Buying a camera isn’t a soccer match

By On 25/04/2012

The web seems to be full of comparison tests of the latest Nikon versus the latest Canon camera, almost like it’s a soccer game and we need to know who wins this year’s championship. For a small number of photographers, those who spend more time debating the superiority of their brand in the camera forums [...]

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Lightroom Catalog back-up

By On 22/04/2012

During my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom seminars I’m often asked how frequently one should make a back-up of the Lightroom catalog, as can be set in the Catalog Settings. My answer may surprise you, because it is “never”. Of course I do not mean that you shouldn’t make back-ups of your Lightroom catalog, but I don’t [...]

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TIPA Awards 2012

By On 16/04/2012

TIPA, the leading world-wide organisation of photo magazines, has announced the TIPA Awards 2012. Canon was the big winner this year, with no less than 6 TIPA Awards awards. Some people may think it’s strange that the Canon EOS 1D X could get a TIPA Award while it’s not yet available on [...]

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Copyright violations

By On 11/04/2012

Unfortunately, photographers and other artists are facing copyright violations every day. Many people feel that using images, software or music without paying for it is OK, because “nobody gets hurt and I would not have paid for it anyway”. While the latter may be true, the first part isn’t. Even if using a copy of [...]

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 book

By On 05/04/2012

Today I received the first copy of my new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 book. It should hit the book store shelves early next week. As this is a Dutch book, please switch to the Dutch version of this site for more details if you are interested.

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Photoshop Tip: Fit Image

By On 04/04/2012

Everyone who works with Photoshop knows the ‘Image Size’ dialog for resizing images. One question that comes up regularly is how to use this dialog in an ‘Action’, if the action will run with a mixture of images in portrait and landscape orientation. How do you resize each image to 800 pixels at the longest [...]

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