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Jeff Butterworth, CEO, Alien Skin Software, joins host Scott Sheppard for an update on their popular Adobe Photoshop plug-ins and also some details about their latest product Blow Up 2. Blow Up 2, once installed, will appear in your file automation menu and allow for a quick way to enlarge your images while maintaining the sharpness and quality of your image even if you didn’t capture it at the optimum resolution. Using a built-in custom algorithm that dramatically improves Photoshop’s built-in resizing tools that actually enhance the image edges for a crisp effect. The plug-in also has over 100 presets for common output sizes allowing for automatic cropping and resizing that even work in batch mode.

For more information about Blow Up 2 and other Alien Skin plug-ins visit: http://www.alienskin.com/

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara
This week’s topic: Olympus E-3 DSLR is Top Seed at the US Open

Olympus is a camera company that we all know and respect, but for years it’s been lagging behind top tier DSLR manufacturers like Canon and Nikon when it came to advanced-amateur and pro-level DSLRs. The main reason? Sluggish autofocus systems that couldn’t keep up with action, especially in low light. Olympus claimed to have fixed that problem last fall with the release of its flagship E-3, and in his report this week, Mike describes his experience shooting with the E-3 and the challenge facing photographers at competitive sporting events such US Open tennis match in Queens, NY.

For more information about Olympus visit: http://www.olympusamerica.com/

Read more insights and analysis from Mike McNamara on: http://www.mcnamarareport.com

Jack Howard, Photographer & Editor of Popphoto.com joins Inside Digital Photo for some tips and information on HDR Imaging. Following the success of his e-book "HDR: An Introduction to High Dynamic Range Photography" released through O’Reilly Publishing, Jack expands his expertise with image examples on the topic with another title "Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers" published by Rocky Nook which will hit the shelves mid-September. Jack explains everything a photographer needs to know including the best gear to create stunning images in a High Dynamic Range workflow.

For more information use these links or find out more about Jack on his blog at: http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/jack_howard/

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Diederik van Heyningan, Manager & Photographer, Lightworkx Studio joins host Scott Sheppard for a lively discussion on their commercial studio work based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Diederik discusses some of the challenges but also some of the amazing opportunities and variety of work they have mastered based in a fairly remote location on the South Island. Diederik explains they were one of the first digital production studios and have won numerous color awards for their work. Lightworkx is a studio and also do their post-production work in-house. Diederik shares some tips about how they were able to use a locally developed color proofing system called "AbsoluteProof" that has, in his opinion, solved their color management and contract/remote proofing problems.

For more information about Lightworkx and their work visit: http://www.lightworkx.com or to check out their proofing solution, AbsoluteProof, visit http://www.absolute-proof.com/

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara
This week’s topic: Another RAW camera format? How are we going to handle it?

It happened again, just when most photographers had been lulled into thinking we had seen the last new RAW file format. But noooo! Nikon surprised us by giving birth to a new one called .NRW that’s found exclusively in the high-level COOLPIX P6000 (This hot $500 compact boasts a 13.5MP CCD, 28-112mm f/2.7-5.9 stabilized zoom lens, built-in GPS, and up to ISO 6400.)Unfortunately, the Nikon engineers forgot something when they created this new RAW format—and it’s called Mac compatibility! Guess we should have seen that coming with a file extension called .NRW (Nikon Raw Windows).
So while photographers with PC’s running Microsoft Vista (and nothing prior to Vista) will be able to open and adjust .NRW files, the rest of the world is out of luck—unless popular RAW workflow programs like Apple’s Aperture, Adobe RAW converter, and Adobe’s Lightroom come to the rescue as they have in the past.

Read more insights and analysis from Mike McNamara on: http://www.mcnamarareport.com

Oliver Breitenbach, CEO, Boinx Software joins Inside Digital Photo for an update on their latest release of FotoMagico 2.5, the digital storytelling applications built for photographers. Oliver explains that at it’s most basic level is to create slideshows, but in the hands of creatives, wedding photographers, and journalists FotoMagico quickly generates very compelling short clips that incorporate your images, high-end transitions, synchronizes them to audio, and other effects which can be exported in a range of formats from web video to high definition Blu-ray format. Winner of multiple Apple Design Awards, FotoMagico currently runs only on Apple Mac OS leveraging the best development tools available on the platform that deliver an intuitive drag-n-drop interface.

For more information and to download a demo version today visit: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/

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