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360° video with Kolor Autopano Video

May 22, 2013 No Comments by

My friends at Kolor, a French small software editor based in the Alpes and responsible of the greatest stitching panoramic images software (Autopano) and virtual tours editor (Panotour) launches a video version of its software in order to create a a real 360° video in which you can browse : the beta1 of Autonpano Video. [...]

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DxO Optics Pro V8.1.4 supports the Panasonic GH3

Mar 25, 2013 No Comments by

DxO Optics Pro V8 evolves today as it is now on a monthly basis that the folks in Paris Dxo Labs headquarter have decided to feed their users with a continuous stream of new releases. Today, DxO is available in version 8.1.4 which adds the support of a few new cameras including the latest Nikon [...]

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Photosynth now available for Windows Phone 8 smartphones

Mar 05, 2013 Comments Off by

Microsoft has finally finalized its adaptation of its mobile panorama app Photosynth for Windows Phone 8. It took Redmond programmers 4 months to get Photosynth ready for WP8… I tested Photosynth when it was released in Spring 2011. Photosytnth was a mobile application available for the iPhone only under iOS back then and it can [...]

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Photoshop Touch now available for iPhone and Android smartphones

Feb 27, 2013 Comments Off by

Photoshop Touch, the incredibly powerful tablet photo editing application originally developed for the Apple iPad and Android tablets is now available for Apple iPhone and Android smartphones. Photoshop Touch for smartphones is available for iOS on the Apple App Store and Android on Google Play at a price of $4.99 / € 4.49. Adobe adapted [...]

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Adobe Lightroom 4.4 and CAmera RAW 7.4 RC : Fuji X20 and X100S supported, X-Pro1 and X-E1 revised

Feb 26, 2013 Comments Off by

The RC versions of Camera Raw 7.4 and Lightroom 4.4 are almost operational, as usual, but not yet fully validated by Adobe. We can therefore expect to see the final versions of these “.4″ iterations “of ACR and LR out in a few weeks. Some bugs are fixed here and there by these two updates, [...]

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DxO Optics Pro 8.1.3 welcomes 3 Leica M cameras

Feb 14, 2013 Comments Off by

DxO Optics Pro is updated by DxO Labs today with a new version (8.1.3) which allows (Elite version only) to process the RAW images of 3 Leica M rangefinder cameras :      Leica M      Leica M9 (visit my Leica M-9 review gallery page)      Leica M9-P But also, the standard version of DxO Optics [...]

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Process the Sony RX1 RAW files on your Mac (Apple Raw Compatibility Update 4.04)

Feb 08, 2013 Comments Off by

Apple has updated its catalog of supported RAW formats cameras that can now be processed by Mac OS X 10.8 Moutain Lion in iPhoto ’11 and Aperture 3 or which you can now view in the Finder. You will notice the gap between Apple and Adobe or other photo software editors in the velocity of [...]

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500px for iOS withdrawn by Apple because of nude photographies

Jan 23, 2013 Comments Off by

The photo sharing site 500px.com has seen its application for iPhone and iPad removed by Apple of the AppStore. The origin of this withdrawal is the ability for users running the 500px for iOS app to view nude photographs on their iDevice … The COO of 500px himself, Evgeny Tchebotarev, specifies that the search tool [...]

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DxO FilmPack now supported by Windows 8 and Photoshop Elements 11

Jan 23, 2013 Comments Off by

DxO Labs announces the update of its film simulation software “DxO FilmPack” which now is available in version v3.2.3 for both Mac and Windows. This software update extends its compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Windows 8. DxO FilmPack v3.2.3 works in either 32 or 64-bit as a stand-alone application or plugin now with  [...]

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DxO Optics Pro 8 update brings Canon EOS 6D and Sony RX1 support

Jan 16, 2013 Comments Off by

At a near monthly rhythm updates, DxO Optics Pro is updated again. Today, DxO Labs announces the new version 8.1.2 of the its photography workflow software which adds support of 3 new (eagerly awaited) cameras  and adds new camera-lens module to reach now the symbolic threshold of 10,000 combinations. DxO Optics Pro 8.1.2 is now [...]

