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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

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Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 (which I will hereafter refer to as “Lightroom 4”), the newest update to the application. For many (probably most) photographers using Adobe tools for their photography, Lightroom is probably the best option. It provides quite a bit of image editing/processing power and flexibility, excellent tools for organizing large photograph collections, and a wide range of effective methods for outputting final images to the web, to video, to various types of print publication, and as photographic prints.

Depending on your situation, the update is available several forms:

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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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iPad Typing – It’s a Whole New Weird, iUh, I Mean World

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You might have noticed a bit more “creative spelling” than usual at the blog this week. A bit of explanation is perhaps in order. I decided to try traveling with my iPad rather than my laptop, trying to reduce the weight and bulk of my luggage, especially since I am carrying a significant amount of photo equipment. In most ways this is working out quite well – I can handle most email and web work with its virtual keyboard, and it really is great to be able to use such a small device.

But about that “keyboard?” the iPad has an on-screen “virtual keyboard” that pops up on the screen when you need to type. Unfortunately it provides exactly no tactile feedback. The software attempts to compensate by “interpreting” my error-filled typing and automatically replacing gibberish with actual words. But not always the most appropriate actual words. For example, in one post my attempt to type “other” resulted in the word “mother” appearing in the text!

What about using the iPad to review and post-process photographs? That will br the subject of a later post, I think. For now I’ll just say that it is possible… but less than idea. I did magneto do some very basic editing of a few photos that I posted elsewhere, but the real work will wait until I’m back at my desktop computer.

( Just for fun, I left an iPad-ism in that last paragraph – did you “manage to” find it?)

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