AfterCapture is a magazine that is freely distributed to commercial photographers. This tends to generate an ad-centric magazine, and I frequently question the merit of their equipment/software reviews, but greatly enjoy the articles on other photographers, the educational material, and the lessons in advertising (marketing material directed at people in the advertising industry tends to [...]
The kind people at uCertify have put up a link to my review of their Photoshop ACE Prep kit, and are offering a 10% discount to my readers on the uCertify PrepKit of their choice.
If you’re interested in checking them out, please use the following Discount code: “AKUMAR”
A few weeks ago, I posted about the new study aids I’d found for the Adobe Certified Expert Exam in CS2. I didn’t want to take a course, which would spend 90% of the time covering the things I already new, and I didn’t want a book for the same reason.
The test-based preparatory software seemed [...]
I’ve been long-contemplating the Adobe Certified Expert exam as a way to stand out from the morass of entry-level photo assistants and so-called digital retouchers (many of whom don’t seem to know what a layer is).
I’ve been dawdling for a while, and Adobe has released the CS3 suite while I weighed pros and cons, giving [...]
Edit: They called me back, see below for the end of the story.
I just went several rounds with the folks at Precision Imaging, over the roll of Kodak Ektachrome 64T EPY that I finally sent in from my trip to France over the summer. While the conversation was frustrating, I noticed that the conversation required [...]
Renderosity, an art community for fantasy artists, offers a variety of cheap and sometimes useful tools for your digital artistry. Recently mentioned in an issue of Imagine FX magazine, they highlighted one set of tools which I am happy to share with my friends:
Ron’s Sci-fi Photoshop Brushes are a set of 75 high-detail brushes of [...]
After only two weeks as member of the APA, I’ve seen this program referred to half a dozen times.
fotoQuote Pro, the Industry Standard for Pricing Photography
I’m currently asking around about this company’s other program, fotoBiz, which is packaged as a complete office system for freelance photographers.
Article on making your own sound blimp, a tool used by motion movie still photographers to prevent the camera from emitting noise loud enough to be captured on the recording audio.
Dave Buzzards Camera Blimp
Thanks to Brad of High Contrast Studios for this link.
Pentax K10D getting rave reviews, to be released in December 06/January 07
Welcome to optikVerve Labs – Home of virtualPhotographer
Virtual Photographer is a brilliant package of PS plugins, which are sadly PC-only.