I’m Giving a Presentation on the Photographic Workflow

Posted on February 15, 2012 by elimc

Check out the posting by the Austin Adobe User Group:

Join the Austin Adobe User Group’s March 9 meeting when Eli McMakin will demonstrate his Optimized Photography Workflow using Bridge, ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) and Photoshop CS 5.5. He will aggregate the RAW files in Bridge, tweak them nondestructively in ACR, and output them through Photoshop. He will demonstrate best practices for a photographic pipeline and show how to decrease time spent fixing photos on the computer so that you can spend more time making money.

The event will be held from 1:15pm to 3:30pm at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center.

A Ferrari for the Price of a Taurus

Posted on January 18, 2012 by elimc

Philosopher/Poet Christopher Wallace

Humans used to have problems. Real problems: our dinner could be dangerous and was difficult to find and catch; the remedy to disease was to take some herbs and pray to the gods that sickness went away; and disputes were often settled with bows and arrows. Turn your pagers to 2012. Our basic needs have been met. There is so much food that the government pays farmers not to grow crops. Third-world diseases, like dysentery and cholera, have been replaced with first-world diseases, like diabetes and heart-failure. And disputes can be resolved by a gavel. As the great philosopher-poet, Christopher Wallace, once said, “Things done changed.” Continue reading →

Site Refresh!

Posted on December 31, 2011 by elimc

Well, the new site is here. While it doesn’t look very different, there are a lot of changes under the hood. Previously, the site was created in Dreamweaver. Any changes that I made to the site, like blog updates, were made in Dreamweaver and uploaded to the Internet. That is so 2008. Continue reading →