World's Oldest Camera

World's Oldest Camera Found

Did you hear that the oldest camera was auctioned for almost $ 800,000?

Yep, an 1839 daguerreotype camera, ancestor of modern photography, was recently sold at auction in Vienna for nearly $800,000 making it the world's oldest and most expensive commercial photographic apparatus.

Heck, maybe a lot of us have sold our Hasselblad cameras way too soon - we should have waited until the year 2175! (from Nichols News)

Photoshop CS3's Black & White filter

By David Gewirtz

Adobe Photoshop CS3 has a neat new feature.

It's an adjustment called Black & White and it works quite nicely as an adjustment layer.

What's neat is this new feature gives you a lot more control over black and white images than you ever had by just desaturating or converting an image to grayscale.

Even though I've always been a heavy user of the Channel Mixer, this new feature adds some very nice additional control to image conversion. Read More

CS3 October 26 2007 SACRAMENTO

Photoshop® CS3 Power Tour Coming to Sacramento, CA Friday, October 26, 2007
Featuring Dave Cross
What you'll learn
- Digital Photo Correction Secrets
- "Photo-Finishing" Techniques
- Even More Down & Dirty Tricks
- Photoshop Speed clinic
- How to Show Your Work Like a Pro

The seminar is only $79 for NAPP members, or $99 for non-members. At the seminar you'll receive our invaluable keyboard shortcuts guide, our "goodies" disc, and a detailed seminar workbook that includes all the techniques presented in a step-by-step format to take home.

Space is Limited
Register online or call 800-201-7323, Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 7:00 pm EST.

4GB A-Data CompactFlash Memory Card - Special $24.95

Expires on or before: 09/23/07

Get the Large 4GB A-Data CompactFlash Memory Card from
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Try TwistedBrush - Free painting program

TwistedBrush Free Edition (exe)

TwistedBrush - another way to manipulate images

Source: Pixarra

Overview: Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simply enough for the novice.

TwistedBrush Essentials has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it as designed from day one to be easy to use.

TwistedBrush Free Edition 12 of the best natural media and wild brushes from the standard version of TwistedBrush for you to paint and draw. Version 13.8 features new Colors ArtSets and various fixes.

Format: Software Size: 5,696KB Date: Sep 2007 Version: 13.8 System Requirements: Windows (all) License: Free Screen Shot Downloads: 381

Download here

Spammers are winning--how the e-mail system needs a rewrite

by David Berlind: We've been sold and incredibly rotten bill of goods by everyone who says they have the solution to the spam problem.

The more spam that's out there, the bigger profits for the anti-spam vendors.

Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work - long but this is worth reading...

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Wacom Bamboo

Some of you may know that Wacom revealed the new logo and slick new look of the Intuous 3 at Photoshop World.

Now this was really cool but if you are just a hobbyist and want the power of a tablet but don't want to spend a whole lot of cash.

Then Wacom has also introduced the all new Bamboo, this sleek new product is set to replace the Graphire series and I have to admit this is pretty sweet little device.

There's the Bamboo and the Bamboo Fun. Check them out.

Not only do they give you Wacom's quality digital pen technology but it also will look pretty cool on your desk.

iPhone Parody - Funny

Planet Photopshop posted a link to the recent iPhone parody starring John Loiacono.

Well it seems to be attracting quite a buzz and can now be viewed through the Layers Magazine website here.

If you haven't seen this yet check it out, it is too funny!!!

Naturally, Scott Kilbey is involved too

Airbrush Tutorial I

Before and After Views

This is a great way to make a pretty gal look even prettier!

Follow this tutorial and you too can have the smoothest looking women in town!

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RETOUCH THAT SKIN!

Tutorial from swissmissphoto -
a retouching tutorial:

enhance skin
photo retouching tutorial: skin enhancing.

Learn how.

PS Quickie! Your Own Crazy Movie Poster

Hooooo!
Craig Henry says: So anyone who knows me knows that I love movies.
That said, I recently was overcome with inspiration when I saw the new Pirates of the Caribbean Posters. They are pretty sick.
-- tutorial from Craig Henry - July 12, 2006 / 12:28pm Read More

Faster and Cheaper - $50 DVD burner

Build a $50 DVD burner

Robin Harris: If you've installed a PCI card, you'll find this pretty boring. But a lot of folks haven't -- and this video is aimed at them.

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Adobe Photoshop Online Version?

Read A Peek At Adobe's Online Version Of Photoshop at the Business 2.0 site.

For a high resolution screenshot of Photoshop Express, see John Nack's blog post "Photoshop Express" RIA sneak-peeked today.

Clickbooq photo site

Create a photo site with clickbooq

clickbooq allows photographers to create one-of-a-kind Web sites they can update anytime, without any technical know-how.

Highly interactive and engaging Flash Web sites can be made without sacrificing search engine visibility.

Free Image Resizer update

VSO Image Resizer update
The VSO free image resize software organizes your photos by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive.

VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos.

This update fixes an issue loading the RAW files with half-resolution, loosing quality in the output result, plus much more.

Still shooting Film?

Digitize your film
ScanDigital is a new online service that digitizes your photographs and slides.
Simply send in your prints and slides with the UPS label provided by ScanDigital (for free), and ScanDigital creates an online gallery and sends a CD with the digitized and restored images within a few days.

New High Speed CompactFash Cards

Sony 300x CompactFlashSony Europe announced the launch of three high speed (300x) CompactFlash cards to meet the capacity and speed demands of professional D-SLR photographers and ambitious amateur photographers.

With UDMA (ultra direct memory access) support, the new media achieve data transfer rates of 45MB/s during write operation. The new Sony CompactFlash 300x card, which complements the existing line-up of 66x and 133x cards, will be available with capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. They will be branded as part of Sony's Alpha D-SLR camera system.

Free Adobe Camera RAWonOne Presets

Free onOne presets for Adobe Camera RAWonOne Software announced the availability of over 100 free customized presets for Adobe Camera RAW 4.1 created by Photoshop Guru and Instructor Jack Davis for onOne Software.

Just like the 85 presets previously released by onOne Software for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, these new Adobe Camera RAW presets are designed to help ACR users quickly and efficiently process their RAW digital camera files.