According to a report from Bloomberg, rival firms Apple and Google have forming a consortium to offer $500 million to purchase more than 1,100 digital imaging patents currently held by Kodak and share them in a pool.

Kodak, which is currently going through bankruptcy proceedings and selling off many of its assets, said it wanted more than...

Monsoon rain and flooding last October in Thailand caused significant losses for Nikon, Canon and Sony manufacturing plants in the region. According to the Bangkok Post, the industrial park where Sony resides suffered $1 million in damages. Floodwaters there took nearly a month to recede. Sony's plant, which produces CCS and...

Apple has developed Aperture 3, the latest version of its raw-conversion and photo management software. It offers faster organization of a large number of images and offers more than 200 new features. Other improvements to this version include a new "faces and places" option that enables face detection and geotagging. Besides using recorded GPS information, the camera allows users to assign locations by dragging and dropping photos onto a map. An improved slideshow feature now combines photos and HD videos, while the brush feature allows...

For the second time, Colorado-based photographer Louie Psihoyos has filed a copyright lawsuit against Apple Computer for using one of his photographs without permission.

Psihoyos alleges that in 2008, Apple illegally incorporated his image into its first version of the i.TV, a free software application that lets users access their TiVo and Netflix accounts. The photograph in question, a shot of a man sitting in front of a dramatically curved wall of screens, titled "500 TVs‚" was registered by Psihoyos in 2005 and reportedly took him a month and $100,000 to create...

Despite early fears of internet censorship by the Chinese government, professional photographers in Beijing this summer were able to capture and transmit a stunning array of images to the rest of the world during the 2008 Olympic Games.

The Associated Press wired up to 1,000 images per day from the more than 70 photographers they had assigned to cover the Games. Getty, as the official photo agency of the Games, brought more than 40 photographers to Beijing. Reuters photographers also took many photos but did no editing on-site...

YouSendIt has announced a new plug-in for Adobe's Photoshop. The YouSendIt plug-in allows designers to efficiently send files of any size directly from Photoshop. The plug-in is available for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 for Windows.
Eliminating the need for photographers and designers to struggle with FTP transfers, the plug-in lets the user burn a CD to mail to an overnight courier and eliminates e-mail bounce-backs from attachments that are larger than recipient networks usually allow.

Files sent through YouSendIt are secure and can be tracked with assured delivery and a receipt. The plug-in can be conveniently downloaded directly from the YouSendIt web site. Previously, YouSendIt released a direct-delivery plug-in for Apple Aperture. YouSendIt also offers beta versions of plug-ins that allow a user to send files directly from Microsoft Outlook and CorelDRAW.

Apple has updated its Aperture postproduction software for photographers. Aperture 1.1 features improved RAW image rendering in areas such as noise reduction, sharpening, and highlight recovery. A new set of advanced RAW controls allows photographers to adjust decode settings, such as boost, sharpening and chroma blur. A new built-in color meter displays pixel values in RGB, Lab or CMYK, and enhanced export controls make it easier to output images at specific resolutions and improve the handling of...

At PhotoPlus Expo in New York City last October, Apple Computer introduced Aperture, an application that had been dubbed “iPhoto Pro” by many Apple rumor web sites prior to the official announcement. Early impressions (largely based on demonstrations by Apple) were glowing in their praise for what appeared to be a revolutionary product. The innovative interface and smartly targeted feature set promised to greatly streamline workflow for professional photographers.

For years, pro shooters have been seeking a way to manage the critical “sweet spot” of digital photo workflow, and Apple is targeting that space. The company claims that Aperture...

Traditional product photography has accompanied websites, print brochures and related sales collateral for many years now. With the global reach and 24/7 timeliness of the Internet, new demands are placed on the seller. As e-commerce matures with the ever-expanding Internet, many companies are now looking for new ways to display and sell their products. When it is not possible for a buyer to see or hold a product for purchase, the next best thing to being there live is an interactive digital image which is now commonly called a Virtual Reality (VR) Object or Immersive Image.

A VR Object consists of a series of digital images shot in sequence then authored into an interactive digital file. These sequential shots simulate the rotation or functionality of an object and display different views...