Dptips :. Digital Photography Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Chicago - April 18th, 2006 - Pixel Genius, LLC ships PhotoKit(TM) Color 2.0. PhotoKit Color 2.0 replaces PhotoKit Color 1.0, an Adobe® Photoshop® Automate Plug-in that applies precise color corrections, automatic color balancing and creative coloring effects. With a retail price of $99.95, PhotoKit Color 2.0 offers a comprehensive set of coloring tools for Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS2 for both Macintosh and Windows. PhotoKit Color 1.0 users can…

California-based Digital Foci Inc. has today revealed its latest flash-card reader product, the Memory Card Gateway. Available in three colors - Lucid Purple, Midnight Gray, and Crystal Blue - the Memory Card Gateway is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS operating systems, as well as Linux. It offers USB 2.0 Hi-Speed connectivity (backwards compatible with the slower USB 1.1 standard), and natively accepts CompactFlash Type-I and Type-II (…

Boulder, CO, April 18, 2006 – LifePics today announced that it is now the digital imaging services provider for Woodman’s Markets, a major food retailer based in Janesville, WI. Woodman’s will use the LifePics online imaging solution to allow its customers to upload digital photos and pick up prints in an hour at eleven stores across Wisconsin and Illinois. Woodman’s will also offer a variety of other photo related products and services including…

The length of the "Pro" list next to the (very few) "Cons" at the conclusion of our review will give you some idea of the quality and capability of the Canon EOS-30D. The exceptional nature of the Canon 30D should come as no surprise though, given that it’s a refinement of an already superb digital SLR, brought up to date with a few features the market’s been wanting. The camera…

Web Site Designed to Inspire/ Educate Photographers at All Levels with Tips and Techniques from World-Class Pros Fountain Valley, CA – April 15, 2006 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced that legendary photojournalist Harry Benson will be the featured photographer on Kingston’s Icons of Photography Web site beginning today. Icons of Photography is quickly becoming one of the most popular…

DVD Provides Expert Advice and Easy Tips and Tricks for Family Photography. REDMOND, Washington (PRWEB) April 17, 2006 –- BetterPhoto.com™, the worldwide leader in online photography education, today announced that President Jim Miotke’s latest DVD, Photographing Kids is now available via betterphoto.com. Digital photography has become ubiquitous, and most new digital camera owners want to know one thing: how to take better photos of their family….

A news article on the website of the Korea Times newspaper reports on an interesting new technology that promises the ability for digicams and camera phones to allow displays larger than you’d expect from a compact body. The article discusses a technology preview by South Korean company Iljin Display, which is demonstrating a new, remarkably small LCD panel laser projector. With a width of only 0.24 inches, the LCD panel looks to be about the s…

After much travail, the server hosting the SLRgear and Photo of the Day sites (as well as our digital camera "gallery" shots) is back online. This took way, way longer than it should have, about the only good thing to say about it is that we’re appropriately chastised and much the wiser. A disk crash took one of our servers offline Tuesday afternoon, and after three full days, our admins finally have it back in service again. For historical re…

Company Will Accept Limited Number of Beta Users for Service That Automatically Backs Up PCs over the Internet for $5 per Month. BOSTON, MASS. (PRWEB) April 13, 2006 — Carbonite ( http://www.carbonite.com ), Inc., the only provider of inexpensive, “set and forget” online PC backup ( http://www.carbonite.com ) services to consumers, is opening its public beta to 1,000 additional users on a first-come, first-served basis through the end of April,…

Almost there! We’ve installed a new operating system and restored our applications to the new hard drive. But we’ve just begun testing them before going live again. The Picture of the Day Contest has tested well but there’s a lot more to test, so it will still be a while before both POTD and slrgear.com are live again. If you visit those URLs, you’ll be prompted for a password, indicating our testing is in progress. Once again, we appreciate …

New Raw decoding and controls with other enhancements are accompanied by a new price, too. Aperture 1.1 is just $299 and available as a free update to 1.0 users. Apple today released Aperture 1.1 with new Raw controls and improved Raw decoding using custom parameters. A new Color Meter tool can sample color values from any area of an image. And the new version also includes a new export resolution option. The release notes follow. Release Not…

We’ve replaced the hardware and are reinstalling the software, expecting to be back up later today. A drive failure Tuesday took down our SLRgear and Picture of the Day sites. We replaced the hardware yesterday and started the process of reinstalling the operating system and application files from our backups. After we complete testing the new system, we expect to have both sites back up later today. Meanwhile, we appreciate your patience as w…

Free Updates Include Added RAW Camera and MS Office Support for Digital Asset Management Needs PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 12, 2006–Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today released two free updates to Portfolio 8 — the leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution for creative professionals. These updates include two file format support filters, which add support for Microsoft Office allowing users to catalog, find and view files…

SUNNYVALE, CA APRIL 12, 2006 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) will sponsor the Red Sea International Underwater Photo competition in Eliat, Israel on April 24 – 29. The contest is already attracting photographers from all over the world, representing Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and the USA. The participating underwater photographers will have three days to shoot…

Ouch! Hardware problems take SLRgear & Photo of the Day offline! Just a quick note, thanks to those who wrote in to let us know the sites were down: The server handling the bulk of our Photo of the Day and SLRgear.com traffic developed a file system problem earlier today, apparently due to a hardware failure. Our admins have taken the system offline, replaced a possibly bad drive cable, and are running a file system restore on the box as I writ…

A report today on technology website Engadget suggests that Canon will soon end sales of its EOS 20Da digital SLR. A little more than a year after it was first announced in Japan, notes have appeared on the company’s Japanese website indicating that it will stop accepting orders from April 21st, 2006. There doesn’t seem to be any official announcement, nor is any reason given for the move. We’ve also yet to hear anything on the matter from Cano…

–New SeeFile E-Commerce module, priced at $500. –Allows photographers to price and sell images and prints individually –New shopping cart feature enables customers to buy prints or images instantly –Still enables easy file management and photographer/customer communication –No uploads or service provider required – runs from photographer’s computer –For more information visit www.seefile.com or call their Boston offices at 617-262-2464…

Canon USA has announced a new rebate scheme offering up to $300 off on selected products including some of its most popular digital SLRs. The rebates, which must be fulfilled by mail, offer $300 to customers purchasing the EOS 5D full-frame digital SLR, and $100 to those purchasing the EOS Digital Rebel XT. Rebates on a variety of EF-mount lenses vary from $10 to $50. Five Speedlite flash models are covered as well, with rebates from $10 to $50…

A nylon tent, two lightweight stands with two 250-watt bulb lamps and you’re in the product shot business — with no compromises. Photoflex has recently introduced its LiteIgloo kit, a nylon tent in three sizes, and bundled the medium-sized one with a couple of lights and stands to make up the $249.95 First Studio Product Kit. We give it a test drive and report our findings….

We chose "Silk And Glitter," "bliss," and "colors in my lens" as Photo of the Month contest winners for March. Congratulations to Branko Radonjic, jcsuperstar, and Lucian Baraitaru! Another rich month came and went, and now a new trio of winners. I got some good feedback from folks to my query about listing "honorable mentions" along with this lineup of award winners, all in the affirmative. However, I’ve been unable to figure a way to do it …