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George Mann

Biography

George Mann is a photographer, writer and digital imaging consultant based out of Morgan Hill, California and Bangkok, Thailand. George specializes in Macintosh computer systems and works predominantly for the advertising and publishing industry in South East Asia, with occasional trips back to the US for long road trips and to meet with US based clients.

Recent work has been published in the New York Times, MacAddict Magazine, Bangkok Post and dpmac.com. Past clients in the US and Asia include ABC Entertainment, Playboy Studios, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Dentsu, Young & Rubicam, Procter & Gambel, Lever Brothers, Colgate, Oriental Hotel, ESCAP and the UNHCR.

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Can Lightroom 2 replace Photoshop CS3?

July 14 2008

I think it is obvious that we will see both Lightroom and Photoshop CS flourishing in the photography world for some years to come. read more

Adobe Lightroom 2 Beta vs. Nikon Capture NX 2

June 09 2008

This has been kind of a trying week for me, I am in the middle of moving house, so my time is very limited and I am still trying to get the telephone (and ADSL) installed at the new house.... read more

Lightroom 2 Beta - Before and After Views with 2 monitors.

May 26 2008

I have been somewhat reluctant to keep demonstrating new features in Lightroom 2 Beta, because some of you like to remind me that the "new" features I am demonstrating were already there in the later versions of Lightroom 1. To... read more

From Lightroom to facebook to Express (and back)

May 12 2008

More than any other recent time I have really had trouble writing this blog posting. Not because I did not know what I was going to write about but mainly because the topic is currently in constant flux and the... read more

Lightroom 2 Beta - Creating a Bluer Sky with Selective Color Control

May 05 2008

More often than not, we end up with a washed out sky when we would like something really dramatic. There are of course some really complicated methods for dealing with this in Photoshop CS but in Lightroom we have been given a very simple way of dealing with the problem… read more

Lightroom 2 Beta - Working with two monitors to speed up the workflow.

April 28 2008

Sometimes the solution is so simple that it takes forever to find it. If you have been reading my recent posts you know that I have been looking for a way to illustrate the second monitor in this blog. I... read more

Attempting a major retouching (image restoration) job with Lightroom 2 Beta.

April 20 2008

This is a very short article in words, but it did take some time to put together the accompanying illustrations. Basically I have been holding off on attempting a major retouching job with Lightroom until it had enough retouching tools.... read more

Lightroom 2 Beta - the second monitor is alive.

April 14 2008

Sorry for being late again with this post, but it is the Songkran (Thai New Year) holiday season in Thailand. A lot of people also call this the water festival, which quite literally means that you can not step out... read more

Lightroom 2 Beta - Dodge and Burn for RAW image files.

April 05 2008

Well they said it couldn't be done, but we finally have a non-destructive dodge and burn in Adobe Lightroom. And it isn't your grandfather's dodge and burn either. It is essentially a paint brush tool that has the ability to generate masks over your image which can affect the Exposure,… read more

It's OK not to use (or even understand) all the functions of Lightroom.

March 31 2008

The other day a friend of mine asked me to come to his house and help him create a simple website slide show. About a year ago he had bought Lightroom (at my suggestion), so I told him to just... read more

Caution: Using Color Management can lead to rude and antisocial behavior.

March 24 2008

Have you ever noticed that almost every online discussion on Photoshop and Lightroom color management ends ups with an "expert" becoming extremely belligerent and insulting? The discussion usually revolves around exporting a JPEG image out of Lightroom and then discovering... read more

Proper exposure and focus is still as important in the digital age as it was with film.

March 14 2008

As powerful as shooting with digital cameras and using software applications like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to process the images are, it is becoming obvious to me that a perfect exposure and dead accurate focusing is still as important as it... read more

In search of the perfect portable image storage device.

March 07 2008

For quite a few years now I have been in search of the perfect portable image storage device. I have experimented with storage devices from Archos, Epson and a number of not so well known Taiwanese manufacturers. Some of these... read more

Using an external image editor with Lightroom

February 29 2008

Lately I have been getting a lot questions on the subject of integrating an external image editor, such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or Nikon Capture NX) into the Lightroom workflow. I usually use the following workflow. 1. Select an image... read more

Organizing your images before you Import them into Lightroom - Part 2

February 22 2008

When I wrote last week's post I did not realize that there were so many different opinions, on which is the best way to prepare your files before Importing them into Lightroom and how strongly some people felt about their... read more

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