One onOne with Mike Wong

I subscribe to the Design Tools Monthly newsletter that Jay Nelson puts together each month and just received an email that he sent to his subscriber base about installing CS3 on a Mac OS X computer. Since I recently installed the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition I was interested in reading what Jay had to say and I'm glad I did.

Here's what Jay wrote:

"The Adobe Creative Suite 3 installer for Version Cue CS3 Server disables
your Mac's firewall so that it can configure new outgoing network ports, but
it does not reactivate the firewall when it is finished -- potentially
leaving your Mac open to malicious attacks.

Version Cue CS3 Server is included with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design
Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium and Web Standard. It is installed by
default as part of the full Creative Suite 3 installation.

To re-enable the Mac OS X built-in firewall, do this:

1. Choose Apple menu> System Preferences.
2. Click the Sharing Preference Pane.
3. Click the Firewall tab.
4. Click the Start button to turn your firewall on. (If the button says
Stop, your firewall is already running.)

Enabling your Mac's built-in firewall is an easy way to help prevent
unauthorized people from acccessing your computer through your local network
or through the Internet. If you don't already have your Mac's firewall
turned on, this is a great opportunity to activate it.

We don't know if Adobe is planning to change the Creative Suite 3 installer,
but they are offering the same advice we are: Check your firewall settings
yourself.

You can view Adobe's CS3 installer security advisory at
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-11.html"

Thanks for the notification Jay!

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I got an email today from a Lightroom user asking how to rotate some of the frames we've made for Lightroom. The frames will by default be applied in a landscape orientation - this may work fine for some of your images, but not at all for those portrait oriented images. So how do you rotate them?

Just to the right of the words "Identity Plate" look for a circular arrow - it starts off with dots and then becomes an arrow pointing in a clockwise fashion. After you've selected a frame/identity plate, just click this circular arrow once and your frame will be rotated clockwise 90 degrees. Click again, another 90 degrees.

Default Setting

Rotate Button

After rotating frame and setting size to 100%

Image copyright Mike Wong 2007

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Our good friends over at PrairieFire Productions have just informed us that Jim DiVitale will be heading to Houston later this month (May 19th and 20th to be exact) to do two, one-day hands on seminars at the Houston Camera Exchange. Among the things that Jim will teach you are:

Part 1: Taking Control of Our Images
How to get color consistency from capture to processing. Includes an introduction workflow using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Part 2: Shooting a Commercial Image In the Studio
The making of a "commercial image". Step-by-Step, Jim will take you through the set up and shooting of his famous “tea pots� image.

Part 3: But Wait, There’s More
It wouldn’t be fair to bring one of the world’s best Photoshop instructors to Houston and not give him the time to teach us some of his favorite tips and techniques. So, the seminar will finish with Jim covering topics such as creating photo paintings and adding custom border and edge effects with PhotoFrame Pro.

For more information and to register, please visit http://www.hcehouston.com/houstonhandson

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