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New Hipstamatic tools inspired by photojournalist Ben Lowy

22 Jul

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Mobile photography app Hipstamatic is embracing its growing popularity among photojournalists by creating a new digital lens and film pack named after photojournalist Ben Lowy. Lowy made headlines when his Hipstamatic images documenting life in Afghanistan were published in the New York Times Magazine last fall. The lens and film effects were a collaborative effort between Lowy and Hipstamatic, and will be released later this year as a ‘GoodPak’ – available for purchase (price TBC) within the iPhone app. (via the British Journal of Photography)

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Easy Photoshop tools

26 Jan

Easy Photoshop tools.Retouching,Finishing,Color Correction without using any photoshop command or filters……..
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Project requested by: user/MrSilentPrince23 user/HappySlovenianGirl The famed second wife of Henry VIII and mother to Elizabeth I began her rise to the throne as lady-in-waiting to her predecessor, Queen Catherine of Aragon: Henry VIII’s first wife. Catherine’s inability to provide Henry with a male heir began to get on Henry VIII’s nerves, and his eye started to wander. Anne was a well-bred, cordial, and yet vivacious and exotic character whose dark eyes seemed to possess a power all their own. Anne’s intelligence and sophistication made those eyes all he more powerful, and she knew very much how to use them. King Henry VIII was soon hooked on the dark, alluring, fashionable fireball of Anne, who was also a skilled musician, dancer, and singer. She was not a “contemporary” beauty, which at that time was white skin, fair hair and blue eyes, but there was something formidably desirable in her long oval face, high cheekbones, and dark hair and eyes that often found Anne being followed by a number of eager suitors. Henry VIII decided that his marriage to Catherine was worthy of annulment, since her duties of providing him a son were not fulfilled, so as Anne Boleyn was gradually introduced into the public eye, Catherine was overthrown. The public was not at all thrilled about the divorce, as they felt that Anne was a “homewrecker” whose meddlesome ways deranged the King’s mind into divorcing the Queen THEY loved. The description of Anne Boleyn’s appearance would forever be
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Article: Android and iOS App Tools For Photographers

10 Nov

Mobile photography and app blogger Joanne Carter takes a look at the growing number of iOS and Android apps that are designed as photography tools. Whether you need to plan a sunset shoot, manage legal forms for your models, calculate flash exposure, or transfer files to your mobile device while you are shooting wirelessly, this article looks at some of the best apps currently available for both enthusiast and professional photographers.
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Photo Gallery Online Tools

18 Aug


Drag and Drop Syncing
DropGallery was created by people who love their photographs as much as you love yours. It gives and easy way to backup, sync, and share your photos. You can install DropGallery on any computer that you would like to sync some, or all of your photos with.


Stock Photography
Corbis provides Royalty-Free and Rights Managed stock images for editorial and commercial applications, including iconic, historical, archival, fine art and illustration, current events, and exclusive celebrity photography.


Discover images that inspire your work
Image Spark lets you upload and create a library of images that inspire you in whatever it is you do. Whether you’re a fashion designer, web designer, or just redesigning your bathroom, Image Spark can help harness the visual direction of your projects. But it’s not just about collecting and storing images – you can converge images using Image Spark’s moodboards and help set the visual tone or style you’re after.


Create Live Galleries
MyLiveGallery enables you to instantly create live galleries, photo albums and slideshows online. Use it to turn your photos into attractive galleries and share them with others. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Just specify the name, upload your pictures, select a theme and the gallery is ready.


Shareable Photo Art Gallery
At the Ph.Art gallery you can: Purchase premium photographic wall art in a huge range of formats. Talk with fellow photographic artists from all over the world, through Ph.Art special interest groups, via your own P-Mail accessible in your studio, by leaving comments on people’s work and of course receiving comments on yours.


Share Photos & Videos from your Desktop
CloudFire is a fast way to share all your photos and videos with people you know. There is no uploading, reorganizing, trans-coding – just share it and let CloudFire do the rest.


Turn your Emails into a Gallery
2Pad keeps your personal photos and videos private. Easily distribute your photos and videos with the most potent security to your friends and family. Discover 2Pad’s unique combination of email and web photo and video sharing security technology.


Free and Unlimited Photo Sharing
Photie is a free photo sharing website that gives you unlimited storage and no file size restrictions. Photie is focused on simplicity. Upload your photos and embed them on the web in seconds. There are useful features designed to make your life simpler, like automatic resizing of your image into the common sizes, ability to view the most popular photos, tag clouds, tag lists, photo information and a super quick upload system.


