Monthly Archives: September 2008

Orphan Works passed by US Senate

Away from the hullabaloo of the crisis on Wall St the Orphan Works Act passed the U.S. Senate . It was amended at the 11th hour with a small concession for copyright holders. According to the PDN web site… The … Continue reading

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Will PS CS4 handle GigaPixel files?

With the current announcement of CS4 there’s a healthy discussion of the latest improvements Photoshop’s processing abilities as well as its new capabilities, over on the Prodig email List. Well we thought you might like to read this insight that … Continue reading

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Dropbox syncs files across PCs

Dropbox is a service-application that runs cross-platform. It allows you to share and constantly update the contents of a specified folder across all your computers, and even those of your colleagues. Created by a bunch of young guys out in … Continue reading

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Metadata Working group

David Riecks (from Controlled Vocabulary) has drawn our attention to this… A group going by the name of the “Metadata Working group” made a major announcement at Photokina today and released a document that is designed to help developers by … Continue reading

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Stop web scripts stripping meta data

David Riecks’ site, Controlled Vocabulary, has drawn our attenion to photographer and web designer Laura Cotterman, who has discovered that resizing images on your website using the popular server-side application GD can inadvertently remove metadata from your image files. Many … Continue reading

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Canon 21.1 MP EOS 5D Mark II with Full HD video capture

Just ahead of Photokina, and after several teasers, Canon   unveiled the successor to the EOS 5D, the world’s first ‘compact’ full frame digital SLR. The EOS 5D Mark II has a new 21MP CMOS sensor and a wealth of new … Continue reading

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Canon Powershot G10

Press release: United Kingdom / Republic of Ireland, 17 September 2008: Canon today announces its new flagship PowerShot compact digital camera: the PowerShot G10. Replacing the PowerShot G9, the PowerShot G10 is the first G-series camera to offer wide-angle imaging … Continue reading

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Photoshop Hall of Fame presentation

Hall of Fame inductee Martin Evening receiving his “Photoshop Hall of Fame” award from NAPP’s Executive Director Larry Becker. photo: Brad Moore

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