Cartucho Group Ltd said its major US customer has told it to suspend further roll outs of its ink refill kiosks in the US, until it can provide improved support services. Cartucho said it is communicating with its outsourced service provider to upgrade its service and support levels immediately, and plans to [...]
Cartucho halts ink refill kiosk rollout in US until support services improve
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Photoshop Batch processor: XBatch
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Why yet another Photoshop Batch Processor? The batch processor (Automation tool) built into Photoshop is very powerful (same can be said about the ImageProcesor script). But I always missed one important feature—You cannot run the batch processors on a source image tree and create a target image tree with the same [...]
A Conversation with Michael Wolf and His New Photo Project
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J.M. Colberg writes, “Michael Wolf’s work first caught my attention when I discovered his Real Toy Story project – a depiction of under which conditions the toys found in Western toy stores are assembled. Just a little while later, Michael published Architecture of Density – large-scale photos of some of those [...]
Adobe Lightroom to revolutionise Mid East digital photography workflow
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Adobe Lightroom™ Beta’s modular user interface efficiently enables professional photographers to import, select, edit and showcase large volumes of digital images. ‘We are constantly developing ground-breaking solutions to provide greater versatility and convenience for the most demanding photographers,’ said Jacob Alex, Channel Manager, Middle East, Adobe Systems.
Source: AME Info
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High-speed photography widely used in motion study
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High-speed photography has many applications today. It can be used to measure shells emerging from barrels of any calibre weapon, it can be used to study high-speed machinery as used in automated industry, and it can be used in biometrics. Other applications include its use in the study of vehicle impact [...]
Elevated Images shows homes from a new angle
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Tom Ouvry has always enjoyed photography as a hobby, now he’s turned his hobby into a business. Ouvry and his wife, Mary Kaye launched Elevated Images this spring. The purpose of the business, Tom explained, is to provide the real estate industry with a a new service. Using digital camera on a [...]
Smile for the camera, criminals
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A robbery in progress? Say cheese. Brandishing a firearm? Take a snapshot. Fleeing the scene of a crime? Capture a photo of the license plate and put it online or give it to police.
Smile, criminals: You’re on candid camera phone. Since the installation of cameras in cellular telephones, more ordinary citizens [...]
Pantech Handsets Using Face Sensing Software
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Oki Electric says that it has provided South Korea’s Pantech with FaceSensingEnginge (FSE), Oki’s face image processing middleware to be used in their mobile phones. FSE is embedded into Pantech’s SKY brand mobile phone, “SKY IM-R100,†that was launched earlier this month.
SKY IM-R100 is Pantech’s first mobile phone to be equipped [...]
Crack down on camera phones: Violators can lose phone, access badge, employment
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What was once affordable to high-end mobile phones users only is now available to virtually everyone. Camera phones now saturate the market and are as common as the Camden gnat. As first reported in The Periscope in April 2005, camera phones were banned from the Waterfront Restricted Area and other sensitive [...]
SellFolio™ First Flash Portfolio Software For Photographers– Endorsed by Halden Krog, FujiFilm™ Photographer of the Year
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August 31, 2006 — Many photographers want a stunning portfolio in Flash that keeps their photos from theft or copyright infringement. However, most photographers don’t have the ability to program in Flash. Now SellFolio for Client Projects-Merchandising allows photographers to build unlimited, royalty-free Web & CD-ROM portfolios and presentations — without [...]
Santa Fe Photographic Worshops Offers “Photoshop Finesse†With Kirk Amyx October 30- Nov 3
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August 31, 2006 — This fall the Santa Fe Workshops welcomes back Kirk Amyx teaching his powerful weeklong workhop “Photoshop Finesse.†Learning to finesse our photographs in subtle yet powerful ways is the focus of this weeklong experience.
This workshop, led for the fifth year by Amyx is especially tailored for the intermediate-level Photoshop user who [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Post processing: Overburn
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A simple photoshop tutorial for the post-processing of photographs. “Overburn†well, it’s like burning the colours and increasing contrast. It’s best used for architectural photography, moody cityscapes & landscapes.
