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November 4, 2003
Adobe Photoshop Album 2--Great Upgrade
Adobe is finally shipping the latest Adobe Photoshop CS (version 8) with a host of improvements, and my initial look at the product shows that it's a worthwhile upgrade. However, what might be lost in the hoopla over Photoshop might be a little gem called Adobe PhotoAlbum 2.0.
I had been disappointed with PhotoAlbum 1.x, and I initially decided not to upgrade to 2.0. However, given the low cost of the upgrade ($24.99) and the 30-day refund policy, I decided to try it out, and am I glad that I did.
Now PhotoAlbum supports camera's native RAW files, and that means I can open my NEF (Nikon's raw files) in the program, and using Adobe's one-click Auto Fix, I can fix hundreds of photos automatically. Of course, if you want more manual control, you can adjust highlights, shadows, colors, temperature (warmer--cooler), red-eye, and sharpness manually, but for web posting, I don't need that hassle. Beside, I can transfer the picture to Photoshop CS for any serious editing and output if I want.
On the bonus side, PhotoAlbum also automatically saves the edited photos into JPEG files so that I can post them to web pages without converting first (the program doesn't touch the original NEF files--and this is good in my book). Of course, if you want to create thumbnails with pictures, you can use the program to create the web pages for you. You can also transfer pictures to Video-CD so that you can watch your pictures in your DVD player.
If you need to process a lot of pictures for sharing, web posting, and printing, then this is a good program to have in your computer (MSRP $49.95).
Posted by Ken in Photography
Comments
I am trying to put the Atmosphere Gallery file/folder in my FrontPage 2002 website. Do you know how to do this so when someone clicks a link or something on my website they can see the Gallery????
Which file starts the atmosphere program?
Would I use xml, or what comp. launguage?
Hope someone can help me.
Karen
Posted by: Karen at November 11, 2003 9:33 PM
PSA creates a folder with all the files needed for thumbnails and images. I believe you just need to hyperlink to the index page in that folder from your main web page, and then Frontpage should load the files automatically. Of course, you need to save the gallery folder/files in your web folder. Hope this helps.
Posted by: Ken at November 15, 2003 9:22 AM