Category: Use

  • Photoshop CS4: upgrade

    Adobe just published a patch/upgrade to Photoshop CS4. Those who are equipped with this software program will probably be interested in visiting http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ to get the upgrade in order to correct a few performance and feature bugs. Moreover, the users of MacBook Air and recent MacBook Pro systems can use mutli-touch to rotate documents frame.But,…

  • Wildlife Photography Competition

    I discovered an interesting web site, the blog of Matt Burrard-Lucas, young winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year (the 15-17 year old category, in 2005). Even more interesting, Matt opened a Wildlife Photography Competition around a simple theme but with the added difficulty of a target rarely tried for wildlife photography: Portrait.…

  • Ritz Camera stores going down

    Ritz Camera, the largest US retail photography chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It’s not the first one, but the size of it is impressive: 800 photo stores in 40 states, operating as Ritz Camera, Wolf Camera, Kits Cameras, Inkley’s and The Camera Shops going MIA… Nikon and Canon are clearly at the…

  • Develop RAW files on Linux

    If you are a digital photographer and you are using Linux, there are some things that seem more difficult than if you are using Apple MacOsX or Microsoft Windows. For example, there is nothing obviously available to work on RAW files (not only JPEG pictures). The solution? GTKRawGallery is an open source photo manager and…

  • Cameras delayed for fear of recession

    Crisis, recession, deflation, financial crush, layoffs are all words that we hear about on a daily basis. Whatever you feel/think about them, there is a reality: the consumers are buying less. This is as true for photo hardware and software as for the other markets (maybe it’s worse for cars…) Now, this has a clear…

  • Download Photoshop for free

    Adobe Photoshop is not a free product. Perhaps because it is such a good image editing tool and such an important software to support photographer, many are looking for free or cheap options to get it. The first and most obvious possibility is to download the evaluation version from the Adobe website (nearly all Adobe…

  • Online photo editors

    When you are looking to replace Photoshop with a free and easily accessible software solution, you quickly arrive at the online pictures editors and web-based editors. And they are quite adequate, sometimes impressively able (but not always) and defeintely attractive. The most commonly listed ones are: Pixlr which really is Photoshop Elements for free in…

  • Obama shot by Gigapan

    Gigapan is this tripod and equipment set used to shot semi-automatically a set of pictures that will be stitched together in a major picture made of billions of pixels. David Bergman brought one to the Washington’s inaugural address of Barack Obama. With its small Canon G10, it shot 220 images, brought them to a Macbook…

  • Canon for Obama

    Barrack Obama is the first American president who had his official portrait shot by a digital camera. Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer, shot the picture with a Canon EOS 5D MkII.