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I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for making my YouTube Channel such a huge success! Over the weekend I surpassed 10 Million Views of my YouTube videos and that’s quite the accomplishment. It also encourages me to continue making the videos that you want to see. You can subscribe here.
Also my Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast is on track to hit 25 Million Downloads soon. Thanks again!
One way to end a ten week international tour is to simply take a 16-18 hour flight home from Johannesburg, South Africa. Another way to end it is to have Nikon South Africa sponsor you on an African Safari at Sabi Sabi before that flight home! I was fortunate enough to have the latter.
I just came back from an Amazing week finishing off the international portion of our Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud World Tour. The last two international stops were Johannesburg and Cape Town (see my earlier post). After leaving Cape Town we flew to Nelspurit and then drove on to Sabi Sabi (a private game preserve). This was my second safari in South Africa and it was a pleasure to be back.
I put together this photo book using Adobe Lightroom 4.
It was great photographing this magnificent creatures in the wild! It was even better doing so with a Nikon 200-400mm f/4 lens. Didn’t want to get too physically close 🙂
Continue reading “Nikon Safari – Photographing the Big 5 in Sabi Sabi South Africa”
What an amazing week I just had in South Africa! Johannesburg and Cape Town were the last two international stops of our Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud World Tour and I must say that South Africa pulled out all the stops.
Flying over Johannesburg!
Kicking the week off with a special Nikon V.I.P. event at the Nikon South Africa Headquarters!
The crowds were great in both Johannesburg and Cape Town!
As you can see, they really got into Adobe CS6 🙂
Both cities offered a FULL DAY event and there was very little drop off by the end of the day.
Jason, Paul and I not only enjoyed our time presenting, but it was great to interact with you all live via social media.
Of course free t-shirts are always fun to toss out at random.
I gave my Nikon D4 a work out here in South Africa and this beast really performs.
It’s always great when fans come up and ask us questions.
I must say that Jason was really getting into it. He’s is crowd activated and the South African crowds got him going. The hair came down and the spontaneous singing began. Good thing he’s a musician too 🙂
Yes, you read that right! My buddy and Photoshop Artist Bert Monroy (I'm in awe of what this guy can do with a blank Photoshop canvas) has completed his latest project. A 750,000 Layer Photoshop File of Times Square in NYC. Bert wanted to recreate a scene in Times Square using hand drawn art and photos that he has taken over the years. I'm also very proud and totally honored to be featured in it :
Check out Bert's new masterpiece here (using Zoomify technology, you can actually zoom in on it!) Pan around see who you can recognize.
Very cool Bert! You are amazing!
photo by Jason Levine
i'm on the road and literally on the go in the airport. However, I wanted to take a moment to thank the thousands of you that came out to our Adobe Creative Suite 5 tour in Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and of course the beautiful Copenhagen! I had a blast presenting the latest tips and techniques including a sneak peek at our NEW Digital Publishing solution featuring the iPad. 😉
photo by Jason Levine
It was also fun having Julieanne Kost on the tour with myself, Jason Levine and Greg Rewis.
The crowds were amazing and when I walked into the Cinemaxx in Copenhagen I literally said "whoa!". It was PACKED!
Thanks again and I'm looking forward to coming back to the region soon.
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Hi, this is just a quick note to my readers and many of you who have left comments or sent me messages about my tech blog being slow. First of all thanks for the heads-up. I've been working with my hosting partner (Network Solutions) on these issues for the past week and I think progress has been made. There was a combination of two-three things going on which caused the site to run slower than normal over the past few weeks. The first two being my fault. This is a WordPress blog and with WordPress you can have plug-ins that add enhancements to your site. My problem was that I was running too many plug-ins. The more plug-ins you have the more RAM it takes and I was bumping into the RAM limit imposed by my ISP. This is why you'd sometimes get the weird database connection issues. The second problem was having too much content on the blog coming from other sources (like the RSS feeds on my main page from my other sites). The way my WordPress page is currently setup each external piece of content/feed had to be loaded first before you'd see anything. This could cause the page to take 30 seconds to load (sometimes longer). So I've eliminated a lot of the external feeds until I have some time to have the PHP code looked at. Lastly there was a server outage at Network Solutions day before yesterday that caused my page to fail intermittently. That server has been fixed.
In my recent testing the page is loading in 10 seconds or less (it's a big page) on my hotel connection. So you should see a huge improvement starting now. I've also installed a new caching plug-in that should help as well. Thanks for your patience!
Today marks the 300th episode of my Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast! I'm thrilled that the show has been such a success. When I first launched the Creative Suite Podcast back on February 13th, 2006 I had no idea that it would be the success that it has been.
The show has consistently ranked in the Top 10 of Software How-To Video Podcasts on iTunes
As you may already know I have one of the Top Ranked Video Podcasts on iTunes! Each week I provide tips and tutorials on how to use the Adobe Creative Suite via the Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast.
Well now there's an app for that! I'm very pleased to announce the immediate availability of my NEW iPhone App. The "Learn Adobe Creative with Terry White" (CS) not only gives you access to my near 300 Video Tutorials, but here's the catch – you will have access to videos that won't be posted anywhere else! That's right – BONUS CONTENT!
Once you install the CS App you can go and watch any video you want as often as you want. The videos will be streamed to your iPhone or iPod touch. So you don't have to wait for them to download first before you start watching. Rewind, pause or skip ahead.
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I knew you were gonna ask that. 🙂 The biggest difference is the EXCLUSIVE Bonus Content. Starting with my Lightroom 3 Beta Episode you'll be able to tap the "Extras" button and see an additional tutorial that can't be seen anywhere else. These Episode Extras will be in the form of video or PDFs with additional tips, techniques, steps, etc., and only available to the users of this app! Also the app just makes it easier to get straight to my show and all of my episodes without the multiple taps it would take in the iTunes or iPod app.
That's right, you get to see more tips and more techniques from videos recorded specifically for the users of this app. This week I posted a video on Retouching in Photoshop CS4. In addition to that episode, there is a bonus clip that covers additional techniques.
There's a button for that. You can tap the "Download in iTunes" button and the app will take you right to my page on the iTunes store to download the episode of your choice right to your iPhone/iPod touch. Then you can watch it offline.
Absolutely! This is not a static app. It's the app that keeps on giving. On average I record at least one tutorial a week. So you'll have something new to watch all the time. My goal is to also provide Bonus content with each new episode from here on out as well.
The "Learn the Creative Suite with Terry White" app is available for both the iPhone and the iPod touch. You can get it from the App Store for $1.99 here:
I hope you like it and if you do get it, Thank YOU!
P.S. Also do me a favor and if you like it don't forget to go back and rate it on the App Store. It helps!
Earlier this year I had the honor of having one of my photos selected to be published in the 2009 F.J. Westcott catalog. So imagine my delight to find out that I’ve now been choosen as one of Westcott’s Top Westcott Endorsed Pros! Wow!
See more of my work here.