EyeEm’s new products aim to understand brand aesthetics

 EyeEm is unveiling new tools to help the brands and marketers using the site to source their images. Underlying these tools is a technology called EyeEm Vision, which we described in-depth earlier this year. The goal is to expand image recognition so that it’s not just identifying the objects in the photo, but also its aesthetic qualities. EyeEm’s co-founder and chief product… Read More

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This Photoshop course is 97% off, which is basically the closest to free you can get

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Professional photo tools like Photoshop are no longer just for the pros. Not only are they pretty easy to learn, just a few tweaks to lighting and color grading can turn your photos from ho-hum to seriously wow-worthy.

What you can do with Photoshop all comes down to having the right learning tools — like the Complete Photoshop Mastery Bundle, a series of eight courses that contain 20 hours of training. 

You’d be surprised at what you can do to photos without knowing much about photography. In this bundle, you’ll learn how to add sunlight effects for that soft, nostalgic look, use curves and masks to create artwork inspired by 19th-century Art Nouveau portraits, and retouch your photos. More of the noir type? Learn how to style your photos so they look like they were grabbed right from the silver screen, colorize black and white photos, enhance portraits, and more.  Read more…

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ispace just raised $90 million to launch two private moon missions by 2020

 Japanese company ispace has raised $90.2 million in a Series A funding round, an amount it’s calling the “largest ever” Series A in commercial space financing. The funding comes from Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Konika Minolta and others, and will help the company continue its progress towards a very… Read More

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Google launches three new photography apps for testing experimental technology

 Google today is launching a trio of new photo apps – a part of new series of what it has dubbed photography “appsperiments.” (Get it? Ha ha.) The apps, some of which are available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, give Google a way to test out more experimental features to see how users respond, the company explains in an announcement on its Google Research blog.… Read More

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Lytro’s ‘living pictures’ cease to live

 As part of its move away from consumer gear towards professional cinema hardware, Lytro has killed off the site that once hosted “living pictures,” still photos taken with its cameras that could be refocused after the fact. This will turn a handful of those pictures, where they had been embedded on the web over the past few years, into empty frames. Read More

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New Zealand’s most Instagrammed place should come as no surprise

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Pictures don’t quite do Milford Sound justice, but that’s not stopping people from trying.

The New Zealand landmark is the country’s most Instagrammed place in 2017, according to year-end geotagged data released by the company.

Widely referred to as the “eighth wonder of the world,” Milford Sound is a fjord located on New Zealand’s South Island. 

With its towering mountain peaks and cascading waterfalls, it’s a breathtakingly beautiful destination — although, really, there’s nothing quite like actually being there.

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The hidden tech behind ‘SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical’

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The Palace Theatre is submerged in an ocean of darkness. From the blackout, dozens of screens shine bright, dotting the darkness with their blue-white glow. In the shadows, technicians huddle over monitors, designers whisper into headset microphones, and the pitter patter of typing on keyboards crackles through the room.

The scene looks like a NASA control room, but we’re not at mission control for a space flight — we’re in tech rehearsal for SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical, the new theatrical adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon cartoon, directed by Tina Landau

The theatre buzzes as the show’s creative team sets the final light and projection cues of the musical’s climactic scene, building each moment light by light, animation by animation during a process called cue-to-cue. Suddenly, with a stage manager’s call, light bursts onto the stage, plunging everyone into the technicolor sea that is Bikini Bottom. Read more…

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This DSLR camera has ‘food mode’ and it’s $300 off at Target today

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Cyber Monday is truly giving Black Friday a run for its money — literally. If you’ve been wanting to make the jump to the DSLR world but haven’t made your move yet, here’s the final push you need: Target has a Canon DSLR bundle for $300 off today.

The Canon EOS Rebel T6 camera is an 18.7 megapixel beauty that can snap super high-quality photos, perfect for printing and framing — yes, you can finally blow pictures up without them turning out super blurry. And speaking of high quality photos, the camera also has a “food mode” that enhances the brightness and color in food pics, because taking pictures of your plate in restaurants is a thing. Read more…

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