Lightroom plugins

This good man is producing some interesting free plugins for Adobe Lightroom Here is the link for pact software

Photoshop alternative

A software called Gimp is a free download alternative to the adobe's work station Photoshop. Gimp is a decent version of image editing program like photoshop and for sure deserves attention. It's working on many different operating systems including Os X. Many languages available too! Here is a screen shot

Retina display on the new MacBook Pro

Lets face it, photographers need high quality screens.
Either you use a MacBook or a desktop you need to have access to see your photos as they really are!

Previous MacBook Pro's did quite well in this aspect but their good laptop screens couldn't compare even with a cheaper calibrated monitor in color accuracy.
Maybe the new retina display that come up recently will change the game but what about color accuracy ?
Here is an interesting article on this matter

It seems the new retina displays can play an important role for photography and portable image editing.

Adobe Lightroom 4

Adobe Lightroom is a pure photographic tool to edit and manipulate images in a much better workflow system than any other time before was possible.

What is the difference between Lightroom and Aperture ?

Simply put, the tools of Lightroom do not exist in Aperture and the work environment its much easier understood even from the newbie photographer!

This is a short video about new Features of Lightroom 4

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is not any more the war tank of the professional photographer but other software have taken its place as the major editing platform.

As years went by Adobe Photoshop became more and more a tool for the graphic artist and less for the pro photographer.
Dominating specialized photographic software at this moment are Aperture from Apple and Lightroom from Adobe

An Adobe Photoshop free replacement editing tool is Gimp, gaining more ground as a decent software for image manipulation and it's free!