Camera Raw 3.4 update

December 29th, 2007

I was trying to open my raw files from the Sony A100, and photoshop was unable to recognize the file format, .arw.

I searched the web, and photoshop cs2 has an update for digital raw files that says only works for certain models of cameras but I was able to open the sony dslr raw files.

Goto adobe website ,

and download the .zip file. Once downloaded and unzipped, take the plugin file and paste into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\File Formats or wherever you have installed the photoshop program.

It should be a little over five megabytes, and 8BI file.

I wonder if anyone knows if this is beta, when I pick the calibrate tab, beta is the only available setting. Also there is something for correcting color aberrations on lens and no matter which way I push the dial nothing happens. Nonetheless I think this plugin is pretty substantial and allows you to save as .psd, .jpg, .dng, and more.

Here is a screenshot of the plugin in Adobe Photoshop.

Pic of Raw Plugin for Photoshop

Create your own bokeh

December 29th, 2007

Looking around on flickr I found someone with cool abstract photos with “heart lights”.

Very Cool.

Must check it out, http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh.

Redirects on Gridserver

January 27th, 2007

Today I worked on redirects for a site on mt’s gridserver, and scoured the knowledge base and found nothing specific to gridserver. My project was redirecting a whole domain to a new domain, specifically a client’s site to their cafepress shop while we implement a new drupal site using the cafepress module.

The drupal site will be really cool, the cafepress module is patched to 4.72 and can be found at http://drupal.org/files/issues/cafepress.module . I will update as soon as I test and develop.

For anyone with Media Temple and previously worked off of shared server, (ss), instead of putting the .htaccess in your var/www/html folder you must put it into domains/your-domain-here.com/html/ and don’t forget to chmod to 644, or 444.

Then create your htaccess file in notepad and upload it through control panel. So my example of code was:

Redirect 301 / http://www.cafepress.com/mamasmonkey

You can test it here: http://www.mamasmonkey.com

Hello world!

January 26th, 2007

This is testing, please come back in two days while we experiment with wordpress.