David Ziser, an internationally-renowned wedding photographer, has shared his knowledge with tens of thousands of photographers in five languages and in 14 countries worldwide. Studio Photography acclaimed "Award winning photographer, David Ziser, is showing the world how to take wedding pictures." The Dallas Morning News extolled Ziser as "wedding photographer extraordinaire." David is one of 101 worldwide who hold the highest honor of "Fellow" bestowed by the American Society of Photographers.

David continues to be one of the leading trainers in the industry for over twenty years. His Digital WakeUp Call tours are considered amongst the best digital photography seminar series ever. David has just announced the dates for his Digital WakeUp Call 2009 Tour. Datacolor is proud to be a sponsor for this year's events, if you are interested in getting further details click here. When you register enter the Datacolor promo code: DWCDATA09, to receive $20 off the price of admission.

There's lots of things that could be said about our Friend With Vision, Paul Elledge. Not only has he worked with some of the best creatives and ad agencies, celebrities - from AC/DC to Willie Nelson, top CEOs and executives as well as many other people, "ranging from the richest in the land to those on death row", as he says. Paul is also a true all-round talent, having directed numerous music videos and television commercials.

However, what we like best of all of his work is his awesome photography, of which to say it was multifarious, would be an enormous understatement. His portraits are clearly outstanding, but there is much, much more to discover! A visit to his website should let you understand quickly what we mean. Paul will be giving a workshop "The Creative Portrait: Seeing Yourself in Others" this summer at TPW in Tuscany. Find out more about Paul Elledge and our other Friends With Vision on our website.

As you probably know, not all software applications support ICC profiles. This often leads to confusion: You might for example be viewing an image in the Safari browser, which does support ICC profiles and therefore displays colors correctly, whilst a client of yours might be looking at that very same image in Internet Explorer and see something entirely different.

What about Firefox then, you might be asking? Well, the latest version of Firefox (3.x) actually does support ICC profiles, although not by default - you actually need to switch that option on first. How? You just open a new window and type "about:config" in the address bar. After hitting enter, the app will give you a warning, that changing advanced settings is only a good idea if you know what you are doing. Once you've confirmed, you'll get a list of entries. Filter out the ones with the word "color" in them. At the bottom, you'll find one called "gfx.color_management.enabled". Simply double-click that line, and the setting in the "Value" column will change from "false" to "true". Now quit and re-open the app. That's it! Your Firefox now supports ICC profiles. We've prepared two test images, that allow you to check whether your current browser supports ICC profiles or not. You can find them here.

If your computer's memory often reaches its limits when you're working in Photoshop, you might want to take a close look at the performance settings in the Preferences window, particularly at the "Scratch Disks" settings. This section allows you to allocate volumes, so Photoshop can swap some of the work load. You can also define the order in which you want Photoshop to utilize these drives. Make sure that your boot drive isn't at the top of the list. Ideal are fast internal or external, physical drives (not just partitions on your boot drive) with sufficient space. A performance increase is of course always welcome, but this should be especially helpful if you're currently not making use of your computer's best possible RAM configuration. - Christoph Künne, Docma