Friday News Nuggets
Here’s a few quick things to take us into the weekend:
- We just released two new online training videos at KelbyTraining.com; one from photographer and Photoshop Hall of Famer Eddie Tapp called “Blending in Photoshop” (click here) and one from Photoshop World Video Guru Richard Harrington on “Color Correction in Final Cut Pro” (here’s that link)
- Capture NX Shark Vincent Versace turned me on to this “loophole”deal on NX 2: Nikon has released their upgrade policy for people who bought (or will buy) Capture NX Version 1 from an authorized Nikon reseller, from May 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008; those folks will be entitled to receive a FREE Capture NX 2 Upgrade directly from Nikon (they just need to call Nikon at 800-Nikon-UX with their product key and provide a copy of their proof of purchase to receive a Capture NX 2 key code free of charge). If you’ve been on the fence, this may be your chance.
- If you’re going to Photoshop World, you might want to go a day early to catch one of the new pre-conference workshops:
Canon’s live model studio shoot (with Eddie Tapp and Jack Resnicki)
An advanced workshop called “3D Lenticular Imaging w/Photoshop” taught by Adobe’s own Russell Preston Brown
The Epson Print Academy (featuring John Paul Caponigro, Jeff Schewe, and Andrew Rodney)
Dan Margulis’ new “Lab Color In Depth” workshop
A new Live Shooting class call “Inside the Studio” with Jim DiVitale.
Fay Sirkis with Impressions of Nature - A Landscape Seascape Photo Paining Class,
Kevin Ames with Lighting, Posing, Metering & Photographing Fashion
Building an Electronic Portfolio, using DVD, Slide Software, and Web Galleries, with Richard Harrington
Here’s the link with more info on each workshop, and how to sign up (note: this intimate workshops are only open to Photoshop World Full Conference attendees).
- If you haven’t backed-up your Lightroom Catalog, right now, this very minute, is a great time to do it. If you’re using the original version of Lightroom, go to Lightroom’s preferences, click on the “Go to Catalog Settings” button, choose “Once a Week upon starting Lightroom” (then Quit Lightroom and restart it, and you’ll have a dialog pop-up that asks you if you want to back up your catalog). If you’re using Lightroom 2, then just press Option-Command-, (PC: Alt-Ctrl-,) to bring up the Catalog Settings window, and then do the same thing (choose once a week, etc.).
That’s it for today, everybody. Have a kick-butt weekend, and we’ll see you back here on Monday.