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Capture One Pro 7 and X-Trans sensor support

Jan 14, 2013 Comments Off by

Phase One updates its photography workflow software, Capture One Pro 7 that passes in version 7.0.2 which allows it to process the RAW images of recent cameras including the Canon EOS 6D, but also the raw files with a custom made dealiasing process of the X-Trans sensor of the Fuji X-Pro1 and X-E1.

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Image Histogram : how about a Chrome extension to display photo histograms ?

Jan 02, 2013 Comments Off by

The Chrome Internet browser gets new extensions dedicated to photography quite often and today I have spotted a new plug-in that allows, directly from the browser, to view the histogram of a photo overlaid on the image. Neat. It is called “Image Histogram”, this extension for Google Chrome web browser allows, as its name suggests, [...]

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Adobe acquires Behance online portfolio service to give Creative Cloud social functions

Dec 26, 2012 No Comments

Adobe took over Behance, an online portfolio actor. The goal is to give Adobe Creative Cloud service new functions for sharing and highlighting the work of a its creative community in a social spirit and provide the service of a social dimension. Behance is an online portfolio service with social and community dimensions. This is [...]

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Flickr for iOS V2 goes social with Facebook and Twitter

Dec 20, 2012 No Comments

Flickr iOS application gets its first update that interfaces the App with Facebook and Twitter. The photo sharing service users on iOS have been expecting this update for almost two years, and today it embraces social functions that allow disappointed Instagram users to move to Flickr iOS iPhone and iPad app to share photos.

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Canon EOS 6D and Sony RX1 now supported by Lightroom 4.3 and Camera Raw 7.3

Dec 14, 2012 No Comments

Adobe has released the final version of ligtroom 4.3 and camera raw 7.3 which fix a few bugs here and there but mostly add 20 new cameras into Adobe’s RAW formats dealt by the photography workflow software among which we’ll all notice the EOS 6D and the RX1 from Sony, the dream compact camera from [...]

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Google launch Snapseed mobile photo retouching app for Android, for free

Dec 07, 2012 No Comments

Google has announced lately that they tool over the German photography software and plugin editor Nik Software which has famous and popular Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture plugins in their range like Viveza, Silver Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, etc… Today, Google released Snapseed for Android. Till now, Snapseed was only available for iOS smartphones and [...]

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DxO Optics pro 8.1 : color and sharpness management in the new print module

Dec 05, 2012 No Comments

DxO Optics Pro 8 has been released just one month ago and here comes its first update already. DxO Optics Pro 8.1 is an important update to DxO’s photograhy software. It corrects the lack of color management in the print module, one of the main asset of the version 8, but also brings sharpness settings [...]

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Apple Raw Compatibility Update 4.02 supports the Sony SLT-A99

Dec 03, 2012 No Comments

Apple has released a new RAW compatibility update whcih is available right now. The version 4.02 brings the support to Apple Mac OS X, Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11 of the RAW format of 8 recently announced cameras including the latest Full Frame DSLR Sony SLT-A99. Here is the list of the supported cameras : [...]

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500px now available for iPhone

Nov 29, 2012 No Comments

If you read me regularly, you probably know that I love 500px photography sharing website and iPad application. I love it because the photographs quality is pretty high compared to Instagram and the website team actually does some editing on images so that you can view only the images that count. You can rate or [...]

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Lightroom 4 Retina display compatibility brought by Lightroom 4.3

Nov 09, 2012 No Comments

Finally ! Lightroom 4.3 today released in a RC version will support my Macbook Pro Retina JiDPI résolution and this is gréât. I am also still expecting Photoshop CS6 to support the Retina display because right now, the software really looks uggly on a Macbook Pro. Adobe has posted for download the Release Candidate versions [...]

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