Photos have been encaged for too long. It is time to release and use the information they all carry within: Let’s create a new photo file format that will liberate them.
Photos are too short and videos are too long. Photos say too little and videos too much. In an age where we can link data so quickly and easily, it is amazing to see that photos are still just the online equivalent of their printed version : A flat 2D representation of the offline world with a little editorial text around it. It is an aberration that in 2015, photos still need text captions to explain their content.
The project uses a database of 15 million photographs to teach computers to recognize things in pictures. After putting a monumental effort toward building and polishing the collection, Li’s team released the dataset to the world for free, and it has since become one of the industry benchmarks in how well computers can perform in recognition.
That’s it. It’s official. After months of maybes, wild rumors, executive defection, Google finally announced the splitting of Google + into independent platforms, Stream and Photos. While there might be a future for Stream, we are only interested in the development of Photos, possibly named Photo +.
Affinity Photo is a new program that was launched today by the England-based software company Serif. It’s designed to be a powerful alternative to Adobe
Affinity Photo is a new program that was launched today by the England-based software company Serif. It’s designed to be a powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop for professional photographers and retouchers who work on a Mac.
Microsoft Research has announced version 2.0 of its Image Composite Editor (ICE) software, a free program that offers advanced panoramic photo stitching
not only is Photos for Mac made to replace the two ends of Apple’s photo editing lineup—pro and consumer—it’s also built to create a more seamless workflow between your iPhone, your desktop, and your iCloud storage account
If you’re ever in a situation in which you need to understand some text in a foreign language, getting a translation is now as free and easy as loading up
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.
By taking a minimum of 12 seconds of video recorded by each person and running it through a computer algorithm, the researchers were able to figure out a unique “motion signature” for the filmers.
Scientists at Google Research and Stanford University have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence program designed to automatically produce captions based on the content of the image.
A snapshot is not enough: Together, our photos can take a new dimension that companies are dying to control. Welcome to the age of the photo narrative.
Amazon is the latest internet giant to throw itself into the photo:tech space by offering Prime members free unlimited photo storage. And for a very good reason
Amazon Prime has long been a go-to service for streamers and shoppers alike. But today, the service has become a great deal more enticing to photographers
There are many lessons I have learned while shooting this past year. One is that if you look for it, there will always be beautiful moments within tragedy and sometimes these are the most important.
DxO is the exact opposite of instagram, it removes the lens flare and artifacts that social media finds so desirable. Version 8 is available free until January 2015.
Azu Nwagbogu, the founder of the Lagos Photo Festival, is guided by a simple credo: He wants to exhibit everybody. Yes, that’s a big goal. But it’s an even bigger continent with a breathtaking range of people, stories and photographers who have been inspired by it.
Rather than work off what it thinks is wrong with the lens, Piccure+ tackles the optical defects directly in the RAW image file itself. This means that it can also correct distortions and aberrations on images without EXIF data and for lenses that don’t have profiles in competitive software like Adobe’s Camera RAW.
Sol Neelman is a failed athlete turned sports photographer living in his home city of Portland, Oregon, USA. In 2007, he left his staff job at The Oregonian to pursue a life-long project documenting sports culture around the globe. In July 2011, Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany published his first book, “Weird Sports,” and in September 2014 his second book, “Weird Sports 2.”
Today we release 35 exciting updates to Photoshop CC, Lightroom mobile, Lightroom web, Photoshop Sketch and Photoshop Mix that will change how you work with images, PSDs and drawings across your desktop and mobile devices.
While big tech companies are pouring millions, two guys in Brooklyn might be close to solving it: We talk to the founder of computer vision company Clarifai
Clarifai. Still navigating under the radar, it has managed to quickly gain major recognition and recommendations from its peers in what is probably the hottest segment of photo tech : computer vision.
ProCam 2 is out and ready for download today alongside iOS 8, and it has the distinction of being the first camera app to utilize the full manual controls
