We’d like to welcome and introduce you to the newest Red River Paper Pro Jarvis Grant. Jarvis is a commercial photographer and educator based in Washington D.C. We are happy to have him on board to share his work and experience using Red River’s photo inkjet papers.

From his Pro Profile online:

Red River Pro
JARVIS GRANT

The Photographer
Jarvis Grant is an award-winning photographer and arts educator based in Washington, DC. He developed Howard University’s photography program and new media programs for the Ellington School of the Arts. Commercial clients include Coca-Cola, Burson-Marsteller, National Museum of American Art, Southwest Airlines, and Sony Music. His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, New York University, Art Basel Miami, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts.

The Client
An ongoing personal project featuring urban landscapes.

Continue reading Jarvis’ story and profile here

Red River Paper Daily Dose August 15, 2011

DSLR Remote HD (Adorama)

How To Give A Photo An Aged Look – Photoshop Tutorial (Photoshop Blog)

Review – using the Canon 8-15mm f/4 L Fisheye lens (Northlight Images)

Free Online photoshop Tutorials 10 Greate Tips (Tutorialized)

Why digital photographs won’t be around forever | Technology (The Observer)

Merge Photoshopo layers onto a single layer (Photoshop Daily)

Free Duct Tape Photoshop Brushes From Bittbox (Photoshop Blog)

Create Realistic Folds in Photoshop from a Flat Image (Good Tutorials)

The Midnight/Shot, a Pocket-Sized Infrared Camera (Popular Science)

Vintage photography Web sites offer a chance to ‘time travel’ (Washington Post)

Custom Printing in Lightroom (Tips Squirrel)

Printing With Caffenol (KEH Blog)

iPhone Street Photography in Amsterdam by Chun Tong Chung (Eric Kim Photography)

Alfred Eisenstaedt on Getting Close in Street Photography (Eric Kim Photography)

Forget planking: 1920s photography craze for ‘horsemaning’ (Daily Mail)

In Camera and Post-Processing (Editing) for Beginners and Intermediates (Life Thru Lisa’s Lens)

Using Different Sized Softboxes For Portraiture (DIYphotography)

Before/After Composite in Lightroom (Matt Kloskowski)

Design A Old Style Photo Effect using Photoshop (Tutorialized)

The Last Cowboys: A Photographer’s Family Portrait (NPR)

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Why do we say this? Each time a new OSX has been launched Red River received a spike in print quality problem calls from Apple customers. As more and more revisions to the OS are released the volume of complaints falls.

If you are an occasional printer, or have time to deal with trouble shooting then by all means upgrade to 10.7. If you have to keep running, absolutely confident of the same quality you have now, why not wait a few revisions just to be sure?

At minimum, if you’re going to move to Lion, make a Time Machine backup of your current OS before upgrading. You can then perform a downgrade without having to format and do a total reinstall.