Major CS Upgrades and All-New Muse Anchor Landmark Launch for Designers
The performance and workflow enhancements in Adobe Photoshop CS6 (see separate release), Adobe Illustrator CS6 and Adobe InDesign CS6 will result in significant time savings for print, Web and mobile projects. • In Photoshop CS6, designers will experience incredible performance, powered by the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine, enabling near instant results from essential editing tools, including Liquify, Puppet Warp, Transform and Lighting Effects. • Adobe has built on Photoshop’s breakthrough Content-Aware capabilities with advanced new Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move features. • Illustrator CS6 debuts a revamped modern interface, and features include a new image tracing engine, easy pattern creation and ability to apply gradients to strokes. The Mercury Performance System delivers speed and stability, including 64-bit support for Mac OS and Windows. • InDesign CS6 continues to blaze a trail in publishing, streamlining the creation of multiple layouts from a single set of content with new Adaptive Design Tools – Alternate Layout, Liquid Layout, Content Collector Tools and Linked Content. • A brand new application, Adobe Muse, a radical tool that enables designers to create and publish HTML5 web sites without writing code, was also announced today. Adobe Doubles-Down on HTML5 Tooling for Web Professionals Innovative new workflows and capabilities across Adobe tools simplify the creative process for today’s Web designers, developers and interactive professionals. • Web pros can conveniently integrate HTML5 animations, created with Adobe Edge preview, into their Dreamweaver projects, driving home Adobe’s leadership in tooling for the HTML5 Web standard. • Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 addresses the challenge of responsive Web designs with the ability to build fluid grid layouts replacing the tedious manual process of creating and configuring separate CSS-based interfaces for phone, tablet and desktop. • Through direct integration with Adobe’s recently announced PhoneGap Build service, Dreamweaver CS6 helps round out Web professionals’ skillsets and enables them to produce native mobile applications for multiple platforms. • Adobe Flash Professional CS6 users can easily translate and transition their skills to HTML5 using the Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS. Flash Professional CS6 also helps designers create exciting and impactful gaming experiences and advancements include the ability to generate sprite sheets that improve workflows and performance. • Pre-built native extensions and new packaging options, leveraging the latest Adobe Flash Player and AIR runtimes, help expand and ease app delivery to Android and iOS devices. Production Premium CS6 Pushes Boundaries of Video Creativity Redesigned by and for video editors, with major performance enhancements, the tools included in Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium set a new standard in professional video. • With dozens of new features, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is the hub of any professional video workflow, featuring a sleek new editing environment. The powerful Adobe Mercury Playback Engine now supports OpenCL on MacBook Pros. • The most significant After Effects release in a decade, Adobe After Effects CS6 is faster and more responsive than ever. With Global Performance Cache, previews are saved and ready to go – cutting the time spent bouncing between projects. • New to Production Premium are Adobe Prelude CS6, which streamlines logging and ingest workflows in post-production, and Adobe SpeedGrade, which contains powerful finishing tools for film finishing and color grading. • Adobe Audition CS6 accelerates audio post-production: real-time clip stretching makes it simple to stretch clips to fit an edit; and Automatic Speech Alignment introduces a powerful new engine for automated dialogue analysis. • A new third party API for hardware integration – Adobe Mercury Transmit – allows broadcast video monitoring to connect directly into the Mercury Playback Engine via third-party cards from AJA, Blackmagic Design and Matrox.
I’ve been playing with CS6 beta this past month and it is a huge leap forward. Look forward to getting the official full release!
I have no idea why anyone ever made this video, but BEHOLD, cats poorly digitally placed upon poorly-animated motorcycles with canned engine sounds. This makes me want to get right back on the road! Haha.
iPhone 4 HDR mode, Snapseed App, Instagram. Going wherever these old cowboy boots take me.
The last couple of days I have been in New Mexico on assignment. My shoot was actually a portrait job that only took one morning, but I decided to take an extra day to just explore, since I have been non stop the past month with shoots and travel. For once, I just pointed my 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee rental vehicle south from my hotel in Santa Fe, NM and drove (wish I could magically transport my beloved personal car out here). I had absolutely no destination in mind. If I saw a side road that looked interesting, I took it. I cannot describe to you the incredible feeling of liberation that a full tank, a good playlist, and great stretches of wide open “wild west” American roads can give you. I just allowed my mind to wander and think about life and shoots and creative inspiration.
Isn’t it funny that the minute you hit the road with a destination in mind, you become immediately drained? I feel it every time I have to drive between DC and NYC, which is often. Although, yesterday, I felt invigorated. Stopped regularly to take photos, primarily with my iPhone, and to explore small towns and cultural landmarks in the middle of the emptiness of the desert. It took me back to my teens when I would take just my camera, a few mix CD’s, and my 66 Mustang out on the road and would just head west for a day.
