Microsoft just announced that Windows 7 will now be able to directly read most RAW file formats. This will impact the following applications: Windows Explorer (thumbs and gallery) Windows Live Photo Gallery The new Microsoft codec brings new compatibility with the following impressive list of cameras: Canon: EOS 1000D (EOS Kiss F in Japan and…
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How is ink made?
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Discount on posters and calendars
It is the right time to prepare your Christmas gifts and the coming new year with my photographic prints or my posters (or even the new year’s cards). And it will help me maintain the YLovePhoto web site. But, I want to extend this to a gift for you. You will be able to use…
2011 calendars
The calendars for 2011 are now available just in time to prepare your Christmas gifts and next year’s office decoration. As usual, you will find them on www.redbubble.com, our Aussie partner. Métro, collages, déchirures by Yves Roumazeilles Big cats of Africa by Yves Roumazeilles RedBubble is an online art gallery and arts community. Browse the…
Print your photos on everything
photo credit: irrezolut A few years ago, the only destination we could think of for our photos was the paper used for most family snapshots. A few photographers were also making large format printouts, but nothing more. With the advent of digital photography, it is now common not to print at all and to look…
Story of three photos: 10 tips
Here are three photos I shot last Sunday during a visit to the Lake Der-Chantecoq. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them If you want to only watch the photographs, you can merely ask for a large format print on RedBubble (or a simple card). But I think that the story of these three photos…
Calibrate your screen for free
You’d better use a calibration software with an external sensor, but if you don’t have access to such equipment, it is still possible to do a pretty useful calibration of your screen (and what photographer would not want to improve his computer environment in such a way?) I found two calibration solutions/offers that are easily…
Canon EOS 500D, first comments
After a second half of 2009 where Nikon has been putting a lot of competitive pressure on Canon, here comes the new Canon dSLR photo camera: Canon EOS 500D (also known as Canon Rebel T1i) and, boy! did they react well. The Canon EOS 500D is definitely a great step forward where Canon is redefining…
Friday advice: Print a large poster
This is a great advice I found on Photodoto: “Print something. Print it BIG.” And I like this advice. As John Watson explains, photography is somewhat a technique where you can improve your results by doing it over and over. This is so true. So, try now to do large prints. You’ll start thinking about…
Try Photoshop CS4 for free
If you were hesitating to shell out a lot of money for the newest Photoshop, you may be interested in knowing that 30-day try-out versions of all the new Adobe CS4 applications are now available. You have to register at the Adobe Download web site (choose the CS4 product, and request “Try“), and you license…
Free shipping on prints, posters!
Some of my best images are available are posters, cards, prints, laminated prints, etc. on RedBubble.com. I like the quality of their service, their prices and the broad support (including good discussion forums about photo). What you’ll like even more is that they reduced the shipping costs to NOTHING for a week. They are celebrating…
Print photos from Linux: Photoprint/Gutenprint
Astonishingly good-looking, a solution to ever-lasting issues of Linux-printing, Photoprint is a Linux-based application using the Gutenprint driver tools. I just found a good article about these software tools on Linux Photography. I did not test the tool set, but it looks damn interesting for all Linux photo users. A must-try!