Category: Photo & Graphics
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Hot pixels, stuck pixels, Minolta/Sony solution
Sometimes, on a digital camera, there are small defect on the sensor. They translate into a pixel or two which seem to be either black, colored (hot) or white (stuck). This is ususally not much of a problem, but it can be very annoying. On my reliable but old and still alive-and-kicking Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D…
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Nikon D300: not cheap, but with free software
At least during the launch period and in the UK, Nikon will include a free CD-ROM of the Capture NX excellent imaging software in the box of the new Nikon D3 and Nikon D300 cameras. Some people having perceived the price of the Nikon D300 as too high, may be tempted by this offer.
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Canon EOS 5D Mk II
We don’t know much about the future successor to the excellent digital single-lens reflex camera Canon EOS 5D (the first D-SLR with a nearly affordable full-frame sensor). It is still uncertain that it’s name will really be EOS 5D Mk II, but it’s now definitely possible since Phase One, editor of the high-end photo retouching…
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Spyder Pro to calibrate two LCD displays
I had previously indicated that I successfully calmibrated a Hyundai Q17 LCD display for a better color management. Today, in order to work in the best possible conditions when handling digital photos on my main PC system using a Dell 2407WFP as my primary display and still the same Hyundai Q17 as secondary display, I…
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GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. That makes it a quite serious competitor to Adobe Photoshop, even if Adobe is still both much higher-priced and more…
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90+ online photography tools and resources
Mashable published a list of Internet resources particularyl useful to photographers. The list is organised aroudn the following categories: Online photo Editors – Editeurs de photo en ligne Photo sharing – Partage de photographies Free photo hosting – Hébergement gratuit de photographies en ligne Photography blogs – Blogs photographiques Mashups – Combinaisons Mobile Photo mixing…
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Photoshop CS3: Tomorrow
The 27th of March should be launch day for the newest Adobe Photoshop graphics product line: Creative Suite 3 or CS3. Be prepared for more details from Adobe, but the products will not be shipping before the second trimester (and Q2 may mean just before Summer). There will be new features and the important support…
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Photoshop supports HD Photo format
HD Photo, this is th new name of the image format from Microsoft that they want to replace JPEG, PNG, Raw and GIF. It was previously known -at launch time- as Windows Media Photo and it is now fully integrated into Windows Vista. Adobe Photoshop will support this format through a plugin to donwload from…
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LCD color calibration
I recently installed on my main Windows-PC computer a (rather old) LCD display from Hyundai: ImageQuest Q17. I wanted to improve significantly the correct color calibration. Fortunately, I could get a Pantone ColorVision SpyderPro for the weekend. It was only a matter of minutes to setup the sensor and run the calibration process. Everything goes…