Category: Software & Technology
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Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 available on Adobe Labs
Adobe: Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 are now available as Release Candidates on Adobe Labs. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers
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Hints about Adobe’s future mobile photography tools
Hints about Adobe’s future mobile photography tools Managing your photos across a range of devices (phones, tablets, computers, cameras) really starts to suck. We’re exploring some interesting solutions that go beyond what others have announce… via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/08/hints-about-adobes-future-mobile-photography-tools.html No matter which device is in your hand, you see your entire photo library.…
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Twitter Launches Photo-Sharing Feature
Twitter Launches Photo-Sharing Feature | PDNPulse Twitter has launched its native photo-sharing feature, allowing Twitter users to post photographs to Twitter without using a third-party service such as TwitPic or yfrog. Images of 3mb or less can now be posted to Twitter by clicking a camera icon in the via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/twitter-launches-photo-sharing-feature.html The launch of…
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Android App Controls Canon SLRs Directly via USB
Wired: To control a camera with an iPhone, you need to first tether the camera to a computer or use some funky, limited BlueTooth triggering. With Android, you just plug in a USB cable.
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Snapseed image editor comes to iPhone, iPod touch
Rob Galbraith: Version 1.2 of Snapseed, Nik Software’s fast and fluid image editor for the iPad, is now compatible with Apple’s smaller iOS devices too.
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Syncomatic Automatically Beams Photos from iPhone to Mac
Syncomatic Automatically Beams Photos from iPhone to Mac Can’t wait for iOS5 to bring you Photo Stream, the service which automatically sends photos snapped with your iPhone to your other iOS devices or even your computer? Well, Syncomatic is here to give you a taste for that auto-syncing action right now. Sync via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/syncomatic-automatically-beams-photos-from-iphone-to-mac/…
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Samsung Patent Creates Shallow Depth-of-Field in Digicams
Samsung Patent Creates Shallow Depth-of-Field in Digicams With their tiny lenses and even tinier sensors, will cellphone cameras ever be able to take photos as good as those from SLRs and Micro Four Thirds cameras? The quality has all but been taken care of with the latest phone-cams, but there’s one problem com via WIRED:…
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Instagram Hacks. How to Get More Out of (and Into) The Electronic Polaroid
Instagram Hacks: How to Get More Out of (and Into) the Electronic Polaroid Since its launch back in October 2010, Instagram has quickly become the spiritual successor to the Polaroid. But it’s limited. There are third-party services that let you view Instagram images on Android or the web, but good luck getting Mom to use…
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Top 10 Tips on Google+ for Photographers
As some of you know I received an early invite to test out and participate in Google’s latest entry
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New Tools to Tell an Ancient Story
New Tools to Tell an Ancient Story Migration along the Pan-American Highway is the focus of Kadir Van Lohuizen’s app, Vía PanAm. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/new-tools-to-tell-an-ancient-story/ His trek alone is noteworthy. The photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen is spending 40 weeks traveling up the Pan-American Highway from Chile to Alaska. So is his reporting medium: a…
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PhotoForge 2, Possibly the Best iPad Photo Editing App Yet
IPad-owning photographers should stop reading right now (well, not right now, or you won’t know what to do next) and go download PhotoForge 2, a rather splendid update to the already decent photo-editing app. Better still, if you already bought the iPhone version, the update is free — the app is now universal.
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Final Cut, Avid users: Switch to Adobe & save 50%
::: The Travel Photographer ::: travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/ Get half off Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Premiere Pro CS5.5 when you move from Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer
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Thomas Hawk » Google+, A Bold Step Forward in the World of Social Photo Sharing
Most of my initial observations about Google+ will have to do with how it impacts photo sharing, and here I think Google has pushed the envelope to create a compelling photo sharing experience to accompany this new social network. Photo sharing in Google+ is very slick and very polished and works very well. Link: Thomas…
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Capture Pilot: iPad Remote Control for Phase One Cameras
Capture Pilot: iPad Remote Control for Phase One Cameras Normally I’d complain about an iOS camera triggering app which requires a computer as well as a camera to make it work, but when that camera is loaded with the Phase One back, which pumps out 80MP images, you’re going to need somewhere bigger than the…
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Apple Final Cut Pro FAQ →
Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s Survival Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the ve via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/stephens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired27b Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting…
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Ren Ng Shares His Photographic Vision: Shoot Now, Focus Later
Ren Ng Shares His Photographic Vision: Shoot Now, Focus Later After buying his first digital camera, Ren Ng tried to snap a shot of his vivacious 5-year-old daughter. Like many young, active children, it was incredibly difficult to focus the image properly and capture her fleeting smile in just the right way. And th via…
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Lytro Camera Lets You Focus Photos After You Take Them
Lytro Camera Lets You Focus Photos After You Take Them Ex-Stanford student Ren Ng is just about to launch a new kind of camera that will blow you away. Don’t believe me? Try clicking around on this photo of a Scuba diver standing in front of distant mountains. This is a single exposure, taken with…
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Kadir van Lohuizen launches an iPad app
The Via PanAm app, by award-winning photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, studies migration in North and South America via photography, video and audio links Link: Kadir van Lohuizen launches an iPad app – British Journal of Photography
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Apple Releases Final Cut Pro X for Just $300, Mac App Store Exclusive
Apple Releases Final Cut Pro X for Just $300, Mac App Store Exclusive Apple has just released the update to its professional-level movie editing app Final Cut Pro for just $300. Previously, the application cost $1,000. Final Cut Pro X is available now, from the Mac App Store. Remember when Apple completely reworked iMovie, via…
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A*HOLE OF THE WEEK – APPLE
When I have to start worrying about when and where I can use my device based not on the law or the content owner (whole other issue), but on a third party manufacturer’s initiative, then I have a problem. I have a problem because we’ve gone to a whole new level of this post 9/11,…