Last week, Vincent Versace was up in Portland visiting us here at onOne Software so we took him out to the Oregon Coast to see what we could photograph. We ended up with some great shooting weather – about 50 degrees and mostly cloudy and most importantly, no rain!
Along for the shoot were senior product manager Dan Harlacher, Brian Kraft (vp sales), Vincent and me. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to spend a day shooting with Vincent, now you can see. Brian Kraft shot a little video along the way and put it up on Vimeo. I thought it would be fun to share here.
Just a warning though, this may be a side of Vincent many of you have not seen before. He was very heavily under the influence of Gummy Bears early in the day. Evidence of why you should keep them out of the reach of your kids.
I’ve had several requests lately for some new Valentine’s themed presets/layouts for PhotoFrame 4.5 Professional Edition, so I sat down this morning, put on some Taylor Swift music in the background and created a few layouts in PhotoFrame 4.5 Professional Edition.
The presets use three different backgrounds that were originally designed by Kersti Malvre and were first included in the PhotoFrame 4.5 release. Each also has a different camera edge frame that is blurred out and set to black to give a unique and non-symmetrical vignette. The first preset also includes an adornment from Vicki Taufer. All presets use the same photograph frame that was designed by Vincent Versace.
To download these free presets, click on each image below or just head on over to the onOne Exchange.
Please note, the fonts/typefaces used in these presets are not included in the preset. The type was added in Photoshop after I applied the presets to the photo. Links to where you can purchase each of the fonts is included on the onOne Exchange.
My good friend Joe Drivas just let me know about a Stock Photography workshop that he is leading on February 19th and 20th at Harmon’s School of Photography.
The 1 and a half day Stock Photography workshop will be led by Joe himself. Joe is one of the leading stock photographers in the United States and his work is represented and licensed worldwide through Getty Images, Iconica, Stone and Photographer’s Choice collections.
Joe will be providing an overview of the stock photography industry and detail his unique and successful approach to being a highly competitive stock photographer. He will cover his software workflow, his approach to image metadata, and archival methods for quick retrieval. Also, he is going to discuss model and property releases, and describe what gear to bring to the shoot.
One the most common questions we have received since the release of our Plug-In Suite 5 is “How do I get to the plug-ins? I only see Mask Pro 4 in the Photoshop CS4 Filter menu. Where are Genuine Fractals, PhotoTools, PhotoFrame, PhotoTune and FocalPoint?” Well, the short answer is that technically, the only “Filter” that we develop here at onOne is Mask Pro 4. The rest of the plug-ins technically are Automation plug-ins and “live” elsewhere within Photoshop.
20 years can go by fast. Doesn’t seem that long ago really, but maybe that is just an indicator that I’m getting old(er). I started playing with Photoshop back in 1995, but it was first developed in 1987 and then later sold to and then released as version 1.0 for the Mac by Adobe in 1990 [source]. But let’s get back to the present. In celebration of this landmark anniversary, Adobe and NAPP have a special event planned and from what I hear, you’re not going to want to miss it.
