Category: Software & Technology
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Lucas Gilman On Nik’s Color Effex Pro
Lucas Gilman On Nik’s Color Effex Pro This is the debut of a new column where we talk to pros about their equipment and techniques. by Grayson Schaffer Last week, San Diego–based Nik Software released the fourth version of Color Effex … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/10/10/lucas-gilman-on-niks-color-effex-pro/ Nik Software released the fourth version of Color…
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Camera Bits to demonstrate Photo Mechanic 5, Photo Mechanic Catalog
Link: Photo Mechanic 5: -New and improved professional look and feel with additional features in the main contact sheet view. Non-modal preview window can be kept open on a second monitor. Thumbnail strips can be either on top or on left. -Crops can now be rotated to arbitrary angles to match the…
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Photoshop Touch for iPad is here!
Link: Now, let me anticipate two questions which go hand in hand: Why does the app require an iPad 2, and why is the maximum image size 1600x1600px? The iPad 2 has twice the RAM, twice the processing cores, and ~5x the graphics grunt of the iPad 1. PS Touch brings some seriously powerful algorithms…
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Lightroom 4.0 Now Available
Link: new pricing for Lightroom 4: $149 for those new to Lightroom and $79 for the Upgrade and Student/Teacher editions
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Lightroom 4.0 Resources
Link: Lightroom 4 is out and we’re compiling a list of online resources dedicated to educating photographers on Lightroom 4
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Photokina 2012: Canon takes to the cloud with Project 1709
Link: Canon has announced the launch of the public beta of its Project 1709, a cloud service that will allow users to store, share and organise their images from any device, anywhere in the world
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Lightroom 4.3 Now Available
Link: Once again we are upon the photography contest season. And every year I hear photographers ask “Do photo contests matter?” In the opinion of this photo editor, they do! But just don’t take my word for it; here are what some prominent industry professionals think about the value of contests and what you can…
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Photojournalist launches watermark app for iPhone photos
Link: “Photojournalist John D McHugh has released a watermarking app on the iPhone in a bid to root out copyright theft on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram “
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You Can Tag People In Instagram Now
You Can Tag People in Instagram Now Instagram launched a “Photos of You” feature in its iOS and Android apps today. Photos of You gives Instagram users the ability tag photos with any other Instagram account. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2013/05/instagram-photo-tagging/ Instagram launched the feature, dubbed “Photos of You”, in its iOS and Android apps today. Much…
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Next Version of Adobe Photoshop to Be Branded Photoshop CC, Includes Awesome New Motion Blur Sharpening Tool
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2013/05/next-version-of-adobe-photoshop-to-be-branded-photoshop-cc-includes-awesome-new-motion-blur-sharpening-tool.html The biggest news though is Adobe’s moving Photoshop 100% into the Cloud and 100% by subscription. You’ll still be able to purchase Photoshop CS for the time being, but it won’t have the new features available in CC.
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How the New Google Images is Changing Traffic to Your Site
How the New Google Images is Changing Traffic to Your Site – PhotoShelter Blog By now you’ve probably noticed Google’s new and “faster” image search, launched in late January 2013, which displays larger images in an inline panel that lets users flip through image search results. But many in the webmaster and search engine marketing…
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ProPublica releases simple tool for searching Instagram
Link: ProPublica news application developer Al Shaw discovered an Instagram API that lets you search by both time and geographic coordinates
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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (Published 2014) In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html Cool exists at the ineffable confluence of smart people, big money and compelling product. You can buy it, but only…
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New service will rate the authenticity of digital images
Link: The Izitru website and iOS app can “distinguish an original JPEG file captured with a digital camera from subsequent derivations of that file that may have been changed in some way,” according to the company.
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Blink: 21st Century Rolodex – The Eye of Photography
Link: Blink is the visionary—and yet, now that it exists, obvious—idea of Julien Jourdes and Matt Craig, former photo editors at the Wall Street Journal. It brings together media professionals of all stripes: editors, agencies and, remarkably, freelancers.
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People Are Laughing at Your LinkedIn Profile
People Are Looking at Your LinkedIn Profile and They’re Laughing at You I mean, come on—you like racquetball and you list “social media” as a skill? What does that even mean? You know about Twitter and you own weird goggles? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/people-laughing-linkedin-profile Browse the suggested connections, and don’t bother to think about…
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Lightroom mobile for Android phones now available
Link: The app is pretty much a 100% free version of Word Lens, an app that blew many a mind when it was launched back in 2010. You don’t even need any kind of Internet connection for it to work.
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Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. – The Washington Post
Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. Privacy advocates and representatives from companies like Facebook and Google will meet in the District to try to set rules for how companies should use this powerful technology. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/facial-recognition-technology-is-everywhere-it-may-not-be-legal/ Anticipating the importance of this information, Texas passed a law in 2001 that…