This summer, two smartphone manufacturers have issued very different but challenging visions to their competitors [and each other] of what a smartphone camera should be able to do. Hold on to your money and reins and take a look what will be coming likely this Fall. Samsung’s Galaxy NX – a full state of the […]
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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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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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Aviary provides a web and mobile app based photo-editor which illustrates a base line of what features to expect in a decent photo editor for both platforms. Now with demise of Picnik , thePhotoFishes has already looked into web-based photo-editors but not photo-editors for mobile apps. So lets take a look at what Aviary has to
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3 free Photo Editors continue to improve greatly over the past year. They are Artweaver, Photo Filtre and Photoscape. The following slideshow summarizes their features as covered here previously. But here are some newer features that are worthy of consideration. Again, in alphabetical order. Artweaver Artweaver has improved in its 3.1 version a number of
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For PhotoFinishing, mobile apps like Instagram, FxReviews, and PicSay have re-invigorated a revolution started by such web photofinishing tools as Picnik [see here the new Picniks since Google closed shop ]. The idea was to add visual fun to images which was inspired originally by Photoshop plugins like Impressionist or Virtual Painter or Flaming Pear.
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Convergence is a way of life in electronic gadgets. For example, still and video cameras have merged in the past 5 years. Another example, video cameras at the high-end may provide the next step up with 4000K movie images to draw upon for stills. But the real movement on the gadget highway has been from PDA
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My father used to say “know when you have been beaten to the punch”- and DPReview with Amadou Diallo’s update on Adobe’s Lightroom 4 has certainly done that. Note this is an update review so users are expected to be familiar with Lightroom 2 or 3 and the program’s role as a single image, non-destructive
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