Archive for June, 2006

News

Adobe acquires technology assets of Pixmantec. Bye RawShooter, hello Lightroom.

I've been a fan of Pixmantec's RawShooter product for a long time. First their free product and later their premium version which I bought last December. Today, Adobe announced that they have acquired Pixmantec's RAW processing technology for use in their upcoming Lightroom product. The free RawShooter Essentials product will [...]

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Reader Photos

Reader Photo: 5 Funny Faces

5 Funny Faces, originally uploaded by bobbygreg. Photos posted in this category are selected from the contributions of members of the Photodoto discussion group at Flickr.com.

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Surveys

How do you name your digital photographs?

Each photograph I download from a memory card is automatically renamed with the date and time the image was shot. For example: 20060623_140123.jpg says that the photo was taken on June 23, 2006 at 2:01 PM (and 23 seconds). Each time photos are downloaded from a card, they're put into [...]

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Announcements

The Photodoto Summer 2006 Photo Contest

(Or, for you folks in the southern hemisphere, the Winter Photo Contest.) Things have been a little quiet around here this week. That's partly because I'm lazy but also because I've been preparing for this contest. There were nearly 200 entries in the first contest. That's an impressive turnout but I'd [...]

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News

Blink of an Eye deadline extended

If you were worried about the looming deadline for Flickr's prestigious Blink of an Eye exhibition, relax. The exhibition has been moved back to August so they've extended the entry deadline to midnight PST on July 5th.

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