Posts Tagged ‘editing’

In the seven years since Adobe launched Lightroom, it’s established a devout fanbase of professional and amateur photographers alike. It promised, and delivered, an end-to-end digital imaging workshop that prioritized speed, efficiency, and ease of use. Today, Adobe is launching a free public beta for Lightroom 5 , and thankfully, that original vision hasn’t gone out of focus. There are a few genuinely new and useful editing features, like an improved spot removal tool (now a brush), and a new automated way to straighten your images, but the core editing functionality has been left untouched since Adobe’s big processing engine update last year

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Adobe Lightroom 5 beta: hands-on with Smart Previews, radial gradients, and easy straightening

There’s no need for sets or costumes at Industrial Light & Magic — when filming a movie at the renowned visual effects studio, the camera can instantly turn Mark Ruffalo into the Hulk and a blue curtain into New York City. “Instead of your actor, you actually see Iron Man,” said Jeff White, a visual effects supervisor for ILM, told Grantland . One setup at the studio uses 40 cameras to track an actor’s motion. Combined with a blue screen, a camera operator can look into a “virtual camera” — a small shoulder mounted rig with a large LCD display — that augments the mostly barren set with a virtual world. For directors working on heavily digital films, the technology can be a godsend — they can work similar to how they would…

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Forty cameras turn Mark Ruffalo into the Hulk before your eyes

Flickr’s Android app has been updated , bringing a host of changes to the user interface as well as some new functionality. The latest version of the app includes a new horizontal swiping system, making navigation between photos easier, and adds an iOS-style pull-to-refresh feature to pages displaying new content. It also adds the ability to edit descriptions and metadata on existing photos, a feature previously confined to the website, and a dialog allowing users to choose camera software other than Flickr’s built-in option for taking photos. While users are notified of the new navigation options by a regular pop-up, swiping between photos can take some time to get used to, particularly as certain sections of the app don’t include any…

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Flickr for Android updated with UI improvements and new editing functionality

Using Photoshop to improve images for magazine covers is a widespread practice, and The New York Times looks at several examples and where different publications draw the line. From minor color corrections and smoothing crow’s feet to completely changing the color of a model’s top and entirely removing Tom Cruise’s braces, there’s currently no standard governing the ethics of photo editing. As for why the practice is so common, The New York Times cites technologies that make the retouching process easier and readers’ expectations for a “heightened version of the truth.” Although the article focuses on editing that happens after the images are shot, rather than in-camera editing techniques like color balance, it’s a very interesting… Continue reading…

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Photoshop and the ethics of photo editing

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that it’ll be demonstrating HSPA+ Multiflow at Mobile World Congress next week, a technology that allows phones and modems near the edge of one HSPA+ cell site to connect to a second site simultaneously. NSN is making some lofty promises about the technology, saying it could deliver twice the data speed and up to a 50 percent reduction in latency versus today’s HSPA+ networks. Dual-carrier HSPA — which is already in deployment around the world — is somewhat similar in concept, but doesn’t allow for connectivity to multiple towers simultaneously. Presumably, Multiflow won’t require additional spectrum to operate, either. The demo will take place in partnership with Qualcomm, which is offering..

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‘HSPA+ Multiflow’ to be shown at MWC, lets devices talk to two towers at once

Panasonic announced that it was re-entering the smartphone market in Europe this spring, and now the company has officially taken the wraps the Eluga, a 4.3-inch smartphone with a 960 x 540 resolution and NFC onboard. The phone was unveiled at the Panasonic Convention 2012 , is headed to Europe in March, and will be waterproof, dustproof, and “very light.” The company hasn’t posted any other details or specs yet, but said it would be officially releasing information on its website tomorrow. Visually, this phone appears identical to the prototype the company showed off back in December, and it also bears a striking resemblance to the recent Disney phone unveiled for NTT Docomo earlier in the month. We’ve reached out to Panasonic for more…

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Panasonic officially announces Eluga, a waterproof, dustproof smartphone for Europe

Finding a decent arcade in the US is largely a lost cause these days — but hey, what you do with your bedroom walls is always going to be up to you. Axel Pfaender is a Berlin-based graphic designer with a penchant for remixing video game artwork and imagery, He’s put together a great poster with vintage arcade cabinets, controllers, promo art, and more from the coin-op era. Due to fears of copyright law he isn’t selling it through his store — so here it is, free to download at your leisure. It’s not quite high-resolution enough for a full A1 printout, but should be good for A3 or any screens you may have lying around

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Relive the glory of arcade years through the medium of A3 poster

