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 moreAdobe 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 moreLightroom 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 moreFrom 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 moreLightroom 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 moreLightroom 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 moreAttempting 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 moreLightroom 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 moreLightroom 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 moreIt'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 moreCaution: 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 moreProper 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 moreIn 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 moreUsing 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 moreOrganizing 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 moreOrganizing your images before you Import them into Lightroom.
February 16 2008
I am usually pretty good about organizing my images into logical folders and subfolders before importing them into Lightroom, but for the last couple of months I have been fighting a recurring flu and other related ailments and the logical... read moreA few of the my favorite faces
February 11 2008
As I mentioned in my last week's blog posting, I have just recently returned to my home base in Thailand from a trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia, the home of the Angkor Archaeological Park. The most famous temple in the... read moreAnother trip to Cambodia and a lingering case of the flu
February 01 2008
If you are a regular reader of these blogs, you must be wondering what has happened to my weekly entries in the last month or so. I have actually had every intention of writing and publishing them, but a series... read moreTaking Lightroom to the under saturated extreme
January 12 2008
When I am out of ideas for this blog and looking for inspiration, I often find myself surfing the web forums and seeing what the photo hobbyists are up to. Since they are doing it for the love of photography... read moreNikon D300 NEF images - Adobe Lightroom 1.3 vs. Adobe Camera RAW 4.3.1
December 17 2007
As most of you probably know by now, a few days ago Adobe released ACR 4.3.1. In the release notes it mentioned that there was an update for the new Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 cameras (among other things). I... read moreNikon D300 NEF images - Adobe Lightroom 1.3 vs. Adobe Camera RAW 4.3.1
December 07 2007
As most of you probably know by now, a few days ago Adobe released ACR 4.3.1. In the release notes it mentioned that there was an update for the new Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 cameras (among other things). I was kind of surprised at this because I thought that… read moreNikon D300 NEF image files - Lightroom 1.3 vs. Capture NX 1.3
November 30 2007
This is now part three in a series of Lightroom 1.3 vs. Capture NX 1.3 comparisons, some of you are probably getting tired of these posts, but if you either have or are thinking about buying one of the new... read moreNikon D300 NEF image files - Lightroom 1.3 vs. Capture NX 1.3
November 30 2007
This is now part three in a series of Lightroom 1.3 vs. Capture NX 1.3 comparisons, some of you are probably getting tired of these posts, but if you either have or are thinking about buying one of the new... read moreAdobe Lightroom 1.3 vs. Nikon Capture NX 1.3 - Part 2
November 24 2007
This has been a week full of Nikon anxiety for me and little less. The big question for the last week has been, will I get one of the first batch of the new Nikon D300? And the answer is,... read moreAdobe Lightroom 1.3 vs. Nikon Capture NX 1.3 - Part 2
November 23 2007
This has been a week full of Nikon anxiety for me and little less. The big question for the last week has been, will I get one of the first batch of the new Nikon D300? And the answer is, yes it has been picked up from the dealer and… read moreNikon D80 NEF - Adobe Lightroom 1.3 vs. Nikon Capture NX 1.2
November 16 2007
Since we now have two brand new versions of the RAW image processor from Nikon and Adobe, I thought that today would be a good day to do a quick comparison test of a Nikon NEF file from a Nikon... read moreThe future of Photoshop and the Lightroom Graphic User Interface
November 09 2007
A few days ago John Nack posted an interesting story on his Adobe Blog. The title of which being, "Photoshop, as seen through Johnny Cash". The article compares the development of Photoshop over the last twenty years as being... read moreUsing PictureSync with Lightroom to export JPEG images for website use.
November 02 2007
This post is a continuation of last weeks post on Exporting and Saving JPEG images for website use. I'm not a software engineer so I can't explain what really goes on with this application aside from that it makes the... read moreExporting and Saving JPEG images for website use.
October 26 2007
I am afraid that today's blog posting is going to end with more questions than answers. Maybe one of the readers of this posting can give me the answers I am looking for. Most of the time I find that... read moreBig Heads of the Bayon and low tech special effects.
October 19 2007
While photographing the giant heads of the Bayon temple of Angkor Thom a few days ago, I remembered that I had recently found and put a few of my old special effects filters from the 1970s into my camera bag. I know that we are now all used to doing… read moreLightroom White Balance setting - A fishy tale unfolds down at the aquarium.
October 12 2007
I wasn't really meaning to post another article on white balance this week, but I had a similar experience to the one David Miller related in his posting, just two days ago. On a trip to the Rayong Aquarium (located... read moreGeorge in Georgetown - exploring the Lightroom White Balance settings.
October 05 2007
I have been to Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia many times over the last three decades but it has been close to ten years since my last visit and I had expected a lot of changes. To my very pleasant surprise... read moreLightroom Noise Reduction at 3200 ISO - Luminance & Color
September 28 2007
This is a rather extreme example of digital camera noise reduction, but the camera used for this image is the fairly popular and affordable Nikon D40, so it is a valid example of a situation that many photographers find themselves... read moreEvery picture has a story to tell.
September 21 2007
On the surface this image was fairly difficult to process in Lightroom and I will for sure have to take it into Photoshop CS3, to get the best results. The foreground of the image is in a very deep... read moreLightroom and The Traveling Photographer
September 14 2007
I know it often seems like several of us on this blog site are talking about the same thing, but I assure you that it is pure coincidence and I hope all the readers get as much out of... read moreSpeeding up your Lightroom Experience
September 07 2007
I hadn't checked the digital workflow forums in a while and thought I better check to see what is giving Lightroom users problems these days. To my surprise I saw that the biggest issue still seems to be performance related,... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
