Photography

Sony Alpha 9 Most Capable Camera Ever?

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Sony have changed the game. They have just announced a new Alpha series mirrorless camera – Sony Alpha 9. And it’s a game changer. In Sony’s words: It’s the most capable camera ever: mirrorless or DSLR. It’s not even largely about physical differences between mirrorless and DSLR anymore, but instead about the capabilities of mirrorless that […]

Lightroom

Lightroom CC 2015.10 Available

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Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.10 update

Adobe announced availability of Lightroom CC 2015.10. It addresses some bugs, adds support for new cameras and lenses. New cameras now supported in Lightroom CC 2015.10 are: Canon EOS M6 Canon EOS Digital Rebel T7i (EOS 800D, EOS Kiss X9i) Canon EOS 77D (EOS 9000D) Pentax KP Also, the new lenses supported in this release […]

Technology

Portable Storage

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Portable Hard drives - Transcend StoreJet

Storage, or portable storage in this case, is a very important aspect of everyone’s life nowadays. We live in an era of everything being in electronic form and it has to be stored somewhere. The same with your photographs. If you’re like 98 or 99% of people, all your images are digital, whether you take […]

Web Technologies

Google Shrinks JPEGs by 35%

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Google Images

For the last few years Google have been working on reducing file sizes of images on the web and now they seem to have reached a point where they succeeded in a big way. In their blog post, Google say that they developed a new algorithm called Guetzli, which can reduce the file size of […]

Photography

Malta’s Azure Window Arch collapses

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Azure Window Arch Malta

One of the best known photo locations in Europe (and probably in the World)  is gone. Malta’s famous Azure Window arch in Gozo collapsed into the sea yesterday. Azure Window Arch seems to have been in danger of collapse for the last few years because of natural erosion as well as tourists. Yesterday, as very […]

Lightroom

Biggest Misconception about Lightroom

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Biggest misconception about Lightroom

Today, I’d like to talk about the biggest misconception about Lightroom. Something people keep asking about all the time. Something that gets people so many problems. Developing images in Lightroom is easy. But managing images and the catalogue is another story… One of the most common questions I get from almost everyone is “Where are […]

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375,000 Images from MET Available for Free

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York announced that they’re making 375,000 images – scans of artwork in their gallery – available as Public Domain images (Free to use). These images are scans of their content, which is a copyright-free content of their artwork. Every images is available as an image under “Creative Commons” […]

Photoshop

Printing in Photoshop

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Printing in Photoshop

How do you make sure that your printed images match what you see on your screen? The first thing for you to do is going to be investing in a monitor calibrator like one of these: Datacolor Spyder ColorMunki Buy one of these. They will make a big difference to your digital workflow. Once you […]

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Adobe Creative Suite is No More

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Creative Suite retired

Adobe have officially pull the plug on Creative Suite. Up till the first week of this year you could still buy Adobe Creative Suite 6 from Adobe (you had to call their call centre) but now this is gone. From now on, it’s all Creative Cloud (which has been around for almost 4 years now). […]