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Apple Aperture team gets the boot

News Apple has slashed the development team for Aperture, its professional image software for RAW-format work flow, the insider news Web site Think Secret has reported. Aperture was also challenged by Adobe's release of comparable RAW-image work-flow...

28 April 2006, 10:36

Photographers ask camera makers to open up

News The OpenRAW Working Group on Monday called on camera makers to open up the tightly guarded RAW formats prized by serious photographers. In a few years, camera makers may stop supporting RAW formats used by older models -- potentially rendering vast...

27 April 2005, 12:57

Nikon's photo encryption reported broken

News Because Nikon scrambled a portion of the file, legal worries have kept third-party developers like Adobe Systems from supporting Nikon's uncompressed 'raw' photos in their software. Coffin gained some fame in digital photography circles as the...

25 April 2005, 14:54

Adobe unveils Windows Lightroom beta

News Lightroom and Aperture are designed to handle photographs taken in the 'raw' formats available on higher-end digital cameras. Raw images preserve more detail because they're pulled directly off a camera's image sensor; some of that information is...

19 July 2006, 10:21

Apple Aperture focuses on amateurs

News Aperture software, which has been available for some time, was previously viewed primarily as a program for managing the workflow of large batches of raw images, something of particular interest to professional photographers and serious hobbyists.

26 September 2006, 11:21

Canon announces new high-end SLR

News It can shoot a burst of as many as 30 raw images -- those pulled directly off the sensor without camera processing -- or 110 JPEGs. Canon said sraw has a quarter of the resolution, half the file size and a quarter of the resolution of conventional...

23 February 2007, 8:50

Adobe attempts to unify image formats

News A raw dealMost consumers are happy with JPEG, but raw formats offer considerable advantages. But raw poses a problem for companies like Adobe, whose bread-and-butter business includes image-editing software such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and...

21 November 2006, 9:48

Adobe to open Lightroom to programmers

News As with the latest version of Photoshop's raw image conversion tool, Lightroom now supports raw images from several new cameras, including the Canon 1D Mark III, Nikon D40x, Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro, Olympus E-410 and SP-550 UZ, Sigma SD14 and...

27 June 2007, 10:45

News.blog: A new focus for photographers

News One way to think of it is just a raw image, except to the nth degree," Ng said, referring to the raw images that higher-end cameras can record directly from the image sensor, leaving processing choices to the photographer.

Tags: fix, field, research, raw

29 February 2008, 9:22

Vista pushes HD Photo centre stage

News Adobe is trying to standardise the chaotic profusion of raw formats through its Digital Negative (DNG) format. A further complication is that the enthusiasts dissatisfied with JPEG and most likely to appreciate HD Photo already are embracing an...

29 January 2007, 10:44

Photos: Cardboard furniture keeps it green

News As prices rise for oil and raw materials (even sawdust), fans of furniture made from cardboard call it more earth-friendly and affordable than its wooden counterparts, which usually requires felling trees, or furniture made of pressboard, which...

Tags: interest, designs, material, shapes

10 March 2008, 9:37

Adobe goes toe-to-toe with Apple's Aperture

News Adobe on Monday offered up a public beta of Adobe Lightroom, a program to help avid shutterbugs manage the work of processing, selecting and editing their RAW-format images. Adobe has launched a test version of Mac software that is seen as a rival...

10 January 2006, 8:41

Intel quad-core chip powerful but pricey

News In terms of raw performance, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 blows away any other chip available from Intel or AMD, but when it comes to several applications, the four-core chip isn't any better than its dual-core siblings.

3 November 2006, 10:36

YouTube directors set for postproduction

News an inspirational montage that features Harding dancing a jig in 39 countries -- was disappointed with the video's raw footage when he sat down to edit. Matt Harding had just finished recording himself dancing in front of some of the world's most...

31 August 2006, 10:37

Intel launches new VPro brand

News VPro is the latest example of Intel's platform strategy, in which the company is trying to attach its name to features of PCs, rather than just focusing on the raw performance of its processors. Intel hopes its new VPro brand for business desktop...

25 April 2006, 10:18