A black and white version of a recent post on my Flickr stream. I have to admit I gave the reflections some help in Photoshop; the water of the Brisbane River is never quite this still. 😉
It has been an awfully long time since the last post but I have been very much taken up with settling into my new country. Since the last post, Rural Press has become Fairfax Agricultural Media and I have continued to work for them.
I have also had quite a few story commissions from the publications Australian Main Roads Construction and Australian Ports News which have involved me in doing telephonic interviews with clients around Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. I’ve written stories on a wide variety of topic ranging from the stabilising of dirt roads to the finer points of pilot boat design.There are some samples up on the Tear Sheets page of this site.
I’ve missed blogging on a regular basis but have successfully fought off the urge until now. 😉
There doesn’t seem to be any accounting for taste.
This picture is now the second most viewed on my Flickr photostream. There are plenty of my pictures which I feel are much more worthy but, instead, a vintage Coke sign attracts much more attention?? Worse news is that my most-viewed picture is a Coke vendor.
A new version of one of my favourite free imaging program has just been released.
The program, FastStone Image Viewer, has been mentioned in these columns before and is available from the website FastStone.org. I use it every day even though I own copies of Photoshop and Lightroom, because it is the quickest way I know to look through a lot of digital pictures.
I bought FotoFusion Scrapbook Essentials a little while ago and have been creating a few layouts with it. This one was done as the icon picture for my Flickr set containing pictures from a gig I went to a little while ago.
I reviewed the package on my computer blog a few weeks ago.
An interesting package arrived in the post the other day from Adobe’s PR company.
It was a copy of the latest version of their Lightroom package, Version 3, which reminded me that I have never really discussed it in these pages.
Read moreLights on in the room
Some subjects somehow just beg to be presented in monochrome even though they don’t look too bad in colour. This is one of my favourite shots from recent times.
Over the past few weeks I seem to have had a mini-season of columns on the topic of what to do with digital images.
Before going on to something else, however, I thought I would mention a specialised little program called LumaPix FotoFusion. It is designed solely for creating layouts for photo books, greetings cards, business cards, models’ Z-Cards, or whatever else you can think of to do with it.
Layouts can be as complex…
Read morePhoto layouts at high speed
Some exciting news in the few weeks was Adobe’s launch of the latest version of their entry-level image manipulation program Photoshop Elements.
Available simultaneously on the PC and Apple Macintosh platforms, Photoshop Elements 9 is the latest in a line of products that was brought out to fill the gap in the market for a less costly and less complex version of their industry-standard Photoshop application.
Read morePhotoshop Elements 9 launch
I’m going to be posting a review of Photoshop Elements 9 later in the week but here are some links in the meantime:
