Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Wipe tourists out

    This is a very simple web application created by FutureLab AG. Tourist Remover is part of the graphics software suite Online Photo Manager SnapMania. It works quite simply: You take several pictures of the same location or the same monument. There is always one or more ugly tourists on the photo, but they are never…

  • How Pentax and Samsung got to partner on photo lenses [Fun]

    I got this nice little funny text from Lithos in the Pentax Forums. Please, notice that it may (or may not) be what really happened. Here’s how Samsung gets Schneider Kreuznach to make lenses for ’em: SAMSUNG: “We’re making a play, like every other man and his giant-electronics-corporation dog, for the digital camera market. Unfortunately,…

  • Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware fill demonstration

    This new feature for Photoshop CS5 is really impressive. Just remove what you want to remove and CS5 will fill back with adequate data built from the rest of the image. YouTube link Adobe Photoshop: A wonderful tool.

  • Grégoire Bernardi

    A Marseillais in London Grégoire Bernardi is a French photographer from Marseilles whose work had me immediately reacting. First, I noticed some of the photos in his I’m a Marseillais series which initially seemed too near to a personal souvenir album before discovering the depth of his wider newspaper report approach. On his web site,…

  • DIY: Two projects

    Thanks to LifeHacker, there are two simple photography-related DIY projects that you can tackle during a rainy weekend. Build a Closet Photo Studio Build a DIY Digital Camera Scanner

  • Remote control with LiveView display

    The best of all worlds, the miracle combination. But, most of all, a great little trick of engineering: a radio remote control for your photo camera which communicates with a small gadget fixed in the flash shoe of your SLR camera and transmitting the image right from the SLR direct AV connector. Really smart thingy.…

  • Photoshop CS5 countdown

    Click onto the image below to reach the official launch site of Photoshop CS5: Update: Let’s be as clear as possible. On April 12, don’t expect to be able to buy a new box of Photoshop CS5. It will be only a technical presentation. We will still have to wait for the real availability (maybe…

  • What’s next for Adobe?

    After the recent announcements, it would be useful to look where Adobe is going now, or in the coming months. Here, it is OK to start using the bits of news becoming available. First, of course, Lightroom v3 will soon be available (you can download the beta 2, already). DPReview obtained an interview with Tom…

  • All for Lightroom v3

    Lightroom v3 beta 2 is now available for all to use/test. This is still a beta version, so you should remember that it comes with no warranty and, if you download it (for free), you expose yourself to a software application not yet ready for prime time and shop shelves (bugs are still very possible).…