Photoshop CS6

Today let’s have a look at Photoshop CS6 Beta which is available for free download from Adobe. The version is called ‘Superstition’ and it is the first significant update to Photoshop since CS5 ( in the Suite CS5.5 Adobe delivered the same Photoshop as in CS5).

Having thoroughly tested the new Photoshop CS6 Beta, it seems to me that this version is addressing namely people who are working with digital photos and videos; also the 3D features have been significantly improved.

In other words, if you are not using Photoshop to edit your images, needing content aware patching and selective blurring, there is no real need to upgrade your CS5.

If however you are a photo freak and if you are shooting short videos, then Photoshop CS6 is a smashing program, allowing you to go beyond what photography can do (such as multiple shallow depth of field areas on a single image).

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This is what’s new on Photoshop CS6:

•     UI redesign (all new icons and optional dark UI) OK, they copied (sorry, got inspired by (big companies don’t copy, huh)) Apple’s Aperture; you can switch back to the old colors in the Beta version.

•     Auto and background saves. (… no comment).

•     Content-aware Patch and Move tools  (Smashing stuff for Photo freaks!).

•     Blur Gallery (smashing as well as you go beyond photography!).

•     Color Range: skin tone and face detection (OK but not smashing).

•     Adobe Camera RAW 7 (this really brings out the detail of RAW formats).

•     Enhanced crop tool (at last they understood what we want)!

•     New properties panel (so what?).

•     Enhanced video support (good stuff, namely if you don’t have a real video editor).

•     Oil Paint filter (I don’t like this McDonald’s stuff).

•     Adaptive Wide Angle filter (Brilliant stuff)!

•     Paragraph and Character Styles (Great stuff — but only if you need to edit text with Photoshop).

•     Updated Printing UI (no substantial change — just for the look …).

There are two videos I recommend to get an impression of the good stuff contained in Photoshop CS6:

Russel Brown’s 6 favorites

Julieanne Kost’s Favorites

I have installed Photoshop CS6 on my Windows 8 installation and it works great! I am just still frustrated by the 64 bit version which is still slower than the 32 bit edition. Also my OnOne tools don’t fit into and work on the 64bit version.

Having said that, the new CS6 Photoshop (32 bit) is much faster than the previous version.

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Here above an exaggerated tilt-shift blur on a picture taken this week at a basketball game (Panathinaikos vs Macabi which we won :-)); the feature helps to blur faces from excited fans allowing the publication of the image.

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Yes, I like Photoshop CS6 simply because I love photography. Any tool helping to make the best use of a RAW or a JPEG file is welcome for as long as it helps to improve my photographic shortcomings. But CS6 goes further: it allows to apply filters to create effects which cannot be achieved just with photography without destroying pure photography. I am namely thinking of the blur filters.

Photoshop CS6 is better than most cameras out there and that’s another big advantage namely for people who don’t invest in high quality cams or who use just mobile phones to shoot pics and videos. The big question remains: is it worth while to invest into the upgrade? Put it that way: if you go for quality photo editing, Photoshop is THE tool and CS6 is a great step ahead of CS5. Together with Lightroom 4 and the latest OnOne Plugins you are well equipped to get the best out of your pics with an efficient workflow.

In as much as I am concerned, I guess I will not open my CS5.5 anymore.

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Ycademy: Facebook, WP and the Mobile Web

This month’s Ycademy Online Seminar will take place on March 24 and 25, starting at 1 pm London (GMT) time and ending at 21 pm London time on both days.

Some of our developers have asked for a program covering Social Networks, namely Facebook and the Mobile Web and how to take advantage of them to distribute, promote and gain high visibility with own content.

The Seminar will cover the following areas:

• Strategies for Individuals

• Strategies for Businesses

• Strategy for Brands

As you may know, Facebook will change  the rules of the game on March 31, when the new FB pages will be released (again!). In fact the new FB page format will be similar to the timeline format and a few important changes will be of utmost importance to businesses and promoters.

• New Facebook Cover Photo and Profile Image

• Larger, Highlighted and Pinned Posts

• Company Milestones

• New Applications

• Facebook Offers

• FB Insights, Admin Panel and Messaging

• Facebook Advertizing

If some of the above topics do not have a meaning for you, never mind: we will deal with them and make sure you are ready and up to date before March 31.

