Archive for August, 2007

Color Management Consolidation

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

X-Rite recently announced they have acquired Pantone. X-Rite is well-regarded as a top company in color, and for photographers that primarily revolves around equipment for monitor and printer calibration. Pantone is perhaps best known as the owner of “named colors” (as in “Pantone 583 C” is a beautiful shade of, uh, a color I don’t […]

Cameraphone Milestone

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Tonight I answered a question for tomorrow’s Digital Darkroom Questions (DDQ) email newsletter (www.timgrey.com/ddq/). That’s not exactly significant, as I answer a question just about every day, and have been answering questions through this email newsletter for almost six years now (!!!).
What is significant, though, is that the question I answered is the very first […]

The Upgrade Game

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I just received the September/October 2007 issue of Digital Photo Pro magazine. I wrote an article for this issue called “The Upgrade Game”, so receiving my copy got me thinking more about this topic. I’ve been giving some thought to the digital photography upgrade cycle over the past five years or so.
As is no surprise […]

Announcing Digital Darkroom Quarterly

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I’m pleased to announce the first issue of my new print newsletter, Digital Darkroom Quarterly, has shipped. This first issue covers the following topics:

Photoshop CS3 New Features
Lightroom Workflow
Lightroom Versus Photoshop

I’m excited to be producing a print newsletter to supplement the Digital Darkroom Questions e-mail newsletter. This is a full-color, 32-page print publication with no advertising […]