Category: Software & Technology

The experts chimed in:

Thad Allender is a photographer and founder of Graph Paper Press, website designs and tools for creatives based on WordPress.
Will Critchlow is an SEO and web expert who co-founded Distilled Ltd.
Roberto De Luna is a photographer and photo editor at Time Out New York
Rob Haggart is the brains behind APhotoEditor.com and the creator of APhotoFolio.com, portfolio websites for creatives.
Grover Sanschagrin is a photographer and vice president & co-founder, PhotoShelter.
Mike Schmidt is the founder of Mohawk Street, an interactive multimedia, production and website design firm.

Link: Flash Websites for Photographers, good idea or kiss of death? – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter

We’ve developed a mobile portfolio website that looks great on the iPhone and we integrated it with WordPress so you can update it easily just like a blog. It’s also very practical because we can detect if someone is looking up your website on their iPhone and automatically redirect them to your mobile portfolio site.

Link: iFolios » iPhone Website for Photographers

Red Sweater Software is excited to announce the immediate availability of MarsEdit 3, a major upgrade to the award-winning blog editor for Mac OS X.

Link: MarsEdit 3 Features Rich Text Editing, Enhanced Media Browser

Lightroom 2.7 (Mac | Win) and Camera Raw 5.7 (Mac | Win) are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.

Link: John Nack on Adobe: Camera Raw 5.7, Lightroom 2.7 now available

iPad – Magazine Savior, Portfolio Replacement Or A Complete Waste Of Time? – A Photo Editor

The iPad has the potential to save the magazine industry, may become an important marketing tool for photographers but is a complete waste of time (good for consumers, bad for work). A lot of ink has been spilled over the anticipation, launch and criticis

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/04/20/ipad-magazine-savior-portfolio-replacemet-or-a-complete-waste-of-time/

PhotoShelter slideshows give you the ability to embed your galleries almost anywhere like a blog, webpage, or even your Facebook page. And as more and more people have used them, we’ve gotten a lot of feedback on how they could be even better. So I’m happy to announce that we’ve updated the features and functionality.

Link: The Many Faces of the PhotoShelter Slideshow – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter

Website Builder for Creative Professionals – liveBooks

Create a beautiful, mobile-friendly website that showcases your work. Our website builder has customizable website templates for photographers, artists, real estate agents & more. 14-day free trial.

Link: http://www.livebooks.com/

Here are some of the things to look forward to when Photoshop CS5 ships next month, things that are not Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp:

Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: What’s new for photographers in Photoshop CS5

The iPad is retrograde. It tries to turn us back into an audience again. That is why media companies and advertisers are embracing it so fervently, because they think it returns us all to their good old days when we just consumed, we didn’t create, when they controlled our media experience and business models and we came to them. The most absurd, extreme illustration is Time Magazine’s app, which is essentially a PDF of the magazine (with the odd video snippet). It’s worse than the web: we can’t comment; we can’t remix; we can’t click out; we can’t link in, and they think this is worth $4.99 a week. But the pictures are pretty.

Link: The iPad: Where Creativity Goes to Die | Media and Tech