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Lightroom 2 and CS4 Launch
Last night was the Melbourne Adobe CS4 Launch party. It was held at a standard IT party location, only the crow was different. The normal IT party is a swarm of suited up sales crowds and distribution hawks…think…”I am a PC”. Last night it was “…and I’m Mac”. Everyone had a Mac…the demos where on Macs…many a lap was covered with a Mac…possibly the drinks where shaken with a Mac. As usual the bar was open…but I wasn’t drinking (maybe some more on that in another entry).
Apart from the Mac love fest the night was all about integration, easy and wow. Edit a video clip from Premiere in After Effects without rendering out. The changes made in After Effects are reflected in Premiere in real time…. Integration! Create a key frame in Flash, click and dragging an object creates a path…bend the path with the mouse…animation done…correctly with all the web friendly coding done….easy! A photo of a field with 4 cows…need more field…increase the size of the image..field grows (doesn’t distort) the cows remain 
unchanged (and trees)….wow!
I got home and had to break out the only current generation Adobe product I have, Lightroom 2. I hadn’t really played with it..but wow. Last night I did a 30 min shoot of some food..imported the raw images to Lightroom..created a set of modifications and copied them to a bunch of the shots. Fast…really fast..processing took less time than the shoot. The developed photos were on flickr within 40 mins of packing up the shoot. I am a convert…Don’t cry Photoshop…you can still play with the jpgs.
New Flash
I bought an SB-600 flash for my D80. I have long resisted flash photography as found my efforts a bit harsh. Well, when you are able to remove the flash from the body, bounce of a wall, roof…flash from angles..etc..whole new story. Now I’m thinking about buying more flashes. More photos to come.
:(
As I said before….I am the only sales guy at work atm. Management is looking for two new staff…but for now I am carrying the whole sales target on my shoulders 
The good news is, I am getting a new desktop at work. It comes with 3 22″ screens. This will some what make up for the pain.
I’m the only one left
Found out today that the only other person in my company doing my job is leaving next week. It took me a year to convince my boss to employ another me. Not to boast or anything but it is hard to find people who can do what I do. I now have to assume that I am going to be very busy in the coming months. Fingers crossed that we are able to find a replacement soon.
Raw Chocolate crackles
Check out the raw crackles that Meg made…and they are nut free..
Old blog
Though I should stick up a link to my old blog.
http://jefah.com/testsite2/
This was were I was bloging about my failed not for profit website project I was doing last year.
blog take 4
Hey all….I have had many attempts at writing a blog and failed everytime…(apart from the one I do for work). I hope to use this place to leave my thoughts.
