I’ve long been a fan of Picnik – a free online image editing program. In some great news today, Picnik has been announced as the long-awaited Flickr photo editing software.

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What’s the world’s oldest photo? The first color photo? How about the first photo from space? Black Star Rising takes a look at the world firsts in photography from the 3th century BC until modern times.

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Kodak will include GPS in it’s camera range starting in 2009. GPS (the Global Positioning System) shows you where you are in the world by checking with satellites orbiting above us. The location information will be stored in the EXIF information of the image, and will be able to be retrieved using common software.

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It’s no longer a case of saying “One, Two, Three, Smile” then taking the photo. Instead you can press the “Smile Shutter”, and your camera will automatically take the photo when your subjects smile!

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Do you live around Eliat, Israel? Then stop by this innovative photography exhibition that’s being held completely underwater! The exhibition is by award winning photographer Noam Kortler, is called “Treasures of the Sea” and will be shown from October 4-6, 2007.

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Now you can have your kids taking photos alongside you without the possibility of them wrecking your brand new DSLR digital camera. Give them a Crayola VGA camera with large buttons and a small preview screen. You won’t be printing large prints from the images this camera takes (640×480 resolution), but it’s a great way [...]

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Have a few minutes to spare? Take a look at Flickrvision, an ingenious web application that marries Google Maps with recently uploaded photos to Flickr. It zooms all over the world and shows you the new photos, as well as points you to where they were uploaded from!

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Adobe Lightroom 1.1 has been released and is available free to anyone who purchased version 1.0. You can download the upgrade from Adobe’s Lightroom Website.

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Well, summer is here (at least for the Northern Hemisphere) and this is one time of year that the camera manufacturers release a whole lot of new cameras.

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I want one of these! Microsoft has recently announced Surface. It’s a computer inside a table with a huge 30 inch touchscreen. You can manipulate the computer by touching or dragging your fingers on the table. Or place specially-tagged objects onto the table’s surface. The computer will recognize the object and present a menu of [...]

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The Canadian Press has an interesting story about the miniaturization of digital cameras. Because camera manufacturers can now pack so much into a tiny space, putting more and more features into a smaller camera, they are finding that it’s harder to keep cameras simple and easy to use. Plus the smaller cameras are, the smaller [...]

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Photocritic has an excellent article describing the steps to take to win a photography competition. Haje Jan Kamps was asked to judge on a recent photo competition and spelled out in the article the criteria he used to judge the photos.

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Want to edit your RAW photos but Photoshop is too complicated for you? You might want to try LiteZone by Light Craft. The new version of LiteZone features simplified advanced photo editing that most DSLR users users should pick up really quickly. Yet it has the power of Photoshop (with RAW photo importing, layers and [...]

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If you’re in Australia, don’t believe an email you receive in your mailbox that claims to be from Dell saying that the Canon digital camera you purchased will be charged to your card. The email is a fake, and if you click on the link in the email (even if you clicked to dispute the [...]

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Amazon has just purchased DPReview.com. DPReview is one of the Internet’s top places to go to look for digital camera advice and recommendations. I’ve always liked the in depth reviews and very detailed feature list of newly released cameras. Let’s hope the fact that it is now owned by a large company who sells digital [...]

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