After receiving some feedbacks for my Lightroom preset black & white infrared 01, I decided to test it on other shots and to compare it to three other B&W presets from Inside Lightroom. The samples should give some reference for spotting scenarios of use and the result with the various presets applied.
Today I passed the exam in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for the Adobe Certified Expert program. I share my personal experience and thoughts for other people interested in the certification. Besides the study of help and use of the software, I recommend ExamAids.
Here you are my first Lightroom preset for simulating black and white infrared photography. Basically, it converts a coloured picture in Gray tones, with vivid brightness for tints coming from reds, yellows and greens, while tones coming from blues are strongly darkened. It pushes grain, contrast and shadows.
During the Photoshow we have taken hundreds of shots, thanks to the GX20 that we had in the stand of Samsung. I chose a picture from the ones post-produced at the event in Rome, in order to talk a bit about what was done in Adobe Lightroom 1.3 and Photoshop CS3.
After spending a couple of months in launching the Italian version of this blog, I’m finally coming back to update the English version. Let’s start with some pictures from the Photoshow (the main fair in Italy for photography), in order to show some creative possibilities with Adobe Lightroom 1.4. In particular: black and white conversion, split-toning, selective control on colour and cross processing. For the last one I’m experimenting a preset that you can download in this post.
I love to work on corporate videos when motion graphics has a primary role. In this project the graphics had to go with several brand images. The main target was the financial community and the video had to balance the rational side of numbers with the emotional one of fashion. Entirely animated and edited in After Effects, this project was produced in the last summer (just in time for using CS3 version).
PicLens is the most spectacular add-on for Firefox I happened to try in a while. It adds a cool and usable “3D wall interface” for navigating pictures from Flickr, Google Images, MySpace, deviantART, Facebook, Yahoo and other sites. You have to try it for understanding how much it can change your browsing experience, but I recorded a video demo that might give you an idea.
Exactly 15 years ago, in January 1993, my most loved piece of software was born: After Effects 1.0, codenamed “Egg”. For celebrating such anniversary I wanted to talk about its origins, but I’ve not yet collected enough material to do it (please if you have any screenshot of version 1.0, write me!). For now let’s commemorate the Egg with an easter egg in After Effects 8.
Christmas was a good time for giving some dollars to the authors of the plugins for WordPress that I use for this blog. With 1384 alternatives in the plugins repository, it might take some time to identify which are the best answers to your needs.
After some months of testing and daily usage, I completed my selection and I filled a list of plugins worthy a contribution.
Adobe launched a gallery of video in HD, which amazingly shows the power of the new Flash Player 9 Update 3, (aka Flash Player 1,0,115 or Moviestar). The footage was encoded in H.264 at 480p, 720p and 1080p, and distributed through the servers of Akamai network.
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