Flickr Rolling Out New Google+ Style Photo Pages with a Nifty Side Panel

Flickr’s recent attempt at a major website redesign didn’t go over very well with many of its users, so now the Yahoo-owned company is taking the feedback it received to try again. A help page on the Flickr website reveals that a new photo page is currently being rolled out…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 4:00 pm

Photoshop Contest: What’s Fox News Really Using Those Giant Tablets For?

If you’ve spent any time on the internet this week, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about Fox News’ newest acquisitiona herd of fun-sized jumbotrons that finally let you touch a single tweet with your whole hand. And they said the American Dream was dead. Of course, the addition of…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 11:00 am

Canucks: Edler hits, Thornton strokes and more this week in photoshop

We are now officially through the first week on the 2013-14 Canucks season, and already there have been tons of interesting storylines, weird quotes and whatever you choose to classify "Thornton-gate" as. (I’m going with this) Rather than contribute more words to the stories you’ve been reading about all week,…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 11:00 am

Using Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill as an Invisibility Cloak in Car Commercials

Photoshop’s Content Aware Fill can do some pretty strange things to photographs when it doesn’t generate the desired result, but have you ever seen the bizarre things it can do when applied to video? The video above is one example.It’s the work of artist Zach Nader, who applied Content Aware…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 11:00 am

Kodak plan gets green light from members, regulator and PPF

A new scheme for members of the Kodak Pension Plan (KPP) will be launched in April 2014 after more than three quarters of members of the current scheme backed the proposal. Trustees of the scheme said 80% of members had voted on the plan, with 97% of those, representing 92% of Members who have…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 6:00 am

Yahoo’s not done with Flickr, continues to tweak redesign with new photo page

Soon after Marissa Mayer took over the CEO job at Yahoo in 2012, a Twitter campaign was launched with one simple request: "Please make Flickr awesome again." It didn’t take long before Yahoo responded with a new iOS app in December, followed by a complete overhaul earlier this year. Despite The…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 6:00 am

New Gear: Zeiss Otus 55mm F/1.4 Full-Frame DSLR Lens

We first heard about Zeiss Otus 1.4/55 lens at Photokina 2012. Back then, it didn’t have its swanky name, but it did have a lot of hype. Not, it’s officially a lens and it will cost $4,000. Plus, the press material is full of superlatives, so expectations are extremely high. The lens itself…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 6:00 am

Nikon 1 AW1

With the advancement of camera technology within mobile phoneslike Nokia’s astounding 41-megapixel sensor in the recently released Lumia 1020, for examplethe need for a separate everyday point and shoot camera is dwindling. But Nikon is proving where this sector is still relevant with the launch of the ueber-durable AW1the latest…

Posted on: October 12, 2013 6:00 am

Pentax K-3 review updated: Even more info on one of the year’s most exciting …

Right as Pentax announced its impressive K-3 enthusiast DSLR earlier this week, Imaging Resource news editor and resident Pentaxian Mike Tomkins came down with a virus, waylaying him for the past couple of days. With Mike recuperating, the technical info section of our first impressions Pentax K-3 review was delayed….

Posted on: October 11, 2013 4:00 pm

A Whole New Yahoo Mail: Flickr Themes and Storage Boost

In honor of Yahoo Mail’s 16th birthday on Tuesday, the service is getting a revamp inspired in part by mobile. The most noticeable part of the update is its new rich themes. Designed to take advantage of high-quality mobile screens such as Apple’s Retina display, the new themes incorporate Flickr…

Posted on: October 11, 2013 4:00 pm