Photoshop

February is in full swing, which means it's time to announce X-Rite's schedule of webinars for professional and serious amateur photographers. Four free webinars are offered this month – Editing Portraits in Photoshop & Getting Prints Back that Match Your Display!, Image Edits and Enhancements in Lightroom 3, For the Birds! Nature Photography with Maxis Gamez and Edit & Enhance Landscape Images in Photoshop – all which will help photographers gain new confidence and learn quick, easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow.

"This month, X-Rite hosts four completely new Webinars that will surely appeal to a range of photographers looking to improve their photography as well as color management skills," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "And we're especially pleased to co-sponsor with Nik Software, professional nature photographer and bird specialist Maxis Gamez's nature photography Webinar."

February Webinar Schedule:

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 11:00 AM EST and 1:00 PM EST
Editing Portraits in Photoshop & Getting Prints Back that Match Your Display!

Spend an hour with host Joe Brady learning how to edit portrait photographs to create images clients will love. In this free webinar sponsored by X-Rite, Joe will share some of his favorite techniques, tips and tricks for adding shape, direction and finish to portraits. From simple blemish removal to complex reshaping of body parts, these step-by-step tutorials will enhance your Photoshop skills and improve your editing quality and speed.Read more

X-Rite on Friday announced its schedule of free November Webinars geared toward both professional and serious amateur photographers.

Four topics are covered this month - Take your images to WOW!, Improve your Color Management Skills Part 3, Stop Guessing - Start Knowing! Accurate Monitor Color, and Beyond Monitor Calibration - Get Prints That Match Your Display! Webinar attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to the live trainers.

"In November, our free educational webinars will again teach interested photographers how X-Rite's line of color management tools can bring their digital photography color to new levels," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "In addition, this month we are pleased to feature two new webinars – one hosted by professional photographer Winifred Whitfield and co-sponsored by Nik Software as well as the third webinar in a three part series to improve color management skills. These brand-new webinars will outline workflow ideas designed to transform even ordinary photos into extraordinary images." Read more

Web designers and professional photographers have turned to Adobe Photoshop software for 20 years for their photo and video editing needs. But not everyone needs the full-fledged suite of tools that Photoshop offers. For the consumer there's the Adobe Photoshop Elements line - and new today for Mac users is Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Editor and Adobe Premiere Elements 10 Editor.

Arriving today in the Mac App Store, the special edition of Photoshop Elements 10 Editor and Premiere Elements 10 Editor both include the core editing tools found in the full Photoshop Elements software line but come in at a cheaper price – $79.99 each – than the boxed versions which were just released two months ago.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Editor is targeted at iPhoto users that are "ready to go beyond the basics" and offers new features such as:

• Guided Edits –guides you through the editing process step-by-step, to make achieving a shallow depth of field or a dream-like diffused glow with the Orton effect easy.
• New text functionality – allows you to get creative and add curving, flowing text to a photo that automatically follows the outline of a subject, custom path or shape.
• The Smart Brush – provides unique paint effects for specific areas of photos with 30 new effects like Pencil Sketch and Oil Pastel.

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Photographers looking for insights and tips on how to achieve color control, consistency and creativity in their workflow should sit in on the free webinars offered this month from X-Rite. Five free Webinar topics are covered in September and webinar attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to the live trainers.

Consistent, accurate color management remains an important building block for photographers seeking professional looking images," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "In September, our free educational webinars will again teach interested photographers how X-Rite's line of color management tools can bring their digital photography color to new levels. Also this month we are pleased to feature two new webinars – one hosted by professional photographer Jim DiVitale and co-sponsored by Nik Software as well as the first webinar in a three part series to improving color management skills. These brand-new webinars will outline workflow ideas designed to transform even ordinary photos into extraordinary images." Read more

July is here, which mean X-Rite has announced its schedule of online tutorials for photographers. The July Webinars cover four topics which will help photographers learn quick and easy ways to enhance their color workflow.

"Just in time to help photographers reach new heights with their summertime photography, this month our hour-long educational webinars will teach imaging professionals and enthusiasts how X-Rite's line of color management tools can bring their digital photography color to new levels and help them incorporate a near-effortless color workflow into their every day imaging projects," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president X-Rite Photo Marketing. "Also this month we are pleased to feature two new webinars – one hosted by world-renowned photographer David Saffir and co-sponsored by Nik Software, and one hosted by Brian Matiash and co-sponsored by onOne Software. These new webinars are geared to help creative photographers of all levels and styles tap into their creativity and think outside the box."Read more

X-Rite just announced its schedule of free June Webinars, which are designed for both professional and serious amateur photographers.

The four free Webinar topics this month will help photographers gain new confidence and to learn quick, easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow. Webinar attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to the live trainers.

"Just in time for summer photography, this month our hour-long educational webinars will teach imaging professionals and enthusiasts how X-Rite's line of color management tools can bring their digital photography color to new levels and help them incorporate a near-effortless color workflow into their every day imaging projects," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president X-Rite Photo Marketing. "Also this month we are pleased to feature two new webinars co-sponsored by Nik Software and onOne Software geared to help photographers of all levels tap into their creativity and think outside the box. All photographers who are passionate about their photography, color accuracy and workflow efficiency are encouraged to regularly join our ongoing series of X-Rite Webinars."Read more

It's April 1st, which means that X-Rite just announced their new, free webinars for both professional and serious amateur photographers. Three free Webinars are being offered this month, with topics that are sure to help photographers gain new confidence and learn quick, easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow.

April Webinar Schedule

Thursday, April 7, 2011; 1:00pm EDT and 3:00pm EDT
RAW COLOR POWER with Adobe Lightroom and the ColorChecker Passport

Photographers can learn how to reduce their image processing time and improve quality control in their RAW workflow by combining the powerful color capabilities of the ColorChecker Passport and Adobe Imaging solutions.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Creating and Using Camera Profiles
• Custom White Balance with the Passport
• One click accurate color edits
• Matching color response of two or more cameras
• Matching color response under different lighting conditions
• Color editing in Adobe Lightroom
• Color editing in Adobe Photoshop

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onOne Software on Thursday announced the availability of Perfect Resize, one component of the Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture. Available on its own, or as part of Perfect Photo Suite 5.5, Perfect Resize has many new features that aid in maintaining fine detail when enlarging images, along with new gallery wrap and tiling options. Previously known as Genuine Fractals, the new Perfect Resize 7 supports Photoshop CS5, CS4 and CS3 and can now be used directly from within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture without a separate host application.

New Features:

NEW Smoothness Control: Designed for the demanding photographer, the new Smoothness control allows users to adjust the smoothness of curved edges to minimize artifacts. This new feature is very useful when resizing images and is especially valuable when working with lower resolution source files or when an extreme crop is required from a higher resolution source file.Read more

Adobe's Photoshop is the software choice of many web designers, photographers and artists all over the world, and now with the release of the new Photoshop CS5 and CS5 Extended, even more professionals are sure to make it their go-to software choice.

More than 30 features and enhancements have been added, including automatic image straightening, rule-of-thirds crop tool, color picker, the ability to save 16-bit images as JPEGs, as well as HDR functionality, automatic lens correction, and a new Camera RAW 6 plug in.

But that's not all; the company released a video previewing a new feature called "Content-Aware Fill" which allows you to easily fill in areas based on the surrounding regions. It is completely automated, completing a task that would normally take a few hours, in just a few seconds! You have to see it to appreciate it. Check it out:

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