After five years I've decided that my trusted Canon A700 is getting a little long in the tooth.  

It's been a trouper while I trekked the Andes (), ate cake with slippery-fingered nephews () and attempted to shoot in RAW format.

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Zone Out Photoshop Doodle

I attended a couple of sessions at Photoshop World that clarified some issues behind copyrights and image releases. Edward Greenberg and Jack Reznicki were the presenters who run the Copyright Zone blog, a site filled with loads of information on copyrights and other issues regarding photography.

A quick summary from my notes:

1. When you create it, you own it.

A couple of folks at work mentioned that since I took photos of all 20 years of Photoshop versions at Photoshop World that I should show them as well.  So here are the rest of the blurry iPhone photos, I need one of those image stabilization apps!  Pretty wild that my iPhone is probably more powerful than the computers running the first 4-5 versions of photoshop.  Ouch, I bought a few of those!

Photoshop 1 - I seem to remember it taking about 6 floppies to install, including sample files.

 

Photoshop 2 - CMYK previews!

Photoshop World in Vegas was ¡MUCHO GUSTO!  

Lots of amazing seminars demonstrating what I'm guessing were a number of happy accidents becoming a multitude of cool techniques.

 

The above fuzzy photo is from the Adobe booth which had a set-up of each version of Photoshop running on a Mac from that era. I was a little taken aback realizing that I was a beta tester for version 1...