On the Zooomr blog Kris has demonstrated a new feature he is calling “Photo Portals“. Debate whether this is “innovation” or not it is a useful extension to the notes feature we know and love from Flickr. The main benefit is it appears to make linking to other pictures easier. This is something people do a lot but have to do manually juggling html and copy and paste in awkward ways. In theory this “click to see a bit more from this scene” kind of note could bring about a low-tech version of Microsofts photosynth navigation.
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The Digital Photography Weblog has pointed us to a great new innovation from Microsoft Labs called Photosynth
Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. With Photosynth you can:
- Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
- Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photograph whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size.
- See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
- Find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing.
- Explore a custom tour.
Can you imagine this built into Flickr? Click on a tag like “glastonbury” or “New Years Celebration” and then go there and explore, zooming in and out and examining details?
It’s not ready to try but there is an impressive video.
Update: Now you can try it in your browser!
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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.
Editing Photos in Vista
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.
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This could be great or just a series of adverts for Microsoft Vista; Microsoft Photography Blog
we’re going to start this blog off with tours of some of the features in Vista that we’re most excited about by the people who worked on them. Sprinkled in, you’re also going to see some more speculative pieces from people who just love photography and have done some deep thinking about what the future could (or should) hold.
I will be keeping an eye on it, could become an interesting blog.
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I didn’t realise Microsoft had produced this RAW image tool in the first place but it has just been updated to support even more formats, go check it out
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer update: Digital Photography Review
Supported Camera Models
The
following new camera models are supported in the version 1.0 Build 50
release of the Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer:
• Canon EOS 1D Mark IIn
• Canon EOS 5D
• Nikon D2Hs
• Nikon D70s
• Nikon D50
Zooomr demonstrates “photo portals”
On the Zooomr blog Kris has demonstrated a new feature he is calling “Photo Portals“. Debate whether this is “innovation” or not it is a useful extension to the notes feature we know and love from Flickr. The main benefit is it appears to make linking to other pictures easier. This is something people do a lot but have to do manually juggling html and copy and paste in awkward ways. In theory this “click to see a bit more from this scene” kind of note could bring about a low-tech version of Microsofts photosynth navigation.
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