Good news for all photographers! Digital media and design training specialists lynda.com launched a new 6.5 hour-long tutorial that they say will help achieve robust, dynamic database design – the Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training. According to the…

Good news for all photographers! Digital media and design training specialists lynda.com launched a new 6.5 hour-long tutorial that they say will help achieve robust, dynamic database design – the Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training. According to the developers, the tool will help bring out a photographer’s creative best.

Chris Orwig, a professional photographer and instructor, takes the trainee through the nuances of browsing, organizing, and adjusting of images that will help in improved photo management, processing and also presentation. The tutorial also comes with full-resolution exercise files. So all of you out with cameras get going!!!! We all expect some great-looking photos from you in the future!!! And all you need is to get hooked to the Internet. Subscribe to lynda.com’s Online Training Library Subscriptions start at $25 per month. To know more and for free online samples, you can visit http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=364. A CD version of the tool is expected to be released at the end of the month.

CEO of lynda.com Lynda Weinman says;

I am really excited about teaching Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, as it’s a revolutionary tool that empowers photographers (including myself) to become more effective and creative. Lightroom not only helps me organize and access images, it expands my creative potential with its powerful RAW processing capabilities that are non-destructive to the original image. Since I started using LR, my workflow has become streamlined, which has helped me rediscover my passion for the essentials of photography.

Via: Business Wire

Mustek has introduced a new range of digital camcorders with the new DV700TZ and DV530TZ range.

The DV700TZ offers better features which include:

• 7-Megapixel CCD

• 3x Optical Zoom

• 2.5-inch LCD

• Video Broadcasting at 720 x 480…

Mustek has introduced a new range of digital camcorders with the new DV700TZ and DV530TZ range.

The DV700TZ offers better features which include:

• 7-Megapixel CCD

• 3x Optical Zoom

• 2.5-inch LCD

• Video Broadcasting at 720 x 480 MPEG-4 format at 30fps

• 64MB Internal Memory

• SD card Slot

The DV700TZ is priced at $300.

The low-end camcorder dubbed DV530TZ features:

• 5.3-Megapixel CCD

• Video Capture at 640 x 480

• 3x Optical Zoom

• LCD

This one is priced at $230.

Both the cameras will be rolled out shortly.

Via: engadget

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Take a ton of photos? Keep filling up your camera with video? Then this is the perfect project for you.
Follow this simple tutorial to turn an old credit card (or one of those fake cards you get with new […]

Take a ton of photos? Keep filling up your camera with video? Then this is the perfect project for you.

Follow this simple tutorial to turn an old credit card (or one of those fake cards you get with new wallets) into a snap-in holder for an extra memory card. Then just stash that sucker in your wallet or pocketbook for when you need it.

With memory prices at an all-time low, having an extra card on hand–just in case–is a pretty smart idea.

DIY Credit Card Memory Card Holder Tutorial
www.instructables.com/id/EA5IMA4E30EWZMK6PU?ALLSTEPS (via Lifehacker)

p.s. Extra credit tip: The Sandisk USB+ SD Card plugs straight into a USB port, thus doubling as a thumbdrive. Stash that little guy in your wallet and you’ve got an extra memory card AND a thumbdrive. That’s thinking.

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New camcorder model from Hitachi have excellent features but so-so picture quality and an indecipherable instruction book.

Hitachi’s new DZH500A camcorder, allow users to edit videos on their hard drives and copy the videos directly to DVDs. In…

New camcorder model from Hitachi have excellent features but so-so picture quality and an indecipherable instruction book.

Hitachi’s new DZH500A camcorder, allow users to edit videos on their hard drives and copy the videos directly to DVDs. In general, they introduce a whole new way of working with video, one that reduces the intermediate step of transferring video to a computer.

That’s why, you can play that DVD for the family or mail it to a close friend because the master copy is on the hard drive, you can spin out another similar DVD as often as you like, right there on the camcorder.

Coming to the downward side, the flexibility of this camcorder is jaw-dropping. Fact of the matter is you can record either a standard TV-shaped image (4:3 proportion) or in widescreen (16:9, like a high-definition TV, although the camcorder does not record high-definition video). You can record video or still photos in number of combinations onto hard drive, DVD or SD memory card.

Via: The New York Times

The IXUS 70 (£250, pictured top and centre) and IXUS 75 (£270, pictured bottom) swap the IXUS 60 and IXUS 65 correspondingly. As judged against to the older variants, the new cameras propose an amplified image resolution of 7.1 megapixels, now…

The IXUS 70 (£250, pictured top and centre) and IXUS 75 (£270, pictured bottom) swap the IXUS 60 and IXUS 65 correspondingly. As judged against to the older variants, the new cameras propose an amplified image resolution of 7.1 megapixels, now that’s something even for the professionals and a two-tone, black-circle-on-silver-box design that reminds of the original film-based IXUS. Canon has also rejuvenated its stereotyped obsolete image to promote the new designs (if you’re more into modern minimalism and taking photos while clothed, the IXUS 70 also comes in silver on silver).
The only difference between the IXUS 70 and a bit more expensive IXUS 75 is the LCD on the flipside of the camera. The IXUS 70 has a 64mm (2.5-inch) LCD, leaving ample room for an optical viewfinder, whereas the IXUS 75 has a slightly bigger 76mm (3-inch) LCD and no viewfinder, that’s bad. In the stereotypical nutshell, if you’re going to slide the camera into the back pocket of your jeans and take photos of your friends when you’re out partying, you want the IXUS 75. If you plan to explode it into your bag so you can take photos of the kids on the beach during your summer holiday, go for the IXUS 70, I am surely of the opinion that you’ll find the optical viewfinder more useful than a bigger LCD

