Eric Reagan

Key & Peele are a pair of hilarious comedians that are part of their self-titled show on Comedy Central. Their videos from Comedy Central are frequent viral hits, and these guys just seem to always be on.

They also recently made Fast Company’s list of 100 Most Creative People. During a photo shoot for Fast Company (shown above), Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele kept their improve rolling while the photo shoot attempted to move forward. [click to continue…]

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Photoshop Express

Adobe has announced that Photoshop Express is now available for Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface. Previously, Photoshop Express had only been available for iOS and Android devices.

Photoshop Express for Windows 8 offers the following capabilities:

  • Make basic photo enhancements such as crop, straighten, rotate, flip, or remove red-eye.
  • Enjoy creative, one-touch filters that provide eye-catching effects — more than 15 to choose from!
  • Let their photos shine with a one-tap correction that adjusts color, contrast, and brightness all at once.
  • Use slider controls to enhance contrast, exposure, and white balance, or let the app auto-correct it for them.
  • Upload their photos to Adobe Revel to sync them across their Windows 8 tablet, iPhone, and computer.

You can download Photoshop Express for Windows 8 here on the Windows Store.

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Canon 5D Mark III

The Canon 5D Mark III raw video updates just keep rolling in. There are several sample videos from Magic Lantern users working with the new 5D Mark III 14-bit raw footage out now. [click to continue…]

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Photoshop-CS6

Adobe just announced a release candidate for Camera Raw 8.1, which is now available in Adobe Labs. This is the first departure from Camera Raw 7.x for CS6 users. With the recent Adobe Photoshop CC changes taking place, CS6 customers will continue to get new updates for raw file support; however, the killer new features that are part of Camera Raw in Photoshop CC will not make it over to CS6 customers.

Camera Raw 8.1 includes support for HiDPI capable displays (e.g., MacBook Pro Retina) and offers support for the following cameras:

* denotes preliminary support

Remember, this is a release candidate, which means it has been pretty well tested and Adobe thinks it is ready for full release; however, it’s recommended that you keep production work to prior versions until the official release drops.  Expect that to come soon though.  Release candidates mean that the final versions are just around the corner.

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TriCaster 455

While I’m aware this deal is only relevant to a small segment of readers, I wanted to make sure that those in live video production were aware that the TriCaster 455 is available for $9,995 through June 27. If you’ve been shopping for a production mixer, you know that the TriCaster 455 normally retails for $16,000, so this is ridiculous savings on a very popular mixer. (Note that the deal is for the TriCaster unit only and does not include the control surface or monitors.)

You can find the TriCaster 455 deal here at B&H Photo.

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Canon Rebel SL1

The compact Canon Rebel SL1 next the iPhone 5

I’ve been running around with the new Canon Rebel SL1 for the past couple days. I’ll have some sample images and a full review later; however, I wanted to take a moment and pass along some first impressions from my brief time with the new camera. [click to continue…]

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