Press Release New features include an improved user interface to increase accessibility and productivity. 33% introductory discount through December 31st November 3, 2009 - DxO Labs is pleased to announce the immediate availability of DxO Optics Pro version 6, its award-winning software solution for demanding photographers. This new version provides the best-ever images from extreme ISO shots

Written by T. Michael Testi Michael Andrew PaintBaller Pro is a package of presets that give you the ability to create a unique feel to your images that can range from a painted look to High Dynamic Range (HDR) without any specific in camera manipulation. These presets work with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom 2. Installing PaintBaller Pro is as easy as copying files into the appropriate

  One of the hotter trends in wedding albums is what is called the magazine style. It is a digital photo album that is flush mount and is constructed of a hard bound cover and ridged pages. The flush mount album doesn’t have matted pages and is much like a cross between a traditional wedding album and a coffee table book. Kubota AutoAlbum V3 is a software program that assists you in

The Kubota Pro Pak is a bundled package of products that contains six of the most popular tools from Kevin Kubota's professional image enhancing tools for Adobe Photoshop. This package includes the four Artistic Series of actions, his Production Tools, as well as his Formula Book which contains 42 separate recipes to get just the look you want. In part one, I looked at the four paks that are

The Kubota Pro Pak is a bundled package of products that contains six of the most popular tools from Kevin Kubota's professional image enhancing tools for Adobe Photoshop. This package includes the four Artistic Series of actions, his Production Tools, as well as his Formula Book which contains 42 separate recipes to get just the look you want. Who is Kevin Kubota and what makes his actions so

As co-founders of the photography training and consultancy company D-65, the authors Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer understand the importance in the use of Adobe Lightroom 2, and especially in how to manage its workflow. In The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook, they will attempt to present a well tested workflow that photographers can implement exactly as they do at D-65. What's more is that in The

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With the latest release of DxO FilmPack version 2 from DxO Labs you now can not only add the style and beauty of classic films to your images, but you can now add additional traditional film effects giving you more capabilities to replicate the look and feel to real film. DxO FilmPack is a plug-in that gives digital images both the look and the grain of conventional films.

OK, I know what you're asking! I gave up film (or never used it) because of all the graininess and the color differences, why would I want to start making my images look as though they were taken on film? Well, one reason is for artistic license. You may want to give an image that fresh-from-the-fixer look. Another reason is that you may want to integrate film images and digital images and you need some method to get a more consistent look for all.

DxO FilmPack recreates the color and grain of over 50 classic film types. These include Kodachrome, Tri-X, Velvia, and Illford. These films were analyzed and reproduced so that they could be applied with just one stroke of the keyboard. The package also offers access to several toning filters to transform any digital image into a toned print. These include Sepia, Terra Sepia, Ferric Sulfate, Gold Sepia, Gold, and Selenium.
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Adobe Creative Suite 4 Now Shipping 
 
Milestone Release Radically Improves Creative Workflow Efficiency; Redefines 
Collaboration Between Designers and Developers 
 
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Oct. 15, 2008 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) 
today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 
product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and 
development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical 
breakthroughs in workflow efficiency - and packed with hundreds of innovative, 
time saving features - the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the 
creative process across print, Web, interactive, film, video and mobile. 
 
Customers can choose from six new versions: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design 
Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium and 
Master Collection. The combination of Creative Suite and the new capabilities of 
Adobe Flash® Player 10, also available today (see separate press release) 
deliver new levels of creativity and expressiveness across media channels. 
Designers using the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family will gain 
unprecedented creative control using the new expressive features and visual 
performance improvements in Adobe Flash Player 10 to deliver breakthrough Web 
experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems. 
 
"Creative Suite 4 and Flash Player 10 introduce vital time-saving features, new 
levels of integration and the jaw-dropping innovations our design and developer 
customers expect from us," said John

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