Author: Erik

Freelance writer. Tech journalist & sub-editor. Marketing content writer. Concise, accurate, fast. Close to 30 years of experience.

The LIGHTBRIDGE Cine Reflect Lighting System, for photographers too

LIGHTBRIDGE C-START CRLS review

If you’ve ever had to lighten a scene and couldn’t do it properly without lugging around back breaking numbers of flags and other devices to stop the light from spreading and spilling, you should take a look at the LIGHTBRIDGE CRLS (Cine Reflect Lighting System), a lighting system based on lightweight aluminium reflectors that don’t spill. CRLS is used in cinematography but begs to be discovered by photographers.… Read More The LIGHTBRIDGE Cine Reflect Lighting System, for photographers too

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Soon AI-created multi-angle, multi-focus images and videos from a single image will be Sci-Fi no more

multifocus, multi-angle photos with neural network

Remember the days of the Lytro camera? That camera allowed you to take a picture and adjust the focus afterwards as often as you liked. Now, a machine-learning algorithm is making it possible to do the same and more.… Read More Soon AI-created multi-angle, multi-focus images and videos from a single image will be Sci-Fi no more

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PDFpen Pro 13 review

PDFpen Pro 13 review

PDFpenPro 13 has been released and it looks better than ever. Version 13 has a new UI design with a better organised Toolbar that adds the essential markup tools and an Editing Bar that adds a text formatting section and colour controls. Other look and feel improvements include modernised icons, and more.… Read More PDFpen Pro 13 review

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Meet Photo Mechanic Plus, the database-driven photo management solution for professional photographers and photo journalists

Photo Mechanic Plus review

Photo Mechanic Plus is a new version of the application for ingesting, managing and processing image files before and after you edit them. The Plus version includes all the features of Photo Mechanic with the addition of an image database for making catalogues of every photo you’ve collected on both online and offline storage… Read More Meet Photo Mechanic Plus, the database-driven photo management solution for professional photographers and photo journalists

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DxO PureRAW review

DxO PureRAW review

DxO announced PureRAW, its newest application, to the press on March 29, 2021. DxO AI-based PureRAW removes noise, chromatic aberrations, unwanted vignetting, distortion, and insufficient sharpness with an unprecedented level of quality. When a company tells the press its new product can turn any RAW image into a perfect linear DNG that can be further processed in any linear DNG aware image editor, reviewers become suspicious, so I it was with some devilish pleasure I took a pre-release version of PureRAW to the test.… Read More DxO PureRAW review

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