Category: Software & Technology

  • Canon Announces Image Cloud Service Irista « Canon Rumors

    Canon Announces Image Cloud Service Irista « Canon Rumors

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    Canon Announces Image Cloud Service Irista London, 5 June 2014 – Canon today reveals irista – an advanced, cloud-based image management platform that allows users to access, enjoy and manage their ph via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2014/06/canon-announces-image-cloud-service-irista/ irista is available to everyone, with tiered storage options to suit a range of different needs. The ‘entry’ tier…

  • Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

    Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

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    Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app Posted by Carlos Hernández, Software Engineer One of the biggest advantages of SLR cameras over camera phones is the ability to achieve sha… via Google AI Blog: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html Lens Blur, a new mode in the Google Camera app. It lets you take a photo with a shallow depth…

  • Adobe Launches Lightroom Mobile App for iPad; Here’s Our Hands-On Review

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    Link: PDNPulse » Adobe Launches Lightroom Mobile App for iPad; Here’s Our Hands-On Review I had a chance to try out the Lightroom mobile app before tonight’s launch and found it to be a handy if slightly underwhelming program

  • Lightroom mobile now available!

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    Link: Lightroom mobile now available! Lightroom mobile extends your existing workflows beyond the desktop, allowing you to utilize your iPad to review and edit your images and have the changes sync back to your Lightroom catalog at home

  • This Little-Known iOS Feature Will Change the Way We Connect

    This Little-Known iOS Feature Will Change the Way We Connect

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    This Little-Known iOS Feature Will Change the Way We Connect A new iOS app called FireChat is blowing up in the App Store. But it’s not the app itself that’s causing such a stir; it’s the underlying networking technology it taps into. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2014/03/apple-multipeer-connectivity/ In a time when the idea of any sort of…

  • I am Hany Farid, a Dartmouth Professor specializing in photo forensics technology. Ask me anything.

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    r/IAmA – I am Hany Farid, a Dartmouth Professor specializing in photo forensics technology. Ask me anything. 34 votes and 62 comments so far on Reddit via reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1x7ljd/i_am_hany_farid_a_dartmouth_professor/ The research in my lab for the past 15 years has focused on developing techniques for detecting photo tampering. I am co-founder of Fourandsix Technologies and…

  • Exclusive : Getty Images new phone App

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    Link: Exclusive : Getty Images new phone App | Thoughts of a Bohemian Getty Images is currently beta testing an iphone app that allows them, in this early stage, to post request that  get immediately broadcasted to their contrat photographers. Andreas Gebhard, Getty’s Director of Content Development , was kind enough to show us how…

  • izitru Trusted Photos

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    Link: izitru Trusted Photos Shot an unbelievable photo? Share an izitru image link to prove it’s real

  • Some rather brilliant imaging tech from Microsoft

    Some rather brilliant imaging tech from Microsoft

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    Some rather brilliant imaging tech from Microsoft The company’s Photosynth technology has been public since 2006, and while it’s been cool (placing photos into 3D space), I haven’t seen it gain traction in its original form or as a free panorama m… via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/12/some-rather-brilliant-imaging-tech-from-microsoft.html the technology calculates a smooth path –…

  • Lightroom 5.3 now available

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    Link: Lightroom 5.3 now available

  • Google+ Releases Advanced New Photo Editing Tools

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    Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Google+ Releases Advanced New Photo Editing Tools Today Google+ released a whole new enhanced online photo editing suite of tools. I’ve been playing around with them for the past few hours and am impressed with what you can do with them as an online editor. While…

  • Marksta adds FTP capability to its popular watermarking app

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    Link: Marksta adds FTP capability to its popular watermarking app – British Journal of Photography Marksta, a watermarking app created by photojournalist John D McHugh, now features a File Transfer Protocol capability, enabling photographers to transmit batches of images to their clients

  • Adobe Announces Photoshop & Lightroom for $9.99/month

    Adobe Announces Photoshop & Lightroom for $9.99/month

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    Adobe Announces Photoshop & Lightroom for $9.99/mth *UPDATE* The catch is you must own a copy of Photoshop CS3 or higher to qualify for the limited time pricing of $9.99 per month (sign-up before December 31, 20 via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/09/adobe-announces-photoshop-lightroom-for-9-99mth/ So what does this mean for journalists covering the war? For Szlanko, “It all…

  • New Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw Release Candidates Available Now

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    New Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw Release Candidates Available Now | PDNPulse Adobe has announced release candidates Lightroom 5.2 and Adobe Camera Raw 8.2. With the release candidates of these upgrades, Lightroom 5, Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop Creative Cloud users gain support for additional cameras including the Canon EOS 70D, Fu via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/08/new-adobe-lightroom-and-camera-raw-release-candidates-available-now.html The…

  • LightZone Image-Editing Software Re-Released as Free and Open Source

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    LightZone Image-Editing Software Re-Released as Free and Open Source | PDNPulse Remember LightZone software? For those who do not, LightZone was a photo-editing program that offered a number of groundbreaking features including full 16-bit, selective and  nondestructive RAW editing in a fairly user-friendly GUI. Released in 2005, it via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/07/lightzone-image-editing-software-re-released-as-free-and-open-source.html Your brand is the…

  • Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security

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    Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security As we increasingly take our mobile phones for granted David Hoffman suggests that photographers should be alert to the dangers of carrying a sophisticated monitoring device in their pocket, especially when working abroad.

  • Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Part II: The Good

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    Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Part II: The Good This week’s column by Ctein Last column I told you what is wrong with Adobe’s Brave New Photoshop, and we had a jolly good time bashing the Big A, didn’t we! Now we’ve got that out of our system. (and… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/06/adobe-photoshop-creative-cloud-part-ii-the-good.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 This time…

  • Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Part I: The Bad

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    Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Part I: The Bad This week’s column by Ctein This is the first part of a two column series on Photoshop CC. In this column I will talk about what Adobe got wrong (oh, so badly wrong!) Pertinently, I’ll also correct some broad misconceptions… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/06/creative-cloud-i.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 Adobe did…

  • PSDs and Permanence

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    PSDs and Permanence This week’s column by Ctein One of the complaints I’ve seen raised about Adobe’s new subscription-based license for Photoshop is that if you fail to keep up your subscription, years of your work will become unavailable to you. Which brings… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/05/psds-and-permanence.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 If you’re treating these fragile and temporal…

  • Can you open a Photoshop CC file in CS6?

    Can you open a Photoshop CC file in CS6?

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    Can you open a Photoshop CC file in CS6? Over the last few days I’ve seen numerous questions about what data, exactly, is backward-compatible when opening a Photoshop PSD file in an older version of the app. The Photoshop team has w… via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05/can-you-open-a-photoshop-cc-file-in-cs6.html Just for reference, here are some points that…