Guido from Wacom was kind enough to demo for me the brand new Wacom Intuos 5 touch tablet. He showed me how Wacom removed the OLED displays and replaced them with something even better and also added touch features so you can finally throw away your mouse. Find more Focus on Imaging 2012 videos at PhotoWalkthrough.com
On today's Lightroom 3 Video Review show we look at a new feature that is already saving me a lot of time and helping me share more of my photos - the new Flickr upload that is part of the publishing service. Lightroom 3 can now integrate directly with Flickr and keep collections up to date for you - even downloading the comments. We'll also take a look at the new import dialog which boasts an improved and simplfied layout plus a very useful new import presets feature.
Philip Bloom over at philipbloom.co.uk has posted a really interesting interview with Greg Yaitanes, Executive Producer of House talking to him about how and why they shot the season finale using a Canon 5D mk2. Interesting stuff that shows stills cameras and video cameras really are converging. The original post is available here or you can listen to the interview below.
On today's show we've got exciting news about a special Photo Day on TWiT Live, hosted by our good friend Chris Marquardt. I'll be joining Chris on air at 4pm pacific (midnight UK time). We've also got another quick tip showing some of the new targeted adjustment features in Photoshop CS4. These features have been ported over from Lightroom and make editing your images much more natural. And of course we have a new assignment ready for our next show - the big Episode 100!
In this stand-alone tutorial we have a little fun decorating a netbook using our own photograph printed on moo stickers. We cover how to create the stickers in Photoshop using guides and slices then we have a quick timelapse of sticking them on the netbook. As a bonus Moo.com have given us a promo code to get 10% discount on the stickers used so you can try this yourself. Use promo code pwtmoo09 at the checkout.
Today we introduce the new CS4 tabbed windows interface and show you how to wrestle under control the tool palettes. We've also got a brand new composition segment showing you how to shoot panning shots with all the basics plus some advanced tips. There's a new assignment and we review the entries to our last assignment, Pencil, to the music of Matthew Ebel.
In a move that addresses the main customer complaint about the 5D mk2's otherwise excellent video recording mode Canon has announced that a new firmware patch for the Canon 5D mk2 will be released June 2nd. The new firmware will enable manual exposure control in video recording mode including full aperture selection, ISO and shutter speed control. Selectable ISOs will be Auto, 100-6400 and H1. Shutter speeds will be selectable between 1/30th and 1/4000th of a second.
Lately I've been playing with the ColorMunki, a new colour calibration tool that lets you profile not just your monitor but also your printer for a completely colour managed workflow. Find out how I got on with it in today's show.
In this final chapter of Tutorial 1 we finish off our image of Weston-super-mare with a vignette, some extra steps to even up the light in the sky and add some final brightness and contrast adjustments.
In today's episode we get down to the fun part of dodging and burning our image to add shape and direct the eye of the viewer. So far we've been giving ourselves the solid foundation we need to bring the image together. Now we add expression by painting with light.
This time on Tutorial 1 we take the same approach we did to the ground portion and apply it to the sky. Once again we're bringing the levels closer together by using lightening and darkening layers with layer masks.
In chapter 4 of Tutorial 1 we take a look at how the ground portion of the image was edited to bring the tones together with the sky and add focus and detail using darkening and lightening layers with layer masks.
Chapter 3 of our re-encoded and re-released Tutorial 1. This episode covers black and white conversion with a number of techniques for bringing out the details in your picture then finishes up with the best B&W conversion technique (at the time), the channel mixer. Please remember this tutorial was recorded when Photoshop CS2 was the latest version. This was before Lightroom and Photoshop's black and white adjustment filter existed.
This is a re-encoding and re-release of our first ever PhotoWalkthrough tutorial. Since first starting the show your number 1 request has been to make Tutorial 1 available for download. Well I'm happy to deliver on that at long last. I'll release a show every day throughout tutorial 1 and then we'll be back to our regular shows. In this show we cover noise reduction, spot editing and layer masking.
Today we've got the start of a new short series of quicktips on Adobe Photoshop CS4 and one of the new features - the Adjustment panel that really makes one of the most frequent Photoshop actions much quicker and more intuitive. As well as that we've got a viewer question and answer, some news of more workshops and a new assignment.
