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Thursday, 05/15/08 - Focal Press have announced their monthly photography contest for May. This month's focus is food!!. The contest is open to everyone with prizes for the top 3 photographs. Monthly winners will be entered to win one of two GRAND PRIZES for the year! Stay tuned for more details! Read full story for more contest details.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - Royal is taking the photography market by storm offering the best way to enjoy and share photos with its stylish new lineup of personal digital photo frames. Photo novices and aficionados alike now have a host of innovative ways to personalize their favorite images and accessories with the new Fridge Frames, Digital Picture Key Chains, Photo Clips, Memory Pads, and Memory Cups. Royal digital photo frames range in priced from $49.99 - $99.99. Actual selling prices are much lower than the MSRP.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - Two Pilots releases new versions of its plug-ins for Photoshop® and Photoshop compatible photo editing programs. Their plug-ins; Beauty Pilot, MakeUp Pilot, Perspective Pilot, Pet Eye Pilot, Retouch Pilot, and Wire Pilot. Each of them is a Windows application that can be installed as a plug-in in a user's favorite photo editor like Photoshop and as a standalone program. Prices range from $29 - $49.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - New advanced weighting technique, implemented in Almalences' PhotoAcute Studio solves the noise problem that is typically introduced when tone mapping HDR images. Noise is due to an amplification of underexposed pixels in shadow areas, which leads to a loss of detail and texture. PhotoAcute Studio's advanced weighting technique removes noise from HDR images with no loss of details. Download a free trial today and try it for yourself.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - RealMemories.com announced today the launch of its website dedicated to custom framing of digital photos. The website simplifies traditional picture framing by combining high-quality digital photo printing and custom framing. Now anyone can create beautiful, museum-quality picture frames online from their digital photos quickly, easily -- and from home for up to 50% less than a traditional retail frame shop.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - FotoTime, Inc. introduces Version 6 of its FotoAlbum software. Major enhancements to FotoAlbum 6 include GeoTagging, XMP, and an integrated SQLite database. FotoAlbum builds on the success of FotoAlbum 5 by allowing users to better annotate and search large photo and video collections. The introduction of SQLite not only integrates an industry standard database for the storage of library information, but also improves FotoAlbum’s performance when cataloging very large image libraries, and allows users to share their image libraries across computers on their home network. FotoAlbum 6 is available now. FotoTime offers $19.95 upgrade pricing for customers upgrading from FotoAlbum Pro 5, and $39.95 for new customers.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - Olympus, sponsor of the U.S. Open and the Olympus U.S. Open Series, announces today its second annual national sweepstakes that will send five winners and their guests on the trip of a lifetime to the 2008 U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Flushing Meadows, New York. Winners will receive a weekend getaway August 29-31, 2008, which will include hotel, airfare, spending money and two tickets to the Grand Slam tennis tournament. They will also be granted exclusive access to locations normally limited to professional photographers where they can capture the on-court and behind-the-scenes drama. Read full story for complete details on how to enter.
Thursday, 05/15/08 - Photo and video-sharing site Photobucket today announced the launch of Group Albums, giving people an entirely new way to create and share photos and video collections. Group Albums provide multiple users with an easy way to store, share and view digital media – including photos and videos – in one convenient profile on the popular Photobucket site. Group albums provide the ability to share an album's content as a self-running slideshow, or via email or IM, RSS feeds of group album contents, email notification to the group album owners whenever new photos or videos are added, and more.
Wednesday, 05/14/08 - Phase One today released Capture One 4.1, the RAW workflow software designed to deliver superior image quality. Capture One 4.1 camera support now includes Mamiya ZD, ZD Back, Canon 450D/Rebel XSi, Nikon D60, Pentax K20D, K200D, K110D, K100D Super and Sony models DSLR-A350, DSLR-A300, DSLR-A200. The application is now available in 9 languages; other highlights include Hot Folder functionality (permits images shot with third-party applications to automatically appear in Capture One). The software is available to new users for a 30-day free trial, and the purchase price is 129 USD / 99 EUR.
Wednesday, 05/14/08 - Sony Electronics and Reuters Media have teamed up to launch the "Everyday Smiles" photo contest on Reuters.com. Aspiring U.S. photographers are invited to submit photos of themselves, their friends and their families smiling now through June 16. The winning photos will be displayed on the Times Square digital billboards, part of Reuters Media's publishing platform, in the heart of New York's Times Square.
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