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That's why I believe that deep inside Apple Park, there's an underlying belief that the Camera app should be as simple as possible - and that Apple should keep building hardware to make that happen. Apple is aiming for simplicity with its Camera app. IMAGINING THE PERFECT CAMERA APP This feature got me thinking about Apple's ultimate goals in designing the Camera app. [Extracted from the article]

BOTTOM LINE Most people wondering whether they should buy the iPhone 14 will be upgrading from a much older iPhone than the iPhone 13, but those same people would be wise to consider the iPhone 13 as an alternative since the iPhone 13 is still on sale. If the new camera features of the iPhone 14 are attractive to you, then you may want to consider spending a little more to get the iPhone 14 Pro, which brings a 48MP camera and a 3X telephoto lens along with all of the new iPhone 14 camera features. The Geekbench 4 battery tests indicated just under 9 hours for the iPhone 14, 9:44 for the iPhone 14 Pro, 8:11 for the iPhone 13, and 9:15 for the iPhone 13 Pro. [Extracted from the article]

The iPhone 14 Pro Max is the about same size as the 12 Pro Max, as well as the iPhone 13 Pro Max it replaces (fave.co/3xWPTlb). And the iPhone 14 Pro Max lasted 3 hours and 43 minutes longer than the iPhone 14 Pro - that's 30 percent more battery life from a battery that is 35 percent larger than the smaller iPhone 14 Pro. However, if battery life is your main reason for choosing a large iPhone, Apple does have another iPhone that has recently arrived - the iPhone 14 Plus, which according to Apple's estimates can beat the 14 Pro Max in terms of battery life. The yearly iPhone release, and indeed most smartphone releases, have gotten kind of boring: The latest model is a little faster, the camera's better, and maybe there's some stand-out gimmick that will feature in all the ads but won't really improve the way you use your phone. [Extracted from the article]

ADJUST THE DISPLAY SETTINGS Depending on what previous iPhone you may have had, you may not have found much use for some of the display settings that could be much more useful on an iPhone 14. Open the Camera app, switch to Photo mode, and swipe upward to show the little camera control buttons. CHECK OUT THE NEW CAMERA MODES One of the iPhone 14's coolest new camera features is Action mode, which applies really heavy video stabilization to your hand-held shots. [Extracted from the article]

Only now are Mac webcams getting to be on par with the USB webcam I've used for a decade! MAC USER There was a time when Apple really cared about Macs having better video chat quality than any other computer you could buy. [Extracted from the article]

The only real competition for Apple's most affordable iPad (which starts at $329) is the Kindle Fire models and some deeply disappointing Android tablets that have retail prices in the $150 range and are often used as free giveaways when you buy service subscriptions or other more expensive tech gear. When it comes to tablets, at least budget tablets, there's iPad and there's everything else. IT'S TIME FOR A FACELIFT Outside of a faster processor (which most won't notice), double the storage (which they will noticed), and a much better front camera (which is very nice), the 9th-generation iPad is about the same as the 8th-generation iPad - which was about the same as the 7th-generation iPad. [Extracted from the article]

Clearly, Samsung could learn a thing or two from Apple - here are five ideas Samsung should steal from the iPhone 12. 1. Apple's phones are objectively expensive, but they're a few hundred dollars cheaper at every tier than Samsung's phones. DITCH THE CHARGER (HEAR ME OUT!) Apple controversially decided to remove the bundled wall charger from its latest phones, but it was probably a good idea - one that Samsung could steal. [Extracted from the article]

Open the Windows 10 Start menu and head to Settings > System > Display > Advanced Display Settings > Display and select Display 1 under Choose Display. A 15.6-inch laptop screen with a 1920 x 1080 resolution has a pixel density of 141.21 ppi, while a 32-inch HDTV screen with the same resolution has a significantly lower pixel density of 68.84 ppi. But if you have a PC designed for the best possible gaming experience, hooking up an HDTV instead of a computer monitor likely means that you're not getting the most out of your machine. If you need a display that will multitask as an up-close work/email display as well as a movie/entertainment display, you'll want something with a high enough pixel density that text won't be a pain to read - and even with a high pixel density, a large display may still cause eye and neck strain if you sit too close to it. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on how to rescue, restore, and reuse aging prints and negatives. By scanning old photos and film into one's Mac now, one is able to stop the aging process and preserve irreplaceable photos. With the help of image-editing software, one may even be able to reverse some of the worst damage. The best way to digitize the prints, negatives, and slides is to scan them. Pictures that have faded because of exposure to light and air or that have been damaged by careless handling and storage will require a full-fledged image editor such as Adobe Photoshop. These programs offer powerful image-correction tools, layer controls, and masking features that give one precise control over specific areas of photos. It also highlights Apple's iphoto software as photo-management software. Slides and negatives are much smaller than prints and therefore require a much higher output resolution. Some scanners enables one to address common image problems during the scanning process. The most useful of these options is the Reduce Dust And Scratches filter, which attempts to eliminate dust spots and light scratches.