I find it strange how I feel so driven to explore the west by myself for a vacation, rather than sit in a luxury hotel by the beach (I mean that would be nice too). I’m not saying I am a loner, but I suppose this is my way of finding my inner peace. I would highly suggest that if you haven’t done one wild west road trip in your life, you need to.
I have been really impressed by how my iPhone and Nik Software’s Snapseed app are performing to create these dynamic road trip images. Feels liberating not lugging around one of my “big” cameras. Sometimes its nice to step away from your camera settings and just shoot.
Remember folks: ADVENTURE – If anything, doing it for the story you will always remember.
I love exploring the open road. Snapseed and Instagram
iPhone4 HDR mode, Snapseed, and Instagram. Found this in the middle of nowhere on New Mexico's Scene Route 14.
iPhone4 in HDR mode and Snapseed. My new Jeep Grand Cherokee rental has been a trusty enjoyable steed. Click to see full-sized
Taken with 5D Mark 2. Click to see full-size. No HDR necessary. Used Nik Software Viveza and Color Efex.
I recently had a photoshoot with teen heartthrob music groups “Big Time Rush” and “Cody Simpson”. Not being a teenage girl, these guys weren’t on my music radar beforehand, but they were all extremely nice and definitely put on a good music performance on stage.
You can see more of my portraits and performance photos from the shoot here: LINK
2 lights. 1 extra large softbox and 1 gridded light above the subjects aiming at the background creating the glow.
So the space shuttle Discovery flew over my building in Arlington, VA… right over. Shot this with a Canon 5D Mark 2 with the Canon 100-400 4.5-5.6 L IS lens. Got lots of sweet photos! So glad I caught it.
Just noticed all of the dust on my camera sensor. ARG! Just ran out the door of my apartment this morning to my roof in a rush to get the shots.
I love my home town
And here is a quick video clip. Sorry it is shaky and short, but I was focusing on snapping photos:
Apologies for this slow posts this past week. I’ve been on the road shooting various photo campaigns and projects. I will be posting behind the scenes and updates, but here is a small taste… This weekend I competed in a road rally in the new 2012 Bentley Continental GT with my boys. Must have been quite a sight seeing all of us tearing across Florida (see photo below).
I enjoyed driving the new GT. Loads of power and big improvement over the previous generation. Although, still a little too heavy into the corners but def a freight train in a straight line. Best part of it all?! It was all to raise money for Special Olympics! I volunteer my time with the event every year. We had a fantastic event this year and raised some serious cash for the kids. Love it! http://celebrationexoticcars.com/2012/
I have a bunch to update all of you on, but hope you enjoy some on the go iPhone photography from my weekend in the meantime!
Who knew the 2012 continental GT came with a lens holder!? How handy. Those wacky brits.
Here are some other random iPhone photos from my past weekend in Florida:
The weekend loaner for my co-producer and myself. An 800 horsepower twin turbo v10 Audi R8 MONSTER. Ive driven some fast cars, but this is by far the most scary. That car is not meant to have that much power in its stock suspension form. A blast, though!
Drove through the infamous Sanford, Florida to meet with a client in that area. Rough town. Guy in traffic next to me literally had bullet holes in his car.
While in Sanford, Florida, drove by this fire truck on monster truck tires on a hill. Unfortunately it was behind a fence so I couldn't get closer.
Tailing a modified Zr1 in the Bentley during the road rally
Spent a day on the track as well. Snapseed on the iPhone really brings out those Florida clouds.
Another angle. Love me some snapseed!
In the bays. My buddy Alan's awesome Ferrari F430 Challenge race car, which was wrapped to look like Lightning Mcqueen from the movie "Cars"
Shows how beautiful inspiration can be found in returning to the analog basics of our photographic roots. Fantastically well-done video as well.
“This project was created with the same spirit that america was founded on. Our intentions are to connect everyone in america through the lens of this camera and social networking sites. We can’t do this without you. We want to tell your story and show your city or town through photographs of you, and people you know. As we travel around america looking for people and places to shoot you will be able to keep track of where we are going and help us decide where we go next. Join us in our journey by liking our facebook to get yourself photographed by us. twitter.com/#!/silverandlight facebook.com/pages/Ian-Ruhter-Photography/159583283699“
This is another example of how you can do even a magazine cover shoot with only two lights! I did this with one gridded beauty dish main light (had a 30 degree grid) and a strobe with 7″ reflector and 40 degree grid hitting the wall behind my subject. I had to do this shoot in the subject’s home, so I chose one of her walls which had this rich burgundy color and essentially created my own little studio in her home.
You can see in the light better in the snapshot below. You can see the shadow of the subject due to the high-placed main light angled down and the nice fall-off of shadow on the background due to a gridded light modifier. Hope this gives you guys some ideas!
Camera Settings:
Canon 5D Mk2, 1/125, f/13, ISO 200
Lighting diagram of the setup
Taken using a neutral density filter to force my aperture open for a shallower depth of field, while still being able to use flashes to overpower the ambient light
