Photo curiosity

  • 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…

  • Canon EOS 500D will be late

    According to Northlight Images, the EOS 500D is now set to launch only in August 2009. It may be linked to the current worldwide economic situation, but it would allow the designers to include a 15MP sensor (“later is better”).

  • DTown TV for Nikon

    Each week, Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski publish a video of tips and tricks for your Nikon SLR camera, its accessories, its software and your digital photography passion.

  • Comparison of online photo editors

    Of course, this comparison is simplifying a few things, but it helps to have a synthetic comparison for online editors targetting the photo amateur. The list of online photo editors contains Adobe tools (Photoshop.com), but it alos covers most of what are the best online photo editors of today. Flauntr Fotoflexer Lunapic Phixr Phoenix Photoshop.com…

  • Photoshop CS4: upgrade

    Adobe just published a patch/upgrade to Photoshop CS4. Those who are equipped with this software program will probably be interested in visiting http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ to get the upgrade in order to correct a few performance and feature bugs. Moreover, the users of MacBook Air and recent MacBook Pro systems can use mutli-touch to rotate documents frame.But,…

  • Nikon rumour: Nikon D5000 at PMA09

    The nearly-arrived new entry-level SLR camera from Nikon would not be named Nikon D65, but Nikon D5000. This is what seems to become the common consensus. It would be a strong contender with: 12.3 MP (possibly the same sensor that comes with the Nikon D300 and Alpha 700, in its simplified version) No built-in AF…

  • Wildlife Photography Competition

    I discovered an interesting web site, the blog of Matt Burrard-Lucas, young winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year (the 15-17 year old category, in 2005). Even more interesting, Matt opened a Wildlife Photography Competition around a simple theme but with the added difficulty of a target rarely tried for wildlife photography: Portrait.…

  • Canon noise: Canon EOS 500D in June

    According to Canon Rumors (but with a low certainty level): The Canon EOS 500D would be launched June 23, A 30mm f/2 lens with an EF-S mount would be presented on the same day.