Adobe has announced a number of updates to its Creative Cloud suite, including some feature enhancements and additions to Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC. A previously demonstrated de-haze tool has been added to CC versions of Photoshop and Lightroom, and the effects of Photoshop’s popular healing brush will now be displayed in real time as the tool is used. Read more
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Josh Trujillo’s ‘day job’ as a photojournalist for the Seattle PI involves him shooting across the Seattle area with a heavy DSLR outfit. For a trip back to his hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, we equipped him with something significantly lighter: the Canon PowerShot G7 X. Santa Fe and its surrounding landscapes are incredibly photogenic; take a look as Josh explores his hometown with the G7 X. See video
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Lytro’s processing software just received a significant update. Lytro Desktop 4.1 provides some additional features for users of the Illum light field camera, including Focus Spread, which allows photographers to pick beginning and ending points for depth of focus. Learn more
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DxO has taken the wraps off its OpticsPro 10, the latest software version that brings with it, among other things, DxO ClearView for correcting atmospheric haze. Joining the new feature are some improvements to the software, not the least of which is enhanced noise reduction promised to trump competing products, as well as interface changes. Read more
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Last week saw a slew of new Android and Windows Phone devices launched at IFA in Berlin, and today it was Apple’s turn. The company has announced two new smartphones – the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 ‘Plus’ which feature new 8MP imaging sensors with phase-detection autofocus and (in the case of the iPhone 6 Plus) optical image stabilization. Read more at our sister site, connect.dpreview.com
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Details were thin from Google I/O last week about Android’s plans for camera updates in its next OS release. Now with a developer preview of the new OS available, more information has emerged about what we can expect from Android’s camera capabilities. Raw image capture is on the way, along with additional manual exposure controls. Read more
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Details were thin from Google I/O last week about Android’s plans for camera updates in its next OS release. Now with a developer preview of the new OS available, more information has emerged about what we can expect from Android’s camera capabilities. Raw image capture is on the way, along with additional manual exposure controls. Read more
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Following last week’s video teasing the release of a new feature coming to Photoshop CC, Adobe has made the update official. In addition to the ‘Focus Masks’ feature that we already knew about, today’s official announcement brings a host of mostly minor new features including new blur effects, updates to content aware fill, and improvements to tools like smart guides. Read more
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Adobe has released a video sneak-peek of a new feature due to be introduced into Creative Cloud which the company is calling ‘Focus masks’. In the video, Zorana Gee, senior Photoshop product manager explains that with focus masks, Adobe is ‘adding a new way to make an automatic selection based [on] pixels that are in focus versus out of focus’. Click through to watch the video and learn more.
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One of the most talked about new features of the HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, the One M8, is the Duo Camera. Using the primary camera and a second sensor to create a shallow depth-of-field effect, the Duo Cam produced less-than-perfect results in our testing. But thanks to an update to the Gallery app, the effect can now be adjusted. Learn more
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