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$19.99 – Living in the Cloud – Offsite Storage for Photographers

The cloud fluff becomes reality You’ve heard about cloud computing, you’ve heard about cloud storage, but now it’s time to get real. As digital photographer’s and consultants, we were overrun with data. We wanted an easy to use, simple, and scalable storage solution that worked with both in-house and remote systems – across PC, Mac, and Linux [...]

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Software Review – TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 2.0 for Lightroom

If I had to define the weakest aspect of the current iteration of Lightroom, I would undoubtedly have to say it is the Web Module. Output from Lightroom to web, while functional, seems to lack a sense of style and feels very utilitarian overall. When presenting work on the web, most would desire a more [...]

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Software Review – onOne Plug-in Suite 5 – Part 2 of 2

Welcome to part 2 of our review of onOne Software’s Plug-in Suite 5. Last week we covered FocalPoint 2, PhotoTools 2.5 and PhotoTune 3 so head on over there for details on those products. This week, we’ll talk about Genuine Fractals 6, PhotoFrame 4.5 and Mask Pro 4. It should be noted that I used the plug-in [...]

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Software Review – onOne Plug-in Suite 5 – Part 1 of 2

onOne Software’s Plug-in Suite 5 is chock full of some of the most useful photo enhancements and effects this side of the camera. In Part 1 I’ll look at what these plug-ins do and how they perform. This will include FocalPoint 2, PhotoTools 2.5 and PhotoTune 3. Part 2 I cover PhotoFrame 4.5, Genuine Fractals 6 and [...]

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