Attention PhotoFrame 4.5 users! We just posted 10 new PhotoFrame 4.5 Layouts that you can download for free to our onOne Exchange. Actually, saying that there are 10 new layouts is a little misleading. There are actually way more than just 10 layouts. It would be more accurate to say there are 10 new themes and that each theme has at least one horizontal layout and one vertical layout.
Speaker Schedule at Photoshop World
It’s just about that time. Photoshop World Las Vegas! Only 3 days until the Fall 2010 Photoshop World starts up and most of us here at onOne will be leaving for Las Vegas on Tuesday to set up our booth. Set up is always a fun day because we run into many of the instructors as well as many of the other companies that are also exhibiting at the Expo. It’s always a good time catching up with everybody at these shows. In addition to seeing our fellow exhibitors, we also look forward to seeing fellow Photoshop users like you. We always appreciate and enjoy seeing familiar faces in our demo theatre and catching up with the friends we’ve made over the years.
If you’re going to be in Las Vegas this week, please do stop by our booth and say hello. In addition to offering some free, live training for our products, we’ve also lined up some great speakers for you to see up close and personal. Here’s the guest speaker schedule we have planned in our booth.
Wednesday, 9/1
- 4:00 pm > Dave Cross: Tips and Tricks with PhotoFrame 4.5
Thursday, 9/2
- 2:00 pm > Brian Matiash > HDR Post Processing with PhotoTools 2.5
- 3:00 pm > Laurie Excell > “I’ve been Framed!” Creative Uses of PhotoFrame 4.5
Friday 9/3
- 10:00 am > Laurie Excell > Real World Use of onOne’s Plug-In Suite 5
- 11:00 am > Brian Matiash – HDR Post Processing with PhotoTools 2.5
Of course, we’ll have our resident presenters Dan Harlacher and Peter Kinnan doing presentations and training. Brian Kraft will be there for onOne as well and we also have a new team member, Ryan Kristin who will make his very first Photoshop World appearance and so I’m sure he’ll be excited to present as well. Who knows, maybe I’ll even get a chance!
If you are in Las Vegas this week, please do stop by our booth and say hello. Also, if you’re in town, follow me on Twitter as I’ll be tweeting the onOne team’s where abouts and some impromptu meet ups.
Oh, and if you need a free Expo only pass, you can download one here.
Processing HDR photos with PhotoTools
One could argue that processing your HDR photos AFTER they have been aligned, merged and tone-mapped by your HDR software of choice be it Photoshop CS5, Photomatix or any of the other HDR programs out there. In fact, photographer Brian Matiash (who is extremely skilled at HDR photography) says this in an installment of his HDR Best Practices guides.
To prove his point, he’s started a new series in this blog called Behind the Curtain, where he shows you the tone mapped HDR image and the final image after post-processing. One of his keys to success in his post work is PhotoTools 2.5 Professional Edition. Brian has found a variety of effects that he really enjoys using to create his signature style and in this series he shares what those effects are. Take a look at his work (it’s amazing) as it is sure to inspire you (it has me) to go out and shoot more and see just how far you can push PhotoTools.
So be sure to take a look at the first installment of Behind the Curtain – The Royal Clipper. It’s amazing to see the before and after shots here.
Catching Up – A Hodge Podge of Information
First of all, I apologize for not having posted anything here or getting back to any comments recently. It’s been a very crazy past couple of months. Enough of that though, let me try to catch you up with what we’ve been up to.
DSLR CAMERA REMOTE UPDATE
We have a fairly big release in the works although, it will probably be released as a version 1.4 update. In that update, we were planning on putting in the support for the Canon T2i that many of you have been asking for. However, the 1.4 update is taking longer than I’d like so I’ve asked our development team to release a 1.3.1 update that adds support for the T2i.
The release should only affect the DSLR Camera Remote Server application and not the iPhone app. This means we won’t have to submit the application to the iTunes App Store team for approval but rather we can release it directly to you once we’ve completed testing. At the risk of putting a date out that could potentially slip, here goes…If all goes well, we should have the 1.3.1 update available by September 1.
As for the 1.4 release we’re working on, stay tuned. I’ll have more details on that in the next couple of weeks.
PLUG-IN SUITE 5.1.1 UPDATE
Regarding the Plug-In Suite 5.1 release that we put out as a free update a while back that added support for Photoshop CS5 and 64-bit compatibility, we heard from many of you that there we issues with FocalPoint and PhotoTools not displaying results correctly. There was a Mask Pro issue when trying to launch and there were some reports of the onOne Panel (where you now access the plug-ins via the Window > Extensions menu) not working correctly.
After lots of testing on a wide variety of system configurations, we narrowed down the source(s) of the problems and have the Plug-in Suite 5.1.1 update available now for you to download [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]. These updates are only for Plug-In Suite 5.1 users.
ADDITIONAL PRODUCT UPDATES
Now, if you’re using one of the individual products instead of the Plug-In Suite 5.1, we have updates available for you as well. For your updating convenience, here are the download links. Alternately, you can visit our Software Updates page.
Genuine Fractals Professional Edition 6.0.7 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
Genuine Fractals Standard Edition 6.0.7 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
PhotoTools Professional Edition 2.5.4 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
PhotoTools Standard Edition 2.5.4 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
PhotoFrame Professional Edition 4.5.2 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
PhotoFrame Standard Edition 4.5.2 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
PhotoTune 3.0.3 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
FocalPoint 2.0.2 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
Mask Pro 4.1.9 [Mac OS X Download | Windows Download]
WE’VE MOVED TO A NEW OFFICE
We recently celebrated our 5th year in business (which we couldn’t do without you, so thank you!). For the first 2.5 years, we were in a relatively small space around 1700 square feet. For the past 2.5 years, we were in a space just down the hall that was about 3400 square feet. At first it was great having the extra space but before we knew it, we had out grown it and had the majority of our onOne team members sharing offices, desks stacked up in hallways and literally, for one of our engineers, sitting right outside the bathroom door. Enough was enough.
We just moved across the street from our last office into a new space that is just over 11,000 square feet. Talk about an upgrade! We’ve got a dedicated recording studio now so we can record higher quality product tutorials and record the webinars that have become so popular lately. We even built out a photo studio (though much of the equipment is still on back order) so we can record tutorials on studio shooting techniques as well. I’ll post some pictures of the new space in a week or so as we’re still putting the finishing touches on it.
Part of the move included a completely new phone system which will also improve our customer service and technical support teams as well. It should be much easier to reach us via phone if you need to! The phone numbers and email addresses haven’t changed, but if you want to have our new mailing address here it is.
onOne Software, 15333 SW Sequoia Parkway, Suite 150, Portland, OR 97224.
That about covers all of the big things that I think you’re most interested in. Again, I apologize for the delay in communicating this information. Thanks for your patience and sticking with all of us.
Pro Webinar Series with Laurie Excell
Join us on July 8th at 10am Pacific time for onOne University’s next live Pro Webinar, hosted by Laurie Excell. Laurie is an acclaimed wildlife photographer who shares her passion for nature through her photography and popular workshops. In this webinar, we’ll hear about her wildlife and nature photography work and tips and tricks that will help you create stunning images. Laurie will cover real world use of onOne Software’s PhotoTools, Focal Point, Photoframe and Genuine Fractals in an everyday workflow.
Webinar Detail & Registration Info
Wildlife and Landscape Photography with Laurie Excell
10am Pacific Time, July 8th 2010
(11am Mountain, 12pm Central, 1pm Eastern)