Smarter Gallery Photo Management
iLovePhotos is free software for your Mac that helps you organize, share, and enjoy your photos based on the people who are in them. iLovePhotos finds faces in your photos to make tagging them a piece of cake. After you’ve tagged your photos with iLP, browsing and sharing them is easier than ever.


Better Ways to Showcase your Flickr Photos
Picsviewr is an application for Flickr users wanting to showcase their photos in a different way. It proposes 8 different templates (some written in Flash, others in HTML/JS) to suit Flickr user needs.


Stunning Photo Galleries from your Flickr Photos
FotoViewr aims to provide a better experience for viewing photos. You and your friends can look at your photos by clicking on page after HTML page, or you can immerse yourself in a highly interactive and engaging interface.


An Online Portfolio and Community Site for Artists
Dripbook’s mission is simple – to allow artists to easily publish their work online by taking the hassle, guesswork and expense out of creating a well designed, easily modifiable web presence. Dripbook takes the best of technology and directs it where it should have gone long ago – into making an easy, quick, and really cheap way for artists to show their work.


Your Life, Digital – Photo Scanning
ScanDigital gives you your photos on CD/DVD as well as in your own free and unlimited online gallery. You can organize your photos, share with loved ones and order reprints and other great photo products. ScanDigital offers free Shipping, free digital optimization using our proprietary process, and the fastest turnaround time, Guaranteed.


Share your World – Make Beautiful Online Gallery
DPHOTO lets you easily share your photos with family and friends in your own online gallery, while also creating secure backup of all your precious memories.


Share your Photos and your Music on any Website!
faces make online photo sharing a snap. Upload and share your favorite photos and start taking advantage of our multitude of photo sharing services, including quality digital photo printing, customizable photo galleries, online scrapbooking, and much more! Invite friends and family to view animated online slideshows and personalized scrapbooks of the special events and occasions in your life. What’s more, with faces secure servers and free lifetime backup, you can rest assured that your uploaded photos will always be right where you left them.


Free Photos for your Web Pages
Use plinkme for instant, free photos for your web page, no downloads or uploads just copy/paste. Free for personal and commercial use. Create backlinks and traffic for your web page. Photographers set your photos viral, exposing them and generating traffic for your gallery and web site.


The Daily Photo Journal for Everyone
Blipfoto is an online daily photo journal which lets you publish one image each day, starting on the date you sign up. Most people use this as a challenge to take and publish one picture every day of their lives, others just add entries as and when they feel like it, leaving empty days in between. Blipfoto insist that any photographs you upload are taken on the date you’re uploading them against. That means if you upload an image and date it 1st January, the picture must have been taken on 1st January.


The Super Easy Gallery
minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX that allows you to easily show your images online, without complex databases or coding, allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes.


Your Photos. Your Words. Put them Together with Tabblo and Tell your Story
A tabblo is a collection of photos and words brought together by a stylized template that can be customized to your heart’s content. A tabblo lives at a permanent URL and can be private, accessed by whoever you invite, or public for the whole world to see.


A Photography Hosting Service with Elegant Page Designs and Easy Organization
Create and customize professional-looking galleries using advanced Web interface. Organize and structure your photographs so that you and your visitors can easily find them and view. From standards-based IPTC tags to full EXIF support your photographs show every detail including captions, titles, file and exposure info, searchable keywords and categories. Zenfolio gives you powerful tools allowing you to be efficient and organized.

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Most-popular Online Tools and Applications

07 Aug


Grow your own Farm with your Friends
Grow delicious fruits and vegetables and raise adorable animals on your very own farm, with the help of your Facebook friends.


Watch your Favorite TV Show
Hulu is a free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, NBA and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, etc. Our extensive library also includes blockbuster movies like Lost in Translation as wells as classics like Fiddler on the Roof. You can start watching now. No registration or downloads required (USA only)


The Zooming Presentation Editor
Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides. You can create zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings, and more.


Post Everything via Email
If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. Posterous lets you post things online fast using email.


Global Music Radar
With Blip.fm you can get an access to millions of streaming songs, create your own music station, a station programmed by your friends, an audience of music enthusiasts.


You are now Free to be Entertained
On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, Boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.


Only the Very Best Online Games
Friv operates pretty much on a system of one in one out, so when a new game is added it simply replaces the least popular one in the existing selection.


Your Social Lifestream
FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.


