What do chewing gum, rain, and Totally Rad!’s new plug-in RadLab have in common? Really nothing, but it’s the three things that came to my mind when I was fumbling around and found this image I took a couple years ago of Wrigley Field during a few really rainy days back in 2010.
It’s amazing what you can have them put on scoreboard’s these days, it’s like they new the future. This was a a simple 4 image panoramaic that I had taken after our tour of Wrigley Field. I just want to say that I married the most wonderful woman in the world. It rained the entire day we were there and she didn’t complain one time, even when I just stood in the rain in awe standing behind home plate. Needless to say, by the time we were leaving, she was ready to find the “L” and get to dryer land. I quickly turned around and snapped the images to make this image. One of these days I’ll actually do a real edit on this image, but when thinking of images to use to show off RadLab I immediately thought of this one.
Of course, I merged the image in Photoshop, sinfully used the render clouds to add a little texture to the sky, and did a little levels just to get the image above (oh yeah, and fixed the scoreboard). After that though, it was time to turn to RadLab. I simply opened the plug-in from my filter menu, played with a few options, and went from dreary to almost exactly what I was looking for. ***The frame and texture were added using OnOne PhotoFrame. TotallyRad does offer a cool texture plug-in, but I haven’t used it and honestly try to buy as few filters and plug-ins as possible***
PreeVu is a new piece of software designed to be a complete workflow manager for portrait photographers. It is new an innovative. This is a simple side by side comparison to see how it stacks up against an established leader in Presentation software- ProSelect. I tried to be unbiased in the comparison, but I will admit that i’m tired of ProSelect and excited about all the possibilities with PreeVu. Like I’ve said before, Brad is really getting into the trenches to find what photographers really need. He’s also doing a great job of prioritizing and making sure on project is done and ready to go before starting a new one. Even today, Jeff one of the trainers spent 2 hours with me and Cindy on the phone going over the software and then Jeff even spent 1.5 hrs with me later going over some nitty gritty we were trying to figure out. All this after Brad made the trip to visit our studio last week to give us a brief overview of the software. Really great people to work with.
