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"What's so unique about still photography is that it forces you to stop, it forces you to think. It's almost meditative. Particularly compared to the other media that exists today." - Ed Kashi This podcast was recorded on Tuesday August 7th, 2007 at Ed's studio in Montclair, New Jersey. Ed sits down with George to have a conversation about his career, his passion and motivation for photojournalism, and telling stories that matter.

This mini-tutorial podcast is the fifth in a series that will cover bite-sized tips and techniques designed to help you get the most out of Lightroom. The focus of this series will concentrate primarily on basic color correction techniques using the Develop module, but will also touch on many other parts of the application. This tutorial shows the basics of using the Lightroom's new sharpening controls, to help you quickly adjust your capture sharpening in the 1.1 Develop Module or ACR 4.1 or later. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems. The free Quicktime player for Macintosh or Windows can be downloaded from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

This 'video' podcast includes photographs by Eric and by John Cornicello. The photographs can be viewed on Video iPods. Audio only will be available on iPods that do not support .mp4 format. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This mini-tutorial podcast is the forth in a series that will cover bite-sized tips and techniques designed to help you get the most out of Lightroom. The focus of this series will concentrate primarily on basic color correction techniques using the Develop module, but will also touch on many other parts of the application. This tutorial shows the basics of using the Refine Photos command, in conjunction with the Pick and Reject flags, to help make editing large shoots very efficient. The free Quicktime player for Macintosh or Windows can be downloaded from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This mini-tutorial podcast is the third in a series that will cover bite-sized tips and techniques designed to help you get the most out of Lightroom. The focus of this series will concentrate primarily on basic color correction techniques using the Develop module, but will also touch on many other parts of the application. This tutorial shows the basics of using the White Balance controls in the Develop Module to make a visual correction to a photo taken in mixed lighting. It also shows a new feature coming up in 1.1 update of Lightroom. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This podcast was recorded on Tuesday May 22th, 2007 in New York City. Eric sits down with George to have a conversation about his photography, his passion for color, and how he approaches the challenge of making authentic photographs when working in indigenous cultures. This "video" podcast includes photographs by Eric Meola. It can be viewed by downloading it directly into iTunes (if you are accessing it by subscribing via the Music Store), or by copying it into iTunes on either a Mac or a PC (if you've downloaded it from my iDisk). Once copied into iTunes, it can be transferred to a Video iPod, and viewed that way as well. (Note that if you do download from the iDisk, and NOT through an iTunes subscription, when viewing it on an iPod, you will access the video from the top-level Video menu (then "Movies" or "Video Podcasts".... depending upon how you downloaded it), and NOT from the top-level Music menu. If you can even find it under the Music menu, you will not see the photographs.) Finally, it's possible that only the audio track will be heard on devices other than Apple Video iPods, and the photographs will not be seen. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This mini-tutorial podcast is the second in a series that will cover bite-sized tips and techniques designed to help you get the most out of Lightroom. The focus of this series will concentrate primarily on basic color correction techniques using the Develop module, but will also touch on many other parts of the application. This tutorial shows the basics of using the Develop Module to make corrections to a slightly underexposed photo. The free Quicktime player for Macintosh or Windows can be downloaded from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

This mini-tutorial podcast is the first in a new series that will cover bite-sized tips and techniques designed to help you get the most out of Lightroom. The focus of this series will mostly concentrate on basic color correction techniques using the Develop module, but will also touch on many other parts of the application. This first tutorial shows the basics of using the Compare View to edit a small group of pictures to "find the best shot," and how to use the Quick Develop Panel during the edit. The free Quicktime player for Macintosh or Windows can be downloaded from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

This podcast was recorded on Friday March 16, 2007, at the home of Ruth and Thomas Knoll in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Zalman Stern, Mark Hamburg, Michael Jonsson, Thomas Knoll and Jeff Schewe ramble all over the place, discussing the upcoming ACR 4.0, compatibility with XMP and Lightroom raw controls, noise reduction, sharpening, the non-destructive editing model, shooting in dusty environments, etc. The team also spends a bit of time discussing the ins-and-outs of the Raw + JPEG workflow, and why Lightroom does not support it... yet. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

