Spider Web Trees Under The Street Lights

It was somewhat rainy, wet, and the trees in the glow of the street light made them appeared as if they were made of spiderwebs.

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Announcement! : Lightroom 5 Beta Now Available!

Over at Adobe's blog HERE you can garner yourself a copy of of the new Lightroom 5 Beta

software.  The software is going to be available until June 30th, which I'm presuming they'll release the full version of the product at that time.  Anyways, on to the new features!

Here are some of the new features:

• Advanced Healing Brush
  
• Upright (one click method to straighten tilted images)
  
• Radial Filter
  
• Smart Previews
• Improved Photo Book Creation
• Slideshows with Videos and Stills
• PNG file support
• True Full Screen Mode
• Configurable grid overlays
• Additional search criteria for filters and smart collections
• Lock zoom position preference settings
• Direction field in EXIF metadata panel
• “Set as Target Collection” checkbox in Create Collections dialogue
• Integrity verification of DNG files
• LAB color readout
• Aspect slider added to the Manual tab in the Lens Correction panel
• Persistent clipping indicators between Lightroom sessions
• Crop overlay aspect ratios
• Visual indicator of Favorite book pages
• Transparent buttons for improved Text creation in Books

Some new and exciting stuff for us photog's ;) Don't forget to pop over to their blog for a full detail and explanation of all the new features.

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VIDEO ! MAX 2011 Sneak Peek - Adobe Image De-blurring!

Many of you have likely seen the grainy video from MAX 2011 of Adobe's now famous de-blurring "feature" that was highlighted in their "sneaks" portion of their event. The audiences shocked and awed reaction to the quality of the deblurring made the net buzz and hum with anticipation to see high quality video and stills from the event.

Here is the video as well as the stills, before and after, and don't forget to check out the adobe.com website for the full article and why the 3rd image isn't posted!

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Here is the link to the article on adobe's site.

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