Take Aperture on a Test Drive
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At Photo Plus Expo in New York, Apple today invited photographers to participate in a free, 30-day Aperture Trial. Customers can download and install a fully-functional version of Aperture 1.5, import their own images, and experiment with the many new features of the worldâs leading post-production tool for serious photographers.
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Time to start squinting at your screen. Nikon releases sample images from its D3 professional-grade SLR, and Canon 40D shots also are emerging.
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New in-camera features let photographers enhance images seen with the naked eye.
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We have some big news today for FlickrFan users, a major new source of high-def photography for the networked living room. They come from Agence France-Presse, one of the world's great news organizations, and a fantastic source of high-resolution news photography. I met with Agence France-Presse when I was in Paris in December, introduced them to FlickrFan and explained what we were doing with the Associated Press. They got excited, it took a little while to work out the technical details, but now we're ready to go. The updates are all out, here's the howto for FlickrFan users. Change #30: Agence France-Presse photos in FlickrFan. There were unique challenges in this project because their flow is huge. Yesterday we got over 3000 new photos. Because there are so many, I asked my friend Matt Mullenweg, if his company Automattic could help us out with server space and bandwidth, and he said yes. The AFP pictures are hosted on wordpress.com. Many thanks to Matt and his company for helping us out. To the extent we're bootstrapping a new use of the net, which I hope is what we're doing, Matt's company has made the kind of contribution we'd like to see more companies make. Usually the companies are happy to make the money, but not willing to help out with the bootstrap, which often costs money. Matt has always been a great guy and a visionary. I thank him and hope that FlickrFan users find an appropriate way to thank him too. And also, please consider the generosity of Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. We all hope that there's a market here, a way to monetize the flow of high-resolution photography to enrich and inform. Other content companies have been reluctant to take a chance on the Internet, we saw that in the early days of RSS and podcasting. I feel that these two media companies are playing the same pioneering role that the New York Times played with RSS 2.0 and NPR played in podcasting. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse deserve our respect and admiration for steping out, for going first, this is how new Internet activities get going. This is what we call market leadership, the real kind. Bravo!! And this couldn't come at a better time, with tomorrow being Super Tuesday here in the USA. Think of all the great photographs we're going to get in the next few days! Kevin Tofel helped test the feed over the weekend.
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Adobe customers will be able to test out the next version of Photoshop, as the company is releasing a beta on its Adobe Labs development site on Friday. The application, due in Spring 2007, will now natively support Intel Macs.
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Aperture customers can now install the Aperture 1.5.6 Update, either by running Software Update or by visiting the Aperture Download page. Recommended for all those using Aperture, the Aperture 1.5.6 Update addresses issues related to performance, improves overall stability, and supports compatibility with Mac OS X v10.5. The update should be installed before first use of Aperture with Mac OS X Leopard.
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Single-lens reflex digital cameras are enjoying rising popularity among consumers looking to take better-quality photographs. The functions of new models introduced since autumn are improving, while their prices are falling.
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What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine.
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The company releases new applications aimed at amateur photographers and video shooters.
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OâReilly Mediaâs Inside Aperture site draws upon community expertise to provide you with tips and real-life experiences from professional shooters who use Appleâs premier photo management application to organize, edit, and output their images. Check out weblogs, articles, podcasts, and tutorials â all focused to help you improve your digital photography workflow.
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Taking a look at improved features of mid-range single-lens reflex cameras.
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When Adobe followed the November 2005 release of Apple&#8217;s Aperture photo management app by putting out a beta of Lightroom, a workflow tool for professional photographers, the stage was set for a battle over the digital photography space between two tech industry giants.
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Richard Davey points out two new interesting PHP commands he discovered when looking through the graphics (GD) section of the manual - imagegrabscreen and imagegrabwindow.   Upon further investigation both of these commands can be used to take screen shots of the desktop of your server, or any applications window (such as a web browser). Both commands are listed as being "Windows only" and also possibly only in CVS, but I found both of them are in the 5.2.3 standard release and compile without error. However at the moment neither appear to actually do anything other than return fully black images   In testing the functionality, though, his only results were black screens and images instead of the expected image results.
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Kore Nordmann has written up some benchmarks of some of the more popular PHP image creation libraries testing their output times and results for generating the same image.   In my article series I showed several ways on how to create images with PHP, going into implementation details etc. Now I just want to provide a very rough overview on speed and quality of the extensions.   He ran them with some settings disabled to optimize things as they ran and came up with results pointing to Cairo being the fastest to generate and output the image. It also had the benefit of outputting an image with the highest quality of the five tested (Cairo, SVG, Flash and GD with and without supersampling). His benchmark code is also included.
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Finding the gently used car of your dreams.
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Take a photo tour of the predecessors of your favorite modern-day devices. By Christopher Null from Wired magazine.
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A new Nikon DX lens?...Flickr hopes to revamp its user interface...price pressure on Shutterfly...A Nikon gear splurge