To the above Facebook on-board means we will add our own means.

The permanent changes of rules and features on Facebook have lead professionals a long time ago to structure and manage their assets outside of Facebook on a CMS or other appropriate website.

In as much as we are concerned, at the Seminar we will focus on consolidating our own assets on a WP CMS, typically XO or EVO by Semiomantics.

If you don’t talk about your business, someone else will do it — probably not the way you prefer. I guess there is no doubt in the business world about the necessity to take social networks seriously. Not for what they are, but for what users can do to your reputation. Internet promo often is based almost exclusively on testimonials and testimonials can take most any form and shape.

Word of mouth or viva voce has been a proven marketing strategy for ages.There are two principals to it:

1. A recommendation by a trusted person will trigger about the highest conversion rate. 
2. A lot of people blowing into the same horn cannot be wrong.

Ad 1: The most important term is “TRUSTED”; it’s not a matter of numbers but of authority and trust.

Ad 2: 800 Million people are trusting Facebook … 800 Million people cannot be wrong! How does that sound to you? Yeah, we have heard such like about most any product. The fact that the masses use a product will attract new masses by building on the humans’ herd instinct’. And it works! Like Hype works and Spam works. If it didn’t work, fewer people would spam or hype up the junk they are trying to get rid of.

So, how can we profit ethically from the herd instinct and from word of mouth marketing in connection with Facebook?

Join the Seminar to find out :-).

Focusing on one single platform or publishing environment is not enough. To reach out for a maximum of customers, readers or just interested visitors it is of paramount importance to build a strong presence on Search Engines and Social Networks. Equally important is to take into account the increasing importance of the mobile web.

Therefore we need to publish and interlink our content in an efficient way to display on mobile and static devices and at the same time we must optimize it for all sorts of Search Engines as well as Social Networks.

The Seminar will show you how to build an effective publishing network across platforms while preserving productivity.

As usual, just click on the image to get your ticket. Discounts as usual for Ycademy Pros; for the discount code please contact Bianca: bianca(at)ycademy.com

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Thumbnail sizes are set in your dashboard under Settings > Media.  When we change the thumbs’ sizes, the change will apply only to new content. These thumbnails are used by default in the XO Basic Home Page Layout.

In order to modify thumbnails created previously to a change in WordPress settings, we use the “Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin; install from your dashboard and then just run it: this will create thumbnails corresponding to the new WP Media settings for all images in the library and galleries.

The Regenerate Thumbnails plugin will have no impact on syndicated posts unless you also pull in the images to your library when syndicating.

When we upload an image from our dashboard in XO, XO creates 12 thumbnails adapted to the needs of the site and stores them in the default uploads folder for faster loading. If we change the layout settings in XO advanced home page settings, or if we change thumbnail sizes under the layout settings, the previously created thumbnails may not fit anymore.

Using the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin will create a new set of thumbnails corresponding to the new settings. Syndicated content will not be altered by the plugin, unless you pull in the images while syndicating and store them in your library.

Basically we are looking at two elements: the image and the caption.

Also XO allows for different styling of images

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inserted into a post and galleries or images and thumbs used in Custom Formats, such as Images and  Gallery Posts.

The example shows XO default style which sets borders with rounded corners, a background and some padding.

These settings can easily be modified with custom CSS, for example by adding and customizing a CSS3 property, such as some shadow:

This example uses inset box-shadow and a hover effect decreasing opacity by 30%.

For box-shadow to work in IE, we use the PIE support:

The example pulls in the PIE script; as done in previous examples (on the menu) make sure that you load the PIE.php and PIE.htc files into your child theme and link to the absolute or relative URI with the behavior property.

Captions can be customized by modifying the following selectors, for example:

You could of course chose a font-family, display the text with a reduced, fixed width or pull the caption into the image using a semi-transparent background and a negative top-margin. The limit is … your imagination.

To style Gallery Thumbnails just customize, for example:

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We want to display the author’s name underneath the main title in small but remarkable fonts:

Note: we just use letter-spacing to gain visibility.