Via: Crave

As great as it is, there are times when Photoshop is just plain overkill.
Maybe you simply need to nuke some red-eye before emailing a photo, or fix the exposure on a snap you’ve already put on Flickr. Picnik to the rescue!
Crop, rotate, resize, one-click fix, color adjustments, sharpening, saturation, even histograms. 95% of the stuff […]

As great as it is, there are times when Photoshop is just plain overkill.

Maybe you simply need to nuke some red-eye before emailing a photo, or fix the exposure on a snap you’ve already put on Flickr. Picnik to the rescue!

Crop, rotate, resize, one-click fix, color adjustments, sharpening, saturation, even histograms. 95% of the stuff you’d do in Photoshop, you can do in Picnik more easily. Grab photos straight from your Flickr (and replace them with edited versions), from your computer, or the web; send your edited photos to your blog, to email, photo sharing sites, make a nifty slideshow, or even have them printed.

Picnik is fast. Better, it’s easy peasy, free, and filled with friendly features. (Example: Unlimited undo. Even for photos you edited months ago. Not even Photoshop can do that.)

We’ve been on the lookout for a halfway decent online photo editor for a while, and we’ve test-driven more than we care to admit. We’re done looking. Using Picnik is nicer than lying on a blanket in a grassy field on a sunny day.

Picnik — The best online photo editor
www.picnik.com

Thanks to Sahadeva for the tip!

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Canon is commemorating the 20th anniversary of its best selling EOS single lens reflex camera system by unveiling the new EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, which the company claims to be the world’s fastest digital SLR camera. The high-end 10.1-megapixel…

Canon is commemorating the 20th anniversary of its best selling EOS single lens reflex camera system by unveiling the new EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, which the company claims to be the world’s fastest digital SLR camera. The high-end 10.1-megapixel digital SLR is able to fire 10 frames per second in ruptures of up to 110 large JPEGs or 30 RAW files with its dual DIGIC III processor. Other salient features of the camera include 3-inch LCD viewscreen, an ISO range of 10 to 3200, highly innovative APS-H size CMOS sensor, new WFT- E2A Wireless File Transmitter option, integrated cleaning system to clean off dust, and advanced autofocus functionality. No words on pricing or availability but I will keep you posted on the same.

via: gizmag

Sold by Crazy About Gadgets, the Credit Card Digital Camera strips out all but the essentials, creating an extremely compact device that is also extremely cheap. The sensor is rated at 0.3 megapixels, which can still produce up to 26 1280×960 photos,…

Sold by Crazy About Gadgets, the Credit Card Digital Camera strips out all but the essentials, creating an extremely compact device that is also extremely cheap. The sensor is rated at 0.3 megapixels, which can still produce up to 26 1280×960 photos, stored on 8MB of RAM; alternately, users can shoot as many as 209 images at 640×480, or record up to 40 seconds of video. When connected to a computer, the unit doubles as a USB webcam. It is missing electronic flash however, and to check framing, users must rely on a manual viewfinder rather than an LCD. CAG is selling the camera in silver or pink for £20 ($41).

Via: crazyaboutgadgets

Got a photo you just adore and want a unique way to show it off?
Behold! Photo Pop-Outs!
Gather up a bit of foam core, a bit of tape, a knife, and 20 minutes and we’ll show you how to give your photos an eye-popping 3D effect — no special glasses required!
But wait, there’s more! We’ll even […]

Got a photo you just adore and want a unique way to show it off?

Behold! Photo Pop-Outs!

Gather up a bit of foam core, a bit of tape, a knife, and 20 minutes and we’ll show you how to give your photos an eye-popping 3D effect — no special glasses required!

But wait, there’s more! We’ll even show you how to make a nifty tabletop stand when you’re done.

Pop on over to our tutorial to find out how…

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We have witnessed experts talking about the myth of megapixels but Nikon seems to be paying no heed to that since it has launched a new digital camera dubbed P5000 that touts its whopping 10-megapixel CCD with a 3.5x zoom and ISO 3200 sensitivity….

We have witnessed experts talking about the myth of megapixels but Nikon seems to be paying no heed to that since it has launched a new digital camera dubbed P5000 that touts its whopping 10-megapixel CCD with a 3.5x zoom and ISO 3200 sensitivity. Nikon flaunts its new camera to be featuring new image processing engine with “enhanced noise reduction and an improved signal-to-noise ratio”. While its 2.5 inches LCD doesn’t impress me so much amidst the horde of digicams boasting 3-inchers, I am pleased to find extra room for optical viewfinder. It is scheduled to ship in March for a price of $400.

via: Engadget