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Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One (O’Reilly Media, $49.99 USD) by Deke McClelland is now available. The new book simulates a classroom environment with one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson on the latest version of Photoshop: • Find out everything you need to know to be productive with Photoshop CS5 right away • Learn …
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Rocky Nook has released a new book by Stephen Laskevitch, Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3: A Photographer’s Handbook, available from book distributor O’Reilly. In the Handbook, Adobe Certified Instructor Steve Laskevitch leverages his experience as a teacher and practitioner to create a step-by-step guide that provides a clear and effective workflow for editing photographs in …
Corel’s Quest for the Best Creativity Challenge is searching for awesome images made by Corel users. This is in conjunction with Corel’s 25th anniversary. Professional or not, you are invited to enter your best work created using Corel software. There are $25,000 worth of prizes to be won. “With Corel’s Quest for the Best Creativity …
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The 2010 FotoWeek DC festival, to be held on November 6-13, 2010 across the District of Columbia, and throughout the metropolitan Washington area, is now accepting entries; early bird deadline is on July 31. Images are judged in 12 different categories, with cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place for each category. There is …
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UK’s Imagine Publishing and Samsung are jointly launching the 4th annual Digital Photography of the Year awards, promising better prizes and categories than ever before. Prizes include a Samsung NX10, three lenses and a flashgun kit. Six category winners will each receive a Samsung EX1 camera. Launched in 2007, the DPOTY awards anticipate a record …
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Mamiya Digital Imaging announces that its medium format camera systems — the Mamiya DM 22, DM28 and DM33 — are now available worldwide at affordable prices. How affordable? $10,000 for the DM22, for starters. Mamiya said all systems feature the Mamiya 645DF camera body, digital back technology from Leaf Imaging, and Phase One Capture One …
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The Sigma APO 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM full-frame telephoto lens is now selling in Japan. Sigma says its unique optical stabilization (OS) feature offers the use of shutter speeds approximately 4 stops slower than would otherwise be possible, making telephoto shooting easy. This massive 70-200mm f/2.8 lens is constructed of 22 elements in …
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South Korea’s Samyang Optics Co., Ltd. has introduced three new manual focus lenses for the Samsung NX mount. Available in September, the new lenses – the Samyang 8mm f/3.5 fish-eye, 14mm f/2.8 ultra-wide lens and the 85mm f/1.4 telephoto lens – will also be available later for Canon, Nikon, FourThirds, Pentax and Sony versions. The …
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Sony introduces two new Cyber-shot compacts, the DSC-TX9 (pictured above) and DSC-WX5, which claim to be the world’s smallest 3D cameras. The new cameras capture 3D images with a single lens system using a sweeping motion. The TX9 and WX5 also boast extremely low-noise images. To deliver low-noise images, both models feature a ‘Superior Auto’ …
HP has launched a Large Format Photo Negative application that allows professional photographers using the HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer series to produce fine-art quality prints or hardcopy image archives. HP is showcasing Large Format Photo Negatives and prints produced with the negatives for the first time at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2010 in Arles, France …
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