Category: Software & Technology
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The iPhone X and Digital Lighting Will Change Photography Yet Again
The iPhone X and Digital Lighting Will Change Photography Yet Again There’s a feature tucked away in the new iPhones that doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of traction, but it represents a massive sea change in photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/09/20/iphone-x-digital-lighting-will-change-photography-yet/ There’s a feature tucked away in the new iPhones that doesn’t seem to…
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This New AI Can Retouch Your Photos Before You Snap Them
This New AI Can Retouch Your Photos Before You Snap Them What if your camera could professionally retouch your photos… before you even shoot them? That’s what researchers at Google and MIT are currently via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/08/02/new-ai-can-retouch-photos-snap/ What if your camera could professionally retouch your photos… before you even shoot them? That’s what researchers at…
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Adobe accidentally leaks Nimbus Mac & Windows apps, offering ‘Lightroom in the cloud’ | 9to5Mac
Adobe accidentally leaks Nimbus Mac & Windows apps, offering ‘Lightroom in the cloud’ – 9to5Mac Adobe last year teased a new Mac and Windows photo editor, with the project known as Nimbus. The app appeared to borrow heavily from the simplified iPad version of Lightroom, with a key feature being that both images and edits…
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Proof-of-concept camera encrypts images with GPG / Boing Boing
Proof-of-concept camera encrypts images with GPG W Aaron Waychoff, creator of the Falsom Upside-Down ⊥ “Resist” campaign, was inspired by this 2016 post; he writes, “I’ve made a proof-of-concept encrypting digital camera b… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2017/07/13/no-passwords-needed.html W Aaron Waychoff, creator of the Falsom Upside-Down ⊥ “Resist” campaign, was inspired by this 2016 post; he…
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Research Blog: Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs
Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs Posted by Hui Fang, Software Engineer, Machine Perception Machine learning (ML) excels in many areas with well defined goals. Tasks where th… via Google AI Blog: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/using-deep-learning-to-create.html To explore how ML can learn subjective concepts, we introduce an experimental deep-learning system for artistic content creation. It mimics the…
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Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria — did your brain just explode? | TechCrunch
Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria — did your brain just explode? – TechCrunch In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It’s a weird idea,…
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Mac blog publishing app MarsEdit 4 now available in public beta | 9to5Mac
Mac blog publishing app MarsEdit 4 now available in public beta – 9to5Mac There’s a new version of the MarsEdit blog publishing software out, and Mac users running the current version can try out the public beta for free ahead of its release. MarsEdit 4 is the first major release in more than seven years…
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Affinity May Be Building a Lightroom Competitor
Affinity May Be Building a Lightroom Competitor Back in 2015, we saw the launch of Affinity Photo, a sleek, lightweight, and powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop for doing professional edits on via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/27/affinity-may-building-lightroom-competitor/ When asked if there are plans for a “photo processor/organizer,” Affinity replied that it has a Digital Asset Manger in the…
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Caltech Made a Sensor That Could Be the Lensless Camera of the Future
Caltech Made a Sensor That Could Be the Lensless Camera of the Future The brainiacs at Caltech have produced something really cool: an imaging chip that produces an image from light sensors… without lenses. It’s a chip via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/22/caltech-made-sensor-lensless-camera-future/ The brainiacs at Caltech have produced something really cool: an imaging chip that produces an…
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WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler – Kaptur
WWDC takeaways: lots of great news for photo app developers, but one major puzzler – Kaptur The photo app community is overwhelmingly excited about Apple’s WWDC announcements, even though one of these dumbfounded several developers. via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/wwdc-takeaways-lots-of-great-news-for-photo-app-developers-but-one-major-puzzler/ The photo app developers I spoke with are overwhelmingly excited about a range of WWDC announcements, even…
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The battle of the photo format – Kaptur
