Category: Software & Technology

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

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 sum of all the feelings, opinions and expectations others have about you — Good and Bad, Objective or Subjective, Real or Imagined. Your brand is based on your audiences’ experience of you in any venue and from any source, direct or indirect.

July 8, 2013
Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security

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.

June 24, 2013
Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Part II: The Good

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…

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This time I’m going to talk about how I’ve come to think this is a really good idea. Seriously.

June 12, 2013
Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Part I: The Bad

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…

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Adobe did not spring this on us in the worst possible way, but it’s way high up on the incompetence scale. Some of their strategy and marketing people need to be fired. I’m not kidding. Most of the whirlwind they are reaping is entirely of their own making and was entirely unnecessary.

June 6, 2013
PSDs and Permanence

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…

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If you’re treating these fragile and temporal constructs as your long-term archives, you’re just asking for trouble.

May 29, 2013
Can you open a Photoshop CC file in CS6?

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 might be useful to know.

May 15, 2013
Google Unveils Cutting Edge Photography Tools to Make Your Photos Look Better

Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Google Unveils Cutting Edge Photography Tools to Make Your Photos Look Better and the World A More Beautiful Looking Place

Google unveiled significant new innovation in the world of online photography this morning, continuing their rapid development pace on Google+. All in, Google+ pushed out 41 new features today.

May 15, 2013
Does Adobe’s Sudden Shift To Subscription Only, Unnecessarily Screw Photographers

Does Adobe’s Sudden Shift To Subscription Only, Unnecessarily Screw Photographers – A Photo Editor

Last week Adobe announced a sudden shift to subscription only on future releases of Photoshop. This seems inevitable as the whole software industry has moved away from major releases in favor of incremental improvements. An article in Mashable has Adobe e

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/05/13/does-adobes-sudden-shift-to-subscription-only-unnecessarily-screw-photographers/

The issue for photographers as explained in this photographyreview.com article and comments is the $20 a month you must pay to access your photoshop files. If you don’t pay, your files are “digital trash.”

May 13, 2013
The storm over Adobe’s move to Cloud Licensing

Link: Adobe CC

Sadly we all will lose on the financial front since to continue to use the latest version of Photoshop will mean paying more in aggregate for a yearly subscription than the previous cost of a version upgrade. And for those who in the past would skip a version (unless there was a compelling new feature), the new cost is even higher.

May 9, 2013
You should never lose access to your work, period.

You should never lose access to your work, period.

A number of readers have raised a very valid concern about Creative Cloud subscriptions: How can you retain access to your intellectual property (the work you’ve made with the apps) if you en…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05/you-should-never-lose-access-to-your-work-period.html

A number of readers have raised a very valid concern about Creative Cloud subscriptions: How can you retain access to your intellectual property (the work you’ve made with the apps) if you end your subscription?

May 9, 2013
Sneak Peek: Perspective Warp in Photoshop

Sneak Peek: Perspective Warp in Photoshop

If I may echo Rainn Wilson, “Oh my God, that’s ridiculous.” Note: This is a technology demo, not a feature that’s quite ready to go in Photoshop CC. With the move to subscri…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05/sneak-peek-perspective-warp-in-photoshop.html

If I may echo Rainn Wilson, “Oh my God, that’s ridiculous.”

May 8, 2013
Photoshop CC: Adobe responds to reaction

Photoshop CC: Adobe responds to reaction

Yesterday’s announcement by Adobe that it will cease ‘perpetual license’ sales of Photoshop and its Creative Suite counterparts has generated considerable backlash here on dpreview and across the web. With such a significant change in store, we spoke toda

via DPReview: http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05/08/Adobe-photoshop-cc

We expected a higher degree of this type of reaction from the hobbyist photographic community because currently there’s not a lot of photography-specific value in our subscription products

May 8, 2013
Hipstamatic launches Oggl, a new social network for creative photographers

Hipstamatic launches Oggl, a new social network for creative photographers

Oggl is said to offer a brand new way to experience Hipstamatic’s filters, ‘and for the first time ever, directly connects the Hipstamatic community and like-minded creatives from around the world,’ says the San Francisco-based start-up in a statement rel

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2266618/hipstamatic-launches-oggl-a-new-social-network-for-creative-photographers

The app will allow photographers to capture scenes using Hipstamatic’s filters or apply them after the images have been taken – similarly to what Instagram and EyeEm currently offer. With the subscription, users will gain access to Hipstamatic’s entire catalogue of virtual lenses and films, with new ones added each month.

