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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