We heard that Fujitsu was planning to launch at least one Arrows tablet in Europe a while back, and it looks to be part of a full-scale offensive on the continent. The company will indeed be releasing a range of smartphones and tablets on both Android and Windows platforms this year, according to a report in the Financial Times , and will likely show off products at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2012. Note that it’s not necessarily Windows Phone we’re talking about here — Fujitsu does make Windows Phones in Japan, like the IS12T we saw at CES, but it’s also made bizarre devices such as the F-07C , a smartphone that dual-boots Symbian and Windows 7. While we’re not sure it’ll pull that trick again, Microsoft’s next desktop OS is…

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Fujitsu bringing ‘wide range of smartphones and tablets’ to Europe, says FT

The Nook Tablet’s biggest problem so far has been that it costs $50 more than Amazon’s Kindle Fire while targeting the same budget-conscious Android tablet market. That’s likely to change soon, however, as we’ve come across documentation showing a planned February 22nd launch for a Nook 8GB Tablet. It appears to be the same Android slate as Barnes & Noble’s current $249 Tablet, but with less onboard storage (matching the Fire’s 8GB) and what will very likely be a correspondingly lower price.

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Nook 8GB Tablet coming on February 22nd to better compete with Kindle Fire

The Magic Lantern team has announced that its new custom firmware will enable HDR video capture for Canon 550D (T2i), 600D (T3i), and 60D DSLRs. HDR (or high dynamic range) is a method that combines images with varying exposures to provide better detail in shadows and highlights, and with video it’s typically achieved with multiple cameras — but Magic Lantern alternates a single camera’s exposure between frames, splitting the video into two streams that can be combined in the editing phase to create the HDR effect. As you can see in the demonstration video, the result is a scene with balanced lighting and greater detail.  Magic Lantern was originally created as a firmware add-on to enhance the capabilities of the Canon 5D Mark II,… Continue reading…

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Magic Lantern firmware adds HDR video to Canon DSLRs

Apple has just released the second beta of iOS 5.1 to developers, and while we don’t know yet if it will fix lingering battery issues the company failed to quash with 5.01 , there’s at least once new welcome feature here: If you’re an iCloud user, you’ll soon be able to delete individual photos from your Photo Stream. When  reviewing the iPhone 4S , we were disappointed that Photo Stream was an “all or nothing” affair — if a photo was added to Photo Stream, there was no way to remove it unless you completely disabled the service — but it looks like Apple is reversing course. So if you prefer to carefully curate your Photo Stream rather than just let any old image you snap on your phone to be included, this is an update to look forward… Continue reading…

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Apple iOS 5.1 beta 2 allows users to delete individual photos from Photo Stream

Well, it’s about time, RIM! A leaked version of BlackBerry OS 7.1 indicates that native mobile hotspot support is finally reaching the aging platform. The 3G sharing feature, which is a staple on most Android devices, looks like it will be integrated at the OS level. Or at least that seems to be the case according to an  OSBB  tipster, who has posted a leaked version of 7.1 for the  Torch 9810 . This inclusion in its outgoing platform suggests that there’s a good chance we’ll see the feature included in the  newly-renamed Blackberry 10  operating system when it’s finally released. However, if you can’t wait until then, or until 7.1 is released officially, the leaked software is available to install from the source link — just proceed..

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Leaked BlackBerry OS 7.1 adds mobile hotspot support

Just because the Kindle Touch isn’t Android-based doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be fun and potentially useful to gain root on it. Developer Yifan Lu has managed to do just that and has released the jailbreak tool for the e-reader in a format that might surprise you: an mp3 file. It turns out that the Kindle Touch’s operating system is slightly different from previous Kindles in that it uses significantly more HTML in its UI instead of Java, which apparently means that — for now — it’s much easier to exploit. Lu was able to put the rooting commands in the ID3 comment tag of an mp3 file, complete with a “jailbroken’ splash screen

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Kindle Touch jailbroken with simple MP3 hack

Everyone may be talking about iOS 5 like it’s the second coming, but you might be wondering what the catches are. There aren’t many, but there are a few reasons you might want to hold off on updating. Here’s what the situation looks like right now. More »

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Is There Any Reason I Shouldn’t Upgrade to iOS 5 Right Now? [Ios 5]

Dear Lifehacker, I just upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, and my spouse is going to be getting an iPhone 4S tomorrow. With this iMessage feature I keep hearing about—or even with one of the many SMS-replacements available on most devices—is it finally time for me to ditch my text messaging plan completely so I can save roughly $20 a month? More »

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Can I Finally Ditch My Text Messaging Plan? [Ask Lifehacker]