March 28, 2008
Adobe Joins the Online Photo Editing Bandwagon
Adobe lovers rejoice! You no longer have to use more powerful software on your personal computer where you store your photos! Now, you can upload your photos to Adobe and edit your files from anywhere using a less powerful Photoshop Express!
It was bound to happen. The online photo editing scene has been taking off and lots of sites now allow you to upload a picture and make some adjustments to it and save it back down again. Adobe has been mysteriously absent until a few days ago when they released PS Express. The great thing about it, is that it works really well and provides you some simple tweaking. It's probably one of the nicest Flash/Flex applications I've ever seen. The photo management portion of it reminds me of Light Room's browser and the editor is probably more like Elements than Photoshop, but that's only because you're not getting tools like the lasso, the pen tool or curves. My guess is that we'll be seeing some more improvements and maybe even some other software packages come to life online from Adobe.
Highslide for Web Galleries and Blogs
So, you've got a few pictures you wanna add to your blog, or some other gallery, and you're going to use LightBox to display them in a nice way when a visitor clicks on them. Well, don't. Try Highslide. Let your visitors open up a few side by side and compare. Best of all, it's free for personal use (like all good software should be). (Note: I have nothing against LightBox, I just think this is cooler)
March 25, 2008
Save Polaroid Film!
For some reason I don't remember posting about the announcement by Polaroid to discontinue all of it's instant film in the coming year (take a look at this chart). There are many people shooting and relying on instant film and so naturally, a new campaign to "Save Polaroid" has started. Sign the petitions, even if you don't shoot polaroid, you may discover it in the future (like I was hoping to do).
March 17, 2008
March 13, 2008
Nikon D3 Drop Test [YouTube Video]—allegedly it survived. I wouldn't recommend trying it
March 12, 2008
PhotographyBB Issue 2
An anonymous tipster writes in to tell me that the latest issue of PhotographyBB is now available. Here's a snippet of the "press release":
PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the second edition of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine. By way of download in either PDF or ZIP formats, PhotographyBB is setting the stage for the future of magazine distribution. In a completely ad-free format, each issue contains informative and educational tutorials for amateur photographers.
I haven't had a chance to read it (there's also a February 2008) issue, but when I get home, I'll be sure to take a closer look. It looks (at a quick glance) very promising, however, and I definitely expect it to be. I just hope they can keep up the ad-free format.
March 11, 2008
Blackr: For Viewing Flickr Photos
Those of you who happen to be frequent Flickr users might like Blackr, a bookmarklet for your browser that hides all the fluff of a Flickr photo page by turning it black. It's sort of like framing the picture...
March 08, 2008
Sony's relentless SLR tinkering brings a big twist
I'll be honest, I haven't actually read any reviews of live-preview SLRs, but according to the International Herald Tribune, Sony's new technology, which is not much more than adding a second sensor dedicated to live-preview, blows them all out of the water.
March 03, 2008
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