"I think pretty much any software has a personality, but a lot of times it's something that one sort of stumbles into, and people don't think about that as part of the design process. When I started the project, I wanted to do something that was more visually interesting, for example, than Photoshop, and tried some directions in that regard. And I did bad KPT imitations." - Mark Hamburg "I think the exercise really brought to light people's implicit assumptions about what they thought the Shadowland personality was, or should be. Things that were kind of hard to articulate, but people just had them as working assumptions." - Grace Kim "While people in different parts of the country may have different notions of what sleek or stylish may mean, I think everybody knows what butter is." - Phil "Butter" Clevenger The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This "video" podcast includes photographs created by Maki. It can be viewed by downloading it directly into iTunes (if you are accessing it by subscribing via the Music Store), or by copying it into iTunes on either a Mac or a PC (if you've downloaded it from my iDisk). Once copied into iTunes, it can be transferred to a Video iPod, and viewed that way as well. When viewing it on an iPod, be sure to access the video from the top-level Video menu (then "Movies" or "Video Podcasts".... depending upon how you downloaded it), and NOT from the top-level Music menu. If you access it from the Music menu, you will not see all of the photographs. Finally, it's possible that only the audio track will be heard on devices other than Apple Video iPods, and the photographs will not be seen. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

"I feel that I have a greater appreciation now because of the digital revolution that has occurred. Manipulated images are far more readily accepted as a viable form." - Jerry Uelsmann "The subject matter I'm interested in is just everyday life. Things that you encounter everyday, whether these are outdoors when you're working in the garden, or something you see on the TV everyday. That becomes are a part of our subject matter for both of us. You're just working from your own everyday emotional interaction with things." - Maggie Taylor This podcast was recorded on Wednesday December 20th, 2006, at the home of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann in Gainesville, FL. Maggie and Jerry sit down with George and have a conversation about their art. We talk about the ways in which their work is similar, how it differs, and how fantasy, dreams and technique all play a role in their creative pursuits. In the process, we touch on their sources of inspiration, and the thinking behind their choices of materials and technique. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This podcast was recorded on Monday November 27th, 2006, at Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, California. Phil and Mark sit down with George to talk about Phil's role on the team and the user interface that he's designed for Lightroom. The conversation quickly begins to wander and turn (as these conversations frequently do take on a life of their own...) to some of the broader questions surrounding Lightroom, and ends up touching on the core story and original vision for the project. This podcast also includes a description by Mark of some of his original thinking behind Lightroom's modular design. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

This podcast was recorded Wednesday, December 6th 2006, at Adobe Systems Headquarters in San Jose, CA. Now that the raw controls in Lightroom's develop module have finally settled down into a state that they will mostly likely ship in.... the Adobe Camera Raw team sits down with George Jardine, and takes a look back at what led us here, and forward to what might come next. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

"My background in relation to photography is to think about taking pictures apart, and assembling pictures in multiple steps or multiple layers, and that's the kind of thinking I've applied to this." - Richard Benson "The thing that's important is that the picture shows me where the picture can go as I'm making it. That's what's interesting." - Richard Benson This "video" podcast includes photos taken by Richard, as well as photos documenting the occasion taken by both myself and by Thomas Palmer. It can be viewed by downloading it directly into iTunes (if you are accessing it by subscribing via the Music Store), or by copying it into iTunes on either a Mac or a PC (if you've downloaded it from my iDisk). Once copied into iTunes, it can be transferred to a Video iPod, and viewed that way as well. When viewing it on an iPod, be sure to access the video from the Video menu (then "Movies" or "Video Podcasts".... depending upon how you downloaded it), and NOT from the Music menu. If you access it from the Music menu, you will not see the photographs. Finally, it's likely that only the audio track will be heard on devices other than Apple iPods, and the photographs will not be seen. "The thing a painter does is fundamentally different than what a photographer does. A painter goes and puts a mark somewhere, and looks at what the mark has done, and that tells the painter what the next mark should be. And that's what Thomas and I had been doing printing. We had been putting down a layer, and that told us what the next layer could be. And I was interested in doing that with my own photographs in color. So I ended up making color pictures in acrylic from 8 or 10 separations and 40 or 50 layers." - Richard Benson The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.