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Just six weeks ago Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, announced its planned purchase one of the best-known smartphone camera apps, Instagram. Today, Facebook makes an interesting move with the debut of its own camera app designed specifically for members of its site.
Rather logically dubbed Facebook Camera, the new app doesn't yet include technology from...
If you've bought a new computer recently, chances are pretty good that you've made the leap to the world of 64-bit computing.
After years of lacklustre sales, 64-bit systems have finally taken off in the consumer world, and in the last couple of years have surpassed sales of 32-bit systems by a wide margin. 64-bit operating systems are now commonplace on both Macintosh and...
Only three weeks after the last update shipped, Paris, France-based DxO Labs has released Optics Pro v7.2.3, keeping up the fast development pace of its flagship image processing application.
According to the official release notes, DxO Optics Pro 7.2.3 fixes the most common crashes on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, as well as some other minor issues on the Mac. It also...
Adobe has today finalized the latest updates to its DNG Converter application and Camera Raw plugin, both of which were issued as release candidate versions some eight weeks ago.
On release, Adobe has revealed that this is to be the last update of Camera Raw for Photoshop CS5. That's worth bearing in mind if you've been considering upgrading to CS6, although as new cameras are...
If you've been around photography for any length of time, you'll doubtless have heard some variation on the truism that it's not the camera which makes the photo, it's the photographer. The theory is that a real pro can get a great photograph no matter what gear he or she is using. A new iOSapp from Belgian developer Michael Hardaker takes this theory and runs with it, claiming...
As it prepares for the launch of a significant update to its flagship PhotoKey green screening application in just a few days, Norwich, UK-based FXhome Ltd. is teasing the new release with a number of videos showing off its new features.
PhotoKey v5 ships from April 19th, and customers purchasing version 4 now will receive free updates once version 5 is available. Among the new...
GoPro's Hero-series cameras have proven very popular with fans of the great outdoors, and for good reason. They're simple to operate, relatively compact and light, and pretty rugged. GoPros have shot video of everything from wingflying to wakeboarding, and they've even been up to the stratosphere. Wherever they go, though, it's usually pretty easy to recognize the footage as...
Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and master image retoucher who lives and works in Berlin. A few years ago, he began to create a portfolio of personal photography to demonstrate his Photoshop skills. This collection of “impossible images” both tricks the eye and fools the mind because of Johansson’s attention to detail.
Starting out as a professional photographer and...
DxO Labs has today announced an update to its flagship image processing application, DxO Optics Pro. The latest release marks a milestone for the company, taking the total number of optics modules for the program to an impressive six thousand, less than four months after it past the five thousand point. According to the company, it has shipped no less than 500 new camera body /...
If you remember floppy disks -- or even if you don't -- you'll dig these snazzy coasters designed like those once ubiquitous storage disks.
Though "floppies" could hold only a few kilobytes of data back in the day, these wooden coasters provide ample room for a cup of coffee, cold drink, or cocktail of your choice. The coasters are 3.25 x 3.25 inches and made of laser engraved...
If you know an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch owner, there's a fair good chance you also know an Instagram user. The photo sharing app--known for its lo-fi filter effects and the square aspect ratio of its images--has proven incredibly popular on Apple's iOS platform. Apple has sold a total of some 298 million units between the three devices worldwide, and Instagram now boasts an...
A new release candidate of Adobe's photographer-centric imaging application Photoshop Lightroom released today aims to squash bugs in the major release that debuted about three weeks ago. Simultaneously, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate adds support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III digital SLR.
Beyond the Canon 5D III support, there are six main changes noted in the...
Photo sharing site SmugMug's recently-announced photography app--Camera Awesome--has proven very popular according to the company, which reports today that its creation is now the number one photo app in 55 countries. After more than two million downloads in just the first week, Camera Awesome has gone on to pass four million downloads in its first month on Apple's App Store...
Almost exactly two years ago, Adobe first started teasing a major update to its flagship digital imaging application Photoshop, with a variety of interesting new features including an eyecatching content-aware fill tool.
Fast forward to today, and the company has relegated mere teasers to the trashcan: today it launches its first ever public beta of Photoshop, and we've just...
Denmark's Phase One A/S launched an attractive new corporate website over the weekend, and to celebrate, it's made two other changes that will be welcomed by photographers.
Effective immediately, Phase One's flagship Capture One image editor has a new, lower price tag. It also now comes with a much longer trial period that lets photographers really come to terms with Capture...
Zoner Software, the Czech Republic-based company behind the Windows-only imaging application Zoner Photo Studio has today announced a brief opportunity for customers to get the flagship Pro version of the app at a significant discount. If you've been considering picking up a copy of the program, act quick -- the deal's only valid today!
Launched last November, Zoner Photo...
If you're using Apple's Mac OS X Lion, and want to work with raw files from your shiny new camera or camcorder, a quick download may be in order today, as a new update from Apple brings OS-level compatibility for a variety of new raw file formats to Apple's imaging applications.
The Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.10 adds support for seven new cameras and one...
DxO has released FilmPack 3.2 with several significant improvements to the emulsion simulator we recently reviewed.
Many of the enhancements are a result of FilmPack's move to 64-bit processing but there are some usability improvements as well.
Highlights
Highlights of the update include:
• In moving to 64 bits for both Windows and Mac, DxO FilmPack, which was already...
Adobe Labs has posted a release candidate of Adobe Camera Raw 6.7 and DNG Converter 6.7 at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/cameraraw6-7.html. Adobe uses its "release candidate" label to indicate the update is "well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers."
The new version adds support for the...
As if digital photography isn't perplexing enough, Harald Johnson has just released two versions of PhoozL IQ for iPad to complement the existing iPhone/iPod Touch versions. The larger screen is somewhat more embarrassing but the fun (and the education) makes up for it.
And we do have some fun with it. Although you couldn't tell from our scores. But then, we were writing the...
