Software Cinema will hold the Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom Training Camp Live Expo and Conference on Friday December 8, 2006 at the San Francisco Conference Center. The Expo will give attendees the opportunity to learn the latest Photoshop and Lightroom techniques as well as see new digital imaging products and speak with industry representatives. In …
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Quick Thumbnail to Resize Images
You’re at an airport internet café and you need to send a photo immediately. Problem is, the photo you took is too large and you need to resize it but the computer available has no image editing software. Solution: Quick Thumbnail. It’s a fast way to resize your pictures over the Internet. You just upload …
Learning Portrait Photography
There’s a wealth of experiences about portrait photography that you can find in this one webpage, much to learn not only from its author Philip Greenspun but also from the many insightful comments it generated. Philip states the obvious when he says “the most important thing about portrait photography is an interest in your subject.†…
Hand Tinting: A Photoshop Tutorial
There is a certain charm to old black-and-white photos with colored dyes to mimic real-life colors. Remember those old wedding photos of grandma and grandpa in which she had pink cheeks and rosy lips? Back then, photography was done only in B&W but creative photographers managed to put colors in them via careful hand tinting. …
Fujifilm FinePix F30 Gets DIWA Gold Award
The Digital Imaging Websites Association has announced a DIWA Gold Award to Fujifilm’s FinePix F30 digital camera for “its amazing 1/1.7-inch Fujifilm Super CCD HR VI image sensor with 6.3-megapixel resolution.†Diwa said the F30’s “light sensitivity up to an incredible ISO 3200 is not just a marketing term, but a truly useful feature, delivering …
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Canon Advisory: More Cameras Used Sony’s Defective Sensors
Canon has updated a previous advisory concerning some of their camera models which used CCD image sensors supplied by Sony. The affected models, Canon said, may now be eligible for free service regardless of warranty status, should any malfunction be caused by the CCD sensor. This comes in the heels of Sony’s own admission recently …
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Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Photo Competition
Intel has launched a photo contest in the Asia Pacific region focusing on the theme of pairs. The photographs should show how a team of two – people, animals, objects – can complement, inspire or motivate each other at work or at play, indoors or outdoors. The photographs may be posed or candid, serious or …
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Transcend Releases JetFlash 180 USB Drives
Transcend has released its stainless steel-bodied JetFlash 180 USB2.0 Flash Drive, in capacities of 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. The stainless steel body is a design decision to keep the flash drive durable as well as aesthetically pleasing. The company says the JetFlash 180 is built using Hi-Speed SLC NAND-type Flash with a read speed of …
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Leica Also Looks at Recalling Some M8 Cameras
Because of banding issues and mirror/ghost images reported by some users of its expensive M8 digital rangefinder, Leica is offering three possible options for the affected cameras: recall, hardware fix or firmware upgrade. If you’re an affected Leica M8 owner, you have first to register with them, then “you will be contacted by Customer Service …
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Sony Cyber-shots Recalled
On a Thanksgiving weekend, Sony announced a thankless bit of news: it is recalling not just one but eight models of its popular Cyber-shot digital cameras that were sold from September 2003 to January 2005. The LCDs in these cameras may be faulty and the cameras may not even be able to take pictures at …