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Category Archives: Software

Free Dust and Scratch Removal software saves your scans

By Tom Bonner | Published: January 9, 2009

Scan of 1968 Kodak Instamatic negative produced this. Not bad for a cheap, plastic lens camera, but even at this reduced size you can see it is loaded with dust marks. Tip of the Week: This week’s tip involves a free piece of software from — surprise — Polaroid Corporation. (PRDCQ) You’ve no doubt heard [...]

Also posted in Photography, Tips & Tricks | 59 Comments

Beta Picasa for Macintosh only runs on Intel Macs

By Tom Bonner | Published: January 7, 2009

Jan 6, 2009: Two great announcements for Mac using photographers today. Apple announced iPhoto 9, with a host of new features. At the same time, Google released the long awaited beta of Picasa for Macintosh. I was really excited with the chance to use Picasa for the Mac. I’ve used the Windows version of Picasa [...]

Also posted in Photography, Rumors | 8 Comments

Sony Alpha A350 ships — Adobe pulls ACR update

By Tom Bonner | Published: March 26, 2008

Sony has started shipping the Alpha A350. I took delivery of one of the big orange boxes last week and have started putting the A350 through it’s paces. So far, I am fairly pleased with the 14m dSLR — I will post a review with samples shortly. I had hoped to update my copy of [...]

Also posted in A350, Adobe, DSLR, Photography, Sony A300, Uncategorized, Vertical Grip | Leave a comment

Sony Alpha A700 RAW files now native in Mac OSX

By Tom Bonner | Published: February 19, 2008

Our friend Bert Pasquale is back, and he is excited about the Mac OSX 10.5.2 native support of A700 RAW files. What follows is Bert’s enthusiastic report of 10.5.2′s handling of A700 ARW files, as well as a look at Aperture 2.0 If the terms Sweet, Nice and Very Nice are any indication. Bert is [...]

Also posted in Digital Workflow, DSLR, Photography, Sony A700, Sony Alpha, Sony DSLR | Leave a comment

Will the Alpha A300 be the next SLR from Sony?

By Tom Bonner | Published: January 24, 2008

Ok, the Sony A200 dSLR hasn’t even started shipping yet, but already the rumor mill is racheting up into a fever pitch. The majority of the rumors are claiming Sony will introduce at least one or perhaps two new dSLRs slotted between the A200 and the A700. The new cameras, which the rumor sites have [...]

Also posted in DSLR, Photography, Rumors, Sony A200, Sony A300 | 7 Comments

Hydra: Save on new Mac HDR photography tool

By Tom Bonner | Published: January 14, 2008

If you been interested in experimenting with High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography, but haven’t yet acquired the software to create HDR images, this is an excellent time to get started. Creaceed (formerly known as eX-cinder) is about the unleash Hydra, an elegant Mac-only HDR program. Of course there are other Macintosh HDR programs available, but [...]

Also posted in Digital Workflow, DSLR | Leave a comment

Adobe updates Lightroom to 1.2: includes A700 support

By Tom Bonner | Published: September 16, 2007

Last week, Adobe upgraded Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, bumping the latest version to 1.2. The changes are mostly bug fixes, including: improving import of catalogs to new catalogs, performance improvements regarding XMP metadata, fixed bugs involving Windows thumbnail display, fixed a bug involving the Macintosh web module, and a long list of other minor fixes. The [...]

Also posted in Adobe, DSLR, Sony A700 | 2 Comments

Got an Alpha A100? These guys want your help

By Tom Bonner | Published: September 11, 2007

Help discover DRO secrets Interesting thread on the DPreview Sony SLR talk forum. Seems some of the forum members are casting around for a method to create a new software plugin that would allow users to edit DRO photographic images in Photoshop. DRO is the Dynamic Range Optimizer used by the Sony Alpha A100 camera. [...]

Also posted in DSLR, Sony A700, Sony Alpha, Sony DSLR | 3 Comments

Lightroom 1.1 upgrade: lengthy install is well worth the wait

By Tom Bonner | Published: June 30, 2007

Lightroom 1.1 is here (at last!) and it is proving a very worthy upgrade. Like many other photographers, I really like the new Clarity slider. The new catalog function finally allows you to add processed photos from your field laptop to the database on your main computer — although I think there is still room [...]

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