Monday, January 24, 2005

Color Management Answers for Photoshop Elements: "In my opinion, the two biggest features Adobe decided to leave out of Photoshop Elements are Curves and support for color management profile conversion. Having recently taken a look at adding support for Curves to Elements, it's time to do the same with color management. It turns out it too is actually in there, buried beneath the covers, waiting to be let out...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 7:59:32 AM

New Ways to Manage Your Photos: "Two companies are releasing new versions of popular photo-organizing programs. Both can vastly improve the digital photo experience." (Via New York Times: Technology.) 7:58:51 AM

Western Digital Offering High Capacity Miniature Hard Drives For Digital Cameras And Other Applications: " High-capacity 6 GB 1-inch Hard Drives to Ship in Second Calendar Quarter of 2005 LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 19, 2005 - Serving a rapidly expanding base of customers for mass storage, Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) announced today that the company will enter the market for miniature hard drives with a family of 1-inch drives that enable a variety of handheld consumer devices, which are experiencing explosive demand. An increasing number of current applications, such as MP3 players, PDAs, digital still cameras and digital video cameras, rely on 1-inch hard drives. Newly available and future products enabled by innovations in rotating magnetic storage, such as 1-inch drives, have driven demand in the quickly developing market segment that includes combination digital video/still cameras and cell phones. " (Via Digital Camera Websites: Digital Photography News - The Latest Digital Photography News.) 7:58:21 AM

First Nikon D2X Images Posted: " The first Nikon D2X images have been posted on the Nikon Pro site. To our knowledge, these are the first images posted from Nikon's highlyanticipated flagship DSLR due to ship late February. To view the images, click here. " (Via Digital Camera Websites: Digital Photography News - The Latest Digital Photography News.) 7:56:21 AM

The World Wide Panorama - Marketplace, March 17-20, 2005: "In the days leading up to the Equinox (which falls on March 20 for most parts of the world) photographers everywhere are invited to participate in another World Wide Panorama event. The theme for this event is Marketplace. If you are interested, to get started we ask that you join our group and get on the mailing list. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp/ and sign up. You don't need to be registered to participate in the event, but it is a good way to keep up with what's going on. Next, consider the theme of Marketplace, described here, and select what you think would be a good panoramic subject. You are free to interpret the theme in any creative manner that you please. Shoot your panorama (or object) anytime from March 17 through 20 (Thursday through Sunday). You will then have a week to process your photographs into a VR panorama in QuickTime format and prepare the caption and link information to go with it. Please familiarize yourself with the guidelines for dimensions and file sizes, links, and caption information. You can submit your images and caption information anytime from Monday, March 21, up to the deadline of Wednesday, March 30. The site will be prepared in stages as submissions arrive, available to participants only. The site will be finalized and publicly announced on Friday, April 1, 2005." 7:56:11 AM

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