Source: Nicolas Noben
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Photoshop tutorial – Post processing: Digital to fake Black & White Film
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Simply desaturating a photograph doesn’t really represent a true black & white film photo. The film has more impact, more puch and more life. A digital photo converted to black & white just doesn’t cut it, it doesn’t look real.
Although it’s impossible to represent digitally what the chemicals and the paper [...]
The Image Doctors #22
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This week, join the Image Doctors as they discuss the new Nikon 105mm AFS-VR micro lens and offer their suggestions for putting together a landscape photography kit
Show Notes2:04 Listener Mail: A discussion about mirror lock-up9:27 Nikkor105mm f/2.8 AFS VR Micro “mini reviewâ€22:50 Putting together a landscape photography kit
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The Many Faces of You (Clean Up With a Click)
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You start by positioning the Digi Makeover’s camera about three feet from your face and taking a picture of yourself. It is a bit of a trick to line up eyes and mouth with the on-screen guides, but that is necessary to avoid getting lipstick on your cheek later on.
Digi Makeover, a [...]
Scan, Print and Copy; No Computer Required
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Photo printers are getting so smart that most of them can print without a PC. The Epson Stylus Photo RX580 improves on even that level of autonomy: it scans, restores, prints and copies without ever needing to be connected to a computer.
This $229 printer has a 2.5-inch color screen and can [...]
“Reflections†by Caponigro at Hallmark Museum
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Photographer/digital print artist John Paul Caponigro will exhibit thirty-six images of his large scale color work, at Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, September 28th thru December 17th.
The prints are drawn from two recent series: “New Work, 2005″ and “Exhalationsâ€, completed in 2006. Working with traditional film, he often alters the resulting [...]
Photoshop Tutorial: Over the Border
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This is a very clever technique. Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, shows us how to make a photo pop out of its border.
Source: Planet Photoshop
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Photoshop Tutorial: Over the Border
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This is a very clever technique. Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, shows us how to make a photo pop out of its border.
Source: Planet Photoshop
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Black and White from Colour Images – Part 4
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Of course, there are still even more ways to convert you image to a black and white photo. Both methods outlined here today involves using features of Adobe Photoshop that are not supported by Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.
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HP scientists help defend ink patents
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Hewlett-Packard cares about ink. It cares so much that it pays 10 employees to run an in-house ink testing lab, looking for examples of patent infringement in products from around the world. The lab is run by LeAnn Bell, a chemistry Ph.D. who uses capillary electrophoresis and gas chromatography to test up [...]
Software Cinema Teaches the Fundamentals of Adobe® Photoshop Elements in an Easy-To-Learn, Step-By-Step Format
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August 30, 2006 — Software Cinema, a leading software training company supporting the digital imaging industry of photographers, videographers and graphic artists, today announced their latest Workshops-On-Demand and Product-On-Disc interactive training series featuring Mike McHugh and Wayne Rankin, two of the How to Wow digital photo experts.
The new two-disc Photoshop Elements [...]
David Taylor Has Now Released “Zanzibar in Black and White,†A Collection of 50 Monochrome Images Created on the Exotic Spice Island of Zanzibar
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August 30, 2006 — David Taylor has now released a 56-page softcover book of monochrome images from the spice island of Zanzibar, in conjunction with Lulu (www.lulu.com), the world’s fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.
Zanzibar in Black and White is an eclectic mixture of photographic images, ranging from candid shots of the [...]
Real World Print Production
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What you see is not always what you get—a truism that’s nowhere more apparent than in print production, where what you see on screen is often a far cry from what comes out on the printed page. Here to help you avoid the production problems that plague many projects is a comprehensive [...]
Bruce Fraser’s Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Reader
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It’s a sad but undeniable fact of life: Whether you scan, shoot, or capture, the process of digitizing images introduces softness, and to get great-looking results, you’ll need to sharpen the great majority of digital images. The softness introduced during digitizing results from the very nature of the digitizing process. To [...]
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