Why a regular clean-up is recommended We’ve been looking at websites for some time now (if you haven’t followed, put my name in the search box and fish out the articles – they’re still wriggling), and you got the gist of how to build one and make it visible, and have it up there shining as a beacon in the galaxy, attracting visitors from near and far. Brilliant. And then the same visitors come back again, because of another useful link to it — and they see the same thing again…and again…and again. Same home page, same galleries. Same images, … [Read more...] about How to keep your website smelling fresh
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Adobe Releases Lightroom Classic 7.3, Adds Custom Profiles
This morning, Adobe released Lightroom Classic CC version 7.3, which added among other items, new Adobe Profiles, and Creative Profiles. These are similar to presets but are one-click actions that can be used in correlation with other adjustments you've made. Getting Started with Profiles Profiles are located in the Develop module, at the top of the Basic panel. The camera calibration profile has been integrated into this as well, allowing you to choose from Adobe Standard, Color, Landscape, Portrait and Vivid. But to go beyond that, click … [Read more...] about Adobe Releases Lightroom Classic 7.3, Adds Custom Profiles
Lightroom 2015.8 Adds New Develop Mode, macOS Sierra Compatibility
Adobe has just released an update for Lightroom, version 2015.8/6.8. Amongst the bug fixes and changes is an additional develop mode, as well as macOS Sierra enhancements. Improvements to macOS Sierra Compatibility When macOS Sierra was released, there were a few minor bugs with Lightroom. The app would crash whenever you right-clicked in the Import dialog, grid numbers wouldn't appear, and other minor bugs would interrupt workflows. With today's update, these issues have been fixed. The grid numbers are back, and the app seems to be … [Read more...] about Lightroom 2015.8 Adds New Develop Mode, macOS Sierra Compatibility
Solutions for Photoshop 2015.5 performance issues + 2015.5.1 Update
Since the release of Photoshop version 2015.5, a number of Adobe users have complained about their systems slowing down to unusable levels or of bugs never seen before in other tools. Besides the usual forum complaints, some have even recorded videos showing their lack of performance. Below is a list of Solutions to known issues: I. Install Photoshop 2015.5.1 Update released (8/8/2016) Solves a number of problems listed HERE. II. If you have slow menus or laggy commands = Turn OFF Font Preview Type > Font Preview … [Read more...] about Solutions for Photoshop 2015.5 performance issues + 2015.5.1 Update
Lightroom Hangout: Backups & Updates with Mark Fuccio
You gotta join us live for our next Google+ Hangout, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We'll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech. Plus you never know what else. We kick off Thursday, June 30th at 1:00 pm Eastern, 12:00 pm Central, 11:00 am Mountain, and 10:00 am Pacific. 2:30 pm in Newfoundland. RSVP here and it'll show your local time. This Month: … [Read more...] about Lightroom Hangout: Backups & Updates with Mark Fuccio
Lightroom Hangout: Backups & Updates with Mark Fuccio
You gotta join us live for our next Google+ Hangout, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We'll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech. Plus you never know what else. We kick off Thursday, June 30th at 1:00 pm Eastern, 12:00 pm Central, 11:00 am Mountain, and 10:00 am Pacific. 2:30 pm in Newfoundland. RSVP here and it'll show your local time. This Month: … [Read more...] about Lightroom Hangout: Backups & Updates with Mark Fuccio
How To Optimize Your Facebook News Feed
Facebook, despite all its ups and downs, has become a part of our lives. It's become a source of education, advertising, entertainment, and social/family connection! So with that in mind, I thought it'd be great to share with you a way to help make your Facebook experience a little more manageable! The problem i'm sure we've all encountered, is the sheer volume of spammy, offensive, and incredibly bad fake-fact content posts that plague our news feed. That along with with the pay-to-see business model that Facebook uses to make actual … [Read more...] about How To Optimize Your Facebook News Feed
Announcing the winner of our latest Drobo contest
Andrew Clark is the lucky guy. He won a four-bay Drobo! When we contacted Andrew with the news here’s what he said: “I have never won anything before and it actually feels super great I have been wanting a Drobo for quite some time. I will use the Drobo to replace my current backup solutions which consist of multiple drives for redundancy, each with a different type of data on them. I think I currently have around 10 different small backup drives and it will be nice to get a few large hard drives and put all the info in one place and … [Read more...] about Announcing the winner of our latest Drobo contest
Macphun’s Aurora HDR Pro Update Has Me Impressed!
