The fix

Thanks to my colleague Aleksej for finding the answer for me. Just uncheck “scrubby zoom” in the contextual menu at the top of your Photoshop window!

Anyway here’s my favourite wrong-uns:

This is a very simple task but strangely difficult to find an answer for. It’s not readily possible with any of the main Adobe CS5 (design premium) apps but Adobe Acrobat Pro can do it without breaking a sweat. Just print the document: if it’s too big for your printer then you’ll be able to select “Tile all Pages” in the Page Scaling pop-up menu. The options are quite limted but at least you can have crop marks and page information printed on each sheet (a definite plus).

To get decent trim/bleed settings I’d go to Illustrator and set up multiple accurately aligned artboards (multiple artboards a feature of Illustrator since CS4) and print them.

Anyway now I can get on with printing large format [proofs and "art" prints] without having to go to the next town…

via Gadget Lab

If you don’t feel that intrepid – there’s other, far simpler ways if you don’t mind manual focus and exposure… macro freelensing … or, same principle but with a bit more usability: buy a macro reversing ring for your SLR/lens combo on ebay (I’m waiting for mine to arrive…).

“MND research is not so different from the Apollo Program and our ‘one small step’ will be taken too.”

Dr Martin Turner, Neurologist. By Patrick Joyce.

Flickr. Been using it for years – with periodic hiatus[es] – always worried about losing pictures to sneaky internet thievery – and at the same time wondering how to keep a proper archive of my photos.

Restricted access to Flickr

Well – I can use Flickr without worrying about the first point. Just found out that I can select who from my contacts or the whole universe has access to the see all sizes/download this picture option.

I’d looked for this feature before – last time must have been at least year ago – without finding it. I guess it may be a “new” feature – or just a very well hidden one – as there were so many photographers’ photostreams that I had download rights too.

Time to backup

So now – slowly does it I can backup my entire photographic history to Flickr and get decent off-site cloud based backups. Delicious.

All that’s missing now is to find a plug-in for Bridge/Lightroom/Aperture that will sync changes in my master archive with the Flickr one…

p*orkflow anyone?

I love dafont.com. Looking for a missing font and finding that on the home page. For some things there’s Mastercard.

If that’s not enough to whet your wotsit – have a look at these classy artefacts:

Go on…

Enter

Or so it seems. There have been many quality compacts produced since digital imaging came of age. You know those arrogant/insecure youths stutting about showing off their CCDs, talking the talk and trying to walk the walk. Er, I digress. Of these wonders the Canon G series (currently the G10) has been the most notable in terms of being photographer friendly. Until now because because to this photographer light should not be squeezed: nothing has come near the gorgeously wide-angle and fabulously bright optics of the new(-ish) Panasonic Lumix LX3. And those optics are wrapped in a small and functional form. Am I gushing? Oh dear…

f2.0-2.8, 24-60mm

How much?

Somewhere around 450 euros. Not bad.

Who needs an SLR? With this kind of glass – I could lose about two kilos from my camera bag. Let me rephrase: I could lose my two kilo travelling camera bag.

I guess a link to explain Burma Shave is necessary. Tom Waits made me wonder with his song.