The .8bf open Adobe Photoshop plugin standard is endangered. So to honor the creativity and fun of so many .8bf based filter and plugins, thePhotofinishes has started a series looking at some of the fun, creative and often free .8bf plugins. And there is no better place to start than the Mehdi Plugins which are […]
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One of the best features of Photoshop in its early days has been two programmable capabilities: Actions for Photoshop users and plugins for software developers. Plugins over the years have anticipated many image processing features that eventually became incorporated with the Adobe design flair into Photoshop or Photoshop Elements commands. Look at some of the
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One of the hidden attractions of Facebook for many users has been its photo album services. Consider the line up – easy to use albums which can be captioned, sorted and organized to your hearts content. It is easy to import/upload to your albums including appending onto an existing album, exchanging photos between albums or creating
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Hunnnh? Whazzup ye Editor? You are trying to compare a full high end Nikon D4 DSLR with a Samsung point and shoot compact camera. Didn’t you see the intro video for the Nikon D4: Yep, but this is a value and improvement comparison. Take a look at the preliminary value table below: Feature Nikon D4
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Picthat has been saying for over two years now that compact cameras are being pushed hard by the improvements in the cameras on smartphones and tablets. Now courtesy of a Wells Fargo pre-release on Consumer Electronic Show announcement, readers will see that there is a wave of new point and shoot, compact cameras incoming stocked
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Your Next Camera? Ars Technica has attempted to do a really interesting exercise – comparing the iPhone 4s camera to other smartphone cameras [iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy IIs], a compact camera[Olympus XZ-1] and a digital SLR[Canon 20D]. Despite the flaws in the comparison[see below], this is a must see article. For example, Picthat has been
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Photo contest are going worldwide and viral. More than ever before the Web is seeing some very intteresting photo contests. Here for the Fall are 3 contests with free entry and some interesting prizes as well as creative imaging challenges. Photo Art Gallery Competition This contest is open to photographers worldwide and the themes this
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Four years ago, thePhotoFinishes ran a story about the Memjet Inkjet Printer that used a unique paper wide printhead and the ability to print at 40 to 100 pages/minute full color with impressive fidelity. Here is our take at the time: As you can see there is still a good deal of suspicion, but as
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