A Few Words about Jim DiVitale
Last night's Adobe User Group of Atlanta hosted photographer Jim DiVitale presenting on using Photoshop Creative Suite 5. We've been lucky to have Jim present at past meetings. He lives in Atlanta but travels a great deal. I could imagine that some folks who travel the world presenting might want to be left alone when they get home. Jim has been accessible to us and we're always glad he presents!
I wanted to say a few words about Jim here because I don't think his experience, know-how and presentation skills are recognized nearly enough. That's not to say he hurting for business; Jim is doing well. I, personally, feel that his name doesn't come up nearly enough in my social circles, so I wanted to put together an "elevator pitch" to those of you listening who may not know Jim DiVitale:
Jim Divitale is an Experienced Photographer. I'll be the first to admit that I know jack-diddly about real photography. I've held many expensive cameras in my hand and never really thought about the science and artistry that goes into creating a good shot. Jim has been handling a camera for more than 30 years. That means he knew what he was doing well before all this digital madness came along. His client list is extensive as are the types of work that he's done in the past. But here's the bigger deal. Jim has taken what he's learned about photography into the digital age. During his presentation last night he walked the attendees through all the things they need to consider when shooting photos for a customer --- color considerations, delivery to a computer screen, light metering, delivery to a printer. These are all things that I never think about and I have to wonder if most photographers think about it like Jim does.
Jim DiVitale has Know-How. Jim DiVitale goes beyond the camera, using Photoshop CS5 to perfect shots, improve shots, and even create images that may not be possible without his own knowledge. The shots he takes are pretty great, but when he's put into situations where he's not allowed to bring in lighting equipment or where he has no control of the environment, Jim knows what to do at the location so that his end product will be successful. It doesn't seem like lemonaide from lemons, more like impossibly great shots from chaos. Certainly, being able to experiment with camera and lighting on location along with his solid Photoshop skill, Jim has become a master.
Jim DiVitale is a Great Presenter. Jim DiVitale is popular with members of the Adobe User Group of Atlanta for many reasons, but the main reason is that people learn from him. When Jim presents, people always take notes. Whether it's how to set up lighting at a location, how to set up a computer for viewing or printing images or what the correct key combos are inside Photoshop, Jim gives his audience a lot of valuable information. This is information that can save you minutes or hours of work. It could save your whole shoot.
I look forward to seeing Jim at future user group meetings.
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Haven't Gotten Enough of CS4? Go See CS4 Design Premium in Action!
If you don't think that you've had enough of Adobe's Creative Suite 4 over the past month, on November 17th you'll have an opportunity to have more! The Atlanta InDesign User Group Fall meeting is coming up and they have Robert McDaniels presenting the new features and workflows for CS4 Web Premium.
You'll get more info via the link, but here are some of the details:
WHAT: Atlanta InDesign User Group Fall Meeting: CS4 Launch Meeting
WHEN: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM
WHERE: Portfolio Center, 125 Bennett Street, Atlanta, 30309
RSVP on the site, please.
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Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5? Get your Official Adobe CS3 Leopard Support FAQ's Here
From what I've been hearing, the only people who are having big problems with using Adobe products with the newly released Mac OS X v10.5, codenamed Leopard, are ColdFusion developers. Find out how your favorite Creative Suite product performed in the Adobe CS3 Leapard Support FAQ (pdf). As the document looks today, Adobe says they will have updates in December to make Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, Encore CS3, and Soundbooth CS3 fully compatible with Leopard. Adobe Acrobat Professional will also receive an update in January 2008 to make it compatible as well. Products pre-CS3 may or may not work.
The reported problems with ColdFusion are that the server will not start after the update, and will not start after a clean install on Leopard. ColdFusion installs, but will not start and will log errors on start-up. You can follow Ray Camden's blog post and comments here. I wish I could be more helpful. It is completely understandable that ColdFusion doesn't work properly as Leopard updates a bunch of server-oriented software. And with fact that every Adobe developer and manager that I saw at MAX 2007 was carrying a Mac Book Pro makes me believe that Adobe will either provide a patch for the problem soon or at least give everyone the heads up on what we can do to make ColdFusion work on Leopard.
The AIR product isn't even out officially, with the second public beta released on the Adobe Labs site. AIR application users (and developers) are warned by Mike Chambers on his blog:
"I pinged the team and they they told me that they are currently doing some testing, and havent run into any major issues yet. However, we are seeing some reports of issues from developers online, so if you are currently working on an AIR app, you might want to wait a little while to upgrade until we have more information."
Sound advice, Mike. Sadly, most of the people who will be disappointed with Adobe are the very people who could not wait for their pre-ordered Leopard package was dropped at their door by FedEx so that they could update every Mac they own. (And, yes, I am jealous because I have no Mac of my own.)
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