As a photo-artist I really appreciate always having a camera with me. Rather than taking a bulky, heavy SLR everywhere I have reverted back to compact cameras because they are certainly delivering on thin, light, wide zoom-range and gobs of features. They are also bound and determined not to provide a view finder - to [...]
The comments on Apple’s iPad are starting to really roll in the best I have found so far is by New York Times David Pogue:
* Like the iPhone, the iPad is really a vessel, a tool, a 1.5-pound sack of potential. It may become many things.
This catches the overall theme of many gadget observers. The [...]
Evocowire is the strange name of a website crammed with photofinishing resources and tutorials. Most of the resources like the actions shown in the picture above are for PhotoShop - sets of actions, brushes, and templates abound on the site - and they are topnotch. But there are also resources for Paint Shop Pro, Adobe [...]
Online Photo-Editing sites have been covered by thePhotoFinishes.com before; but not a free online PhotoFinishing site. Befunky changes that - it is devoted to taking your photos and transforming them into works of art using special effects like Cartoonizer, Oil Painting, Inkify, Old Photo, Charcoal, Impressionist, and my favorite - PopArt. Then add some [...]
One of the advantages of the Web 2.0 RIA revolution is that Flash and JavaScript websites are not only getting more features but also much faster in performance. Color Wheels and Color Chooser websites have gotten very sophisticated. Going to my old wheel favorite Color Scheme Designer I could not find it - it has [...]
After its annoucement in October 2009, Canon EOS 1D Mark IV went underground with the ability to acquire one severely taxed. So Canon may be taking advanatge of CES - Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas to relaunch the camera with its imminent greater availability. Canon is locked in a battle with Nikon’s D3S [...]
Liquid Image has ski, scuba, and swimming goggles which take still pictures[2200 images on one battery charge] and video images at 720 x 480 [2 hours worth on one battery charge ]. The google will be available this summer at $149US without the 16GB SD card. So plan on $200+ expenditure with taxes. [...]
The CES Electronic Gadget show in Las Vegas has started to win back big annoucements in the photo world. Normally photo buffs would have to wait for PhotoKina for the really heavyweight photo announcements. But how do you like this for heft:
Leica announces $31,000 body-only S2-P
Stay tuned for more camera goodies from CES.
With the full flower of RIA-Rich Internet Applications [think DHTML and Flash tecnologies] Web GUI is starting match those available on the desktop - be that Windows 7 with its Aero goodies or Apple Snow Leopard with its refined look and often copied navigational features. Here is an example from Adobe PDFs - the [...]