Draw and Share Diagrams Online
Application that provide platform independent Internet applications with rich user interfaces for collaboration. Diagrammming in your web browser without donloading additional software.


Create and Share Fun Artworks with Friends
Kerpoofs flagship activity, now called the Kerpoof Art Studio, allows children to create artwork in a variety of themes and styles that they can print, e-mail, create greeting cards or coloring pages. There are more than 45 Kerpoof settings available in the Art Studio ranging from wacky cartoon worlds to historical worlds, animal habitats and many more.


Refreshing Money Management
Mint allows you to view all of your banking and credit card transactions side-by-side, making identifying all of your transactions much easier and faster than ever before. Mint makes it easy for you to track down erroneous charges or bank fees, and keep a closer eye on your money.


Find and Share Professional Documents
Docstoc is a free online document exchange database and social networking site that allows users to store, search, and share virtually any type of document (word, excel, powerpoint, pdf, illustrator, etc). Similar in concept to Flickr.com (for photos) and YouTube.com (for videos) Docstoc will be the online community for sharing all types of documents. The users will post, categorize, and rate thousands of documents that can be reused by other users for a variety of purposes.


The end of Slideshows
Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.


Online Photo Editor
FotoFlexer is one of the most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software. FotoFlexer integrates with leading photo sites and social networks. Import and export photos with ease.


Better Way to Search for Information
Lijit Creates a social network search, based on your blog(s), your opml, and your social networks and web 2.0 sites including digg, flickr, reddit, myspace, linkedin, and youtube. It creates a Google CSE using an Google account you provide.


Documents and Spreadsheets – Free Online Application from Google
With Google Docs and Spreadsheets you can create basic documents and spreadsheets from scratch. You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free. You can also upload your existing files. Google Docs & Spreadsheets accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files; all your formatting and formulas will come through intact.


Universal Personalized Music Mashup
Foxytunes Planet is an aggregates music videos, photos, news, bios and much more from any number of sources all over the Web into one convenient place. The Planet is universal – it can support any music site, service or store. Many great sites are already supported, and the list will be growing fast.


Making Forms = Easy + Fast + Fun
Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. Because Wufoo host everything, all you need is a browser, an Internet connection and a few minutes to build a form and start using it right away.


What are you Doing?
A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web.


An Open, Decentralized, Free Framework for User-Centric Digital Identity
OpenID has emerged as the de-facto user-centric identity framework allowing millions of people to interact online. Developers of Open Source projects are rapidly adding support for OpenID in order to enable their communities. The OpenID framework provides the means for users to share other components of their digital identity. By utilizing the emerging OpenID Attribute Exchange specification, users are able to clearly control what pieces of information can be shared by their Identity Provider, such as their name, address, or phone number.


Photo Sharing / Teen Social Network
Piczo has created a space that gives teens around the world the freedom and tools to express themselves and connect with friends in a safer social networking environment.Piczo allows its users to create fully customizable personal websites that do not require any understanding of html code. Users share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics,
guest books, comment boards, music, and more. Each site can be linked to other friends sites and users can interact with them and their friends, and meet new people online.


Online Photo Editing Made Fun
With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It’s the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos.


A New Way to Watch TV
Combining the best of TV with the best of the internet, Joost gives you more control and freedom than ever before – control over what you watch, and freedom to watch it whenever you like. Joost providing a platform for the best television – a platform that will bring you the biggest and best shows from the TV studios, as well as the specialist programs created by professionals and enthusiasts.


Access Millions of Original Documents – Most Never Seen on the Web Before
At Footnote you can view some of the most exciting original source documents available for the first time on the internet. Easily explore historic documents and photos in fine detail. Easily detail people, places & dates you find. Write about what you find & let others in on your discovery.


Technology News Website Combined with Social Bookmarking
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.


Upload, Enhance and Share your Videos
Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser.


Snap Preview Anywhere
Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you’re linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted trips to linked sites.


Take Control of your Money
Wesabe makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.


Free Online File Conversion
ZAMZAR will allow you to convert any files you want without the need of download software to your computer. Just a good, free – web based tool!


Relationships Matter
Your professional relationships are key to your professional success. LinkedIn mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have.

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Free Productivity Tools

14 Jul

Simpler Web viewing: Remember when the Web was add less and clutter-free? A browser add-on called Readability takes you back to those times by stripping any page down to its main article. No ads. Minimal navigation menus. Almost no clutter. It’s great for creating printer-friendly pages, and for distraction-free reading.

