Trees have feelings, too.

Botanically Accurate Paper Flowers from Bloominary

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Export Image File Info as CSV

Using Adobe Lightroom I have a simple taxonomy checklist for tagging my photos (more on that later). However, exporting the metadata from multiple files has been challenging.

CSV Data Collector II is an easy way to export embedded image metadata from multiple images into one CSV file from Adobe Bridge. Click here to download as a zip file.

To install:

• Unzip the file
• Start Adobe Bridge 
• Select Edit - Preferences -Startup Scripts 
• At the bottom of the prompt, click the "Reveal Button" to open the folder where the script should be placed

To use:

• Select the image or images from which you want to extract metadata
• Right click and select "CSV Data CollectorII" from the menu
• Select a folder for the output file
• Create a filename for the csv document (make sure to include ".csv" in the filename) 
• Check the boxs of the fields to be extracted

History of earth as told by trees

YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.

RGB Color Settings for Adobe Photoshop and Illlustrator

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Often designers and photographers are surprised to see that the color of their RGB images changes when viewed online or sent to print. One easy way to prevent this is to make sure that your color settings are set to convert incoming files to sRGB and to export files with sRGB embedded.

Here's a step by step guide to setting up your color settings in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator that I put together.

Science Talk - Featuring NYBG Plant Specimen Images

The New York Botanical Garden has launched Science Talk - a blog featuring botanical insights from members of the Science Department.

It features images of plant specimens from the Virtual Herbarium, like this specimen, recently identified as a new species, Swartzia schottii, by Benjamin Torke.

Science Talk is updated frequently.