Entries from March 2008

Photoshop plugin: Viveza

Date March 26, 2008

Very positive reports are surfacing about this new product from Nik Software. Using their U Point technology Viveza places a control point anywhere on an image and allows you to selectively control Brightness, Saturation, Contrast etc just in that selected area without the need for you to do your own complicated masking.
The Nik web site [...]

Mac OS X for Photographers

Date March 18, 2008

Its with great pleasure we can announce a new book from two of our longstanding Prodig subscribers…
‘Mac OS X for Photographers’ has been written by Rod Wynne-Powell. Its part of the series on Digital Workflow from Focal Press edited by Richard Earney.
According to Rod “It covers Tiger and some of Leopard as it relates to [...]

Taking a stand on competition copyright

Date March 17, 2008

Over recent years photographic forums have resounded with grumblings about competitions that make it a condition of entry that photographers surrender all rights to submitted images indefinitely.
The legal position in most countries is that the photographer automatically has the copyright in their work, unless they sign that right away.
So is there any reason why competition [...]