By now most of you have heard of Aurora HDR from Trey Ratcliff and the team at Macphun, and if you haven't, well it's a joint project by Trey and Macphun to create an application tailored to exactly what the most prolific HDR photographer in the world would want out of software. Over the course of an entire year they worked together to create an app for photographers of all skill levels that would produce incredible images. You can run it as a plug-in for Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, and Photoshop Elements, OR you can run it as a complete … [Read more...] about Macphun’s Aurora HDR Pro Update Has Me Impressed!
Working with the New Boundary Warp Feature in Lightroom
Adobe just introduced an update to Lightroom CC (v2015.4) with a new feature called Boundary Warp. Found inside the Panorama merge screen, Boundary Warp intelligently stretches the edges of a merged panorama so you don't have to crop as much of the final image. How Do I Merge a Panorama? Merging images as a Panorama used to be complicated and involved going into Photoshop. Not anymore...You can do it right from inside Lightroom. First, select the photos you want to merge into a panorama. Next, choose the Photo menu, then click Photo Merge … [Read more...] about Working with the New Boundary Warp Feature in Lightroom
Time Lapse Photography Just Got A Powerful Update
If you're a Time Lapse fan like myself than this is an exciting weekend. Gunther Wegner, creator of LRTimelapse, (arguably the best plugin/tool for your time lapse arsenal on the market), just sent out the press release detailing the specifics of the latest update to LRTimelapse 4.5 including use of some of the awesome newest features in Lightroom CC. New Features in LRTimelapse 4.5 Added Support for the new Local Dehaze in Lightroom 6.2 / CC.2 on Linear, Circular Gradients and the Paintbrush. The number of threads used to generate the visual … [Read more...] about Time Lapse Photography Just Got A Powerful Update
Winners of the Arizona Highways Photo Contest Announced
Winning Photo by Theresa Dotson Winning Photo by Dan Morgan Winning Photo by Hanumanth Bollineni Congrats to all the winners - Photofocus was proud to be a sponsor of then 30th Anniversary Arizona Highways Photo Workshops photo contest. … [Read more...] about Winners of the Arizona Highways Photo Contest Announced
Adobe Announces new Update but is Lightroom Safe to Install?
Keeping your software up to date usually means getting the best performance. Companies add new features to help users as well as maintenance fixes to keep up with security issues and changes in the operating system. Sometimes Software Companies Screw Up Recently, the Adobe Lightroom team got into a bit of a tough spot. They released an update that majorly changed the functionality of the import window. It also contained a lot of bugs. This all went down when I was leading a photography workshop in Cozumel. I wanted the update but knew the … [Read more...] about Adobe Announces new Update but is Lightroom Safe to Install?
Adobe releases Lightroom 6.2.1 Maintenance Patch + An Author’s Rant
If you're one of the more wide-eyed people who updated to Adobe Lightroom 6.2 right after it was launched a few days ago, you have likely come to rue that decision. Between the "Fisher Price"-ification of the Import flow to the ridiculous crashes caused due to bugs in the software, this update left much to be desired. Fortunately, Adobe has made good and released a critical maintenance update that supposedly fixes some of the issues. I still take umbrage with their decision to regress the Import workflow functionality by removing key features … [Read more...] about Adobe releases Lightroom 6.2.1 Maintenance Patch + An Author’s Rant
ON1 Announces Version 10 — Coming October 2015
ON1 just announced their brand-new "ON1 Photo 10", scheduled to be released late October. I've had a chance to see this version up-close, and they have made some really great updates. The most noticeable is a brand-new graphics interface, along with some rearrangement of the panels and some behavior changes. It's a really great update and I am very excited to start working with it! They are taking pre-orders today, and have some pretty good offers to go along with it. Click here to take a look at some of their promotions. Here are some of the … [Read more...] about ON1 Announces Version 10 — Coming October 2015
Time is Running Out — Last Chance to Win a LUMIX camera and tickets to Photoshop World
