Two recent photofinishing tools, Adobe LightRoom and Nikon’s Capture NX have set a new back-to-the- future direction to photofinishing. Neither of these tools has either layers or masks or filters – the concentration in both is rendering a photo finished – not composited, filtered or gardened – finished. My brother Greg has raised the following […]
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I was just about to go off to Barrie’s Winter WindFest to take pictures there. WindFest features all sorts of iceboats, kites, and wind riders taking advantage of the ice on Lake Simcoe that has been generously applied this bitterly cold February. But as I was looking for directions I stumbled across this notice: Media
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I used to argue that the four most difficult tasks in photofinishing and photo editing were color corrections, masking, sharpening and touch ups. But the good folks from Adobe, Corel, Ulead and a host of plugin suppliers have been slowly but surely whittling away at these problems. Color Corrections have moved well beyond Hue/Saturation/Lightness and
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Sony announced this week a new video image sensor that does the following: 1)takes images at 60 frames per second 2)and at 2921Horizontal pixels by 2184Vertical pixels = 6.4Mpixels 3)and can seamlessly take still images at this full resolution 4)and performs at high speed plus alternate resolution versus speed settings. Go to the Sony site
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All through December and the first half of January I was gearing up psychologically and physically to do battle with Winter. But Winter was feinting – some cool nights, and a little snow but then followed by those Glow in the Night and “it must be Global Warming” days of early January. In short it
With the following printer Kodak likely will shake-up inkjet printing: The shake-up will be due to 4 major factors: 1)The printer is well targeted plopping right into the multifunction market; 2)The printer is fast delivering 30ppm B+W, 22ppm color – very fast; 3)The printer’s ink is archival lasting 100 years versus 5-10 for competitors; 4)The
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Three new gallery sites have appeared on my radar screen as the scramble for the billions of film camera dollars that used to go to your neighbourhood drug or film store are now headed for harvesting at your drugstore, online or on your home printer. A number of film, drug, and electronic stores are now
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