August 28, 2012

Make a Monty Python animation, win Adobe apps

 Adobe’s sponsoring an Animate Chapman contest, open ’til October 22. As CreativePro explains, 

The contest is being run to celebrate and promote the upcoming 3D animated film A Liar’s Autobiography – The True Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman.

Ten winners will be chosen and in addition to the software prize, will receive the honor of having their animation included in the DVD box set of the film and on the Python’s YouTube channel.

Lightroom 4.2 release candidate adds camera support, fixes bugs

Lightroom 4.2  is now available as a Release Candidate  on Adobe Labs.   The “release candidate” label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers.

New cameras supported:

• Canon EOS 650D / Rebel T4i
• Canon EOS M
• Fuji FinePix F800EXR
• Leaf Credo 40
• Leaf Credo 60
• Panasonic DMC-FZ200
• Panasonic DMC-G5
• Panasonic DMC-LX7
• Pentax K-30
• Sony DSC-RX100

For a complete list of other changes (bugs fixed, etc.) please see the Lightroom Journal.