Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Fractalius

    Fractalius is one of the most surprising Photoshop plugins. It allows the creation of exceptionnally interesting and complex pictures like the following “fractal lion”. I think that they may have discovered this by pure luck. But, it’s definitely beautiful.

  • The end of the pixel war?

    This is going to be considered either as the boldest move in years for a whole industry, or the dumbest moment in the career of a doomed photo executive. Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging’s SLR planning department, in an interview given to CNet at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) fair, said: “We have no…

  • Discontinued cameras at Leica and Nikon

    Surprisingly, the PMA fair has been the opportunity to announce not only new products, but also the death of some others. The most prominent ones: Leica announces the end of its R-Series manual focus SLR cameras. Probably to be replaced by something else at the same level. Nikon has now discontinued the Nikon D40, after…

  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1

    Panasonic launches a new photo camera to follow in the tracks of the existing Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1. For the most part, the new Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 is a G1 that would have been upgraded to Mark II status by a video capture feature. This was clearly a relatively easy addition to a good camera. And…

  • Canon EOS 500D for Summer

    So, it is official and for everybody to see: There is no Canon EOS 500D to see in the PMA 2009 in Las Vegas. Some of us who could be troubled by this delay applied to the newest bright entry-level SLR camera from Canon (Nikon has been putting a lot of pressure on them lately)…

  • 20 photo How-To guides

    I have been amazed at the number of tutorials and how-to guides that exist on the Internet. You could drown into them… So, I decided to try and sort it out for you. Here are Photo-related How-To Guides selected for the choice they offer. Photography (general) eHow – Cameras category HowToDoThings.com – Digital Cameras Instructables.com…

  • Full Frame comparison

    Gizmodo, the gadget blog, sometimes has a few interesting posts about digital photography. Today, this is the case with their “Canon 5D Mark II vs. Nikon D700 Review Shoot-Out” which turned out to face the two digital cameras in real-life conditions of night photo (of course, they wanted to compare high-ISO pictures and noise).

  • Photoshop tutorial: The Police

    You know this album cover from The Police. Digital Photography School, inspired by the album cover, teaches you how to do the same effect with your own photos. → Source: Photoshop Inspiration: Police CD Label.

  • Faster Photoshop

    Photoshop is certainly a big software program and it is always good to provide it with a lot of memory. As much memory as possible. 2GB RAM is needed to start working correctly on the images of a modern photo camera (more tha 6MP). But there is something which quickly becomes the bottleneck when you…