Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Adobe Lightroom 4 is officially out of the gate after a brief leak last week. The price for the full version at launch is $149 (half off the $299 list). Upgrades drop $20 less, down to $79.
If you’ve been following along with the beta release, then you have a pretty good idea what Lightroom 4 is like; however, we’ll hit the highlights below for those wondering what all the fuss is about. [Read more…]
Here’s another Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peek. This one shows off a selective focus tool that can be quickly applied.
Note the available options include field blur and tilt shift in addition to the iris blur demonstrated in the video. It will be interesting to see how this works when you want to show some shallow depth of field behind a subject while the subject remains in place. I would imagine that that you’ll be able to mask your subject out and then apply the blur to the background layer similar to how we already do in Alien Skin’s Bokeh 2.
Hopefully, the wait won’t be much longer…
Here’s a short video that takes you behind the scenes of ‘Act of Valor‘, which was shot on the 5D Mark II, and shows how Adobe products were used to help make the film. I knew that Adobe products were used quite a bit on the film; however, I was still surprised to hear that most of the visual effects in the film were done in After Effects.
It looks like most/all of the Adobe products that Bandito Bros used can be found in Adobe Production Premium.
[via Adobe TV]
Here’s another Photoshop CS6 sneek peak showing off some things that should speed up the migration to the new version, as well as simply making Photoshop easier to use.
[via John Nack]
Adobe is about to shake things up a bit with a new subscription model for its Creative Suite applications. Adobe has kinda soured the milk recently with its decision to cut upgrades for earlier versions of its software (which it later rescinded for this upgrade cycle), so I’m curious to see how all of this shakes out. [Read more…]
Check out the latest sneak peek of Photoshop CS6 in the above video, which demos the improvements to content-aware functionality in the upcoming version.
[via PetaPixel]
Adobe is back with another sneak peek at Photoshop CS6. This time around, Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee shows off a couple of cool new features – background saving and a much faster liquify.
The above video was captured with a Canon Rebel T2i (aka 550D), along with the nifty-fifty 50mm f/1.8, 18-55mm kit lens and Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens, and it was edited using Premiere Pro, After Effects and Twixtor.
B&H has Lightroom 3 available for $149.95. Even if you are looking to get Lightroom 4 later this Spring, this should still be a solid deal since Adobe historically prices new versions of Lightroom for $299 and upgrades for $99.
Details here at B&H.
Adobe’s Camera Raw 7, which should be packaged with Photoshop CS6. Like recent iterations of Camera Raw, the engine under the hood is the same thing that powers Lightroom 4, which should be the current version of Lightroom around the release time for Photoshop CS6.
Check out the video below for a look at the tools and interface of Camera Raw 7. [Read more…]