Champaign, IL, October 31, 2007 – Artlandia, Inc., maker of award-winning pattern design software, has released Artlandia SymmetryShop 2, a major new version of its Adobe Photoshop plug-in. SymmetryShop is a companion of Artlandia SymmetryWorks, which provides a similar functionality in Adobe Illustrator. The new version significantly streamlines the workflow for creating sophisticated surface designs [...]

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“Here is an example and demonstration of my most often used portrait lighting set-up. I call it my “business portrait” lighting set-up or my three light portrait lighting set-up. It’s nothing fancy, just good solid lighting, and it’s very acceptable to the business community. There are lots of corporations and companies that [...]

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The 50 winning images have been selected from a huge number of entries by a panel of respected judges, Geoff Smith (photographer), Tania Coates (photographer), Paul Davies (picture editor), Caroline Ogden (designer), Claire Turner (art curator) and Paul Dyer (exhibition organiser).
Each year SUN rewards the best photographs and gives maximum exposure to photographers based all [...]

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Canon RAW Codec is a software plug-in that enables the import and display of RAW images (with the extension .CR2) taken with Canon cameras.
Latest Changes:

Added supported for many new camera models
RAW images with IPTC information are handled as the Read Only files and can be developed
The phenomenon in which images were unable to be displayed [...]

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Source: Ben Long
“Down at the bottom of the File menu in Photoshop, there are two little submenus: Scripts and Automate. Buried in these submenus are a few easy-to-overlook features that are surprisingly handy. Here’s how to take advantage of their powerful output capabilities and save a tremendous amount of time.” – Ben Long
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X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) will present training seminars on the Fundamentals of Color and Appearance in six US cities this November and December. From the physics of color to lighting, spectrophotometers and color data, attendees will learn how to measure, view and understand color data. The one-day course requires no prior color training and is [...]

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Source: Jill Lubetkin
“Released this summer by Pentax into a burgeoning DSLR market, the entry-level 6.1Mp Pentax K100D Super has to have a few tricks up its sleeve to prove itself as a contender. Unlike its sibling, the K110D, one of its chief talents is its CCD-shifting Shake Reduction system that helps you capture shots in [...]

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S O F T W A R E R E V I E W
Many years ago (many more years than I’d like to admit), when I started shooting, I had a choice between Kodak Panatomic-X, Plus-X or Tri-X film for black and white images. In reality, for us beginning photographers, the real choice [...]

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” Looks like the recently released Eye-Fi card has already received support from dotPhoto, a leading online personal media site. This is good news for those with a dotPhoto account as they can automatically upload photos to the site directly from their digital camera as long as they’re within vicinity of a WiFi network…” – [...]

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“My friendship with Diane Keaton began about twenty-eight years ago, when I found her, one morning, sitting in the flower bed outside the Madison Hotel, in Washington, D.C. She was rummaging in a bag big enough to hold a caribou, which contained a camera heavy enough to stun the caribou with, should that be necessary.” [...]

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Source: Theano Nikitas
“The latest model in Canon’s popular line of image-stabilized superzoom cameras, the 8-megapixel Canon PowerShot S5 IS is similar to its predecessor, the 6-megapixel PowerShot S3 IS (Canon skipped a number so there’s no S4). Both have an image-stabilized 12x optical zoom lens with a focal range of 36-432mm (35mm equivalent), an SLR-like [...]

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“This week, I reach down into the photo goodie bag and pull out a few treats for the Halloween season. Sweets include: adding metadata to your images so people know who took the photo and its copyright status, my camera gear kit for an upcoming trip to the Caribbean, an update on Mac OS X [...]

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Source: Aimee Baldridge
“Fotofix has launched a new consumer photo retouching service. Fotofix.com [www.fotofix.com] offers both a basic level of retouching that includes cropping, redeye removal, and color correction, and an advanced retouching service. Advanced enhancements can include blemish removal and skin smoothing, tooth whitening, hair and eye color changes, background changes, slimming effects, and removal [...]

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As noted in Adobe’s Leopard FAQ the current version of Lightroom 1.2 is not fully compatible with Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5. The good news is that we’ll be releasing an update in mid-November that will address key compatibility issues. In the interim, the following list describes areas where photographers may encounter problems with Lightroom [...]

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Cameramac, the creation of photographer’s wife Judith Bagnall was originally developed for professional sports photographers to protect their cameras and lenses in wet weather.
Judith’s husband, award winning Midlands photographer David Bagnall travelled the country taking Premier League and Championship football pictures in all weathers, at grounds from Plymouth to Newcastle, but constantly moaned about his [...]

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Olympus is pleased to announce the release of six kits tailored to the requirements of photographers working in professional fields. Each features the superior technology and latest imaging innovations of the Olympus E-System. Based on either an E-410 or E-510 D-SLR body, all kits boast Live View for ease of framing and incorporate a new [...]

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Source: Gavin Stoker
“The Nikon Coolpix P5100 compact digital camera is the successor to the P5000, which is a mere 6 months old. The new P5100 improves on the older model by offering a 12.1 megapixel , 1/1.72-inch CCD sensor and the new EXPEED digital image processing engine for better looking images, even at faster ISO [...]

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Keizo Ishiguro, Tom Shay, David Vaskevitch, and Frans Lanting Also to be Honored at Las Vegas Event
Old Bridge, NJ – October 29, 2007 — The PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA) announced today that Phil Askey, Founder and Editor of DPReview.com, will receive the 2008 Person of the Year award. The award will be presented [...]

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“Finally Sony are making good their promise to bring a real Alpha system on the market that not only appeals to the amateur but the semi-pro and even the professional photographer alike with the introduction of the Sony Alpha 700. I do not wish to claim the Sony A700 to be the ultimate tool for [...]

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Version 6.0 of AKVIS Sketch offers a new effect! Now you can not only convert a photo to a drawing or a watercolor painting, but also give it an artistic touch by adding a canvas, or any other textured surface (corrugated paper, brick wall, metallic or ceramic coating).
New to version 6.0:

Added the possibility to imitate [...]

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Faster Write Speed Maximizes Camera System Performance
Fountain Valley, CA – October 29, 2007 – Kingston® Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is increasing the overall performance of its popular CompactFlash® Elite Pro™ Flash memory cards to help amateur and professional photographers maximize the performance from their high-end imaging [...]

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“The Fuji Finepix S5700 is a seven megapixel digital camera with a ten times zoom lens. The length of the lens makes the camera a good choice for subjects where you need plenty of zoom. These include sports and wildlife photography. The Finepix S5700 also has a number of more advanced features including manual exposure. [...]

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Source: Doug Harman
“The Pentax Optio M40 updates the Optio M30 with a few key tweaks that include a bump in pixels from seven to eight million pixels on a slightly larger sensor, a better resolution wide-view monitor and there’s improved flash output with a much improved shutter-lag response time. ” – Doug Harman
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To all of our Alpha enthusiasts,
I want to let you know we’ve been reading all of your comments and considering your ideas and thoughts for future product models. We truly appreciate them.
Today I’m writing to let you know about a performance upgrade for the new DSLR-?700 camera.
As part of our efforts to provide the best [...]

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Capture One handles RAW files from DSLR/P&S cameras. It allows the photographer to adjust the exposure, white point, color balance etc. of the image prior to processing it into a TIFF or JPEG file. The software also offers IPTC and EXIF support. Capture One supports Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Pentax and Konika-Minolta cameras.
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