Scott Rouse Digital

Client: Jessica Parkes Photography Description: This freelance photographer wanted a clean and simple site which put her photographs at the forefront. A white background, simple typography, and mouse-over thumbnails in the image galleries keep visitors focused on her art...

LaCie 250 GB Rugged Hard Disk with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB2.0 LaCie 301832 Rugged All-Terrain 320GB Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive LaCie 500GB Rugged Hard Disk with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB2.0 Mobile Hard Drive Designed by Neil Poulton Caselogic PHDC-1...

If you’ve subscribed to email notifications of this blog, I really appreciate it, but I wanted to let you know that I’m changing how the email distribution works for stories from this blog. Email subscriptions will now be handled by Feedburner...

Adobe has released version 2.0 of Photoshop Lightroom (beta release)...

I love these things!

If you are interested in “embedding” a link in text on a webpage (such as a blog post or comment), you can use the proper html code to make it pretty. For example, to say: Click here to view a really cool video...

I was reminded today that “Earth Hour” is tonight at 8:00 pm (your local time). In case you haven’t heard, Earth Hour is a global environmental awareness movement that started last year in Sydney, Australia. Video and more information after the jump. (

Today Apple released another relatively major update to Aperture, its professional image editing and management software. Version 2.1, available through direct download or through your computer’s Software Update feature, adds a number of improvements. (more

As I was writing my Photoshop Express post a few moments ago, I was thinking…maybe I should work on some instructional screencasts over the next few days to help new users out… Well, maybe I still will, but, of course, the folks over at Kelby Training (of the Scott Kelby’s) beat me to it...

Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop Express, it’s online consumer-grade photo editing and storage program. Unlike other versions of Photoshop (and Photoshop Elements), Photoshop Express is completely Flash-driven and resides solely in your web browser rather than on your computer’s hard drive...

If you are user of Aperture, Final Cut, or Logic, you’ll be interested to know that Apple has released the Plugin Manager version 1.7.3 for its Pro applications...

I reported a while back that it was coming, and now it’s here. Microsoft released today Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) for public download. Current users of Vista should use Windows Update to retrieve and install the download. I’m just reporting here...

I can’t seem to give it up. My favorite web browser is still Safari. I know, I know… Firefox is more widely used, Opera has that cool “speed-dial” thingy, but I love Mac. And I love iLife integration. And I love trying to use Apple applications for everything I can...

I reported on Friday that Adobe had released version 1.4 of Lightroom and version 4.4. of Camera Raw. They have since pulled those updates from their site. Check out this MacWorld article for more information.

Today, Adobe released version 1.4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and version 4.4 of the Camera Raw plug-in for Bridge/Photoshop/Elements...

So my second-generation iPod Shuffle has been out of commission for a while. It turns on and plays, but will not show up when connected to any computer. I’ve reset, retried, connected to many different USB ports on many different machines…it’s just broke...

Del.icio.us (pronounced “delicious”) is one of my favorite social bookmarking sites. Basically, it’s a place for you to save, or “bookmark,” interesting sites that you’ve visited so you can return to them later. You also have the option of sharing your bookmarks with others...

This is fairly irrelevant to this site, but I’ve been drooling over the iPhone since it was just a rumor. Therefore, news such as this tends to excite me...

Not sure why I’ve been on such an iPhone kick today, but I just had to post this article. In a post this morning, I referred to a draft bill in congress that had the potential to end the exclusive agreement between Apple and AT&T in the US, thus making the iPhone available with other carriers...

As predicted, Apple updated their MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops today, and there are some exciting changes…enough to make my MacBook Pro feel inferior. Both models now feature the Intel Penryn Pro Core 2 Duo processor with faster processor speeds...

I must admit that in preparing for this article, I visited Reddit.com for the first time. It’s functionality appears similar to Digg’s in the form or submitted links that are voted up or down on by users of the site...

Digg.com is one of my new favorite websites...

Wireless capability is being built into some digital cameras today, but here is a device that you can add to an existing camera to make it WiFi-compatible: The Eye-Fi is a 2 GB SD (Secure Digital) memory card that incorporates built-in WiFi to transmit images wirelessly from your digital camera to...

I recently had a friend complain that my blog posts were too “Mac biased” and, therefore, useless to PC users...

In an earlier post, I reported that the multitouch features of Apple’s Macbook Air trackpad were apparently strictly software-based leading to the assumption that those features could be ported to existing Mac laptops. MacRumors, this morning, published a story that demonstrates this is not true...

Here’s an interesting development by Canon to try to help photographers protect and enforce the copyrights of their images...

Slashdot is a science- and technology-related news website with articles submitted by users. User’s can comment on the articles that are posted. There is a rather confusing methodology to how posts, comments, and other content on Slashdot are compiled and moderated...

I was excited to discover from a macnn article today that the multitouch technology, first released with the iPhone and now existing on the iPod Touch and MacBook Air as well, is simply a software feature...

For anyone who may find themselves needing or wanting to make an occasional international phone call or two, I would recommend Skype. Calls from one Skype-equipped computer to another (text chat, voice, or full video chat) are always free, no matter where the computers are located...

Yesterday I told you about the Mac OS 10.5.2 update, but that wasn’t the only news that Apple had in store. Shortly/immediately after releasing the OS update mentioned above, Apple released a video graphics update...

If you are the owner of a website, it means you’ve probably got something to say to people or show people. Increasing viewership of your website is a goal that almost all of us share...

Apple released its much-anticipated 10.5.2 update for OX 10.5 (Leopard) today. Run Software Update on your Mac to receive the new update. I’ll spare you the details, but information can be found from Apple here.

I stumbled across an interesting post today about a new product being researched by Adobe. It’s basically a camera lens comprised of 19 smaller lenses that allow a scene to be photographed from multiple angles simultaneously...

To all you Firefox users, be sure and run your updater (located in the Help menu) to download and install the newest release of Mozilla’s Firefox: 2.0.0.12. This latest release includes 10 patches over the previous release, including three for critical vulnerabilities...

A new application was released yesterday by Pangea Software called Bracketeer. This Mac utility allows photographers to combine different exposures of the same image into a new “enfused” image with a much higher range of tones...

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Adobe Systems has announced today that they plan to discontinue the Adobe Stock Photos service that has shipped as part of Bridge, one of the Creative Suite applications...

Selling a few items on eBay. Check out all my listings here. I’m selling the following items: HP Photosmart 8450 InkJet Photo Printer PortaTrace 1118 - 11″x18″ Lightbox

Microsoft has sent Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturing today. SP1 is intended to address some of the concerns that users of Microsoft’s newest operating system have encountered including, but not limited to: slow file copy times, slow return from sleep, and device driver conflicts...

I’ve taken the password-protection off of the Client Area of the website. Feel free to check out that page at your convenience. If you are one of my clients, there will be a link on that page to a personal, private page with information about your account, test site(s), etc...