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After each post, we display Tag, Category and RSS references. They are not part of the actual post; they are of a rather technical nature and may help visitors to find contextual content on the site. The SEO impact of publishing such Meta Information is discussable.

Styling the Author Name

Author Name Style on Semiomantics XO

We want to display the author’s name underneath the main title in small but remarkable fonts:

.post .meta, .hentry .meta,.post .meta a, .hentry .meta a { color:#111111;letter-spacing:5px; }

Note: we just use letter-spacing to gain visibility.

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WordPress Font Styling on XO by Semiomantics

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WordPress Font Styling on XO by Semiomantics

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Basic CSS3 to Customize your WordPress Theme

With the increasing browser compatibility of CSS3, additional customization of websites is in the reach of most anyone (Even a Monkey can do it, according to Nikos Advertizopoulos …). Tonight we will start with a series of calls to become familiar with the possibilities arising from the use of CSS3 on WordPress to improve typography and font styles.

You may follow the progress of the work at the Ycademy Demo Site which features the Semiomantics XO Theme.

Looking forward to seeing you on YorgoLive tonight.

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10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress

Implementing your Facebook Strategy will be at the center of the November Ycademy Seminar. This hands-on Seminar and Workshop will stretch over two days and build with participants an eye-ball-twisting Facebook presence. See the seminar schedule at the bottom of the post.

The Seminar is designed for WordPress Developers and WP users who are looking for high productivity and customized publishing and marketing solutions.

This topic deals with efficient strategies which will efficiently improve your Facebook presence.

Visit the Semiomantics Facebook Page

Surfing through Facebook we notice some common errors well intended people commit when building their Facebook presence. We will discuss these issues and show you how to eliminate them from your personal or business Facebook.

While content is king, there are different ways of making it accessible to visitors. We will discuss the recent changes Facebook has implemented and show you where the focus should be in order to improve your visibility, traffic and business or network expansion on Facebook.

Function of your strategy we will define and optimize privacy settings in order to grant potentially interested visitors access to relevant information. Privacy, Accessibility and List-building as well as Targeted Communication are the essentials of this key session.

For people looking for you, your business, services or products, your Profile and Info page are of the utmost importance, the more that your info is visible from outside Facebook and therefore Google efficient. We will set up with participants an efficient Info Page.

We will discuss the recent changes implemented by Facebook and how they impact on our strategies.  Friends, Fans and Subscription features impact on the way we expand our network and influence on Facebook.

Overview of the Facebook Page feature. Integration techniques, Apps, Content, Canvas and Pages.

The focus is on the technical set-up of a Facebook Page. As  content we will use a graphic, picture of video.

What is it you actually wish to display on your Facebook page? In fact there is no limit and it depends entirely on your strategy.

This is the center piece of the seminar. Creating Facebook Page right from your WordPress site is now possible. We will set up a reveal page and different Facebook pages depending on participants needs. In fact we show you how to create a whole website in Facebook, straight from your WordPress.

While this works with most any WordPress 3.1 enabled Theme, we will demonstrate the integration with Semiomantics XO.

In fact we will work with a professional plugin modified for Semiomantics XO.

The Seminar will guide you to master the following and more:

• Create Unlimited Facebook Fan Pages with WordPress

• Increase Likes by 150% with Reveal “Like” Tab Gateways

• Unlimited Customization Options When Designing Your Fan Pages

• Create Unlimited Custom Pages with the WordPress Page Editor

• Create Custom Menus and Navigation with Just a Few Clicks

• Comments, Like, Send and Over 50+ Custom Shortcodes for Enhanced Customization

• Facebook Open Graph Integration for Enhanced Facebook Integration and Google SEO

• Auto Post to Facebook From Your WordPress Blog

• Use Your Facebook Albums and Photos on Your Blog and Fan Pages

• Add Google Maps to Your Facebook Fan Pages

• Create Squeeze and Sales Pages with Just a Few Clicks on Facebook

Add Facebook related widgets to your front and/or content pages. Google+ and Twitter buttons. Pull in Facebook Albums, Events, like Buttons and more. Use Facebook Connect to log in to or to register with your blog.

Create content which is only accessible after visitors clicked the “Like” button. A smashing filter which allows you to manage accessibility right from your XO.

