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How to do simple Photoshop retouches

Retouching is these days done by almost every portrait photographer, either they do it themselves or they have professional Photoshop wizzards do it. Especially the high end magazines and publications employ heavy usage of Photoshopping, to make sure their famous models appear as close to perfect as possible. Sometimes, a bit too perfect. But it's ...

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Photo Frame Scale

For those who are looking for a different picture frame like the retro TV frame and the comic book panel frame might look at this one. The Photo Frame Scale is unusual and downright useful type of picture frame. This is a product of a Tokyo-based Hashy Top In, which is a scale ...

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Signicase makes your phone look vintage and wooden

We have reported on iPhone cases that look like vintage cameras before, such as the UN01 case. This particular iPhone 4 case may not be designed to hang about the neck, but it does have that retro thing going on. It is carved in bamboo, walnut, and zebra wood. Granted, this is ...

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Photo sharing app Color raises $41 million

Okay, the app hysteria has officially reached new heights: a photo sharing app called Color, currently in development, has raised $41 million in funding. For an app! Either they have some amazing technology, or they're really good salesmen. Either way, you can check out parts of the app in the video demo above. Actually, it's ...

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Battery grip from China for most Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras

Just a couple of weeks ago, Chinese company “Ownuser” released an announcement concerning a battery grip that will target all Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras save for the popular GF1 and GF2. Just to get a better idea on the type of battery grips you are able to purchase on eBay, you might want to ...

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Cypress unveils TrueTouch touchscreen solution

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has just announced that Acer will be their latest client to integrate their very own TrueTouch touchscreen solution in Acer's Liquid MT smartphone. This is flexible TrueTouch solution that is based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture, where it is capable of delivering the most responsive and accurate touchscreen solution for a ...

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Gary Fong to roll out Micro Four Thirds pop-up flash diffuser

If you're a serious fan of photography and am currently enamoured with the Micro Four Thirds format, then you would do well to mark down March 28th on your calendars, boys and girls. Gary Fong has been slated to roll out a Micro Four Thirds version of the Gary Fong Puffer pop-up flash diffuser on ...

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Dolby has next generation 3D glasses for cinema owners

Going to the cinema these days are a very different proposition from what one forefathers were used to - first, the jump from silent movies to those with sound, followed by color and then we have surround sound in all its digital glory. When you think that your ears never had it this good, along ...

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Teradek Cubes work for livestreaming

For those of you who are interested in livestreaming technology for the sake of recording your life and making it a little too live, then look no further than this Teradek Cube. This box is about the size of a deck of cards, and it docks to the camera's hot shoe and connects to ...

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World’s smallest camera revealed

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have revealed a camera so small it's actually the size of a grain of salt. Salt. It measures just 1x1x1 mm, and is capable of taking 0.1 megapixel images, or 250 x 250 pixels. The camera is also quite cheap to make, cheap enough that they can be ...

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