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This year's HOW Design Conference was (also) 16 hours a day of design and creative inspiration.

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Photographer Amy Guip presented her body of work to AIGA Orlando last evening.

Amy isn't afraid to use Photoshop to "create an image in post." She talked about shooting for one image in England, a studio in New York City and a forest in up-state New York and creating the final on the computer. Her images are enriched from her digital texture library which she draws on to give her digital images a hand produced feel. She is successful with this approach and her client list is impressive.

Yesterday a colleague and I were able to squeeze in a few minutes on the convention floor of Photoshop World. There were some interesting booths. I almost purchased a Lens Baby, but decided even the convention special was a little expensive for a toy lens. Most booths had a presenter wearing a microphone and talking about various products or techniques. The end result was the inability to hear anything. We squeezed close enough to hear some discussions about black and white conversions, Lightroom, and DNG. Joe McNally was demonstrating shooting techniques.

A friend of mine suggested I needed to watch the following video of Joe. What fun.

We recently had an excellent opportunity to visit Cleveland, Ohio. In our spare time we got to visit a piece of Cleveland's University Circle where we visited the exceptionally fascinating Cleveland Botanical Garden and the instantly recognizable Frank Gehry building on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. The Peter B. Lewis Building definitely achieves Gehry's goal of creating feeling. Feelings of excitement and forces of creative approaches.

Jason Schneider published 12 short and simple rules for making photos at popphoto.com.

Rule 6 could come in particularly handy for designers.

6. Largest Digital Print Rule

To calculate in inches the largest photo-quality print you can
make with a digital camera, divide the vertical and horizontal pixel
counts (see your manual) by 200. For critical applications, or if you
want exhibition-quality prints, divide the pixel counts by 250.

Which rule will make your images better?

PHPture is a free web-based viewer of your Aperture library. Looks like you just upload your entire library and it can be viewed online via PHPture. Now I just need a camera worthy of using Aperture with!