EVERY IMAGE HAS A STORY
GOT A GREAT IMAGE?
SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD.
We're just relaunching in January 2012 with a new angle. DSLR Blog will be about images and their stories (we also write about other topics on Photography too). We welcome submissions from any type of photographer - from baby portraits to gut-wrentching humanitarian photography to pure art. Read our submission guidelines.
Tag Archives: editing
Future DSLR Camera Feature? – Digital Face Beautification
This new software from Tel Aviv University in Israel aims to “beautify” photographs by subtly tweaking the subjects features to appear more pleasing. From the examples it seems to work too!
given a frontal photograph of a face (a portrait), our method automatically increases the predicted attractiveness rating of the face. The main challenge is to achieve this goal while introducing only minute, subtle modifications to the original image, such that the resulting “beautified” face maintains a strong, unmistakable similarity to the original
Can you imagine this built into photoshop, or even your camera? Of course this could be taken to extremes – point it at an old street hag and the result looks like a supermodel, heh.
Technorati Tags: photography, software, news
Posted in News and Commentary, Photo Editing and Digital Workflow
Also tagged beautification, news, software
Leave a comment
Photographer Ethics: Should the camera never lie?
Two stories about Newspapers “doctoring” images, one laughable, the other more serious from The Digital Photography Weblog
the Charlotte Observer has sacked a staff photographer for altering the colour of an image to, as he states, “to restore the actual color of the sky”. He said the color was lost when he underexposed the photo to offset the glare of the sun.
OK this is plainly ridiculous, the “truth” of the story was restored by this superficial change, who cares what colour the sky was though really? So either way, an over reaction right? How about this one …
The Miami Herald’s Spanish-language sister paper acknowledged Friday that it manipulated two photos to make it appear that two Cuban police officers were ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a tourist.
In this one the image was intentionally created to show a false impression of Police neglect of the prostitute problem. As far as I can tell this photographer was not sacked.
Technorati Tags: photography, news, law, ethics, media
Tourist Remover Online Photo Editing Service
This is pretty cool for your holiday pics. You know how annoying it is when you go somewhere full of tourists and every picture has people in the way of the view? With this online photo editing service you can remove those annoying blobs right out of the picture
Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.
I wonder if this can remove noise too? That’s how they clean up movies by differencing two frames right? I am going to have to give this a go when I finally manage to get out of the house to a populated area …
Posted in News and Commentary, Photo Editing and Digital Workflow
Also tagged object removal, photos
Leave a comment
Editing Photographs in Windows Vista
Microsoft Photography Blog has posted about the photo adjustment features in Vista. While the majority of us will not be moving over to Vista any time soon I welcome their idea to place basic photo correction tools right in the operating system. The point and click posse will find it useful to not have to find, download and install additional software, plus in many cyber cafes installing tools is not allowed if you find yourself laptop-less on vacation.
Vista has incorporated a bunch of easy to use, high quality, and extremely fast photo correction tools into the Photo Gallery. I’m going to walk you through what each of them does so that you can make your photos pop.
All of the editing tools in Vista are located in the Gallery Viewer. You can get to this by double clicking on a photo in either the Vista Photo Gallery or from any folder. The various fix tools are all located on a pane which you can open up by clicking the “Fix” button in the command bar.
The Vista Photo Gallery has controls to adjust exposure, color, crop region and red-eye. Each of the individual controls are accessed by clicking on the corresponding button in the fix pane. The Photo Gallery also has an “Auto Adjust” feature, which as the name implies, automatically find the best exposure and color settings for the photo.
You know one of these days I am going to have to crack open that beta and try it out. Some of this stuff looks pretty neat.
Technorati Tags: microsoft, windows, vista, photography, editing, news
Online Photo Editing Web Application
Cellsea have produced a pretty cool imaging editing web application. We have linked to online photo editing sites before but this one is particularly neat.
The rest of the site is all about cell phones, bizarre! Other than that it all makes sense and is pretty darned easy to use. You start by selecting your image source, choosing between uploading, entering a url or searching.
Most people are going to look to the simple crop, resize, rotate options, maybe sharpening. Having said that it is fun to work through the quite considerable list of effects and distortion choices.
When you are finished you can hit save to download to your machine. There is also a “share it” option which I presume allows you to store your image online.
Follow Us!
Zingfu – More online picture editing fun
rollingstone
Photo by chrisgarrett.
In a similar vein to the flickr toys that we love so much comes zingfu. The twist is most of the gimmicks they offer take the form of your picture with a celebrity/magazine cover/in a scenario/etc.
Fun stuff to waste 10mins humiliating your friends in your lunch break!
Technorati Tags: zingfu, online, photography, editing, fun, news, links