Photography News

Facebook Gives Photographers Better Viewing Experience

New Facebook lightbox feature offers alternative to Google+ and Flickr.

Kodak Tosses Digital Cameras in the Dustbin

Legendary camera company decides to focus on online and retail imaging service.

Olympus Releases Another Micro Four-Thirds with Retro Look

The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is a 16MP camera that accepts interchangeable lenses and is based on the Micro Four Thirds standard. It will sell for $1,299 when it's released at the end of March 2012.

Three New Sony Cyber-shot Digital Cameras

The new DSC-WX50, WX70, and TX200V are point-and-shoot cameras that range from $200 to $500. The high-end TX200V has impressive specs, including a super-thin profile that can nevertheless handle water, dust, and cold.

Take a Peek at Photoshop's Near Future

Photoshop's senior product manager, Bryan O'Neil Hughes, gives you a glimpse into Photoshop CS6 in this sneak peek video.

Exposure 4 from Alien Skin Is Faster, Easier

The upcoming version of this Photoshop plug-in that simulates the look of traditional film has been revved up and redesigned. It will be available for sale next month.

Create iPhone Cinemagraphs

Kinotopic is an iPhone app that helps you make the popular animated GIFs called cinemagraphs out of video filmed on your phone.

Corel's AfterShot Pro Seeks to Lure Lightroom and Aperture Users

If you're looking for an alternative to photo management and non-destructive editing that products such as Adobe's Lightroom offer. The software, available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows, will cost $99 or $79 for existing Bibble 5, PaintShop Pro X2, Lightroom or Aperture customers.

What You'll Find in Lightroom 4

The beta version of Adobe's Lightroom 4 imaging software is now available as a free download. Here are some of the new tools you can experiment with.

The Nikon D4 Is Your New Dream Camera

Yeah, the new Nikon D4 is $6,000, but it comes with a full-frame sensor, even better low-light image capture, and great video features. It deserves the title of "flagship".

Three New Fujifilm Cameras All Shoot Raw

These new compact digital cameras range from $380 to $800 with a wide range of functions and features. Is one of them what you're looking for?

Consumer Digicam Builds In Wi-Fi

The Samsung DualView DV300F has a few features you won't see in most lower-priced digital cameras, including a small LCD on the front of the camera and built-in wireless access to the Internet and your PC.

Comfy Camera Pillows

Real cameras may be a little poky, but you can show off your photo love with these printed pillows.

Easy HDR Photo Software Debuts

Oloneo says that its HDRengine is affordable and easy to use yet still packs the punch of pro-level software.

Hipstamatic Launches a Social Experiment

Synthetic Infatuation, the software company behind the wildly popular iPhone app Hipstamatic, has released a new app called Hipstamatic Disposable. It's intended to replicate the experience of several friends sharing one disposable film camera. The Disposable app is free, though you'll pay for "cameras" and "film".

Adobe Issues Updates to Lightroom and Camera Raw

You can now download the final releases of Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw. Free to registered users, the updates include Raw support for nine hot new cameras.

Try CameraBag 2 Photo Editor for Free

Download the public beta of CameraBag 2 for Macs and PCs and play with a new way to crop, correct, and stylize photos.

New Compact Camera from Leica

The digital Leica V-Lux 3 boasts a lens that has the 35 mm equivalent of 25 to 600 mm focal lengths. You can buy it starting in January 2012 for about $950.

Game Gives You Chance to Win Photoshop and Much More

LevelUp for Photoshop is a new online game from Adobe. The aim is to master Photoshop, and the reward is the chance to enter a monthly drawing to win the Creative Suite Master Collection.

Free Photoshop Cheat Sheet

One click of a Like button will get you a list of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts and three image-editing mini-tutorials, courtesy of Lesa Snider's "Photo Lesa" Facebook page.