May 8, 2013
Snoop Dogg Launches Snoopify, A Mobile Photo App For iOS & Android

Snoop Dogg Launches Snoopify, A Mobile Photo App For iOS & Android

Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion), in association with Upper Playground, 99centbrains and Cashmere Agency, has launched Snoopify, a photo-sharing app for iOS

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With it, users can add Snoop Dogg-related virtual stickers to new or existing photos and then share the newly decorated images. The stickers are designed by illustrator Munk One

May 7, 2013
Favorite photography features in Photoshop CC

Favorite photography features in Photoshop CC

Julieanne Kost demonstrates her top 5 favorite features in Photoshop CC, including the new Upright perspective correction, Radial Filter, and Spot Removal features in Adobe Camera Raw 8, Image Ups…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05/new-features-for-photographers-in-photoshop-cc.html

Julieanne Kost demonstrates her top 5 favorite features in Photoshop CC, including the new Upright perspective correction, Radial Filter, and Spot Removal features in Adobe Camera Raw 8, Image Upsampling and Smart Sharpening, Live Shapes for Rounded Rectangles, and Camera Shake Reduction

May 7, 2013
Adobe Turns Creative Suite Into Cloud-Based Subscription Software

Adobe Turns Creative Suite Into Cloud-Based Subscription Software | PDNPulse

Back in March, a rumor made the rounds that Adobe would move away from selling packaged software, making Creative Suite programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator only available as cloud-based subscription software. The rumors claimed May 1 as the date th

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/05/adobe-turns-creative-suite-into-cloud-based-subscription-software.html

What does this mean for professional photographers? For most of us, it will be a big change. CS6 will continue to be available as a perpetual license and will be supported through the next significant upgrade to the Mac and Windows operating systems. However, there will be no further development for that version. Going forward, if you want to use Photoshop, you will have to have a Creative Cloud subscription of some sort.

May 7, 2013
Photoshop CC for Creative Cloud Members Coming Soon!

Photoshop CC for Creative Cloud Members Coming Soon! | Photoshop Blog by Adobe

Photoshop Blog

via Photoshop Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/05/photoshop-cc-for-creative-cloud-members-coming-soon.html

We’re thrilled to announce that the next version of Photoshop, the world’s most popular digital imaging software, will be available to Creative Cloud members this June! This release, called Photoshop CC, will deliver dozens of new features, including capabilities in sharpening, upsampling and reducing blur, improvements to designer tools, added capabilities in Adobe Camera Raw, and much more.

May 6, 2013
CNET: “Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets”

CNET: “Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets”

Stephen Shankland covers today’s sneak peek (emphasis added): [Hogarty] wouldn’t promise when it would ship or what exactly it would do, but he did demonstrate some features on prototyp…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/05/cnet-adobe-to-bring-lightroom-style-photo-editing-to-tablets.html

The ability to edit photos taken in raw photo formats, including Lightroom develop-module parameters like exposure, clarity, shadows, highlights, and white balance.

May 1, 2013
FocusTwist brings Lytro-style imaging to iPhone

FocusTwist brings Lytro-style imaging to iPhone

The new $2 app lets you refocus images after capturing them: PetaPixel writes, Unlike Lytro’s light field camera, which uses innovative new technology that actually captures entire scenes sharply i…

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/04/focustwist-brings-lytro-style-imaging-to-iphone.html

The new $2 app lets you refocus images after capturing them

April 22, 2013
Photoshop Sneak Peek: New De-Blurring Tech

Photoshop Sneak Peek: New De-Blurring Tech

Here’s a brief look at new image-sharpening technology the Photoshop team has been developing (previously hinted at during the last Adobe MAX):

via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/04/photoshop-sneak-peek-new-de-blurring-tech.html

look at new image-sharpening technology the Photoshop team has been developing

April 18, 2013