Epson Pro Profiles
Looking for ICC profiles for Epson’s Signature Series of papers for their Pro level printers?
Find them here.
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How to Sequence & Design Your Next Book Like a Pro – Mat Thorne
How to Sequence and Design Your Next Book Like a Pro from Blurb Books on Vimeo.
Mat Thorne, pro photographer and design whiz, shares his secrets for great book design. Mat was the Art Director at the prestigious Maine Media Workshops and has designed books for some notable figures in contemporary photography. In this webinar, he walks you through book design and layout essentials and touches upon tips and tricks to help you with every aspect of bookmaking, from workflow to typography to final layout.
Learn more in my online Bookmaking resources.
Learn more in my Publish & Exhibit workshop.
Compelling Cover Design – Alan Rapp
The cover of your book is your best chance to catch someone’s eye. In this webinar, photography book editor Alan Rapp uses examples from iconic works and Blurb books alike, and shows how the cover draws the viewer in.
Learn more in my online Bookmaking resources.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.
Help-Portrait – A Global Movement
Help-Portrait is a global movement of photographers using their time, gear, and expertise to give back to those in need.
You can be a part of it!
Find out more about Help-Portrait here.
OnOne Free Plug Ins
Get 20% off OnOne products with this code – PRINT20 !
OnOne offers free Plug-Ins.
You can add professional photographic effects, frames and backgrounds in Photoshop with just a few clicks with PhotoTools 2.5 Free Edition and PhotoFrame 4.5 Free Edition from onOne. You can also download free Lightroom Presets and Camera Raw Presets to speed up your workflow and instantly add effects. These products are yours to keep (they don’t expire) and will save you hours of time enhancing images in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Learn more about OnOne here.
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Printing Printer Targets With No Color Management in CS5
The option to print without color management is missing in Photoshop CS5. This makes it impossible to print IT8 targets to make custom profiles with. Adobe has released the Adobe Color Printer Utility to help you do this.
Find the utility and instructions on how to use it here.
View Camera – Paul Caponigro
The latest issue of View Camera Magazine features my father, Paul Caponigro with a special portfolio of unpublished work from 1959-2009.
64 pages of images with inspiring and insightful text.
“The eminent designer Eleanor Morris Caponigro has established a pace and rhythm here that allows each picture to breathe. See how each refers to the one before it and sets up the next. A record of an amazing life – an astonishing achievement – climbs to elusive harmonious heights. ” – Michael Moore
Find more at View Camera
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Seek Feedback
One of the most valuable aspects of a workshop is getting feedback on your work. You get it from a respected authority. You also get if from diverse participants. The combination of both is powerful. You’ll see your work more clearly, see it through others eyes, and find new ways of looking at your work.
One helpful approach is to ask a lot of questions.
Polls quickly give consensus on key issues. Which image is most memorable? Which image is strongest? Is it a 3, 4, or 5 star image?
How good is an image? First, identify the best thing about it. Then, to rate it, compare it to other images (your best or a respected artist’s) with same strengths.
Compare images. How do different images work together? Find formal echoes. Find thematic consistencies. Find shared stylistic traits. Sometimes, two images paired together are stronger than either one alone.
Identify outliers. Which image doesn’t fit with the others?
What could be done now to make it better? Crop? Adjust color? Dodge and burn?
What could be done in the future to make similar images better? Reframe? Return at a special time? Introduce a new element?
Read more in my Creativity Lessons here.
Learn more in my digital photography workshops.
Making Maps To Fight Disaster & Build Economies – Lalitesh Katragadda
As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.
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New Stunning Satellite Images of Earth
Earth is truly beautiful when viewed from space. The U.S. Geological Survey has released a new selection of particularly interesting images from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites, prolific sources of data for earth scientists. WIRED magazine selected their favorites from the USGS’ Earth as Art collection, which will take you on a tour of the world from the glaciers of Antarctica to the deserts of Algeria.