Category: Software & Technology
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Photoshop Touch for iPad is here!
Now, let me anticipate two questions which go hand in hand: Why does the app require an iPad 2, and why is the maximum image size 1600x1600px? The iPad 2 has twice the RAM, twice the processing cores, and ~5x the graphics grunt of the iPad 1. PS Touch brings some seriously powerful algorithms (e.g. Refine Edge) from the desktop to mobile, and we wanted to ensure a good match between hardware & image size. The app is geared more towards remixing photos & sharing them onscreen than towards print work; having said that, note that a 1600×1600 doc could be printed at 10.6×10.6″ at 150dpi.
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Lightroom 4.3 Now Available
Once again we are upon the photography contest season. And every year I hear photographers ask “Do photo contests matter?” In the opinion of this photo editor, they do! But just don’t take my word for it; here are what some prominent industry professionals think about the value of contests and what you can do to assure your entries are seen in the best light.
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You Can Tag People In Instagram Now
You Can Tag People in Instagram Now
Instagram launched a “Photos of You” feature in its iOS and Android apps today. Photos of You gives Instagram users the ability tag photos with any other Instagram account.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2013/05/instagram-photo-tagging/
Instagram launched the feature, dubbed “Photos of You”, in its iOS and Android apps today. Much like the photo tagging function on Facebook, Instagram users can tag photos with any other Instagram account. And all of the photos you’re tagged in will show up in a new tab on your Instagram profile.
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Next Version of Adobe Photoshop to Be Branded Photoshop CC, Includes Awesome New Motion Blur Sharpening Tool
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2013/05/next-version-of-adobe-photoshop-to-be-branded-photoshop-cc-includes-awesome-new-motion-blur-sharpening-tool.html
The biggest news though is Adobe’s moving Photoshop 100% into the Cloud and 100% by subscription. You’ll still be able to purchase Photoshop CS for the time being, but it won’t have the new features available in CC.
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How the New Google Images is Changing Traffic to Your Site
How the New Google Images is Changing Traffic to Your Site – PhotoShelter Blog
By now you’ve probably noticed Google’s new and “faster” image search, launched in late January 2013, which displays larger images in an inline panel that lets users flip through image search results. But many in the webmaster and search engine marketing community are not happy about the impact these updates are having on referral traffic…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/05/new-google-images-interface-causes-78-drop-in-referral-traffic-to-your-site/
So what’s been the result and how has it affected your website? The change means that the source page (i.e. your website) will no longer load up in an iframe in the background.
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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (Published 2014)
In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html
Cool exists at the ineffable confluence of smart people, big money and compelling product. You can buy it, but only up to a point.
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People Are Laughing at Your LinkedIn Profile
People Are Looking at Your LinkedIn Profile and They’re Laughing at You
I mean, come on—you like racquetball and you list “social media” as a skill? What does that even mean? You know about Twitter and you own weird goggles?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/people-laughing-linkedin-profile
Browse the suggested connections, and don’t bother to think about whether you ever gave us permission to trawl through every e-mail you’ve ever received just because some of the people are super-specific and it’s creepy that we would know that you know them
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Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. – The Washington Post
Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal.
Privacy advocates and representatives from companies like Facebook and Google will meet in the District to try to set rules for how companies should use this powerful technology.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/facial-recognition-technology-is-everywhere-it-may-not-be-legal/
Anticipating the importance of this information, Texas passed a law in 2001 that restricts how commercial entities can collect, store, trade in and use biometric data. Illinois passed a similar law in 2008 called the Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA. A year later, Texas followed up with another law to further regulate biometric data in commerce.
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Storage for Photographers (Part 2) — PaulStamatiou.com
Storage for Photographers (Part 2)
How a 12TB Synology DS415+ NAS changed my digital life: Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. I captured 275GB of photos …
via PaulStamatiou.com: http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers-part-2/
Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. The move to smaller but faster SSDs hasn’t helped with storage. I captured 275GB of photos and videos on my last trip. Just one trip! And I’m just a hobbyist photographer with a mere 12MP camera. If you shoot with any regularity and a 20MP+ camera you’ll easily be clocking more than a terabyte a year. Where on earth do normal people store that much data? The cloud?
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Facebook Photo Magic Can Send Your Pictures to the People Seen in Them
Facebook Photo Magic Can Send Your Pictures to the People Seen in Them
Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new feature in its Messenger app called Photo Magic. Using facial recognition, it scans through your new
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/10/facebook-photo-magic-can-send-your-pictures-to-the-people-seen-in-them/
Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new feature in its Messenger app called Photo Magic. Using facial recognition, it scans through your new photographs, spots the faces of your friends, and asks you if you’d like to send those photos to those friends.