This contest ends July 31, 2015. At Photofocus we love giving away prizes. Especially when those prizes can change your photographic life. We've partnered up with KelbyOne and we've got a great prize to give away. The Grand Prize GRAND PRIZE: A Brand New Panasonic Lumix LX100 and Two Passes to Photoshop World. SECOND PRIZE: One Pass to Photoshop World What's Photoshop World? Only the best training conference on the planet (and I don't just say that since I've attended for the last 11 years). The Three-day event covers the best in … [Read more...] about Time is Running Out — Last Chance to Win a LUMIX camera and tickets to Photoshop World
Time’s Running Out! Win Two Tickets to Photoshop World + A Panasonic Lumix LX100
At Photofocus we love giving away prizes. Especially when those prizes can change your photographic life. We've partnered up with KelbyOne and we've got a great prize to give away. The Grand Prize GRAND PRIZE: A Brand New Panasonic Lumix LX100 and Two Passes to Photoshop World. SECOND PRIZE: One Pass to Photoshop World What's Photoshop World? Only the best training conference on the planet (and I don't just say that since I've attended for the last 11 years). The Three-day event covers the best in photography, lighting and … [Read more...] about Time’s Running Out! Win Two Tickets to Photoshop World + A Panasonic Lumix LX100
Win Two Tickets to Photoshop World + A Panasonic Lumix LX100
At Photofocus we love giving away prizes. Especially when those prizes can change your photographic life. We've partnered up with KelbyOne and we've got a great prize to give away. The Grand Prize GRAND PRIZE: A Brand New Panasonic Lumix LX100 and Two Passes to Photoshop World. SECOND PRIZE: One Pass to Photoshop World What's Photoshop World? Only the best training conference on the planet (and I don't just say that since I've attended for the last 11 years). The Three-day event covers the best in photography, lighting and … [Read more...] about Win Two Tickets to Photoshop World + A Panasonic Lumix LX100
Announcing The Winner Of The Photofocus/Arizona Highways Camera Contest
We are please to announce that Laura Farkas was officially declared the winner of our Canon 7D MK II camera giveaway, sponsored by Arizona Highways Photo Workshops. Laura has promised she will pose for a picture with her new camera and send it to us. AHPW executive director Roberta Lites has shipped the camera to Laura and we sincerely hope Laura will enjoy the camera and the AHPW Symposium. Stay tuned because we will have more giveaways sponsored by AHPW soon. Thanks to all who entered. … [Read more...] about Announcing The Winner Of The Photofocus/Arizona Highways Camera Contest
Arizona Highways Photo Workshop Camera Giveaway Last Chance
Photofocus is proud to have partnered with Arizona Highways Photo Workshops. This 30-year-old non-profit is associated with one of the United States premiere photo magazines - Arizona Highways. Roberta Lites is the Executive Director of AHPW. She WANTS to give you a brand new Canon 7D MK II. This is an exciting new camera from Canon with state-of-the-art autofocus and many new/improved features. The winner of the contest will also get a free two-day pass to the AHPW "Capture Your Moment" Photo Symposium this November. The information on … [Read more...] about Arizona Highways Photo Workshop Camera Giveaway Last Chance
Final Week Left! Win a New Canon 7D Mk II & Two Day Pass to the Capture Your Moment Photo Symposium
This is a quick reminder. This is your last chance to enter the contest to win a brand new Canon 7D Mk II and a two day pas to .the Capture Your Moment Photo Symposium from Arizona Highways Photo Workshops.UPDATE. We have two ways to enter the contest! Some of you have asked for a simpler way to enter the contest - here it is. Follow @azfotoworkshops on Twitter Follow @photofocus on Twitter. Then send this tweet - Enter for chance at a brand new Canon 7D Mark II, & more from @azfotoworkshops & @Photofocus. Please RT. … [Read more...] about Final Week Left! Win a New Canon 7D Mk II & Two Day Pass to the Capture Your Moment Photo Symposium
Announcing the Winner in Our Latest Camera Contest from Drobo
While it took a while to track him down, we've got our winner for the last camera contest! Congratulations to Michael won a brand new Canon 7D Mark II and a Drobo of his choice. He went with the Drobo Mini. "It's a blessing to win," said Aragon. "It gives me an open door for more opportunity to be creative and explore the great unknown world of inspiration!" Michael knows how he'll put the two pieces of gear to use. "I will use my camera for many photography projects coming up! And for video projects that I love to do as well." And he … [Read more...] about Announcing the Winner in Our Latest Camera Contest from Drobo
Say Hello to the NEW Adobe Lightroom CC!
