Lightroom 5 Beta is now available! Download it here.

Useful LR5 resources are posted by Adobe, NAPP, and Photoshop Café.

Here’s a list of and links to those resources.

Photoshop.com

LR5 Advanced Healing Brush
LR5 Radial Filter
LR5 Upright

LR5 – Terry White’s Top 5 Features

NAPP Lightroom 5 Launch Center

LR5 Smart Filters
LR5 Cloning Healing
LR5 Spot
LR5 The Radial
LR5 Upright
LR5 Book Changes
LR5 Slideshow
LR5 Tips

Plus, check out this free NAPP PDF and Lightroom eMagazine.

Photoshop Café Lightroom 5 Training Center

LR5 Colin Smith’s Top 10 New Features
LR5 Advanced Healing Brush
LR5 Radial Filter
LR5 Upright Image Correction
LR5 Video Slideshows

Using LR5 is a great way to get familiar with the latest new features. Remember, this free early beta version will expire after the final release. It does not upgrade previous versions. Many changes made with LR5 will not be backwardly compatible. (Word has it that there are issues with Drobo systems, so if you use one exercise caution.)

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

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Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison collaborate to produce an apolcalyptic vision of our future that contains a wake up call for us all – for our own health we must tend to the health of our environment.

The primary model, Robert poses as an isolated anonymous everyman struggling to survive a future ecotastrophe, hoping for restoration and redemption through bizarre ritualistic behavior. Not strictly self-portraiture, the self-referential quality of these images invites us to imagine ourselves in similar situations.

Their multi-media approach, includes painting, sculpture and performance art. The final product, sometimes digital, appears to be made with historic photographic processes, making the future look alternately dreamlike and old, which combined with the construction of absurd cobbled-together machines implies a partial loss of technology, adding one more loss to the mix.

Poetically, these images evoke powerful emotional reactions that swing pendulum-like between hope and despair, joy and grief, idealism and nihilism. Rife with ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox, the specific and complete meaning of these images eludes us. Their unfinished quality begs us to continue our inquiries, speculations, and projections about them, as well as to look towards the new works for more clues to help us solve this mystery – or at least deepen it. Perhaps these are the feverish hallucinations of the paranoid or perhaps they are divinely inspired prophecies of our future.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s evocative imagery suggest to me that we need personal emotional appeals as much as objective factual appeals to produce change. After all, a change of heart always precedes a change of action.

Find out more about my influences here.

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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

In the largest online protest in history, more than 7000 websites including Google,  Wikipedia,  and WordPress are protesting PIPA / SOPA today.

1   Find out more and sign the SOPA strike petition here.

2   Visit FightForThe Future.org to email your representative in congress.

3   Make your voice heard by signing the Google online petition

“PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.”

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Today I begin my fourth trip to Antarctica.

Follow my Antarctica blog for daily updates.

You can read my daily posts from my 2009 voyage there now.

Find out more about my ongoing Antarctica project – book, galleries, maps, facts, statements and more.

Preview the book of work from my first three trips to Antarctica in 2005, 2007, and 2009 above.

Email me to find out about my Antarctica 2013 workshop first.

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I’ll be making a presentation which is free and open to the public  - sponsored by Canon.

Wednesday, October 12 at 6 pm at MIT (Boston) in building 7 room 431.

The presentation will be a series of several short lectures.

A Call To Connection a 5 minute overview of my work to date

Antarctica – a 15 minute overview of my first editorial project

Illuminating Creativity – a 20 minute overview of creative process highlighted in my TEDx talk

21st Century Photography – a 30 minute overview of how new technology expands photographic practices

Find directions here; type in building 7.

Join me for an exciting evening!

 

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Looking for insight and inspiration?
Check out Photoshop.com Spotlights.
You’ll find more than a variety artist’s profiles.

View more with my collected photographer’s videos.
Read more with my conversations with photographers.

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This one day seminar is one of the best values in the industry!

Thousands of dollars of free giveaways are provided by Adobe, X-Rite, NIK, OnOne, HDRSoft, Imagenomic, Chromix and more!

Find out about the latest advances in digital printing. You’ll learn to evaluate printers, inks, media, RIPs, and profiles. See the latest Epson printers and media in action. Take the results home!

Discover what’s unique about a fine art workflow designed to maximize quality. See it in action. See it detailed step-by-step. See the results. John Paul and Mac will build a file from the ground up and show you the final results in print.

You’ll learn to seamlessly integrate Adobe software Lightroom, Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. You’ll learn a variety of tools and techniques that will help improve and refine both your digital files and prints. We’ve heard time and time again, “That one tip was worth the price of admission.” And there are dozens of these!

You’ll leave with the knowledge you need to get the results you’re looking for and the confidence that it’s the very best.

Topics include:

  • Evaluating printers
  • Comparing media
  • Quick color management
  • How to analyze images to determine an optimum strategy
  • Raw conversion
  • Sophisticated color adjustment strategies
  • Selections and masking
  • Upsampling
  • Noise reduction
  • Sharpening — input, creative, and output
  • Softproofing and proofing
  • Equipment maintenance and fine-tuning
  • Print finishing and handling
  • Fine art market practices

Preview our DVDs Fine Art Digital Printing and Fine Art Digital Workflow.

Learn more in our Fine Art of Digital Printing Workshop.

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“Now 20 years old, Adobe® Photoshop® software has changed image editing forever. Can you imagine a world without Photoshop? In these twelve chapters you can see for yourself what some of the best digital artists work looks like without the software. Then with the touch of your finger The World Without Photoshop is transformed and you can see and hear the imaginations of these artists come to life in their work. Pinch and zoom into over 48 works by artists, illustrators, designers, and photographers and get their insights into how twenty years of Photoshop innovation have changed their world. Look for the free download soon in iTunes store.”

Featured artist’s include Peter Barrett, Adhemas Batista, Russel Preston Brown, John Paul Caponigro, Koen Demuynk, Olli-Pekka Jauhainen, Laura Kicey, Julianne Kost, Bert Monroy, Olivia Parker, Gorgon Studer, Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann.

Get the free App here.

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This sets the standard for the future of magazines.

Wired magazine has released its iPad edition in the Apple iStore (converted by Adobe from Flash to Apple approved Objective-C).

The June iPad edition of Wired costs $4.99.

The App is a 527MB download.

It’s intended for ages 17 and up. (Note the terms of agreement when you download it.)

Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired, says this is what he has always dreamed of. “It has all of the visual impact of paper, enhanced by interactive elements like video and animated graphics.” “We can offer you a history of Mars landings that lets you explore the red planet yourself. We can take you inside Trent Reznor’s recording studio and let you listen to snippets of his work in progress. And we can show you exactly how Pixar rafted each frame of its new movie, Toy Story 3.”

Wired released a video showing off the features of the new digital magazine. (View above.)(The video is encoded in Adobe Flash thus unplayable on the iPad.)

Apple Insider has more on the inside story on how Wired was impacted by Apple’s decision not to support Adobe’s Flash.

Find more on the App and it’s features on Wired.com.

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Find out how in my new post on The Huffington Post.

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