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Category Archives: Technology
Tail of Nightmarish Proportion
From The Digital Trekker, the Drobo Nightmare Vlog #6 from Matt Brandon on Vimeo. Anyone who takes any time to make pictures wants to keep them. That bit of serendipity that plays in every shoot makes those photos unique and the thought of loosing a shoot or worse, a whole collection makes my heart sink. The [...]
Posted in Inspirational, PCs
A Hack for when Lightroom can’t find Photoshop
I made the foolish mistake of uninstalling Photoshop 5 after installing Photoshop 5.1. After the uninstall, Lightroom 3.5 could no longer find Photoshop. “Edit in Adobe Photoshop” was grayed out as well as “Merge to Panorama…” and “Merge to HDR Pro…” when multiple photos were selected was also grayed out. Meanwhile there is no setting [...]
Posted in How-to, Lightroom 3, PCs, Photoshop
Fix for Wacom tablet with sticky stylus trouble
I am only posting this because this has happened a few times and it always takes me a moment to remember how to fix it. The moment is usually right after I download and install the latest drivers, reboot and realize it is still broken. If you notice any of the following odd behavior: Mouse wont click buttons or let [...]
Posted in Wacom
Word 2010 Merge: Error has occurred: table is not in the expected format
If you are trying to do a Word 2010 data merge from Excel 2010 with a fresh Office install and all you get is a string of error messages like the title. Try this: Close Word 2010 Open Access 2010, wait till it fully loads. Close Access 2010 Open your Word doc again and you should [...]
Posted in Microsoft Office Products
How-To: Easy X-rite ColorChecker Passport Profile Generation in Lightroom 3
My earlier post contained a link to a video from X-rite that goes into detail about how to use the X-rite ColorChecker Passport in Lightroom and ACR (Adobe Camera Raw). This is just the quick steps to generate a profile in Lightroom 3 In Lightroom, select a picture you took with your camera of the [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to, Lightroom 3, PCs
Living with Android & Samsung Galaxy S
So I gave up the iPhone 3Gs after the poor iOS 4 experience and picked up a Sprint Epic, AKA Samsung Galaxy S (with a keyboard) on Sprint. The rest of the carriers have Galaxy S variants as well (more on that here ) One thing to note: I am pretty well Googlized at this point with [...]
Posted in Android, Technology
Monitor Calibration and Print Profile Troubleshooting
Everybody says calibrate your monitor and use print profiles and everything will turn out great. What happens if you are calibrating and profiling, following great workflow using good paper blah blah blah and things still don’t seem right. For me I knew something was wrong because my video looked over saturated and my prints dull. After searching the web [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, PCs, Photo Processing
X-rite ColorChecker Passport with Lightroom and Camera Raw
I heard about the X-rite ColorChecker Passport on Michael Frye’s website. If you are calibrating your monitor, this is a great way to calibrate your camera. Ok, technically you are not calibrating your camera, you are calibrating your RAW images. If you are not calibrating your monitor, nothing else you do with color calibration will matter, you should stop reading [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to, Lightroom 3, PCs, Photoshop
When will toolbars go vertical
So here we have an example of what I saw when I opened IE 8 on Windows 7. Notice how poorly the space is used, this install has 6 vertical top bars, 7 if you count the status bar at the bottom bar. The wire frame is typical 960 x 700 size and it is [...]
Posted in PCs, Technology