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TTG Highslide Gallery Pro and TTG Highslide Gallery have been updated to version 1.7. By popular request, slideshow controls can now be customized! This update also adds font-stack presets, as seen in the last update to TTG Pages. The text for the selection gallery counter can now be customized, though still must follow English language grammatical conventions for pluralization. Highslide JS has been updated to version 4.1.7, offering a number of bug fixes. And I’ve reorganized the controls in the UI to facilitate a more top-to-bottom workflow when creating galleries. Grid appearance options have moved up to the Color Palette, while the Pro version e-commerce features have been pushed down to the Appearance pane.

v1.7 (2009-10-06)

Taking a cue from Timothy Armes, font stack presets are now built in, though font stacks remain user editable.

Reorganized controls to better facilitate top-to-bottom workflow in creating gallery; lots moved, but nothing missing.

Javascript enhancements.

Selection counter text can now be customized using three input fields for “image”, “s” and “selected”.

Updated Highslide JS to version 4.1.7.

Slideshow buttons can now be styled.

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This is by far the best Adobe Lightroom plugin yet, and one that every photographer should have. – Julia

First thing’s first; reviewing a plugin for Adobe Lightroom is new for us, so its going to take us (me) a while to get it right. Hang in there… in addition, the developer of this plugin has arranged a $5 discount to all our readers, so we’re really excited about that. Pop over to the turning gate website, add the plugin (pro version only) to your shopping cart and when you check out type the word ‘xtremecamera’ into the discount text field. We  would like to thank them for their kind offer, and we urge any Lightroom users to take advantage of this offer; even if it’s the first plugin you’ll buy. – Julia Barnes

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Published before the release of Photoshop CS4 but after the release of Adobe Lightroom 2, this book is a wonderful, albeit light, book on helping you adopt the best workflow using both Lightroom 2 and Photoshop. This was the book I used to adopt my own workflow, so I can attest to how useful it is for any photographer wanting to improve his or her workflow methods.

Jerry Courvoisier provides an easy-to-follow road map for importing, organizing, and editing your images using the best features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3.

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There is no getting around the fact that digital photography has supplanted film-based photography in virtually every area of field. Digital has been the de facto format for the vast majority of photographers for quite some time now, with the advent of entry-level dSLR’s delivering th quality in photographs that surpass that of 35mm film-based photography.

The human eye can discern only about 9 million quality pixels and most recent Nikon, Canon, and other camera makers have shipped full-size (in comparison to 35mm film) sensors that deliver large photo sites (each pixel in a sensor is actually called a photo site) in the 12+ million pixel range.

Contrast, tonal range, and all the rest of the issues that had many film shooters lambasting the digital format in years past are now non-issues, and most of those that were doing the lambasting are now happy sigital shooters. Digital Photography is the present, and the future, making the digital camera and personal computers forever joined at the hip. Digital reins supreme these days and the time for a true digital darkroom is here. Read more