Creativity
Converting Stereoscopic Photos into GIFs
Stereoscopic GIFs (also called twitchy GIFs) like the one above and on these pages: ... are awesome, but what if you want to convert old stereoscopic photos into the digital age quickly and cheaply? (Negatives and slides are another issue. I'll address how to cheaply scan these in a future post.)
Photojournalism
Salutes and cell phones: The view from George HW Bush’s funeral train in Texas
President George H.W. Bush's final ride began Thursday afternoon in Texas, the last chance for mourners to say goodbye to the oldest former president in United States history. After days of ceremonies in the nation's capital, Air Force One flew Bush's body from Washington to Texas.
Video Creators
How Peter Jackson colourised WWI footage for his new documentary
In this video, he explains some of the painstaking work that went into colourising the 100-year-old footage in the documentary, including using Photoshop and other software to revitalise the footage for a new era. Beyond the frame-by-frame colourisation, Jackson's team also had to correct the speed and jerkiness of the film.
Photoshop
Like it or not, Adobe Creative Cloud has a monopoly on our muscle memory
Over the years, users develop deep skills with the products they rely on. That skill set is a powerful asset to software vendors. Here's why maintaining a consistent interface is so vitally important to retaining dedicated, skilled users as customers year after year.
Documentary
A Photographer’s Loving Ode to Small-Town Texas
The five decades that Keith Carter has spent documenting small-town Texas more than make up for the fact that he was born in Wisconsin. His family moved to the town of Beaumont when he was just a few years old, in the early nineteen-fifties, and his single mother took up commercial portrait photography to support them.
Cameras & Lenses
Samsung Used Photo Taken With DSLR To Advertise Its Smartphone Camera
Photographer Dunja Djudjic at DIY Photography claimed Samsung Malaysia has used one of her images to advertise the Galaxy A8 Star’s portrait mode capabilities. Djudjic suspected Samsung licensed the image from her through Getty Images, but the image wasn’t captured using the A8 Star. It was actually taken using Djudjic’s own DSLR.
Wordpress
WP Builds Newsletter #41 – WordPress 5.0 RC2 and more
This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 26th November 2018. WordPress 5.0 RC2, Plugin vulnerabilities and FBI takes down ad fraud network
Personal Advancement
190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list.
If you haven't heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, over 800 universities have created more than 10,000 of these MOOCs.
Technology
The best gear for photo and video editing
After installing a photo or video app, you may find it's by far the most resource-hungry thing on your computer. So what do you need to rein in all that power? Storage and memory. If you're editing 4K videos or RAW 42-megapixel photos, storage space and RAM are paramount.
Off-Camera Flash
Why Salads and CEOs Are Photographed the Exact Same Way
Pick up a magazine or fall down Instagram's rabbit hole and you're likely to come across at least one photograph lit up by an unnaturally bright flash - a flash that floods the space, evenly illuminating every detail in vivid color.
