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A friendly reminder from your neighborhood Photoshop store: there’s only a week left for you to avail of the introductory price of $199 for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow software. After April 30 the price goes up to the regular $299. But if you’re a student, or an instructor, you can still buy Lightroom for the …
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The Blu-ray optical disc format has sold over 830-thousand copies in the first quarter of this year, edging out rival HD-DVD in their race for dominant position in the format war. According to a research by Home Media Magazine, consumers bought nearly 1.2 million high-definition discs between January 1 and March 31. Of these, 832,530 …
Norway-based stock photo agency Crestock is offering a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II pro DSLR as the top prize in their photo contest. The Crestock Photography Contest 2007 is free and open to all amateur and professional photographers, and the winner is determined half by public vote, half by company judges. There are three rounds: Round …
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Samsung has developed a new all-DRAM stacked memory package that promises to be smaller, faster and more power efficient. It’s called the wafer-level-processed stacked package, WSP, and it’s made up of four 512 megabit (Mb) DDR2 (second generation, double data rate) DRAM chips that offer a combined 2 gigabits (Gb) of high density memory. By …
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The New Mexico Photography Field School will hold a photo workshop in Santa Fe on July 8-14, 2007. Titled “Ranchers, Ramblers & Renegades: Portraits of the Old West,†the workshop will focus on environmental portraiture. It will teach participants how to make great images utilizing the quality and direction of natural light. Reflectors and translucent …
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TriGem Computer Inc., a maker of sleek and stylish computers from South Korea, has won the $1-million Intel Core Processor Challenge. TriGem’s Home Theater Lluon “Black Crystal†design garnered the top prize in the contest which was aimed at encouraging industry innovation in new, stylish and high-performing PCs based on the Intel Viiv processor technology …
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The Sanyo Xacti S70 digital camera is now out in the market for €129 or $175, MSRP. The 7.1-megapixel compact updates the previous Xacti S7 by adding a very useful face recognition feature, which ensures good portraits even in difficult lighting conditions. It also updates the previous model in terms of price (the S7 was …
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London-based Computeractive PC magazine has launched its Digital Photographer of the Year competition, offering a total of £1,500 (about $3,000) worth of prizes from Canon. To enter, just send one print-quality high resolution picture to photochallenge@computeractive.co.uk along with your full name, address and brief summary of where you took the photo. Top winner gets a …
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New York photo retailer Adorama has announced its photography workshops for May 2007. Online registration to these workshops is now open for professionals, enthusiasts and advance amateurs. These photo workshops include: ABC’s of Digital Photography and Digital SLRs with instructor Steven Hirsch; Light, Geometry, Moment with instructor Tod Bryant; Power Presenting: Create Distinctive Photographic Portfolios …
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NewTek Inc. will launch its Lightwave Rendition for beta test participation beginning May 2007. The software, created by NewTek’s 3D division, provides photorealistic 3D render output, such as recently used in the feature film “300,†and is based upon the Emmy Award-winning render engine native to LightWave 3D. NewTek said LightWave Rendition gives creative artists …
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