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Photo Mechanic Review

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Photo Mechanic is solid piece of photo organization software.  It is not an image editor, but it’s just as critical to your workflow if you shoot a lot of photos.  Camera Bits (the maker of Photo Mechanic) says, “Photo Mechanic sets out to be the most useful Photo Workflow Software on the market today.  It does this by being logical in operation, intuitive in use and, most importantly of all, performing its functions as quickly as possible.”

All those things are true, but that last part “. . . as quickly as possible” is what makes Photo Mechanic such a hit for me.

Ever shoot a few hundred or a few thousand images in a day?  Do you shoot in RAW format and hate waiting for the those 100% previews to load in Lightroom?  Do you need to view your photos faster?  If you said “yes” to any of these, then you will see an immediate benefit to putting Photo Mechanic in your workflow. [Read more…]

 

DxO Optics Pro v6.5 Available

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DxO Optics Pro v6.5 is now available with support for HDR rendering of single RAW shots, Lightroom 3 integration, improved RAW conversion engine, and support for the following camera models:

  • Canon 60D
  • Canon S95
  • Canon G12
  • Pentax K-x
  • Sony A290

DxO Optics Pro is available with a 30% discount through December 25 via DxO’s website.

More details in the press release below. [Read more…]

Eye-Fi Launches View and Email for Easier Online Sharing

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Eye-Fi View

If you hate having to upload, login, email and do all the other things required to share your photos online, then this new solution from Eye-Fi just might be the right thing for you.

“Today, Eye-Fi, best known for the world’s first wireless memory card, launched Eye-Fi View, giving consumers full access to all of their photos and videos – anytime, anywhere, from any computer or mobile device. Along with Eye-Fi View, Eye-Fi also introduced a new email-sharing feature, allowing direct, private sharing of full-resolution images without clogging inboxes or requiring viewers to login.”

These new services work will all Eye-Fi SD cards.

More details in the video demos and press release below. [Read more…]

Aperture Clock Widget for Android

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While Apple clearly has a big thing going for its iPhone and photographers tend to love the phone, plenty of photographers have Android-based phones as well.  Clay Cuckoo Software just launched an Aperture Clock Widget that Android-toting photographers are bound to love.

The Aperture Clock Widget shows aperture values (f/2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11) on the clock face instead of hours.  Additionally, as the time changes the aperture blades on the clock face will open and close accordingly.

[Appbrain]

Corel Paint it! Show for iPad

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Corel Paint it! Show is a new photo-painting slideshow app for the iPad that lets you “Select an album from your Facebook account or images from your iPad, start the slideshow and let Corel Paint it! Show do the rest. You can also save your favorite painted images on your iPad, post them to your Facebook account, or email them to friends and family.”

The new app is available from the iTunes store for $0.99.  More details in the press release below. [Read more…]

Photomatix Pro 4.0 Released

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HDRsoft has released Photomatix Pro version 4.0, which adds a number of new features and improvements, such as selective deghosting, improved noise reduction and thumbnail presets panel.

Photomatix Pro 4.0 is a free upgrade for version 3 users, and still carries the $99 retail price for other users.

More info can be found on HDRsoft’s website.

Alien Skin Announces Bokeh 2 Plug-in

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Alien Skin has announced Bokeh 2, which is the latest version of its creative focus and lens simulation plug-in.  Bokeh 2 offers 64-bit support for Photoshop CS5, as well as support for Lightroom 2 or greater.

Bokeh 2 retails for $199 and is a $99 upgrade for Bokeh 1 users.  If you purchased Bokeh 1 in April 2010 or later, then the upgrade is free.

More details and sample images in the press release below. [Read more…]

PluralEyes Review

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This is for all of you guys out there trying your hand at working with DSLR video.

If you’ve tried working with multiple video and audio tracks in a non-linear editor, then you know what a challenge that it can be to sync up the audio wave forms among different tracks.  It’s not necessarily hard to do manually, but it can be tedious and time consuming when you start piling on cameras and audio-recording sources.

Enter Singular Software’s PluralEyes.

Read the full review over at Tech Tilt: PluralEyes Review: Magic Sauce for Syncing Multi-Cam and Multi-Source Audio