Quick News

OK, let's take a break from my personal stuff for a while. There's yet this ongoing story developing about my fiancee's engagement ring that I'll eventually mention here but for now I'll deal with it and tell you all about it later. It's so ridiculous it's funny. It's a good inside joke for the two of us now.

Back to work...

Photoshop Lightroom Beta will expire at the end of this month. If you've been running it like I've encouraged you to, I think the beta software will automatically stop booting up after the 28th of Feb. I think the official version will be $199. Yeah...ouch. But don't think for an instant any professional grade software will come cheap. I know a LOT of professional photographers are considering this a staple program now to do all their post production work. It doesn't replace Photoshop...more like it overlaps in some areas but it does some things better.

Talking about photos, I may have the opportunity to go practice my photography this coming February for the kid's aloha run that takes place a day before the actual Aloha Run event. A client of mine is trying to find some amatuer photographers to take event photos....I figured it's a good opportunity for me to have some fun at someone else's expense. I'll be paid enough for lunch money and gas :) But at least it's only a little over an hour of "work". Perhaps if I get better this year in photography, I can convince myself to finally throw down some hard cash for that Canon camera I've been wanting. If you live in town, own an SLR camera, and you have nothing to do that day...you should come do this too. It will be fun and you get some practical field experience. Contact me and I'll put you in touch with the organizer.

There's quite a few courses being offered this season down at the University Pacific New Media program. I think I'm considering taking a few just to keep trying to boost my skillset. I think I'm most interested in the typography courses as well as some intro photography ones. I've taken courses from PNM before. They're pretty good albeit most of them are just one-day courses...which means the information you get from them can easily disappear of you don't regularly put them into practice.