The Dodge and Burn tools got a big enhancement in Photoshop CS5. They actually work like we think they should now and you’ll get very good results with them. There is one trick though. When you select the Dodge or Burn tools, take a look in the top Options Bar and make sure you have [...] Read the whole story

When you create a grid box inside Vanishing Point, in addition to having the option of returning that grid back to Photoshop as a 3D object, you also have the option of exporting it as a 3D object that you can import into After Effects CS5 and manipulate in a 3D layer. Just click on [...] Read the whole story

Just Posted: Our quick review of the Canon PowerShot G12 premium compact. As the G12 didn’t arrive in time to be included in the high-end compact camera group test, we’ve now had a chance to put together in our quick review format that looks at the differences between its predecessor as well as competitors. Inheriting most of the core features of the G11, The G12 sees the addition of an EOS-style front control dial, Hybrid [...]

Scientists have successfully constructed a digital camera that can be flexed to focus an image, allowing its use with simple single-element lenses. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois created a 16 x 16 pixel array on an elastomeric backing that can be distorted to correctly focus the image from a simple lens. In a paper to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they combine this with [...]

Promotions company Shoot Experience has announced the International Street Photography Awards. Launched in connection with the London Street Photography festival to be held for the first time between 7-17th July 2011, the competition is now open for entries. To participate, photographers need to submit 5-8 of their best street photography photos from past five years along with a £30 entry fee. The winner will receive an Olympus Pen camera, an all-expenses paid trip to London [...]

Samsung tops off its day of announcements with the ST6500, a high-end style compact with touch-screen control. The 16MP camera features a 5x zoom starting at a very respectable 26mm equivalent (extending out to 130mm equiv). Beyond the inclusion of 720p HD movie recording and the fact that the body tilts at 7 degrees, specification for the camera, available in March, is rather thin-on-the-ground. Its recommended selling price will be $229. Read the whole story

Samsung has announced a trio of style compacts in the form of the ST95, ST90 and ST65. The ST95 offers 16MP while the other make do with 14. The top two models offer 5x zooms starting at 26mm equivalent while the ST65 has 5x zoom starting at 27mm equiv. The ST95 features a 3.0″ touch-screen interface, rather than the more conventional button-based interfaces of its sister models. The cameras will reach the US market in [...]

Samsung has announced the ST30 ultra-compact digital camera. The 10.1MP camera has a 3x zoom starting at a usefully wide 28mm equivalent focal length. The camera is, the company says, around the size of an average mobile phone, giving a good idea of who the camera is aimed at. It has all the standard features such as Smart Auto mode and Perfect Portrait mode you’d expect in the budget sector and comes with a list [...]

In this post Natalie Norton from natalienortonphoto.com explores why shooting in automatic can sometimes be worth doing. Sometimes photographers have a complex about shooting in automatic. I shoot primarily in Aperture Priority (and am not here to knock manual settings AT ALL), but I have a tender place in my heart for ol’ Auto. Here are 4 reasons not to write her off too quickly. 1. If you’re relatively new to photography. If you’re relatively [...]

Copyright By Socceraholic Low angle shots give us a different view on the world. Most of our lives are spent well above ground level and by the time we are teenagers we rarely spend much time down low any more. Yet there is a whole world down there!! Plus the forced perspective brings a boring, everyday scene into new light when done right. So what are some tips on taking great low angle shots? (NOTE: [...]

Over the weekend I came across the following wonderful Timelapse on New York and thought it was so inspiring that I wanted to share it here on dPS as a little taste of what can be achieved. It’s by Josh Owens from Mindrelic – Enjoy! The above video was shot on a Canon EOS 5d Mk II with a variety of lenses: 14mm 2.8L, 24mm 1.4L, 50mm 1.2L and 70-200 2.8L. Post from: Digital Photography [...]

   Oops, we used the word “organized” in the title. Time to switch off — is probably what many would think. Being organized is a somewhat dull, though important, subject. Perhaps it would help to give it a bit of context. Let’s keep it classy, and imagine we’re building a website for a trendy restaurant / café called “bEat”, catering to the arts community. It’s an atmospheric place with 1920′s art on its interior brick [...]

Venture Capitalists have a big impact on the software that hits the web and the rest of us have been fortunate to get a good look into many of their minds thanks to the recent rise of the blogging VC. Some VCs love to share how they think about various technology issues on their blogs – but what do they really love? VC Larry Cheng posted his 4th annual Venture Capitalist Blog Index today, listing [...]

Google’s Android is widely considered the more open and democratic of the two leading smartphone operating systems, whereas Apple is criticized for its allegedly tight control over what apps get accepted into its app store. Perhaps contrary to that reputation for openness, tonight we learn that casual game service Kongregate has had its gaming app kicked out of the Android Marketplace. The move was reported on in-depth by VentureBeat’s Matthew Lynley, who focuses on the [...]

The RailsBridge Open Workshop project, which teaches web app development to programmers and non-programmers, has announced its 2011 schedule that’ll include eight more of its popular free workshops for women. RailsBridge’s workshops take place on a Friday evening and full-day Saturday, during which time participants learn how to develop a web app using the Ruby on Rails framework. Over the past year-and-a-half, the project has trained almost 600 people, nearly 500 of them women. RailsBridge [...]

Deloitte made a prediction today that organizations will buy on the order of 10 million tablets this year. We see this as another sign of the transition to an enterprise that requires better device portability and accessibility to information that you can act upon no matter where you might be. Sponsor According to Reuters, Deloitte said that the healthcare and retail sectors alone could purchase 5 million tablets this year. At Dreamforce late last year, [...]

Last week, the word on the street was that everyone’s favorite European music service, Spotify, was finally nearing a deal with major music labels in the U.S. and would soon enough be on its way across the pond. Today, Media Memo’s Peter Kafka reports that the company “has finally signed with Sony for U.S. distribution deal.” While this doesn’t necessarily get the company onto North American shores, it certainly brings the ever-mysterious app one step [...]

For the past two years we’ve been keeping an eye on real-time search engine Collecta, watching as it’s inked some big deals, widgetized its real-time feeds and raised some funding. Today, however, it looks like the company has decided to change directions. Collecta announced to developers today that “Collecta is changing over the coming months” and that the API will be unavailable as of February 11. The home page, once the home of a series [...]

The John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester in England is digitizing one of the largest and most important Korans in existence, one that could previously be studied by few due to its size, weight and fragility. Funded by the non-profit Islamic Manuscript Association, the project will take just under 1,000 images of the 500 year old book. The “Rylands Koran of Kansuh al-Ghuri,” with pages that measure three feet by two feet, is [...]

When you watch TV, do you watch with a smartphone in-hand or a laptop by your side, so you can keep up with what everyone is saying on Twitter? One TV show, more than the rest, has captured the attention of the Twitterverse and its popularity has implications for both Twitter and television. More and more, Twitter is becoming a side dish for prime time entertainment and, as the networks catch on, it’s becoming a [...]