Raw – Black and White Conversion Process

Not to long ago i made a tutorial on how to Creating Black and White Images in Photoshop CS3. This tutorial though centered around JPG was will an nondestructive method and has worked well for me in the past. But there are many methods in creating black and white images. Some involve a bit more understanding of colour and manipulating the colour channels in Photoshop. The method i have been using lately is done with RAW photos in Adobe Camera Raw 4.4.1.

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Panoramas

I recently found the pleasures of the automated Panorama stitcher in Adobe CS3 , works wonders. Have a look in the gallery under Pano’s. There are a few sunsets, a huge building (turns out you can take images 2 wide 6 down and it will stitch them together as well), and my favorite. I had the chance to get on the roof the the old Alberta Federal Building so i was able to make a Pano that not many or maybe even no one has ever made.

I’m going back there some time next week and will try to make a 360.

The working file size with these images was about 600-900 mb and if they were printed would be around 5 feet by 2 feet at 240 dpi.

Adobe Please!

I’m sure a lot of people out there have the same issues with Adobe Dreamweaver that i do. Sine my change in carriers i have been using Dreamweaver daily for hours on end. i have been more and more frustrated with Dreamweavers ham fisted abilities to interact with css. I’m not talking about how it creates it, I’m talking about how it interacts with it and allows you to interact with it.

I’m working on a large web app for the Alberta Government and at the moment the css file is growing and growing. i can shrink it to make file size smaller but during development i need to see comments and have everything laid out clearly so that i and the developers can read it.

My issues are coming from searching around the css file for changes.
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Adobe Media Player Philo

Adobe is working on a media player doubed “Philo”, its a visual RSS aggregator. Meaning you can feed it a RSS stream and it will take and pars the data and with a few extra lines in your RSS file that contain branding assets Philo will pull in header, footer and other graphical assets needed to customize the look of the player.
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Google Gears: Offline Web Applications

Google has come out with Google Gears that will allow developers to create Off line Web Applications, that means a plug in to install to allow your computer to support this feature.

It will be interesting to see how people take advantage of these new tools, i could see some one using the client or users computer to do the muscle work for complex commands. Not to mention the ability for a developer who is on a business trip finishing up some changes last moment on the flight over to deliver the project to the client.
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Dreamweaver CS3

I was itching to see when Dreamweaver CS3 was coming out and came accross the actuall website. not i cant see a release date i do however see the option to pre-order. I must say that it is looking good! lots of cool features many of the ideas discussed in my Previous post here were covered.

The integraded Spry framework for Ajax also seams interesting, i would love to learn about it and how it can make simple aplications more interactice and intuitive.

Let us bow our heads in silence for our departed friend Adobe GoLive. you were always an option never really considered. your moving on could not have happened at a better time.

I can only home using Dreamweaver will be as exiting as its cracked up to be.

Key Features:

• Spry framework for Ajax
• Spry data
• Spry widgets
• Spry effects
• Browser Compatibility Check
• CSS Advisor website
• CSS layouts
• CSS management

Info on Spry

Also check out Adobe Creativelicense

Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is on its way out and is now in public beta. If you take a trip over to Layers Magazine you can see some videos of the new interface changes and refinements.