1/1/2007 Happy New Year 2007 to all our readers

We wish you to get the pictures you hope for in 2007.

12/30/2006 Bettina + Uwe's Top Photos in 2006

We updated the images to improve the JPG quality.

12/28/2006 Lightroom Podcast #24: Thomas Knoll, Mark Hamburg, and Zalman Stern (source PhotoshopNews)

Very interesting Podcast which covers Lightroom 1.0 and ACR 4.0. Follow the comments about Perceptual Rendering.

12/28/2006 Portfolio Invitation #020: Old Machinery #1 (Submissions open till 1/15/2007 8am PST)

12/28/2006 LightZone RAW Contest #4 (Leica M8) now has 21 entries

There are many samples that you can study with LightZone 2.0.

12/26/2006 Leica M8 Diary: M8 on a Tripod

12/24/2006 Happy Holidays to all our readers

12/23/2006 Reminder: Our most used new editing tools in 2006

We use and explore many new editing tools all the time. Some tools then finally get part of our standard workflow.

12/23/2006 Hoya and Pentax to merge (Source DPReview)

12/22/2006 LightZone 2.0.5 update

This is mainly an update to improve speed and fixing some bugs.

12/21/2006 Nikon D40 Review (source DPReview)

12/21/2006 New firmware for Canon and Pentax DSLRs (source DPReview)

12/20/2006 Preview of Photoshop CS3 Beta: B&W Tool revisited

12/19/2006 Leica M8 Diary: Field Notes by Magnum Photographer Thomas Hoepker

We are proud to present this to the point field report by Magnum Photographer Thomas Hoepker. He used the film Leicas for many years.

12/19/2006 HP Designjet Z3100 Diary started

We have now used the new 12 ink Z3100 for about one month and share first impressions.

12/16/2006 The Online Photographer reports: Bruce Fraser died

What a sad moment. We express our deepest condolences to his family and friends.

12/16/2006 Epson Stylus Pro 3800 diary by Giorgio Trucco is now open

This time mainly DOP contributor Giorgio Trucco will check out this new printer. We also plan to start our HP Z3100 diary soon.

12/16/2006 Brand new e-book about the Nikon D80 DSLR by iNova & Steinmueller

12/16/2006 Pentax K10D Review (Source Phil Askey)

Used with RAW it seems to be an excellent camera on all counts.

12/16/2006 Preview of Photoshop CS3 Beta: Beta now ready for download

12/15/2006 Preview of Photoshop CS3 Beta: Added a small demo of Zoomify

12/15/2006 Preview of Photoshop CS3 Beta

We have a first look at the bew Photoshop CS3 Beta.

12/14/2006 Portfolio Invitation #019: Birds in Flight #1 (Voting closed)

12/13/2006 Magnum posts tribute to photojournalist Leonard Freed (Source Rob Galbraith)

Magnum shows a tribute to Leonard Freed and his great journalistic work.

12/13/2006 Interesting Leica M8 RAW Challenge at Open Photography Forums

12/12/2006 Our most used new editing tools in 2006

We use and explore many new editing tools all the time. Some tools then finally get part of our standard workflow.

12/12/2006 Exhibition by Elliott Landy and his son Bo Landy

We have seen Elliott's great music shots from the 60th in one of his books.

12/12/2006 Apple releases Aperture 1.5.2 (Source Rob Galbraith)

12/12/2006 December 2006 COBA meeting December 13th

12/11/2006 Interesting articles by Giorgio Trucco: Imacon 949 Slide Feeder and Fotoman 6x17 camera

12/10/2006 Alain Briot's Book "Mastering Landscape Photography" published

12/9/2006 Check out our E-Book on printing: The Art of Digital Fine Art printing

We help you to get the best out of your printers and select the right papers. Note: This site gets mainly financed by selling our e-books and Photoshop filters.

12/9/2006 LightZone 2.0.3 released

Fuji S9000 RAW images are now supported. This version also includes some performance enhancements.

12/8/2006 Fuji announces the full specification of their Finepix S5 Pro

12/8/2006 3.8 Gigapixel Panoramas

Check out this extreme stitching project.

12/7/2006 LightZone RAW Contest #4 (Leica M8) : First reader's comment

12/7/2006 RAW Developer 1.6.1 released

12/6/2006 LightZone RAW Contest #4 (Leica M8)

This time our LightZone RAW contest is based on a Leica M8 DNG RAW file.

12/5/2006 Pentax K100D Review (source Phil Askey)

Looks like this camera is a very nice camera.

12/4/2006 Portfolio Invitation #020: Old Machinery #1 (Submissions open till 1/15/2007 8am PST)

12/4/2006 Thank you all for joining us at our Open House in the printing studio Friday and Saturday

If you want to learn more about printing we offer our printing book and also do dedicated 1:1 consulting.

12/1/2006 "Using Photomatix and LightZone 2.0 together"

11/27/2006 John Sexton: "Recollections, Three Decades of Photographs"