This morning Adobe announced a major update to Lightroom! The new version is called Lightroom CC, and is a part of the Creative Cloud. (For those of you not interested in using the Creative Cloud subscription service, it can still be downloaded as a standalone application, Lightroom 6.) The new update comes with some very much anticipated improvements, so let's take a look at some of the most impressive new feature's inside of Lightroom CC:HDR Merge Yes! Finally! We can merge HDR images inside of Lightroom! Photoshop is no longer a … [Read more...] about Say Hello to the NEW Adobe Lightroom CC!
Last Day to Enter 4/15/15 — Win a New Camera and a Drobo
Today April 15, 2015 is the last day to enter. We're very happy to be working with our partners over at Drobo. A Drobo is a perfect addition to any photographer's system because its a safe and expandable storage solution. A Drobo connects to your computer or network and provides redundant data protection without the complexities of traditional RAID. The Drobo family offers Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, Ethernet, iSCSI, and other connectivity options, so you get the data protection you need along with the speed and interface you want. You can also … [Read more...] about Last Day to Enter 4/15/15 — Win a New Camera and a Drobo
Choose the Winner for January Featured Photo Contest
You might have noticed that each week, we've been featuring photos from the Photofocus audience. Thanks to our friends at or Google+ communities and feature it on Photofocus! But there's more to this than just fame and glory. We also have prizes. For this month one of these photographers will win. A new Drobo 4-Bay Their portfolio featured on Photofocus.com Time to Vote You now need to help us pick. You may vote once per day (the voting system will lock you out for 24 hours after you vote) You may ask your colleagues, friends, … [Read more...] about Choose the Winner for January Featured Photo Contest
New GoPro HERO 4 Firmware Updates
GoPro just released major new firmware updates for their popular HERO 4 camera, bringing a few different video frame rates and a new video time lapse mode. Firmware updates allow manufacturers to unlock features in their cameras that were undeveloped at the release and can add value to their customers. It's almost like getting a brand-new camera! HERO 4 Black and Silver Edition Upgrades Time Lapse Video Mode In a world of instant gratification, GoPro added a new Time Lapse Video mode. The HERO 4 will record a time lapse and convert it into a … [Read more...] about New GoPro HERO 4 Firmware Updates
Lightroom 6 Will Require Updated Operating Systems
Adobe just posted some information regarding the compatibility of the not-yet-released Lightroom 6, and operating systems for Mac and Windows. To read the update, go here. In summary, Lightroom 6 will require that your OS (Operating System) is up-to-date with a recent versions of Mac or Windows. Here's what you will need in order to run Lightroom 6 (when it is released): Mac: OS X 10.8 or above Windows: A 64 bit version of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 For users with older software (Mac OS X 10.7, or a 32 bit version of Windows) they mention the … [Read more...] about Lightroom 6 Will Require Updated Operating Systems
Choose the Winner for December Featured Photo Contest
You might have noticed that each week, we've been featuring photos from the Photofocus audience. Thanks to our friends at or Google+ communities and feature it on Photofocus! But there's more to this than just fame and glory. We also have prizes. For this month one of these photographers will win. A new Drobo 4-Bay Their portfolio featured on Photofocus.com Time to Vote You now need to help us pick. You may vote once per day (the voting system will lock you out for 24 hours after you vote) You may ask your colleagues, friends, … [Read more...] about Choose the Winner for December Featured Photo Contest
Updating Your Copyright for the New Year
It's a new year, and that means updating your copyright information! For photographers, this oftentimes means making updates in more than one place, like your Camera, post-processing software (such as Adobe Lightroom), and possibly your website. On Your Camera All camera models will be a little different, but they should each have a place to enter your info. For this example, I'll show how to set your info using a Canon 70D. First, go into the Menu and locate the setting for the copyright information. Next, select Enter copyright details to … [Read more...] about Updating Your Copyright for the New Year
Winner Announced in Camera Contest
We have a winner in our SongFreedom camera contest. It's Mike Machian (). Mike chose the Sony A7S and a brand new lens. He's excited to start using the new gear in his workflow. Seems like our tweet telling him he won actually woke him up from a cold winter nap. A big thanks to our partner SongFreedom. And for those who didn't win... we'll have a new camera contest starting in January from our friends at Drobo. In the meantime win a Drobo or a copy of onOne Perfect Photo Suite. … [Read more...] about Winner Announced in Camera Contest
