One Stop Under

If, like me, you use iView MediaPro 3 for your image management, you’ll be interested in checking out iView Multimedia’s downloadable Web Gallery Themes.

If you don’t yet use iView MediaPro 3 and are interested, make sure to check out the 15% discount deal we’re currently offering.

Technorati Tags: image management, DAM, digital asset management, iView, iView MediaPro, photo software

Filed under: Asset Management,Software
No Comments

Nikon has just announced Nikon View 6.2.7.

Nikon View software is included with some Nikon Coolpix and D-SLR cameras. Nikon View is used to browse and download images to the computer from a supported Nikon digital camera. You can then open and adjust the image in the standard Nikon Editor, Nikon Capture Editor (if Nikon Capture is installed) or any registered Image Editor (Adobe Photoshop, for example). Nikon View also allows you to view the Shooting Data as well as print many different sizes and layouts of images. Other features of Nikon View included emailing images, creating web pages, removing Red Eye, uploading to NikonNet or to a PDA.

Nikon View Software contains the following components:

• Nikon Transfer – For moving images from camera to computer
• Nikon Browser – For browsing thumbnail images from transferred images
• Nikon Viewer – For looking at larger versions of images
• Nikon Editor – For basic editing (color, contrast, etc.) of images
• Nikon NEF Plug-in – If Adobe Photoshop is installed Nikon View will also install a plug-in allowing RAW NEF files to be opened and edited directly in Photoshop.

Nikon View 6.2.7 for Windows includes the following updates:

• Support for RAW images captured with the D200 has been added.
• The effects of image editing with the Color Aberration Control feature in Nikon Capture 4 Ver. 4.3.0 or later are now reflected when these images are displayed in Nikon Browser or Nikon Viewer. (Nikon Editor has supported this feature since Ver. 6.2.6.)

Nikon View 6.2.7 for Mac OS X contains the following updates:

• Support for RAW images captured with the D200 has been added.
• Support for Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger) has been added.
• The effects of image editing with the Color Aberration Control feature in Nikon Capture 4 Ver. 4.3.0 or later are now reflected when these images are displayed in Nikon Browser or Nikon Viewer. (Nikon Editor has supported this feature since Ver. 6.2.6.)
• Structure of the Color Management tab in the Preferences dialog has been changed. The Open ColorSync button has been removed. Simply a choice between the Default RGB color space and CMYK separation profile has been provided.

Filed under: Nikon,Software
No Comments

Kevin Mills has written a great tutorial showing how he turned a fairly run-of-the-mill image into a great one – Seeing Beyond The Capture.

Kevin explains every step of the process, talking about the creative decisions he made along the way and the Photoshop techniques he used to achieve each step. He even provides a .psd of the final image, so you can peel back the layers and experiment with the techniques yourself.

This is an extremely well-written tutorial, especially for those just starting out with Photoshop, and certainly worth a read for its blend of creative and technical issues. I especially like the use of rollover images to compare before and after images of each step.

Filed under: Software,Technique
No Comments

I’ve seen some mention in forums recently about disk problems caused simply by installing Photoshop CS2 on a Mac running OS X. It seems that the installer somehow creates some files with illegal names, and the volume header for your disk becomes corrupted.

Apple’s Disk Utility can’t repair these files or the volume header, and some users are reporting that “the damage sooner or later escalates into profound stability and operational issues that cannot be fixed”, requiring a complete reinstall of your OS and applications. I can’t confirm if it really is that drastic, though.

Some inquisitive souls on the Macintoshian Achaia forum, MacFixIt, Radmind and Macintouch did some digging around, and discovered that the illegally named files were the Vietnamese translation of the legal files. Deleting these (in the Applications -> Adobe Photoshop CS2 -> Legal folder) removed the illegal filename warnings, and allowed the volume header to be repaired (after booting from an alternate start-up disk, of course).

If you’re not sure which of the Legal files is the Vietnamese one, just delete all the ones with character sets you don’t recognise. You should also delete the unnecessary files from the Applications -> Adobe Illustrator CS2 -> Legal folder if you own Illustrator, as they apparently have the same problem. These files are not necessary when using the software.

I haven’t seen any official Adobe fix – if you know of one, please post it in the comments below so I can link it up.

Filed under: Software
3 Comments

Pentax has just released firmware version 2.00 for their *istDS digital SLR camera.

Changes include:

• AF mode has been added to the [Rec. Mode] in the Menu and the AF mode
• Auto Sensitivity has been added in the sensitivity mode
• AE-L button on M has been added in the Custom menu.
• The effect of Digital soft filters can be selected from weak, middle or strong
• Dutch and Swedish language modes have been added
• The sample picture will be displayed in the LCD monitor when select picture modes
• Menu items that are not selectable are now grayed out

If you have this camera, you can download Pentax *istDS firmware v2.00 right now.

Filed under: Firmware Updates,Pentax
No Comments