Photo Editing Software and Applications

"The Weye Feye from French accessory manufacturer XSories is a compact device that connects Nikon and Canon DSLRs without built-in Wi-Fi capabilities to a smartphone for remote controlling and image transfer.

To use the device you need to plug into the camera's USB port and install a dedicated app on your Android or iOS device. You can then control your camera from a distance of up to 80m. In Live View mode you can change settings such as ISO, white balance or aperture, switch between still and video modes, focus manually or with the AF and of course trigger an exposure.  In Gallery mode you can view, select and share images on your smartphone or tablet."

In this video i will teach you how to create a soft and dreamy colored effect to a picture of your choice. I intended the outcome to be slightly monochromatic just for the purpose of have a similar result to the reference picture.

onOne Software has recently announced Perfect Photo Suite 8, a photo editing toolset that functions either as a standalone app, or as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, and Apple Aperture. The company has also unveiled a public beta, allowing you the chance to play with all the tools before the software goes live in November.

Perfect Enhance module ­– Perfect Enhance provides essential tools for basic enhancements. Use it to adjust brightness and contrast, remove a color cast, remove dust spots and power lines, and add sharpening and vignettes. It is an ideal module to start with when using Perfect Photo Suite 8 as a standalone application or when quick corrections are needed.

Perfect Batch Utility ­– Powerful batch processing of actions from one or multiple modules, including the insertion of a watermark.

"Taking professional looking real estate photography is important when creating a visually stunning 360 virtual tour. Lighting plays a major role to capture colors as well as to reveal form and texture within an image. Pay attention to the colors shown in your photos. Colors tend to set a certain mood for the person who is viewing them. Shooting photos at different times throughout the day will allow you to capture different tones, colors, and light effects. (Taking photographs during the early morning hours can capture great tones). The sun brings out blue hues in the morning hours and creates a crisp effect. Closer to noon or later, you will find softer colors and diffused light which will create a natural effect.

Test out different angles to play with the lighting that is being captured so that you reduce heavy shadows."

"Cyberlink has released PhotoDirector 5 – the latest update of its powerful photo-editing software for Windows and Mac September 11, 2013 - PhotoPlus magazine is your dedicated Canon D-SLR photography resource.

PhotoDirector 5 icludes some key features:

• Pro-Quality Adjustment—provides all the tools needed to intuitively adjust image tonality, white balance, HSL and saturation.
• Bracket HDR—lets users merge up to 5 bracketed exposures a single high dynamic range image with automatic alignment and ghost artifact removal."

HTML5 is the creator of buzz in the online industry for some time now, and for good reason, it makes any application based on it to be available through any devices, especially mobiles and tablets.

Althought we don't typically spend much time on high end video equipment, the most recent demo video shot with the D16 is a great example of just how much shadow and detail you can pull of RAW footage.

D16's 16mm sensor maxes out at ISO 400. It's not a camera meant for low light shooting at all, and yet you can see how well the footage turned out in spite of that. The video was shot a max ISO (of course) with a vintage 25mm lens and transcoded in ClipHouse. Every bit then had to be pushed heavily in post to bring out enough light, but even in the shadows, the noise is often noticeable if it's there at all.

Inkscape open source software if a vector editor, this tutorial shows how to easily turn any image into vector art using the pen tool, layers fills, etc, it covers the basics for newbies; how to set-up, name layers, etc. very simple to learn.

Photoshop Tutorials are one of the best ways of learning. It, not only, leads to effective learning but generation of new ideas; enhancing ones’ creativity and skills. Our today’s post highlights the 20 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Buttons and Badges that are sure to inspire you to the most. These tutorials are very much beneficial for the one using them and makes him an expert in the specified area.

In this tutorial, we will take a look at an interesting way to make the most of your Camera RAW photos using Lightroom and Photoshop using a technique that will allow you to precisely control the exposure of your photographs.

How to change hair color in photoshop CS6. This tutorial covers the process and assumes you have a degree of knowledge regarding photography, lighting and colour.

"Tao Chen hopes that 3-Sweep, an incredible piece of software he created with a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, can do the same for 3-D objects. And as Chen explains, making the 3-D experts irrelevant was never the point. “Our biggest goal is still to help novice users to do this,” he explains. For the team, led by Daniel Cohen-Or, the biggest challenge wasn’t necessarily working out all the algorithmic magic behind the model-making, but rather giving lay users an easy way to harness it. “It took us some time to figure out how to make a very convenient user interface to generate this stuff,” Chen says.

The video demo is genuinely jaw-dropping stuff. It takes us through a series of photographs, showing how with just a few clicks of the mouse, 3-Sweep can turn the objects inside them into resizable, turnaroundable 3-D models. The first two clicks establish the object’s profile; the third traces its main axis, with the software snapping intelligently to the object along the way, like a more sophisticated version of Photoshop’s magic lasso. The background of the image is filled in with something like Photoshop’s content-aware fill, allowing the object to be turned and repositioned anywhere in its environment. Basic shapes like beer bottles and jars are easy to pull out of their static surroundings, but we see how more complex objects, like water taps and telescopes, can be similarly mapped with just a little more legwork."

Google has built its Snapseed photo-editing technology into Google+, and it adds an impressively wide range of sophisticated, customizable, easy-to-use adjustments to the service.

The company has been steadily improving Google+ photo tools in recent months, for example with the "auto awesome" features for enhancing photos and automatically constructing animations out of sequences of similar photos. The new tools open up a wide range of fine-tuning possibilities for the sort of person who might use consumer photo-editing tools like iPhoto or Photoshop Elements. You can tweak Google's auto-enhance editing choices, edit the entire photo or selected parts of it, and apply a number of highly customizable filter effects.

"When photographers 1st start using Photoshop, it is so fun and exciting and over-editing often occurs. Here are the top mistakes often made and how to avoid them.

As a result, many start out playing with filters and plug-ins and over-use them. Sometimes photographers feel Photoshop is all powerful and take images that should have been in a reject pile, and they try to “save” them. As a rule, Photoshop should not be used to save unacceptable photos. If a photo is out of focus, blown out, severely under-exposed, or has really awkward composition, Photoshop will not make it drastically better.  Used in excess, it can actually make the image worse.

Some things like selective color definitely can fall into fads or cliches, meaning they were over-used for a period of time. While selective color edits occasionally look great, more often than not, it is overdone.  The best example I can think of is when a photo is turned black and white and the eyes are colored back to blue."

"Learn how to create this beautiful moonlight scene in Photoshop. This tutorial will teach you many great Photoshop techniques such as how to easily mask complex objects using channels, create your own astrophotography-like skies, and add surreal colors to the whole image. A PSD is also included with this tutorial. Read this tutorial and learn how to create your own surreal moonlight photo manipulations!"