Category: Software & Technology
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Get Ready for a Brand New PhotoShelter: March 2012
Get Ready for a Brand New PhotoShelter: March 2012 – PhotoShelter Blog Get ready for a brand new PhotoShelter. We’re kicking off a year-long radical upgrade of our service that will take a big leap forward in photo hosting and photography websites. These upgrades will take place across a series of phases throughout 2012 that…
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Ben Syverson’s Mattebox
Ben Syverson’s Mattebox I don’t usually post much about apps, but rules are made to be broken. Ben Syverson (a TOP regular, if you’ll excuse the brag) has created the killer iPhone camera app, called Mattebox. The camera interface is based on the… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/01/mattebox.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 iPhone camera app, called Mattebox. The camera…
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How Smartphone Camera Tech Will Evolve in 2012
How Smartphone Camera Tech Will Evolve in 2012 Handset manufacturers identified image capture as a key application for mobile devices early on, and have been iterating the sub-webcam-quality cameras that graced the original cellphones ever since. For 2012 and beyond, smartphone cameras will only impro via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/five-ways-smartphone-camera/all/1 For 2012 and beyond, smartphone cameras will…
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CES/PMA 2012: Nik’s Snapseed App Now Available for Mac Computers and Android Tablets
PDN Pulse Apple itself named Snapseed “App of the Year” for the iPad
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Lightroom 4 beta now available
Lightroom Journal The Lightroom team is proud to introduce the fourth major version of the product designed for and by photographers. It was 6 years ago today when we introduced the very first public beta of Lightroom at MacWorld on January 9, 2006. (Yes, it was Mac only, smaller in footprint than most raw files…
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Lightroom 4 beta resources
Lightroom Journal This is a list of various resources dedicated to educating photographers about Lightroom 4 public beta
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Adobe Releases Lightroom 4 Beta
Adobe Releases Lightroom 4 Beta Amidst the deluge of camera announcements at CES comes photo news of a different sort. Adobe has made public a beta of Lightroom 4, the next version of its photo cataloging and processing suite. At first look, almost nothing has changed, but dig deeper an via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/adobe-releases-lightroom-4-beta/all/1 At first…
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CameraTrace Traces Stolen Cameras
CameraTrace Traces Stolen Cameras CameraTrace is a service that will help you track down your stolen or lost camera. It does this by scanning popular photo-sharing sites like Flickr and extracting camera serial numbers from the EXIF metadata contained in the photos. Then, when your camera via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/cameratrace-traces-stolen-cameras/all/1 CameraTrace is a service that will…
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HOWTO keep your data safe at the US border
HOWTO keep your data safe at the US border The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new guide, “Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices,” which explains how the law, good te… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/21/howto-keep-your-data-safe-at-t.html The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new guide, “Defending Privacy at the…
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Photography on the iPad: The Road to Success?
British Journal of Photography Photographers are increasingly experimenting with Apple’s iPad as a way to reach new audiences and gain financial independence from traditional revenue sources. But is the strategy working? Olivier Laurent speaks with Kadir van Lohuizen, who has developed the Via PanAm app.
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New Hipstamatic App Kicks Photography Back to the Old School
New Hipstamatic App Kicks Photography Back to the Old School Hipstamatic’s new Disposable Series iOS app is a free program that hearkens back to the days of disposable cameras. It shuns the instant, real-time focus of today’s digital world, delivering your photos only when a virtual roll of film is completed. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/new-hipstamatic-app-kicks-photography-back-to-the-old-school/all/1 Launching…
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Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6 Now Available
Lightroom Journal Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.
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Lytro Camera: How Pro Shooters Use Its Amazing Lens Technology
Lytro Camera: How Pro Shooters Use Its Amazing Lens Technology A little over a month ago, the revolutionary Lytro light-field camera became available for pre-order. But a few lucky pro photographers have been using the Lytro and its “living picture” technology for the last few months, and now we can see their stunnin via WIRED:…
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Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations
Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has…
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Our Computer Overlords Will Now Rate Your Photos
Our Computer Overlords Will Now Rate Your Photos – PhotoShelter Blog If you’re like me, you’ve probably been waiting a long time for the Utopian leisure society to emerge where robots and computers do our work, while we sip on maitais and eat bon bons. As I always say, “work is for the peasants.” Fortunately,…
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DxO Film Pack
luminous landscape DxO Labs introduced DxO Filmpack 3.1. This slightly updated version has 25 new creative looks and several UI enhancements. The new looks are under a separate tab from the color and B&W film looks and include several vintage effects and film-inspired filters that expand on FilmPack’s library of film emulations. The UI enhancements include screen…
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Adobe revamps upgrade policy for Photoshop CS6, other CS6 applications
Rob Galbraith DPI: To upgrade to Photoshop CS6 or any other Creative Suite 6 application at the upgrade price, however, you will need to own a license to the previous major release
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Condition One App for iPad Is Unveiled
Lens With the Condition One app, which debuts Friday, viewers can get a 180-degree field of view by simply moving the iPad in their hands. Swipe the screen or move the tablet left or right to see a truck full of soldiers rolling beside you. Want to examine the sky? Hold your iPad up, as…