Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
B&H is running a special on Lightroom 4 for only $99 when you buy any of the cameras listed below.
Canon 5D Mark III + LR4 for $99
Canon PowerShot S100 + LR4 for $99
Nikon Coolpix P7100 + LR4 for $99
Panasonic Lumix LX5 + LR4 for $99
Note that the LR4 discount link is on each of the product pages linked above.
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…
Photoshop Touch is now available for the iPad 2. It’s 0nly $9.99 in the App Store. [Read more…]
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]
Exposure 4 Light Leak
Following up on the preview of Exposure 4 from last week, Alien Skin has officially released Exposure 4, which is a plug-in for Photoshop CS4+, Elements 9+ and Lightroom 2+.
Exposure 4 allows for post-processing photos with a number of film presets, texture overlays, light leaks and more. Check out the preview video below.
Exposure 4 is available direct from Alien Skin’s website. It costs $249 for the full version. Upgrades from any prior version of Exposure is $99. Exposure 3 users who bought in since November 2011 can get the Exposure 4 upgrade for free.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
The above video shows off a preview of processing a glamour photo with Alien Skin Exposure 4.
I’ll pass along full details once the software is officially released later this month. Exposure 4 will run $249 for the full version, or $99 for upgrades from Exposure 3. If you’ve bought Exposure 3 since November, the upgrade is free.
Also, check out Alien Skin’s Exposure page for updates.
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.
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…]
Topaz has released a new Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture plug-in – Star Effects. As you can guess from the name, Star Effects allows you to add some interesting star effects to light sources and highlights. [Read more…]