Conrad Chavez

@Cameralabs When I add something I want to a website’s “shopping list” I type today’s date and price into the list item’s Notes field. When I return later or when they announce a sale, the Notes field shows that known past price. Also helps track price trends, like for SSDs…

Beyond asking if you really need it, the best advice I can offer bargain hunters on deal days is to compare prices against what they cost last week rather than their original retail pricing. Something may now be '50% off retail', but maybe it already was before.

@Muig @StuartHumphryes The pulley clotheslines across streets are still in very wide use in Italy. We even used them recently, when staying in a place with a clothes washer. You just reach out the window. Electric clothes dryers are much less common there than in the USA.

@StuartHumphryes They went out with a cherry picker to hang the washing?? ...ah, no, wait- has to be a pulley system!

Laundry Day in Genoa, Italy, in 1928. This autochrome of the neighbourhood washing lines was taken 95 years ago by Hans Hildenbrand. It is an original colour photograph and not colourised.

@Medalofdead @StuartHumphryes One cause of narrow depth of field was common use of large film formats, like sheet film loaded one frame at a time into a big camera on a tripod. Today, most frame sizes are small — 35mm down to tiny smartphone sensors — creating wider depth of field at the same focal length.

@StuartHumphryes These vintage portraits all have a very shallow depth of field. Wondering what camera they used to shoot these autochromes.

Today, I have enhanced for you a striking autochrome portrait of a young lady, taken 108 years ago, during the Great War. It is an autochrome study by Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) of his daughter Kitty in 1915. It was taken in colour and is not colourised.

@einmanncombo @rainerklute Yes, looks like it isn’t uniform. I do see that InDesign v18 and Illustrator v27 support macOS 10.15; not sure if that’s because macOS 13 is not yet released. However, the photo and video apps and Bridge now state macOS 11 as the minimum.

For Mac Adobe users, October means system requirements change. Creative Cloud 2023 apps (released today) require macOS 11 Big Sur or later. Same thing with Apple — when they release macOS 13 Ventura, macOS 11 will become the oldest macOS that Apple still supports with updates.

@christiaanbrand @jessicammoss 2/ Many Mac apps have a variation of the Edit > Paste command that strips formatting on paste. In Word, if you choose Tools > Customize Keyboard, you can assign a keyboard shortcut for PasteTextOnly.

@christiaanbrand @jessicammoss On my Mac, I do what she does every day with TextEdit, the Mac equivalent of Windows Notepad. In an empty TextEdit window, choose Format > Make Plain Text. Any text you paste is stripped of formatting. Copy it back out. I alawys have that window open. /1

Who else copy/pastes text into Notepad and then copy/pastes the same text back into their original app just to remove formatting?

Testing new GPU acceleration for export in Lightroom Classic 11.4: 624 raw time lapse images exported 1/3 faster than 11.3 on M1 Pro. Also exports cooler and quieter, because GPU acceleration lowers CPU load and temperature. More details on my blog: bit.ly/LrCexpGPU

Photoshop 23.3 adds Multithreaded Compositing and GPU Compositing. Nice to see progress here, because Photoshop hasn’t been using all CPU/GPU power in today’s systems. Will be interesting to see if popular Photoshop benchmark tests show improvement. adobe.ly/3JIy3GS

The Apple Silicon native version of Adobe After Effects is finally out of beta as of the version 22.3 update, about a year and a half after M1 processors first shipped. Your move, Adobe Bridge… Other Adobe components such as the Creative Cloud desktop app still require Rosetta.

Creative Cloud “price update:” Seems to encourage long-term commitment. For single-user plans, price is unchanged for the annual plan where you prepay for the entire year; price increases are for annual plan on monthly payments, and month-to-month plans. adobe.ly/3JPEFE6

There’s online angst about not finding display profiles for Liquid Retina XDR Display on MacBook Pro M1 Pro/Max. It’s precisely calibrated at factory, user tuning available. Custom display profiles are for displays less able to maintain calibration specs. bit.ly/LqRXDRcal

I updated the official Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book for the 2022 release, and you can now order it! More info and 35% off discount code at bit.ly/Ph22CiB

@LuminousWorks Already ordered! Been waiting for this big M1 Pro jump to finally upgrade. Have to wait two weeks though.

@conradchavez Intriguing. Do get us one to find out, ok? We’ll let you know.

The MacBook Pro M1 Pro/Max display has reference modes (presets for color gamut, white point, luminance…) like the 32" Apple Pro Display XDR (bit.ly/XDRrmds). Wondering if MacBook Pro will allow similar preset customization and hardware calibration.

Here’s an Adobe blog post with more details about the mask upgrades: “From the ACR Team: Masking Reimagined” bit.ly/LRACRMask21b

Adobe sneak peek: Camera Raw and Lightroom will soon get a significant masking upgrade. More powerful masking in the raw editor should mean fewer trips to Photoshop. But nothing in the video suggests that they will composite multiple images like Photoshop. bit.ly/LRACRMask21

Photoshop: Still confused about “missing” file formats in Save As? New preferences in the 22.4.2 update let you restore the earlier Save As behavior and not add “copy” to the filename. But mind the warnings when you enable the new settings.

Native Apple Silicon Mac support is in the Lightroom Classic 10.3 update, plus the Super Resolution feature already available in Adobe Camera Raw, fixes, and more. What’s new: bit.ly/LrC103

But bootable clones are largely a “thing of the past” on M1 Macs. Instead, expect to back up data only, and restore to a fresh system installation — similar to iOS. bit.ly/bootM1cln

macOS 11.4 finally removes obstacles to booting an M1 Mac from external storage. bit.ly/bootM1ext