Making Notecards With Your Own Images

February 1, 2012
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Making Notecards With Your Own Images

Sharing pictures online is becoming ever more popular. Photography websites like Flickr and Fotki or social media sites like Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr  are locales where photographers congregate. It has become so important in social media sites that Google+ has  boosted  its photo album service into the top ranks - see here And smartphone camaeras are certainly expanding even more…

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The Missing Link in Apples iBook Author

January 26, 2012
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Adobe Flash. iBook Author got a lot of fan fair last week with many trial software runs.Ye Editor happened to witness one – 5 things stood out about iBook Author: 1)It is simple and fairly easy to use given this simplicity; 2)It  can turn out large iBooks but they are  huge  files about 1.3 GB…

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Where to Compare Digital Cameras

January 17, 2012
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Where to Compare Digital  Cameras

There are a lot of good camera review websites – Dpreview.com, DigitaCameraInfo.com, DigitalCameraReview.com, aand PCWorld are among the favorite sites which are frequently visited by ye Editor. But that is the problem, one has to scurry like a rabbit all over the place to get a complete look see on whats coming up and then…

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.8bf Fun: the Mehdi Plugins

January 16, 2012
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.8bf Fun: the Mehdi Plugins

The .8bf open Adobe Photoshop plugin standard is endangered. So to honor the creativity and fun of so many .8bf based filter and plugins, thePhotofinishes has started a series looking at some of the fun, creative and often free .8bf plugins. And there is no better place to start than the Mehdi Plugins which are…

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Adobe Plugins Change

January 16, 2012
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Adobe  Plugins Change

One of the best features of Photoshop in its early days has been two programmable capabilities: Actions for Photoshop users and plugins for software developers. Plugins over the years have anticipated many image processing  features that eventually became incorporated with the Adobe design flair into Photoshop or Photoshop Elements commands. Look at some of the…

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Google+ Raises the Albums Ante vs Facebook

January 16, 2012
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Google+ Raises the Albums Ante vs Facebook

One of the hidden  attractions of Facebook for many users has been  its photo album services. Consider the line up – easy to use albums which can be captioned, sorted and organized to your hearts content. It is easy to import/upload to your albums including appending onto an existing album, exchanging photos between albums or creating…

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CES 2012 Week Day 1 – Most Interesting Photo Stuff

January 9, 2012
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This is a recounting of the most interesting [not necessarily the best] daily reveals at the CES Show. 1)The Canon PowerShot G1 X is important for what it is not. It is not the first Canon ILC camera in the spirit of the Sony Nex7 or Olympus Pen ILC. It is not shirt pocket size…

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New Nikon D4 vs New Samsung WB850F

January 6, 2012
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Hunnnh? Whazzup ye Editor? You are trying to compare a full high end Nikon D4 DSLR with a Samsung point and shoot compact camera. Didn’t you see the intro video for the Nikon D4: Yep, but this is a value and improvement comparison. Take a look at the preliminary value table below: Feature Nikon D4…

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Tsunami of Great Compact Cameras Incoming

January 5, 2012
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Picthat has been saying for over two years now that compact cameras are being pushed hard by the improvements in the cameras on smartphones and tablets. Now courtesy of a Wells Fargo pre-release on Consumer Electronic Show announcement, readers will see that there is a wave of new point and shoot, compact cameras incoming stocked…

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Comparing Apple iPhone 4S to Compact and SLR Cameras

November 26, 2011
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Comparing Apple iPhone 4S to Compact and SLR Cameras

Your Next Camera? Ars Technica has attempted to do  a really interesting exercise - comparing the iPhone 4s camera to other smartphone cameras [iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy IIs], a compact camera[Olympus XZ-1] and a digital SLR[Canon 20D]. Despite the flaws in the comparison[see below], this is a must see article. For example, Picthat has been  …

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Fall Photo Contests

November 1, 2011
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Fall Photo Contests

Photo contest are going worldwide and viral. More than ever before the Web is seeing some very intteresting photo contests. Here for the Fall are 3 contests with free entry and some interesting prizes as well as creative imaging challenges. Photo Art Gallery Competition This contest is open to photographers worldwide and the themes this…

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Adobe Edge Preview 2: HTML5 Animation Creator

September 13, 2011
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Adobe Edge Preview 2: HTML5 Animation Creator

PhotoFishes  is watching closely the fast rate of innovation at Adobe as appearing in the Adobe Labs. Adobe’s new HTML5 animation tool, Edge, has been of particular interest. And just 5weeks after its intro, the Edge team has produced  a new beta 2 preview. Here is what the Edge IDE now looks like: See our…

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Memjet Ultrafast Printer: Update

September 6, 2011
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Four years ago, thePhotoFinishes ran a story about the Memjet Inkjet Printer that used a unique paper wide printhead and the ability to print at 40 to 100 pages/minute full color with impressive fidelity. Here is our take at the time: As you can see there is still a good deal of suspicion, but as…

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Nik Snapseed: Advanced iPad Photo-editing

July 20, 2011
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Nik Snapseed: Advanced iPad Photo-editing

Cody Willard at Marketwatch is predicting an App-based revolution- where 1)smartphones and tablets displace notebooks and desktops for the bulk of media consumption and a large portion of media creation which is the world of Photoshop, Autocad, Flash and many popular clones, etc. Going in favor Cody’s notion has been 1)the swelling usage of smartphones…

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Camera Technology Trends for the Next 2-3 Years

July 18, 2011
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Camera Technology Trends for the Next 2-3 Years

The various underlying technologies shaping today’s cameras are undergoing profound transitions just as market pressures have companies looking for new capabilities to bring  to market. It is mostly a match made in heaven for most camera consumers. The result is a continuing and even accelerating stream of innovations in the photo and camera world. We…

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