Use this screen calibration diagram to calibrate your screen in seconds

Want to see as much detail as possible on your computer screen when doing photo retouching? Use this little diagram to add a YinYang-like balance to your screen settings. The goal is that you can differentiate between subtle nuances of black and white – just like the Pro’s can do.

It’s Thursday again so I’d like to share with you a little treasure that I discovered this week. If you are using Speedlights then you wil want to know how to use them 100% reliable.  And I found a little eBook that masterfully answeres exactly that need. As good as this is for you, for me that’s a tradgedy,

Short story: Click this link now and you are safe.

Complete story:
Nerdy computer scientists say, that nothing exists digitally unless it is stored in two physically separate locations. Imagine the precious photographs that you’ve just shoot, a whole days effort, a lot of unique pictures that would be impossible to reshoot and all of a sudden – they don’t exist anymore.

One of the things that makes this weekend real fun for me is the 2nd Beta release of Photoshop Lightroom 3. It contains a ton of impressive improvements.

Even for established professionals of beauty photography, let alone aspiring artists, it is sometimes hard to go through all the stages of photography production smoothly and with no hindering.

Photographers who store their image files in a managable and straightforward folder structure, allowing them to find EVERY SINGLE photo in less than 12 seconds, are just too lazy to search, right? Well, for me it's time to admit that I am an extremely lazy person. That's why I avoid any trouble searching for my files by keeping them in such a really plain folder structure.

In forums I frequently got advice that I should absolutely use this or that photo database or this or that professional software to organize my thousands of files. Believe me dude, I've been there, done that. What works best for me is a set of folders that gives me no headaches, no technical glinches and which allows me to spend more time behind the camera than in front of the screen. Now my fellow photographer Patrick Hickey (http://www.JPatrickHickey.com) sent me an email asking "Do you have any suggestions on how to organize my files?". I felt it's time to make a quick little video showing how easy the (photography-)world can be. And for total and complete lazyness efficiency I even zipped the folder structure that I use and made it downloadable via the link below the video.

Download High Resolution, .mp4, 31MB
Download for iPhone and mobile, .m4v, 31MB

The zip archive featured here contains a structure of folders which helps you with your photography workflow and with your photo archiving.

Download it by making a right click (PC) or Option-click (Mac) and choose "save as". Unzip it into the "images" or "pictures" folder of your computer. The zip archive also contains the file "How To Use.pdf". Refer to this file for detailed instructions.

Download PhotoWorkflow-Folders.zip
[.zip file, 106 kb]