Photo curiosity

  • Five new features of CS5

    Adobe just announced the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Don’t panic! These software programs will not be available before next month and for a price relatively normal at Adobe (read “relatively expensive”; See at the end of the article). What these new versions of Creative Suite (CS so CS5)…

  • Photoshop CS5, tomorrow

    Monday 12 April, Adobe will announce the features of its new Adobe Photoshop CS5. The most interesting will certainly be the “content-aware fill” that allows to fill empty parts of an image with adequate data without using the copy-paste or drawing tools. Many a photographer will be listening. But the actual product will only be…

  • Phillip Toledano

    I am not only a photographer but I do play some computer video games. Since most of my friends noticed that I tend to react a lot to the action on the screen, how could I not be sensitive to the Gamers series of Phillip Toledano? Phil made a portrait series interesting by adding an…

  • 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.…