Adobe Creative Suite 6: is your current system supported?

As part of Adobe’s Pho­to­shop CS6 Pub­lic Beta announce­ment, the com­pany said that it will con­tinue to pro­vide offi­cial sup­port for Win­dows XP, and Win­dows 7, but will be drop­ping offi­cial sup­port for Win­dows Vista. As you might know, Light­room 4 is no longer offi­cially sup­ported on Win­dows XP. For Mac OX OS, Adobe is offi­cially end­ing sup­port for Mac­in­tosh sys­tems that are not 64-bit capa­ble. Pre­miere Pro CS6  requires Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7, and Win­dows 7 with Ser­vice Pack 1, but it is not clear if Win­dows Vista and/or XP will be sup­ported. We have been beta test­ing Pre­miere Pro CS6 for sev­eral months and I can tell you this: it is sweeeeet!!! Actu­ally, most of our “Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends” have been edited on CS6.

Premiere Pro CS6

If you are just get­ting started with video and want to explore a video edit­ing appli­ca­tion, you could also con­sider Pre­miere Ele­ments 10.  Ele­ments is a slightly less pow­er­ful, but still very capa­ble ver­sion of Pre­miere Pro with an easier-to-use inter­face. It is impor­tant to know that Pre­miere Pro is a 64-bit only soft­ware and requires a com­puter with a 64-bit proces­sor and 64-bit oper­at­ing sys­tem. Pre­miere Ele­ments 10 includes both 32-bit and 64-bit ver­sions to run on both sys­tems, but the 32-bit ver­sion won’t be able to access more than 4 GB of RAM. The same is true for the old Final Cut Pro 7 and older.

If you are curi­ous about which NVIDIA graph­ics cards are bet­ter for Adobe’s CS6 Suite, gohere.

Tomor­row we will show the quick and easy way to tell if your Mac has a 32-bit or a 64-bit proces­sor.
Ques­tions? Com­ments? Please post them below.

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Conversations with Friends.

For this week’s “Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends,” (Episode 7), we con­tinue our dia­logue with Ted Kawaler­ski, pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher and direc­tor, about his own tran­si­tion from still pho­tog­ra­phy to doc­u­men­tary and cor­po­rate film­mak­ing, and the chal­lenges involved.

Ted also shares more light on his upcom­ing Fam­ily Life Acad­emy video project, located in the South Bronx in New York City as well as his views on retirement.

As always, please share with us your feed­back and thoughts.

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On the sixth Episode of our “Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends” we sat down with Ted Kawaler­ski, pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher and direc­tor, to talk about his tran­si­tion from still pho­tog­ra­phy to doc­u­men­tary and cor­po­rate film­mak­ing after a 35-year career.

Ted talked about find­ing great part­ners for his dig­i­tal cin­ema projects, and shared with us some of the rewards and  joys and tech­ni­cal frus­tra­tions he has dis­cov­ered dur­ing his transition.

We dis­cussed Ted’s upcom­ing Fam­ily Life Acad­emy video project, the impor­tance of sound, the video editor’s role, and sto­ry­telling. In fact, we cov­ered so many inter­est­ing top­ics that we decided to edit Episode 6 as Part 1, and Episode 7 as Part 2.

For this Episode we used Rode Lava­lier Mics and Ted men­tioned his pref­er­ence for Rode Shot­gun mics.

To cel­e­brate the Spring’s arrival, Eduardo enjoyed a “sparklingly mild and fruity” Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier nat­ural wheat beer with a “del­i­cate yeast flavour, gleaming orange colour, and uni­form cloudiness.” Ted drank about a gal­lon of tap water.

Here are the links to Episode 05, and Episode 04.
 
Please add your com­ments below! Are you enjoy­ing our Con­ver­sa­tions? Did you learn some­thing new today?

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Are you eligible for a complimentary (free) Lightroom 4 upgrade?

Adobe doesn’t notify cus­tomers who pur­chased single-user licenses about com­pli­men­tary post-announce upgrades, BUT accord­ing to a some­what obscure com­pany pol­icy, users who bought soft­ware (full or upgrade) soon after a new ver­sion was announced, might be eli­gi­ble for a com­pli­men­tary upgrade. If you fol­lowed my instruc­tions on a pre­vi­ous post to pur­chase Light­room 4 50% off, you might be one of the lucky ones.You need to con­tact Adobe directly to find out if you fall in the eli­gi­bil­ity period. Let me know how it goes.

If you already pur­chased the upgrade and have ques­tions about the instal­la­tion, fol­low these sim­ple steps here and here.

Lightroom 4 Box Art

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Today we would like to show you how to install Adobe Light­room 4 in 60 sec­onds or less. On Sat­ur­day morn­ing we will post a step-by-step tuto­r­ial on how to upgrade your Light­room 3 (or 2, or 1, or even 4 Beta) Cat­a­log to Light­room 4.

And by the way, don’t for­get to check out for a new episode of our “Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends” today.

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The million-dollar question: Where are my ICC profiles stored?

The million-dollar ques­tion: Where are my ICC pro­files stored? And the answer is, it depends on your Oper­at­ing Sys­tem (OS). When you first install your printer’s dri­ver, a vari­ety of stan­dard pro­files are added by default to the cor­re­spond­ing folder on your sys­tem. You can also down­load ICC pro­files, or cre­ate your own cus­tom pro­files in which case, you will need to drag and drop them to the cor­re­spond­ing folder:

Win­dows 98/ME
\Windows\System\Color

Win­dows XP/Vista/7
\Windows\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color

Mac OS X
Username/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
or
HD/Library/ColorSync/Profiles

Now, what about Apple’s OS X 10.7? Ah, that crazy Lion…

For some odd rea­son, some­one at Apple decided that the user library where the pro­files are installed should be hid­den by default, and only some­one with Admin priv­i­leges should have access to it. That’s why most profile-managing and image-editing soft­ware appli­ca­tions (like Adobe Pho­to­shop) that need access to the pro­files are hav­ing a hard time “see­ing” them.

Here’s my sim­plest workaround: While hold­ing down the option key, nav­i­gate to “Go” on the menu bar, click on the Col­or­Sync folder, and click again on the Pro­files folder. Done.

I rec­om­mend drag­ging the (now tem­porar­ily vis­i­ble) Pro­files folder to your Favorites in the side bar so you can access them at any time.

OSX Lion

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The Cloud Wars.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Google vs. Apple vs. Dropbox vs. Amazon. And they fight is just starting!

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