Our new E-Book: The Art of Digital Fine Art printing     
"....I am very impressed with the book you are about to read. It’s information like this that has helped to raise the quality of digital output and reduce the traditional art world’s resistance to the use of digital tools in art. It is a book written by someone who KNOWS fine art digital printmaking. Uwe’s style is concise and to the point. This comprehensive and complete guide to fine art digital printmaking should be included in the library of anyone who is serious about making fine art digital prints...."
from the foreword by Mac Holbert (Nash Editions) 4/17/2006

5/1/2006 Alain Briot has a few openings available for his Antelope Canyon workshop on May 5 -7

If you have been considering attending, and can do so on short notice.

4/30/2006 Understanding Lens Diffraction (Source Luminous Landscape)

Visit this page mentioned in Michael Reichmann's article for more in depth info on defraction limits.

4/30/2006 Helicon Filter 4.25 released

4/29/2006 From our Forums: "HDR and Tone Mapping Resources"

We start to collect good resources about HDR and Tone mapping which are relevant for photographers.

4/29/2006 Digital Myth #1: Pro Printers are More Expensive (source the Online Photographer)

Interesting arguments. On the other hand we think many people buy the R2400 because the 4800 is to big for them.

4/29/2006 The 2006 RAW Survey - Chapters 1 - 5 are ready

4/28/2006 Akvis Enhancer for local contrast tuning

See what local contrast enhancement can do for your images.

4/28/2006 From our Forums: "Color management links exchange"

Our moderator Herman Teeuwen and readers post links to invaluable color management resources.

4/27/2006 From our Forums today: "Reference literature on Sensor design & Color reproduction"

Once in a while we want to draw your attention to some of the postings that you should not miss.

4/27/2006 Photomatix Tone Mapping Plug-In 1.0.2 released

This version includes minor improvements and bug fixes. If you have not looked at this plugin read our article and try the demo.

4/27/2006 Seagate to Unveil 750-Gigabyte Hard Drives (Source Yahoo News)

4/27/2006 "Using Bill Atkinson’s Profiles Bouquet" by Alain Briot

We reported earlier about the great effort by Bill Atkinson to create a whole set of free alternative profiles for the Epson 4800/7800/9800 printers. Alain checked them out.

4/26/2006 The 2006 RAW Survey - Chapter 1

4/25/2006 Mamiya's Demise Greatly Exaggerated (Source The Online Photographer)

4/25/2006 Apple introduces 17-inch MacBook Pro (Source Macworld)

4/25/2006 Announcement: Digital Outback Photo will have in early/late summer its own printing studio

We plan to have small group workshops/training with 1-3 people in this studio (Downtown San Jose).

Planned equipment:

• Epson 4800 (Photo Black for glossy media)
• Epson 7600 (Matte Black) for matte fine art media
• Epson R2400 (Photo Black)
• HP Designjet 90
• Other HP or Canon printers we may have for review
• Gretagmacbeth and X-Rite profiling tools
• Epson, Hahnemuehle and Innova papers
• Image Print RIP

If you want to be on our list for the first training email us (you will get a notice before we offer the training online)

4/24/2006 Forums re-arranged and new forums added

We are committed to deliver free and open forums for our readers.

4/24/2006 Did you read: Adaptive shadow and/or highlight correction?

This article explains what is so different with adaptive corrections compared to traditional levels/curves.

4/23/2006 Portfolio Invitation #014: Beach #1 (Submissions open till 5/15/2006 8am PST)

4/22/2006 New updated version DOP3002-6 "The Art of RAW Conversion 2006"

The new release also includes introductions to: Lightroom, Aperture, RSP and RAW Developer.

If you bought DOP3002 the last 30 days then you can just download the new version for free. For all other customers of DOP3002 there is an update available at $12.95.

4/22/2006 Mamiya to sell camera business (source Imaging Resource)

Too bad but no real surprise.

4/21/2006 Sony announce 'Alpha' D-SLR system (Source DPReview)

Will be interesting to follow how Sony will bring the Minolta legacy into the future.

4/20/2006 Book Note: Ted Orland "The View from the Studio Door"

4/20/2006 "Print It Yourself" Print 2006-02

This is our second "Print It Yourself" portfolio prints. We hope our readers like this entirely new form of print gallery. Even if you don't buy any prints you can inspect full sized sample images (15" wide).

4/18/2006 "Sizefixer by Fixerlabs" by Paul Caldwell

Upsizing is a tricky and demanding operation. Paul checks out a new tool to do the job.

4/18/2006 LightCrafts lowers price for LightZone and announces a new product LightZone RT (Retouch)

4/18/2006 Pixel Genius ships PhotoKit Color 2.0

4/18/2006 SDK for DNG Now Available from Adobe (Source PhotoshopNews)

The SDK is available for free and may encourage third party tools to support DNG.

4/18/2006 Nikon Capture NX and Nikon View Pro release delayed (Source Rob Galbraith)

4/18/2006 New Forum: Fine Art Printing for Photographers

Right in line with our latest book "The Art of Fine Art printing" we now also opened a new dedicated forum.

4/17/2006 A really great Photography Blog: The Online Photographer

We like that this blog is featuring many different aspects about the art and techniques of photography.

4/16/2006 Visit our own Workflow forum

Because Uwe has been a long time moderator for Rob's RAW forum we did not want to create an alternate place because the more users visit one place the more information we get. Now that Rob's forums are closed this maybe a good place for a new start.

We have a liberal policy as long as all people stay friendly: Arguments yes, personal attacks no.