Sharp has announced that it will begin a large scale production of its new kind of touch panels at its No. 2 Kameyama Factory, Mie Prefecture. It is known as the ‘Free Drawing’ panel utilising the ‘In cell method. This combines the LCD panel and sensor in order to improve sensitivity of the touch panel. It has been said that the panel can accept pencils with sharp tips and … [Read more...]

Digital Film Tools, the developer of visual effects software announced the release of EZ Mask V 3.0, which helps in simple masking for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Some of its features include stroke based masking, extracting an element from an image, improving detail in hair, smoke or reflection, interactive refine mode that increases the finesse of the mask, … [Read more...]

The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rachid International Photography Contest was (HIPA) conducted from March 16 to March 19, 2015 in Dubai, UAE. The grand prize of $120,000 was won by Mr. Anurag Kumar from India in the ‘Life in Colour’ category. The first prize of Rs.15, 000 in the general category was won by Mr. Harish Chavda from UK. In the ‘Face’ category, Rudori Vladimirovich from … [Read more...]

ZEISS has introduced the Batis 2/25 (25mm f/2) and Batis 1.8/85 (85mm f/1.8), their first full-frame autofocus lenses for Sony’s E-mount cameras. This new family of lenses is particularly suited for the use with Sony’s alpha range of mirrorless full-frame system cameras. “The Batis family of lenses is the first time we have launched autofocus lenses for Sony’s full-frame … [Read more...]

Adobe has announced new standalone and Creative Cloud versions of Lightroom, its image processing and Raw conversion software. The latest versions gain simple HDR and Panorama merging tools that create DNG files from the merged results (16-bit floating point DNGs in the case of the HDR mode). The update also includes the ability to paint-out regions of gradient filters, to … [Read more...]