Adobe released a public beta for Photoshop CS6. The biggest update in a long time this version brings: Updated Camera Raw 7 engine and tools to match Lightroom 4 More intuitive, non-destructive Crop Tool (like Lightroom) Blur Filter to simulate tilt/shift and depth of field Advanced video editing New darker user interface (can be customised) … Read more
Seagate announced new heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)Â technology that will soon allow up to 6TB drives and up to 60TB drives within 10 years.
Adobe have released Lightroom 4 that is full of new and improved features. Perhaps the biggest one is the new price: AUS $199 which is half the previous version.
Recently camera manufacturers focussed (pun intended) on the quality of sensors giving us better detail in shadows and highlights and the ability to photograph in ridiculously low light without flash. However this week Nikon announced a 36MP D800 DSLR camera and Nokia a 41MP 808 phone camera. So the megapixel race appears to be back … Read more
As National President of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) Robert Edwards will be speaking at the National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum (archived link) on the future of the photographic industry. When: Wednesday 8 – Friday 10 February 2012 Where: ACMI at Federation Square, Melbourne The Forum will present emerging and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait … Read more
Kodak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Kodak, once the dominant force in photography and pioneer in digital, say they will restructure and emerge in 2013. Via Rob Galbraith.
Phase One have released an update to Media Pro. As well as new camera support metadata support has been improved: Better support for exporting annotations/metadata to XMP sidecars. Catalog sets, custom fields and hierarchical keywords may be exported to XMP sidecars. Will always be included when extracting metadata. Two new general preferences increasing flexibility of … Read more
Adobe have made Lightroom 4 available as a free public beta. Nothing new for DAM but lots of improvements for image processing. There are more options for local area correction including White Balance and Noise Reduction, basic video editing, and soft proofing.
Friend and colleague John Beardsworth launched a new website dedicated to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. John is a rare breed: author, avid photographer, software engineer, knowledgable image archivist,  and a straight talker.
Bibble Labs who make the multi-platform raw conversion software Bibble were recently purchased by Corel. A post in the Bibble forums informs users an official announcement will be made at CES next week. Bibble was the first alternative photographers had to the expensive and/or limited raw conversion software available from camera manufacturers. I began using Bibble in … Read more