Saturday and Sunday November 26/27, 2011.

We start at 1 pm London Time and end at 9 pm London time both days.

You need a WordPress blog preferably with FTP access.

Scripts and all other materials are provided.

We will install the necessary scripts for you previous to the Seminar; please get your Tickets early. If we are not yet in possession of the FTP access to your site, please send it by email to Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

The Price for Participating, Materials and access to recordings is $85.

Click to get your Ticket

Discount as usual for Ycademy Pros. Please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com for the code or any other question you may have pertaining to the Seminar.

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Empire Avenue Changes Again

Subsequent to a recent blog post by Empire Avenue concerning recent changes, here are some comments:

While the old system may have rewarded people for posting any nonsense, now we are rewarded for clicking on and engaging with any nonsense.

What’s the improvement?

The retweet of retweets remains and becomes increasingly a rewarding industry on EA.

My Yin and Yang Approach to Empire Avenue’s Changes

The modifications don’t really improve EA’s real problem, which is its own growth.

Since May, EA has only lost traffic and looking at the quality and number of new arrivals, my projection on the future would be bearish.

While the game is exciting at the beginning, it becomes boring after a while and as rewards drop dramatically (cashflow) as the share-price increases you see people stagnating somewhere at the 80-120e level.

In fact, the regressive reward system means that people would need to increase their social activity daily to maintain their growth, which automatically drives the system right into the wall.

The recent changes seem to be in favor of large portfolios and highly priced shares while they are a disadvantage for those who actually drive the program, which are all those struggling somewhere in the 50-120e segment.

Have you noticed that expensive shares all of a sudden do better daily scores (growth) than a little while ago.

I am not in the secrets of the Gods here and I have no insight into the algorithm used. But I can show some of the problem areas which need to be addressed if EA wants to be a fun program for years to come.

a) Sign-ups: there is too much dead meat on the bone.

b) There are not enough new arrivals.

c) The middle section (50 — 150e/share) needs to be better rewarded if you want to keep people on board.

d) Blogs are where many serious people create real and original content. This is not rewarded.

e) A lot of endorsed “blogs” and RSS feeds are of absolutely no value as people add any feed stream they can grab, from Twitter to Google+ where no original content is produced.

f) Most people’s Facebook consists of re-blogs or re-tweets or re-publishing of someone elses content. If the social activity consists in redistributing YouTube and CNN news, and  in commenting thereon, then all those people who really produce content of value will see no interest in EA on the long run, as EA rewards the copycat and re-distributor better than the original producer.

Just look at your Facebook Feed and see all the nonsense that comes in. It get’s even more irritating, when EA members and friends retweet each others nonsense and you get it twice or more times onto your feed and EA rewards you for re-commenting … . This is by the way one of the reasons why increasing numbers of people quit SN or use very restrictive settings which prevent the undesired intrusion of nonsense.

g) EA is too much focused on the cave system consisting of interlinked social networks. The internet has a lot more to offer than social networks and it would be much more interesting if we could attract people from outside as well, namely those who have built authority, high visibility on Google and who do real business online, feeding their families with their online activity in stead of feeding birds on Twitter.

Also you may notice that people are getting tired of social networking for the purpose of social networking.The kind of social activity EA is rewarding is not quality but remains quantity focused — something we have seen with mass-mail 10 years ago.

h) EA should be more user-focused and ask: What can EA do for the subscribers?

If people are rewarded to add just to the global cyber-waste, then it may be a nice distraction for a while but without any real value and benefit for our personal, professional or financial wellbeing :-).

i) EA is not explaining why it has disabled the share issue control function!

Having said the above, I like EA as a program and I like to note that developers and designers have done and are doing a great job on the site.

Also, I have met some nice and interesting people with whom the conversation continues outside the cave.

Can I recommend Empire Avenue to my friends? For learning purposes yes, for the reward system, no. For social benefits: there are better places to go. For tracking: there are more accurate programs.
For traffic generation: only if you want to build traffic for EA and social networks. For the fun: YES, untill you bump into the wall :-).

Finally: One of the smartest use people make of EA is the Kiva Initiative. From that we can learn even more than from EA itself.
Viva Kiva!

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