The Creepy Box
Don't run away screaming...it's just that Adobe Photoshop CS6 has arrived at B&H Photo. With the creepiest box illustration yet. It looks like something from some sort of futuristic horror movie to me. (Of course, I don't watch futuristic horror...
GIMP Adds New Interface and Nested Layer Groups in Version 2.8
The GNU Image Manipulation Project, more popularly known as GIMP, has just released version 2.8; the first complete GIMP overhaul since 2008. For those who don’t know (and there probably aren’t many) GIMP is famous for being a slightly more complicated (and a lot more free) alternative to Photoshop with fewer features. And it seems...
Holgarizer: A Free Photoshop Action That Emulates a Toy Camera Look
A few years ago, graphic designer Grey Jay was asked by a company to create a Photoshop action that would emulate a “toy camera” look for photos. He came up with an action he calls the “Holgarizer” and, after some tweaking and adjusting, has made it freely available to the public. If a messy cross-processed...
Adobe CS6 Released Today, Creative Cloud Coming May 11th
The big news spreading across the internet is that Adobe CS6 officially released today. The announcement, which confirms previous rumors of a May 7th ship date, came late last night and means that we can all finally get our hands on Content-Aware Move and all of the other features we’ve been dying to try. Those...
1-Bit Camera App Harkens Back to the Old Nintendo Gameboy Camera
The 1-bit camera app is definitely not for people who love to mess around with filters and tweak high-quality images on their iPhone, there are plenty of other apps for that. Instead, the 1-bit camera is for those of us who remember using the old Nintendo Gameboy Camera; for those of us who don’t mind...
Why Instagram is Terrible for You, and Why You Should Use It
Although everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s purchase of Instagram for $1b, I think we can all agree: Instagram is terrible for photographers (Gotcha). Why? Let’s count the ways. Why Instagram is Terrible for Photographers… The rights grab Let’s look at the Terms of Use: …By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or through...
My Favorite CameraBag of Tricks
Hey photo friends. Erik here with a quick recommendation for an inexpensive photo editing solution. I’ve been playing around with the CameraBag 2desktop software for the last couple months and I’m blown away at the capabilities packed into this affordable editing tool. If you’re new to photo editing and wanna save a few bucks, or you’re...
Capture HD Video with Depth Using a DSLR and Microsoft Kinect
RGBDToolkit is a project that layers HD video recording with a DSLR over Microsoft Kinect’s depth maps, creating trippy 3D footage that may be an indication of what we’ll be documenting life with in the future. Instructions for mounting your DSLR to a Kinect device can be found here Once you get the two cameras...
JPEGmini Now Available for Mac: Put Your iPhoto Library on a Diet
Back in August we featured a service called JPEGmini, which gives anybody the ability to shrink their photos up to 5-times in size without any visible quality difference — a substantial claim, but one that the service seemed to live up to quite well (we use it regularly). In the original post we even put...
BlackBerry 10 Camera Features “Timeline Lens” that Captures Moments You Miss
The new BlackBerry 10 operating system was unveiled BlackBerry World 2012 today, and one of the amazing new features that wowed the crowd was the camera app. It features a seemingly-magical “timeline” lens that lets you rewind sections of photographs in order to recover moments that your fingers weren’t fast enough to capture. Did your...
Trigger Your Camera 12 Different Ways With Triggertrap’s New App
When we told you about the StrikeFinder app earlier, we mentioned that what set it apart was that it used your actual iPhone’s camera; it wasn’t just acting as the trigger. Well, Trigertrap’s new mobile app is just acting as the trigger, but it’s acting as a very comprehensive trigger. In total you have to...