Isolation booth: For distraction-free writing in Windows, I love WriteMonkey. While you write, this minimalist writing app hides all of the formatting menus and just about everything else by expanding to full-screen mode and filling your screen with the soothing background color of your choice.

Intelligent notepad: At your PC or on your tablet or phone, Evernote lets you capture Web clippings, text notes, audio notes, and pictures. It then syncs them across all your devices, and indexes them so they’re easy to find later.

Mind mapper: When you want to capture complex ideas, few methods are as effective as a mind map for visualizing the many related parts of a project. Xmind gives you simple, powerful mind-mapping tools that rival those of the most expensive apps around.

Office alternative: Want a powerful productivity suite without the expense of Microsoft Office? Oracle’s free OpenOffice.org has a robust word processor, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations with support for Microsoft Office file formats.

Screen sharing: Whether you’re the unofficial tech support person for your company or the go-to techie for your family and friends, LogMe­In Free simplifies the process of sharing your screen with a remote user or of taking control of that person’s screen in real time.

Search simplifier: An alternative to the ubiquitous Google, newcomer Blekko takes a hand-curated approach, relying on slash tags that allow you to refine your searches and get more-relevant results. To see re­­sults for “Windows tips” sorted by date, for instance, type Windows tips /date.

List manager: To-do lists don’t have to be complicated. For simple, effective lists that you can share with friends and access from any mobile browser, try 37Signals’ Ta-da List.

Easy presentations: Need to whip up a snazzy presentation fast? Log on to SlideRocket via your Google account, and use its slick templates to embed images, Flash objects, videos, and audio. Then export your presentation as a PowerPoint slideshow or PDF.

E-mail postponer: When you get an e-mail message that you need to act on but don’t have to deal with quite yet, NudgeMail serves as a smart snooze button. Forward the message to, say, tomorrow@nudgemail.com or June2@nudgemail.com, and the e-mail will reappear in your inbox when you do need to see it.

File converter: Want to convert a MOV video file to WMV format, or a Word document into an ePub book for your e-reader? Online Convert transforms a wide selection of formats, and it doesn’t require you to download or install any new software.

Streamlined PDF viewer: Adobe’s Acrobat Reader has evolved dramatically over the years, and it has grown a little bloated along the way. For quicker PDF viewing that won’t hog your system’s resources, give the free Sumatra PDF a try.

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Lighting Tools 101 :: A Class By Jake Garn

06 Jun

In a couple of weeks I will be hosting a free class on Lighting Tools, from sun to strobes and lots of things in between.  The class will be held in Northern Utah and will be invitation only.  The cost?  Well, it’s free.

If you’re interested in learning how you can receive one of the limited invitations then be sure to sign up for the list below. Even if you’re not located in Utah you’ll want to subscribe to the list.. for reasons that will be announced later!!!

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the lighting styles that will be discussed.


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Adobe Photoshop CS5: All New Painting Tools

15 Dec

Try or buy Photoshop CS5 at bit.ly Watch John Derry, one of Photoshops painting pioneers, review his top five Photoshop CS5 painting features. John Derry is a pioneer of digital painting. Since 1985, he has leveraged his background in drawing and painting to advance the look and experience of traditional art-making tools on the computer. John has a masters degree in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, is a practicing artist and photographer, and has two US patents relating to expressive digital mark-making. He is a regular contributor to AfterCapture Magazine, Rangefinder’s publication focusing on photographic post-production work. John teaches digital painting workshops internationally and holds a Photographic Craftsman degree from Professional Photographers of America.
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Now a multi-platform home or business can share one server. Your digital life now has a smooth, networked, back-up and share unit. Visit Photoinduced.com for more photo-ness and free stuff weekly!
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Photoshop Tools: Replace Color

04 Nov

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25 October, 2010 – Digital Tools for Architectural Photographers

30 Oct

Architectural photography is one of the technically most demanding disciplines of our craft. In days of yore (more than about 5 – 10 years ago) it was the almost exclusive domain of large format technical cameras and film. Not so much today.

Our regular contributor Richard Sexton has just provided us with his latest essay titled Digital Tools for Architectural Photographers. This is a must-read if the topic is of interest to you.


Observant readers who check the site’s Home Page will notice that its lead photograph was taken with the upcoming Panasonic GH2 and 100-300mm G lens.

I have been testing a pre-production sample, along with the also new 14mm f/2.5 pancake lens. My first-impressions report will be published this coming Wednesday. Watch for it.

I will also be going to New York City later this week for the PhotoPlus Show. Maybe I’ll see you there.


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