You would think that PMA-Photo Marketing Association would be the best source of information for what went on at their annual show, PMA 2008 this year, which shows off in Las Vegas all that is happening in the world of photography. Well, not exactly. For some reason, the PMA puts on a humdinger of a […]
CES 2008 – the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 has long replaced Demo, COMDEX (sigh ….RIP)and other IT shows. CES is the place to be just after Christmas to see what will be the popular electronic gadgets for Christmas 2008. The market does need the lead time even in the frenetic electronics gadget market place. If
I saw one of these Lensbabies in down at THEx (Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario) and I nearly disgraced myself laughing out loud (murfle.. muffle.. lol). It looks like a dinky-toy not a lens. I chuckled for the rest of the day. However, I got my come-uppance at the Junction Gallery Festival along Dundas
There are a new crop of digital SLRs and David Pogue at the New York Times has reviewed these 10MPixel (slightly overweight for most uses) machines. The key new features are: 1)lower price – well below $800 for body only while keeping a full set of SLR features and performance; 2)adding dust clearing agitator for
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Gizmodo tracks the latest geek gizmos, so it should be no surprise that they have picked up the first sightings of the prototype digital camera which will largely replace digital SLRs – the dual capable video cameras. These 3 cameras all offer the capability of not only taking HDTV video images – and directly onto
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I have been using intensively the Photoshop CS3 beta and Xara Xtreme Pro prior to writing review of both. I have also highlighted the return in photo finishing software to the core workflow in digital image processing – refining and color/contrast correcting original raw images. One of the common features in all these new programs
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Corel recently launched version 10 of its Painter program: Now what makes this program of interest to photofinishers are three things: 1)Corel is now specifically addressing the needs of photographers and photofinishers with a number of feature; 2)Corel has also speeded up the processing of Painter – this has been targetted specifically; 3)Painter continues to
Here are two plugins from Redfield. Let me describe them briefly: Redfield’s Craquelure allows photofinishers to apply a texture imprint onto their images of varying size, depth, rotation, and other properties. Craquelure has 12 basic texture templates from which photofinishers can apply an imprint of varying scale onto a part (using masks) or all of
