Archive for December, 2006

Beautiful roads

December 22nd, 2006 by Antoine Khater

I have so many friends and people out there that knows that I’m in love with photography that many of them forward to me emails with great pictures. Sometime I find those pictures interesting enough to share them with you.
Here is a collection I’ve been sent just a couple of days ago about “beautiful roads”.
Just a quick disclaimer, I received those by email, I’m not the copyright holder of any of them and I don’t know were they come from for credits
now all that being said, Enjoy

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Get 4 Nik Color Efex filters for FREE

December 17th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Nik Color Efex photoshop filters
I ran across those today and I thought it would be cool to share since I’m sure many are fans of the Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 filters.

Nik software is making available for download 4 of their Adobe Photoshop filters for free

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Black and White conversion tool test

December 17th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

This is a a quick comparison done by Billy Gilbert to test the new Black and White conversion feature of Adobe Photoshop CS3

Original colored picture
Photoshop CS3 B&W test

Simple desaturation in the Hue/Sat tool
Photoshop CS3 B&W test

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How to get the serial for Adobe Photoshop CS3

December 16th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

After you download and install Adobe Photoshop CS3 it will ask for a serial number that will unlock the Photoshop CS3 beta features. To get this serial number first locate your Adobe Photoshop CS2 serial number, go to Adobe website and it will give you a CS3 beta serial number.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 speed links

December 16th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta has just been available for download for a few hours and already we have a collection of pretty interesting reviews and tutorial about this very promising product

- More info about Photoshop CS3 beta at Adobe website
- Download Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta from Adobe website

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Download Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta today

December 15th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

For the first time Adobe is making the beta version of Photoshop CS3, expected for spring 2007, publicly available for download. This beta version is available for the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows XP / Vista platforms.

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The always and never of photography

December 10th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

This is a compilation of the best “Always” and “Never” photography advices that were recently given on the Photography on the net photography forum.

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Nikon D40 online manual

December 9th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Many people likes to get their hands on manuals and read them before actually buying a certain product.And now since the Nikon D40 is available in stocks my guess is that many of you who are thinking of buying this DSLR will try to find its manual online.
Here are two places to learn more about the Nikon D40 digital camera and download its user manual in pdf format.

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Moon exposure calculator

December 6th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

I have previously wrote and article about how to take successful moon pictures and today I have worked on a moon exposure calculator.
The moon exposure calculator is a tool for photographers feeling like taking pictures of the moon, it will give you the estimated shutter speed required based on your ISO, aperture, moon location, weather condition and moon phase.

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Nikon D40: a user hands on experience

December 5th, 2006 by Antoine Khater

Andreas, a fellow Nikon photographer and owner of a wide collection of Nikon cameras like the Nikon D2X, D2H, D200, D80 and D50, just bought last Friday the new Nikon D40 in Helsinki Finland.
What I am sharing with you here is Andreas first impressions on the Nikon D40 with his own words and terms.

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