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"A picture," so the old saw goes, "is worth a thousand words." That may well be so, but if researchers at the University of Michigan and Adobe Research get their way, a few sentences could soon be sufficient to make that picture just a little bit more worthy. Their creation, a prototypical, voice-activated image editor called PixelTone, lets...
Several key camera firmware and software updates recently issued by Nikon fix a variety of bugs and should bring an improved user experience for photographers. In all, the updates cover the Nikon V1 mirrorless camera, the professional Nikon D4 digital SLR, and the Capture NX 2 application that's available to accompany the company's various...
Despite the many advantages of digital photography, do you still find yourself hankering for the look of your favorite films? You're not alone, and software such as DxO Labs' FilmPack aims to provide a solution.
FilmPack takes your digital photos, and recreates the look of a variety of popular film types from...
Regular readers will be familiar with Iridient Raw Developer, a raw image processor for the Mac OS operating system that we've mentioned many times over the years. Released way back in 2004, the software has just undergone its first major update in a long while, and along with it comes a brand-new name. The app is now known as Iridient Developer 2, and in addition to including...
French software company DxO Labs has unveiled a new release of its flagship Optics Pro workflow software for photographers, and announced an important milestone in its production of the modules that let Optics Pro automatically correct common lens-derived image quality problems such as vignetting, aberrations and distortion.
DxO Optics Pro...
On Tuesday, we reported that popular photo sharing service Instagram was preparing a controversial update to its terms of use and privacy policies that -- among other changes -- would grant it sweeping rights to user-generated content. Just a day after the new policies were announced, Instagram faced a huge backlash from its user community,...
Shortly after Facebook announced its purchase of photo sharing app-maker Instagram last April, Imaging Resource reported that a segment of the latter's userbase was reacting to the news with alarm. A significant overhaul of Instagram's terms of use (TOU) and privacy policy, released today and slated to go into effect early next year, suggests that they may have been wise to show...
Does your photographic workflow feature DxO Labs' Optics Pro or Viewpoint applications? If so, the French software company has recently released updates for both applications that should make them even more useful. (And if not, some holiday discounts aim to persuade you to add them to your toolbox.)
Last week's DxO Viewpoint v1.1 update gives the...
Last month, Adobe issued release candidates of several updates for Photoshop Lightroom, Camera Raw and DNG Converter. Those updates have now been finalized, squashing another raft of bugs and adding support for a healthy selection of new cameras and lenses, as well as a couple of camcorders.
As is often the case,...
Last night, Adobe revealed updates to a couple of its Creative Suite 6 applications -- Photoshop included -- that enabled support for HiDPI, Retina-branded displays as seen in the latest MacBook Pro notebooks from Apple. Today, it turns out that Retina support isn't the only change made in Adobe Photoshop CS6 but it's the only change you're...
For photographers, the latest-generation Apple MacBook Pro notebooks are mighty appealing thanks to their extremely high-resolution displays. All those extra pixels let you see more of your images on-screen at once without discarding the fine detail. Even if you fit your image to the screen, you're still looking at a full five megapixels of...
Photo editing on Android smartphones and tablets just got a lot more intuitive, thanks to the release of a new app that had until now been an iOS exclusive. For Android users, Nik Software's Snapseed has been a long time coming, but its arrival is accompanied by some great news: it's now free.
Nik first shipped the app for Apple's popular...
We kicked off our holiday gift-giving roundup yesterday with a selection of the best cameras and lenses for the photographer-friend in your life, but what to do if they're already happy with their photographic setup?
That's where Part Two of our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide comes in. We've gathered a healthy selection of photo gifts to choose from...
If you've bought a new camera from Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, or Sony lately, now would be a good time to update your Apple software. The Cupertino, CA-based company has just released its Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.02, and raw files from a number of these companies' latest cameras are now available.
Apple newly supports raw...
If ACDSee Pro 6 or ACDSee 15 forms the heart of your Windows-based digital darkroom, or you're looking for a new image editing and management package to go with a new camera purchase, there's good news for you from ACD Systems this week. Both applications have just received updates that add support for a wide variety of digital SLRs and...
In September we covered the announcement of Perfect Photo Suite 7, the latest major update to onOne Software's flagship image editing plugin package. At the time, the update was still a couple of months away from public availability. It's here now, and as promised it brings changes aplenty. We've spent a little time with the latest version on...
Desktop and notebook computers have improved in a lot of ways over the last decade: processors have gotten faster, storage capacities have soared, and so has the amount of memory. In one respect, though, there's been surprisingly little development for quite a long time. Although display resolutions have increased, they've climbed more slowly...
Late last week, Microsoft's released the latest version of its Windows operating system to the public. Windows 8 brings many changes to the user interface and the underlying architecture, many of them aimed at promoting use on mobile devices such as tablets.
As is often the case with major OS updates, Windows 8's new features are accompanied...
If driving around trying to find places to buy and process film using the Kodak app we reported on earlier today doesn't seem like your idea of fun, then perhaps a new iPhone app from Alien Skin software will be more your cup of tea.
If you like to fiddle with your images in post-processing, chances are you're...
A new release of Paris, France-based DxO Labs' flagship Optics Pro image processing application today offers something for pros and consumers alike, with support for a variety of new camera bodies and body / lens pairings.
The newly supported cameras in DxO Optics Pro v7.5.5 include the Canon EOS-1D X, Nikon D600...
