Las Vegas, NV — September 4, 2008 (Photoshop World, Booth #321) — Nik Software today announced the latest version of its popular Sharpener Pro photographic plug-in for use with Adobe® Photoshop® and Apple® Aperture™. Designed for professionals and photo enthusiasts, Sharpener Pro 3.0 is the most advanced and powerful sharpening solution for photographers, eliminating the guesswork typically required for achieving superior and consistent results.

We knew when we sat down to write this review that many of your would be sitting there thinking that the guys at the Dojo had totally lost it if all they can come up with for a product review is a simple camera strap. In all seriousness, we have appealed to every company we know to come up with a better camera strap. The two main issues we have are comfort for shooting all day long and the security that your camera won’t fall off your shoulder.

I have been a fan of Wolverine products for almost four years now and my trusty Wolverine FlashPac was in need of an upgrade. Not that the FlashPac didn’t do it’s job, its just that it was pretty slow and didn’t have a display that could be used to view the images. Without hesitation I turned back to Wolverine to see what they had available and I found the new ESP Digital Photo Album and Multimedia Player.

Kerry shows off the new Vignette tool in Lightroom 2.0. With the new features you have far more creative control of vignetting on your images. In Lightroom 1.x, the Vignette tool was simple for lens corrections, with Lightroom 2.0 there is advanced creative control of your vignettes making it a much more powerful creative tool. In this video you will see the difference between the old post-crop vignette and the new creative vignetting in Lightroom 2.0.

There are plenty of changes even in the Library module in Lightroom 2.0, but thankfully us here at Camera Dojo have been frantically learning all we can and have been making these videos for you to learn how to really take advantage of all of the new features. In this video we look at how some of the features have been moved around, we look at the new smart collections, collection sets, better keyword tagging, and view filtering among some of the biggest changes.

Almost a month before any of us expected it, Adobe has released the much anticipated Photoshop Lightroom 2.0. For those of us who have been using the public beta, there are a number of very cool new features in the final release. If you haven’t been using the public beta, then oh man, are you in for a treat if you decide to upgrade.