The battle of the photo format – Kaptur Apple is ready to replace the JPEG format but Google might spoil the party via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/the-battle-of-the-photo-formats/ Hidden deep inside Apple’s WWDC 17 was an announcement that made little waves but that might have great repercussion: In their OS11 release, the Cupertino company plans to store images using…
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Apple Will Add Creative New Features to Photos and Camera Apps in iOS 11
Apple Will Add Creative New Features to Photos and Camera Apps in iOS 11 Apple’s big announcements of the day are mostly hardware focused—new iMacs, and that crazy powerful iMac Pro. But the Cupertino-based company also via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/05/apple-will-add-creative-new-features-photos-camera-apps-ios-11/ Many of the improvements in the Photos and Camera apps come from machine learning. Using artificial…
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Is the Future of the Image Sensor Curved? | PDNPulse
Is the Future of the Image Sensor Curved? | PDNPulse Researchers have made a big breakthrough in developing curved image sensors. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/06/future-image-sensor-curved.html A curved sensor bestows several potential benefits for cameras and particularly lenses. Many of the optical elements used by lens manufacturers are in place to correct optical distortions and bend light…
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10 Questions to a Founder : Picasso Labs – Kaptur
10 Questions to a Founder : Picasso Labs – Kaptur Picasso Labs offers the most advanced images analytics solution, empowering brands and marketers to fully master the visual web. via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/10-questions-to-a-founder-picasso-labs/ While billions of images are being shared daily, little to nothing is known about how viewers respond to them. Until now. Using hundreds…
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Halide is a beautiful iPhone camera app with gesture-based pro controls | 9to5Mac
Halide is a beautiful iPhone camera app with gesture-based pro controls – 9to5Mac Halide is a brand new camera app for iOS from ex-Twitter for iOS tech lead Ben Sandofsky and ex-Apple designer Sebastiaan de With. While Apple’s Camera app works great for quick shots, Halide focuses on taking the best photos possible with your iPhone…
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Don’t Let AI Ruin Your Photography – PhotoShelter Blog
Don’t Let AI Ruin Your Photography – PhotoShelter Blog An AI device for your DSLR or mirrorless camera that helps you take better photos? Not so fast says Allen Murabayashi. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/05/dont-let-ai-ruin-your-photography/ This week, Google’s AlphaGo program beat the world’s best Go player, Ke Jie, in 2 straight games in a best of…
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Google Will Soon Be Able to Remove Unwanted Objects from Your Photos
Google Will Soon Be Able to Remove Unwanted Objects from Your Photos Google made a bunch of interesting and exciting camera-related announcements at I/O 2017, and we’ll cover them all, but one of the most intriguing was via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/18/google-will-soon-able-remove-unwanted-objects-photos/ “Say you take a picture of your daughter at a baseball game, and there’s something…
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Eric Kim Proves the Value (and Fallacy) of SEO for Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog
Eric Kim Proves the Value (and Fallacy) of SEO for Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog In nearly every industry, the web has enabled a cadre of internet-famous individuals, who on the merits of their marketing prowess have gained massive followings without necessarily acquiring the skills that has traditionally defined an “expert.” At the s via PhotoShelter…
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Instagram’s New Algorithm Has Been Great… for Instagram | PDNPulse
Instagram’s New Algorithm Has Been Great… for Instagram | PDNPulse When Instagram announced last year that it was abandoning its chronological posting in favor of an algorithmically determined newsfeed, many photographers were displeased. Despite the online outrage, Instagram’s shift appears to have delivered the goods. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/05/instagrams-new-algorithm-great-instagram.html It’s a similar story at Twitter, where…
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Move over Snap: Facebook is the camera company to beat – Kaptur
Move over Snap: Facebook is the camera company to beat – Kaptur It’s a take no prisoner battle for supremacy of your mobile phone camera and this time it’s not about hardware. via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/move-snap-facebook-camera-company-beat/ Just as the world finally figured out why Snap relabeled itself as a camera company, last week Facebook proclaimed it’s…