Adobe’s Future of Digital Imaging

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Kevin Connor, Senior Director of Product Management for Adobe’s Professional Digital Imaging Group, joins host Scott Sheppard to discuss his insight and vision for Adobe’s future in digital imaging. Kevin directs Adobe’s product management team responsible for the applications digital imaging professionals rely on every day including PhotoShop and Lightroom. Kevin shares the details of how they setup their popular public beta programs and how they ultimately implemented the feedback they received firsthand.

He explains Adobe’s vision and synergy behind both PhotoShop and Lightroom with some workflow tips from the perspective of how the applications were developed to work closely together. Lightroom provides some incredible batch image processing tools but does not have the in-depth ability to edit and modify the images as of course PhotoShop provides. He shares some tips, including using the “targeted adjustment” tool in Lightroom.

Kevin also discusses how keeping in touch with their customers and beta testers helps them develop the features they include in the latest versions. Hear how other markets, including medical imaging, influence future application features.

As digital imaging technologies improve in the areas of capturing expanded data, Adobe’s commitment to incorporating enabling technologies to take advantage of this extended data and mega pixels.

For more information about Adobe’s Professional Digital Imaging products visit: www.adobe.com/digitalimag/index.html
For information about their latest beta projects visit: http://labs.adobe.com

For John Nack’s blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/

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2007 Microsoft Pro Photo Summit / HD Photo Format

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Tim Grey, Senior Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation joins host Scott Sheppard for an inside look at the recent 2nd Annual Microsoft Pro Photo Summit held July 11-12, 2007 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. Tim’s background in photography and digital imaging give him insight to helping lead Microsoft’s efforts to bring together the photo industry and discuss their key issues.

The summit included some keynotes, photo shoots hosted by their “Icons of Imaging” photographers, and technology showcases. The majority of the summit, however, was focused on panel discussions, open Q&A, and solving the workflow concerns of the participants. One of the hottest topics of the sessions were copyright concerns to help manage the digital rights of photos and the photographers who took them. Other topics included training and education, and using video to capture digital still images.

Bill Crow, HD Photo Program Manager, Microsoft then joined Tim Grey and Scott Sheppard in discussing Microsoft’s HD Photo Format designed to address the current limitations of JPEG technology. HD Photo offers twice the compression as standard JPEG, and supports a wide range of pixel formats including High Dynamic Range.

With increased compression efficiency, more flexibility, and virtually no loss in image quality. Format support is built into Windows Vista, and there are plug-ins for Photoshop on Windows, with additional plug-ins for Photoshop on the Mac OS soon to be available. Microsoft is committed to expanding HD Photo Format to being an industry standard, cross-platform compatibility so it can become an industry format not just a Microsoft native format. Learn more about this exciting technology on Bill’s Blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/

For more information on the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit is available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/

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