May 19

Photo-News 19

KickStarter-Project: XiStera – 8 functions for iPhone 5 in the palm of your hand

From the “AppleInsider“: Apple’s ‘social camera flash’ connects multiple iPhones, iPads to light a scene

From the BBC News: Pictures from Raspberry Pi’s new camera add-on and join the Raspberry Pi Camera Board Photography Competiton

Watch the Google+ Hang-Out “Hanging Out with the Lightroom Team”

You want to control your cam remotely ? Take a look at the “digiCamControl”

You love to shoot video with your DSLR – take a look at the walimex pro ‘Mutabilis’ Action-Set

May 16

B&W Part 5.1

< From our Blog: Photoakademie.eu >

This video-tutorial has the topic “Black and White” and is split in some more parts.

Through the series I give you some tips, which -as I think- are important, as well as tips how I use black and white. I show you some good old standard stuff that you can do in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, as well as Lightroom or with plug-ins. Even a combination of all of it you will find in this series.

Here I show you a solution for the problem I told you in the last video with 3 Channel-Mixer layers. It’s not the fastest way but there is a way to get rid of the problems in blue tones.

B&W Part 5.1

May 14

Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative CloudHi folks,

Here I want to give you my points about the Creative Cloud (only Photoshop) and what it means to me.
At first I have to say that I’m not a Pro-Photographer, it’s just a hobby and a little bit of extra earning for me.

I’m working with Photoshop since PS7 – the last version before PS was called CS. Right now I’m working with Photoshop CS6 and I had all of the CS versions. Continue reading →