Great slideshows for great images has been a problem long addressed by photographers. As a member of the Calgary and Toronto camera clubs the slideshow command performances were a show in themselves with dual projector setups, music [or narration] and fantastic slide transitions. So it is not surprising to find some great Web slideshow apps. […]
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This blog has argued before that Samsung has a superior product development cycle that allows it to deliver better cameras, smartphone and other electronic devices on a timely basis. The whole idea is to draw from Agile software development – and quickly produce designs that meet consumer feature needs through live products every 6-12
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For the next few months, thePhotoFinishes will be featuring some of the best,often free, photo display software and sliders in our Slider Series of reviews. The Animated Responsive Image Grid is another Codrops production which features Responsive slider, grid layout, links on each grid image and full screen operation. This is another solution to the
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Nintendo and then Microsoft pioneered the use of 3D gestures primarily in gaming. Recently LeapMotion has worked long and hard to bring 3D Gestures in with its Leap small brick devices which Asus and HP are now adopting for their laptops and PCs. Users will get to try out the Leap Motion device on July
ThePhotoFinishes has been an admirer of Xara’s photo finishing software like Xara Photo Designer Pro. And why not?. Xara software is super fast particularly when dealing with large bitmap images [30MB or larger] and vector graphic files[20K graphic point or more]; many of its operations are drag and drop simple to do or just a
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If you goto the Pinterest site here, you will find 150 of the best photos from the Olympic Games in London. These are compiled from a number of sources – but the bulk of them come from the LATimes Photography Blog and the London2012.com official Olympic website. There are 3 reasons for this choice of sources
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Lets be honest, this reviewer was not looking for much in the PS6 3D set of commands. After all this was just going to match the 4year old 3D and beveling commands of Xara’s Designer Pro at double the price and half the speed. And the first part of our tests seemed to confirm that:
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The Blur Gallery appears to be incomplete in the first beta of Photoshop 6. And I sincerely hope so and shall show you why here. You can find the Blur Gallery under the Filter Menu – choose anyone of Field Blur, Iris Blur or Tilt-Shift Blur – and then screen above will appear. The sidebar
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