Web-to-television pioneer Steve Perlman will unveil Monday what he says is an animation breakthrough, creating “photo real” humans far quicker and cheaper than current technology. Perlman sold his WebTV, a set-top box device that allowed people to surf the Internet on their TV sets, to Microsoft for $425 million in 1997. Now his San Francisco-based [...]

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The Association for Computing Machinery’s Siggraph, its yearly conference on computer graphics, features an Art Gallery of computer graphic art in 2D, 3D, 4D, audio, video, and animation. This year’s Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery theme is “Intersections.” The art work will be on display in Boston, Mass. July 30 – August 3.
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Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them [...]

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Pop Photo Guest Columnist Mark Lent shares stories from his photojournalist experiences.
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July 31, 2006–PixDro Ltd., Inventor, developer and manufacturer of inkjet technologies and dispensing printing technologies has recently installed its LabP150 high precision inkjet laboratory system at Creavis Technologies & Innovation, Marl, Germany. Creavis is the incubator for new strategic business fields of Degussa AG, Dusseldorf. PixDro inkjet system is utilizing PixDro’s MEMS inkjet head technology [...]

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Color Schemer Galleria 1.0 [Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later] (Free):
The Color Schemer Galleria widget gives you access to over 1,000 color schemes from the Color Schemer Gallery, right from your Dashboard.
Browse color schemes, find inspiration, and copy your favorite color values to the clipboard to use them in your own designs. [...]

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As part of an effort to incorporate more user-generated content in its news reports, CNN said Monday that it has created a Web site where viewers can send in video and audio clips pertaining to breaking news. CNN Exchange will serve as the online center of the Time Warner network’s interaction with viewers and Web [...]

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Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain rechargeable batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro computer systems from February 2006 through May 2006.
Note: The affected batteries do not pose a safety risk. You may continue to use your current battery until a replacement arrives.
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MiShow has a new photo and video sharing site, MiShow, that focuses on mothers writing the biographies online. MiShow says it “enables users to capture life events in pictures, video, audio, or text and upload them via picture messaging, mobile browser, or e-mail, to pre-defined channels. Dynamic tagging helps users instantly enter rich contextual information [...]

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July 31, 2006 — “Eleanor Rigby’s Resurrection,” a new exhibit by artistic art photographer Mark Andrew, is scheduled to open at the National Museum of Dance on Friday, August 11.
This is Andrew’s second exhibition of dance photography at the museum. The first is an interactive display featuring the social dances of the six nations of [...]

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July 31, 2006 – As digital SLR cameras (DSLRs) grow in popularity among photography enthusiasts and shutterbugs who enjoy the picture-making flexibility of interchangeable lenses, more and more photographers are discovering mysterious dark spots on their photos. And they want to know: “How do I get rid of these things?”
We are thrilled to be able [...]

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So when we discovered this sleek and simple photo rope, this non-rectangular, non-photo frame, we were pretty stoked. When we found it was cheap, and used tiny, super-strong magnets to boot (we’re suckers for tiny magnets), we were sold.
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For those wishing to save a little money by purchasing used Nikkor lenses, this is a great time to buy. It’s especially true for those preferring to use Nikon Manual Focus (MF) 35mm bodies. The introduction of newer Autofocus (AF) designs has driven down the price of their predecessors, creating remarkable value in some cases. [...]

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Pictures taken out the window of an airplane usually look hazy and washed-out. These faults are easy to cure by processing the image with Photoshop. In what follows, Michael Covington you how he processed an aerial photograph with Photoshop CS. Most of the features needed are not advanced, and most other image editing programs should [...]

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iStockphoto®, the world’s leading community-powered marketplace for stock photography and illustrations, today announced it is now accepting user-generated video, expanding its premier image collection to include royalty-free (RF) stock video, film, and animation clips for as little as $5. This will be the first time that stylish, high-quality video will be offered at such compelling [...]

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Total Training™, Inc., a pioneer in engaging and innovative video-based training, today announced a new series of instructional DVD-ROM series for learning web design software programs called Total Training™ for Adobe® Flex™ 2. The series is hosted by James Talbot of Adobe Systems, and features 8 hours of instructional videos for $149.99 USD.
Total Training for [...]

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REALVIZ, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to confirm that it is now possible for users of their acclaimed photo-based software applications to display their content in Google Earth. Panoramas, 3D models, virtual tours and other photo-realistic material created with the REALVIZ software products, Stitcher, ImageModeler and VTour, can now be directly [...]

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MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA and KFAR SABA, ISRAEL – July 30, 2006 SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) and msystems? Ltd. (NASDAQ: FLSH) today entered into definitive agreements for SanDisk to acquire msystems in an all stock transaction. This combination joins together two flash memory pioneers with complementary products, customers and channels. Together the combined company will have the [...]

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You might think the business of printing photographs is dead or dying now that digital photography has become so firmly entrenched, offering anyone with the right software and a cheap printer the opportunity print their own shots. Black’s Photo Corporation, which operates 139 photography stores across Canada, suggests that’s not the case. It sees what [...]

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Eastman Kodak Co. will provide another update on its shift to digital imaging this week as investors display a bit of pessimism and perhaps impatience about the company’s prospects. Rochester’s second largest employer is scheduled to report financial results for the second quarter before the opening bell on Tuesday. The company is expected to post [...]

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The Miami Herald’s Spanish-language sister paper acknowledged Friday that it manipulated two photos to make it appear that two Cuban police officers were ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a tourist. The image, which appeared June 25 in El Nuevo Herald, combined two previously published pictures — a 1994 photo of the officers by El Nuevo Herald [...]

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Who hasn’t been caught by an unplayable DVD or CD? You try to wipe off any smudges but find that there’s a scratch that’s keeping you from moving forward. Well, here’s the rub and how to try and fix it.
Spray a little Pledge furniture polish onto the scratched CD. Then, gently wipe it all off [...]

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Microsoft researchers will detail a new 3D software technology designed to create an immersive 3D online photo sharing capability for consumers. Microsoft researchers will detail a new 3D software technology designed to create an immersive 3D online photo sharing capability for consumers.
Dubbed “Photosynth,” the technology enables users to combine their photos with thousands of others [...]

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Out of Microsoft comesf a new technology called Photosynth, which can stitch together 2D snapshots of a location to build a 3D walkthrough. So for instance, you could do a Google Image or Flickr search for photos of the Eiffel Tower, dump all the resulting photos of the monument into Photosynth, and have the software [...]

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Photographing Long Scenes with Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas, one of the conference papers, describes a system for producing panoramas of long scenes, such as the facades of buildings along a city street, from a relatively sparse set of images captured with a handheld digital camera that is moved along the scene. Another paper, Photo Tourism, Exploring Photo [...]

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