the best artists in the industry!

If you are going to Photoshop World yourself, why don’t you check out the Dinner with a Stranger where you get the chances of meeting a fellow photoshop person while having dinner. If that isn’t for you, then perhaps the Photoshop World After-Hours party is? After the closing of the day you have the big after hours party where there’ll be loads of entertainment. Don’t forget either, that you always have Midnight Madness, the fun event and you gotto to read the deal because I’m not going to tell you here.

Can’t be there? Check the live blog!

If you, like me can’t attend Photoshop World this time around, then you should definately be subscribing to and checking out the live blog from the event! For the first time ever the event is going to be fully blogged on, by Jennifer Bontempi, so go and check out the Photoshop World Blog!

Finally, if you are not going, or if you are going and need to still your need for Photoshop World stuff, go and check out the Photoshop World Movies and Photo Galleries from previous years!

I think that’s it for my little Photoshop World Orlando guide and I hope all of you guys that will be going there are going to have a blast there!