Photography ABCs

Nikon app teaches photography on the fly

Rick Broida — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:52:00 +0000

Want to learn how to take pictures at dusk? Capture running water? Use those crazy aperture settings? Nikon Learn & Explore for iPhone explains it all, and it doesn't cost a cent.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

Smile! Flickr has an official iPhone app

Rick Broida — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:24:00 +0000

The much-anticipated, long-overdue app brings the best of Flickr to your iPhone, including browsing recently added photos and uploading geotagged photos on the fly.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

Corel Digital Studio 2010 opens up to consumers

Jessica Dolcourt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:01:00 +0000

A new Windows multimedia suite pairs an open, easily navigated interface with tools for editing, copying, saving, burning, and uploading photos, videos, and media projects.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

Adobe tests raw support for Olympus E-P1, new Nikons

Stephen Shankland — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:05:00 +0000

The release candidate of a Photoshop plug-in lets those with Nikon D3000 and D300s SLRs and Olympus' E-P1 handle those cameras' raw image formats.

Adobe’s next Lightroom to forsake PowerPC Macs

Stephen Shankland — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:23:00 +0000

As with Adobe's Creative Suite applications, the future version of Lightroom for the Mac will work only on Intel-based machines.

How Flickr needs to change

Stephen Shankland — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Google, Flickroom, and others show just how much Yahoo's photo-sharing site needs an overhaul. Good thing Flickr is working on upgrades.

Adobe kills low-end Photoshop, urges users online

Stephen Shankland — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:31:00 +0000

The image-editing powerhouse suggests users of its low-end software head online to Photoshop.com now that Photoshop Album Starter Edition is discontinued.

Toshiba plans 64GB SDXC memory cards for 2010

Stephen Shankland — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:10:00 +0000

The faster, higher-capacity successor to SDHC cards are nearer to reality. Toshiba promises samples in November and the real thing next spring.

Adobe reclaims design guru from Microsoft

Stephen Shankland — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Mark Hamburg, instrumental to building Photoshop and Lightroom, has returned to Adobe after working on Microsoft operating system usability.

Adobe: why Lightroom image export isn’t faster

Stephen Shankland — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:46:00 +0000

Why does Lightroom export three batches of 100 photos more quickly than one batch of 300? It's a matter of programming priorities.