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Figure 1. A view of the Watermark Editor in Lightroom Classic. They say sharing is caring. They say that a candle loses nothing as it shares its light with another candle. They say that even though sharing requires trust and faith and a willingness to take risks as one reaches out to others, the connection… Continue reading Sharing Your Photos, Part 3

Show Promo Image Creating composites in Photoshop where you clip a subject from one background and place it in another is not hard but it’s challenging to do right. We don’t know how many composites we’ve seen where the person or object that’s been moved to a new background looks unrealistic because of a poor… Continue reading How to Cleanly Move a Subject into Any Background with Photoshop (VIDEO)

Show Promo Image Not long ago we featured a very helpful tutorial, explaining how to customize Photoshop’s interface to facilitate your personal workflow. The point was that Photoshop is designed for photographers, art directors, and a variety of other content creators, and the default workspace isn’t equally conducive for all users. Ron Leach Tue, 12/14/2021

Camera maker Ethan Moses from Cameradactyl has built a very-large format camera that shoots 20x24in photos that can be developed into positive images right inside the camera’s custom-made film holder for near-instant prints. The result is a kind of ‘instant’ print reminiscent of the type created by the giant Polaroid cameras that were built in… Continue reading Cameradactyl built a 20x24in camera for poster-sized instant photo prints

Show Promo Image The first thing most photographers do after buying a new camera is to invest in a second battery, and the immediate quandary is whether to buy an expensive OEM product or purchase a bargain-priced battery that supposedly offers equal or better performance. Ron Leach Tue, 12/14/2021

Smartphone manufacturer Oppo has announced it’s developed its own in-house nerual processing unit (NPU) to put inside its future mobile devices. This new 6nm chipset, which Oppo is calling MariSilicon X, includes a the NPU, an image signal processor (ISP) and a custom memory architecture, all of which work together to improve the imaging capabilities… Continue reading Oppo develops custom neural processing unit to improve photo capabilities in its future smartphones

We’ve seen our fair share of weird and impressive cameras go up for auction over the years, but this latest one might just be one of the most interesting we’ve come across. On Catawiki, an online auction marketplace, there’s a live auction listing for a KMZ Krasnogorsk Zorki 4 ‘reflex’ C166 (NIMFA-3) camera, a Soviet… Continue reading Modified Soviet spy camera designed to shoot through walls is up for auction