For PhotoFinishing, mobile apps like Instagram, FxReviews, and PicSay have re-invigorated a revolution started by such web photofinishing tools as Picnik [see here the new Picniks since Google closed shop ]. The idea was to add visual fun to images which was inspired originally by Photoshop plugins like Impressionist or Virtual Painter or Flaming Pear. […]
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Convergence is a way of life in electronic gadgets. For example, still and video cameras have merged in the past 5 years. Another example, video cameras at the high-end may provide the next step up with 4000K movie images to draw upon for stills. But the real movement on the gadget highway has been from PDA
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If you goto the Pinterest site here, you will find 150 of the best photos from the Olympic Games in London. These are compiled from a number of sources – but the bulk of them come from the LATimes Photography Blog and the London2012.com official Olympic website. There are 3 reasons for this choice of sources
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One of the best sites for Olympic photos is the Los Angeles Times photography blog. First they are covering some of the fascinating venues as well as all the most popular events. Second, as one might expect from the movie capital of the world, the LATimes photographers show a flare for getting dramatic and graphically
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My father used to say “know when you have been beaten to the punch”- and DPReview with Amadou Diallo’s update on Adobe’s Lightroom 4 has certainly done that. Note this is an update review so users are expected to be familiar with Lightroom 2 or 3 and the program’s role as a single image, non-destructive
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Photoscape keeps moving up the rankings as a photo editor the more often it gets used. Now let this reviewer admit, Photoscape initially took a big dive in estimation when no masking and no layering capabilities were to be found. In contrast Art Weaver, another free photo editor, provides both layering and selections/masks plus a
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GIF Animations have become ever more popular now that Flash animations are verboten on Apple hardware. Another reason is that many GIF animations have a “silent movies” fashionable styling . Finally in a sea of images, a few moving ones catch the eye. So the other day I was tearing through my backup disks looking
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TheVerge gadget website finally caught onto to what theOpenSourcery readers have known about 3 weeks ago. The next dynamite NUI-Natural User Interface that is going to sweep the Consumer Computing scene is LeapMotion’s SuperKinect, 3D pointer tool which will hopefully do away with both the mouse and all variety’s of trackpads over the long haul.
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