After getting a few tests and trials to run with VMWare Workstation and ending up with acceptable execution speed, I began to plan the types of machines I needed. This is how my list ended up: Operating System Machines – Base Class Win2k Base – Windows 2000 with Firefox, Thunderbird,…
I have been working on ways to create separate machines on my pc using VMWare Workstation. The concept is to create the minimum operating system necessary to run a group of programs related to a specific area or task. Benefits? What are the benefits? I see several benefits. First, Microsoft…
Backups continue to be a widely written about topic. One of the issues with this is that all backups are treated the same. In fact, some backups are important and some may not be so important. Here we discuss these finer points and try to apply the old 80/20 rule….
We have a good group of international folks using Lightroom Galleries LRG Complete for Adobe Lightroom. If anyone would like to volunteer to translate the Basic User’s Guide that comes with the Web Gallery then read on. I would be happy to work with anyone wanting to translate the Basic…
Thank you to everyone who has been patient while we write the Advanced User’s Guide for the LRG Complete Web Gallery that plugs into Adobe Lightroom. This Advanced Guide has been in the making for over four months during the development of LRG Complete and the writing of the Basic…
I am making the final edits to the Advanced User’s Guide for LRG Complete and trying to reduce the 20 megabyte file size. This Advanced Guide contains many examples and screen shots, so the filesize is large. I promised to have it by September 30th and it looks like it…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. This concludes the Frames section of our study on Visualization. We will complete another exercise to pull all of these concepts together and then beginning with the next article move into Design Basics….
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. In the last article we discussed the Golden Rule and it’s application in dividing a Frame. We found that such a division gave us both a point to place smaller objects on a…
Ok, so this doesn’t have much to do with photography, but since I rely so much on my cell phone, I wanted to be sure that I kept this information should I need it again. Here, then, are a few shortcuts that I have found on the web for the…
It just goes to show how busy we sometimes become that we can miss important news about our favorite software – Adobe Lightroom 2.0. I spent such a large amount of time working on the Beta Test that when 2.0 came out I purchased, installed and went on. Well, there’s…