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dpMagic Plus 2.0 Review


For photographers that shoot in RAW one of the biggest problems is not being able to see thumbnails of the images in Windows Explorer or do quick checks of RAW images without having to open them in Lightroom or Photoshop. I have been using dpMagic for over three years now and had thought that the project had completely stalled out. To my surprise they were just getting ready to launch a new version and it’s finally been released. Since dpMagic has been an indispensable part of my RAW workflow, I couldn’t wait for the new 2.0 version to come out and share it with you.

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Post Production White Balance with Adobe Lightroom


In this video tutorial we take a look at doing white balance correction during post production with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This lesson applies to both Lightroom 1.x and Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.

This video is part of our podcast series that is available on iTunes.

 
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Taking a look at Photoshop Express


Today we are going to take a look at the new Adobe Photoshop Express. Express is a free web-based photo editor from Adobe that allows you to upload images and do basic photo correction. While it doesn’t have the full features of Photoshop or even Photoshop Elements, it may well be the perfect tool for many home users who want to make basic corrections, share images in a gallery, and email family and friends their images. The service is free from Adobe and currently allows up to 2gb of disk space. To check it out, go to http://www.photoshop.com/express.

This video is part of our podcast series that is available on iTunes.

 
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Lightroom 2.0 (Beta) Retouching Tool Demo


This is our first video tutorial and we hope you like it, be sure and leave comments here or in the Flickr User Group and let us know if you want to see more of these. This one is on the new retouching tool that is in the new Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta. This tool allows you to “paint” effects like brightness, exposure, tint, saturation, and clarity into specific areas of an image. In this tutorial we lighten up the background, whiten up our model’s eyes and teeth, and make her lips redder.

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