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The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) is putting up two online Web seminars (Webinars) to help prepare attendees to the SGIA ’07 expo in Orlando, FL on October 24-27. The graphics Webinar on September 18 will include information on equipment and consumables that are new to the industry, and on display at SGIA ’07. In …
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A team of five high school students from Housatonic Valley High School in Falls Village, Connecticut are the winners of the 2007 Canon Envirothon. The winners were announced Friday, August 3rd, during closing ceremonies of the weeklong North American environmental education competition held at Hobart & William Smith College in Geneva, N.Y, and sponsored by …
UK’s travel magazine Wanderlust and Nikon Europe have teamed up once again for their annual Travel Photo of the Year competition. This is their 12th year; the August/September issue of Wanderlust marks this 12th anniversary of the UK’s longest-running annual travel photography competition. Four winners from the Amateur category will be sent on a trip …
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Graphita has launched its online Live Studio web software which allows users to apply expressive effects to photos by adding captions, doodles and art objects without having to master complicated software editing tools. To use it, the user simply uploads a photo from his PC, or chooses from the Graphita gallery, and starts adding effects. …
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The Pentax Online Photo Gallery opened today with a stunning collection of photos that show what Pentax cameras can do. The website says the gallery is an exhibition of select, thought-provoking images captured by talented photographers. The photographs were submitted by a community of Pentax users with cameras such as the K1000, *ist DS, 67, …
Vertus Tech has released online tutorials for their Fluid Mask 3, a masking software which works as a plug-in for Photoshop and also as a stand-alone application. Aimed at both novices and more experienced photographers, the tutorials teach users how to achieve professional quality masks quickly and efficiently. Fluid Mask 3 is quite expensive at …
Image Trends has released the Windows version of SensorKleen Pro, a software application that photographers can use to automatically erase the dust and debris in a set of digital SLR camera images. For individual images, SensorKleen Pro also includes the SmartBrush product to correct defects on each, one by one. “SensorKleen Pro utilizes a patent …
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The U.S. space shuttle Endeavor lifts off to space tomorrow, and to highlight the launch Microsoft teams up with NASA to show Photosynth 3D photos of the spacecraft and how the space agency prepares it for takeoff. The photos can be seen online at Microsoft Live Labs, the software giant’s research division which developed Photosynth. …
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Ever wondered how professional photographers manage to capture those bright lovely eyes in their photos? They didn’t; those lovely crystal eyes came out of Photoshop. Here’s one tutorial on how to do it, and this is just one among many. TutorialsValley.com shows us how to enhance the eyes using only the Dodge tool in Photoshop. …
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The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography is exhibiting Michael Yamashita’s “Silk Road and The Great Wall†from September 27 to December 16, 2007 showcasing the photographer’s present-day images of ancient places traveled by the 13th century explorer Marco Polo and the 15th century voyages of Chinese admiral Zheng He. Yamashita’s exhibit is a melting pot …