Thanks! I'll start using it.

What is the meaning/purpose of "Bridge" ?

I went to CS5 last year after having used PSE for several years. My biggest frustration is that there doesn't seem to be a quick "undo" button option, like PSE always had. In CS5 you have to click "edit" on the tool bar, then scroll to "step backward". Not a big deal I suppose, and if I'd never had the convenience of the shortcut before I'd probalby not notice it at all. But .... I can't believe, in such an expensive program, there isn't some way to create a shortcut undo button. Where am I going wrong???

Thanks Nikonian72, I will give that a try.

NikonJohn, I also use a D300 with the 16-85 lens and find it to be 95 perecent satisfactory for my needs (also primarily landscape) but I sense a bit of softness when setting the aperture for maximum DOF, even on a tripod. Not bad, but it doesn't seem as crisp as when using my 18-35, which I used before going to the 16-85, which I got mostly so I wouldn't have to change lenses as often. I'm wondering if the extended range has anything to do with it not giving as sharp of DOF as the shorter range lens? Does anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks.

I like the cCrop, thinking you can afford to lose some of the water but not the top of the building lost in the frist crop. The uncropped is also good, but cCrop makes the person come closer.

I like the original barn door better. The adjusted version looks a bit washed out. Although, it could be our monitors that cause us to see things different.

How great it is to have a smugmugger among us :)

I use it and like it, but do agree with others about the frustation of "site down time", although they seem diligent about getting it back in service. A lot of the downtime is because they are doing maintenance to the site and/or adding new features. Thursdays at 10 p.m. pacific time is scheduled maintenance but they don't always use it.

One recent feature is being able to click a photo over to your Facebook album, complete with caption and link to your main album.


There are three levels of service, the standard, the power user (which I use for $60 per year I think) and the pro for those who have a photogrpahy business.

I like their full screen slideshow feature and customization layout.

You can also upload HD video to smugmug.

Oh, and you can also order quality prints of all sizes, even framed from Smugmug. They do good work on printing.

You can also make greeting cards from your photos and calendars, which smugmug will print and mail to you.

My site: http://grb.smugmug.com/

Alaskan, these are absolutely spectacular. What brand/model camera were they taken with? And were they orginally RAW or jpeg?

Does anyone know where in CS5 to find the Chroma Key feature for working with green screen? Thanks.

I usually have a camera with me but have the wrong lens on or some other reason to delay the photo just long enough for the moment to disappear, making the frustration worse than not having the camera in the first place :)

Excerpt from the link below:

The "green ones" obviously are the bronze (sometimes called "brass") pieces, usually smoothbores, which have weathered to a pale greenish hue. Their designs generally pre-date the war by from five to 20 years. The "black ones," for the most part, are the iron rifles which were being developed just as the war began.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/artillery.htm

I use Carbonite but find it only good if the stuff is "still" on your computer. Once you off load to an external drive (which I also do) I've noticed it disappears from Carbonite after a week or so. But Carbonite is continually backing your stuff up (you don't have to do anything), so everything on your computer is kept current in case of a sudden crash. It's $50 per year.

I used to think my pictures were blurry until I discovered it's my "eyes" that are. I'd be lost without autofocus.