This article describes the steps for using the Curves command of the software, Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop represents an image's brightness levels in two ways: as light or as ink. These are called adjustment modes. Most photographers are comfortable working with light, and most print-based designers are more comfortable working with ink. Open a gray-scale photograph and choose Image: Adjustments: Curves to access the Curves dialog box. The user can alter the curve to increase or decrease the amount of light used to display an image. To adjust the image, click anywhere on the curve to add a dot, called a control point, and drag it up or down. Upon moving the curve up, the image is brighten by adding more light. To focus adjustments on a particular area of an image, the user can find the brightness range of that area in the horizontal bar, and then adjust the part of the curve that appears directly above that part of the bar. To estimate how a curve might affect an image, compare the curve created to the original diagonal line. With a simple curve adjustment, the user can transform flat-looking images into images that pop. Making a curve steeper exaggerates the differences between the brightest and darkest shades in an area of an image, thereby enhancing detail in that area.

Reviews several image editing software. Limitation of the Digital Image Pro 9 from Microsoft Corp; Key features lacking in the PhotoStudio 5.5 from ArcSoft Inc.; Advantage of the Paint Shop Pro 9 from Jasc Inc.

Presents soft-proofing techniques to get consistent color in a printed output using the Adobe Photoshop 6.0 software. Importance of color management; Factors that influence the accuracy of color management process; Procedures in control color conversions; Tips on making the final edits and printing the image. INSET: TERMS AT A GLANCE.

Provides tips on scanning of images using Adobe Photoshop. Preparation of the material to scan; Defining settings; Application of extra bits. INSETS: You say you want a resolution;Bring scans into focus.

The article evaluates several products including the Hex Color Picker 1.4 color hex code finder from paymentrequested, the CocoThumbX 3.1 thumbnail editor from paymentrequested, and the Compress Files 1.0 file compressor from Apimac.

The article presents information about a handy photo-comparison tool in Apple Inc.'s iPhoto '06. This tool allows the user to compare similar shots side by side. To activate the comparison tool in iPhoto's full-screen mode. Select two or more images and press the Enter Full Screen button at the bottom left of the iPhoto window. The two pictures will appear side by side on a black background. Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen to reveal a toolbar of image-correction tools. Another way to compare photos go to iPhoto: Preferences and set the Edit Photo pop-up menu to in main Window. INSETS: Install and Uninstall;Make Save Dialog Boxes More Useful.

Reviews the imaging software Photoshop CS2 from Adobe Systems Inc.

Discusses how to sharpened scanned images using Adobe Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter. Likely effects of the filter; Result of the greater contrast between two pixels; When to use the filter. INSETS: Sharpening What You Want;The Simple Art of Sharpening;Behind the Unsharp Mask Filter.

The article reports that Google Assistant got plenty of tucked away tricks for anyone using Android. Topics include considered that one of Google's own Pixel phones as Google experience available anywhere on Android and that means to have got some extra-spectacular next-level voice commands at disposal and just waiting to be used.

Discusses the primary causes and solutions for common imaging problems. Includes font problems; Poor file preparation; Errors in color separation. INSET: Scan in or take out?.

The article offers tips for using the Macintosh OS X. Photo Booth includes a collection of 24 image-altering effects which users can use to distort their photos. Text substitution lets OS X automatically replace one set of characters with another set of characters or symbols, and is one of Snow Leopard's more intriguing new features. For instance, users could make OS X generate the copyright symbol, when they type (C).

The article offers information on Adobe Systems Inc.'s new Photoshop Elements 8 released nearly simultaneously on the Macintosh and Windows. The new version offers new tools, sports an updated interface, and includes technology from its much larger sibling, Photoshop CS4. The Macintosh version comes with Adobe Bridge CS4, the same full-scale document manager that ships with the Adobe Creative Suite. Windows users get the Organizer, which uses an approach similar to iPhoto for managing photos.

The article offers information on computer monitors and presents several charts on electronic products. It presents information on 324 LCD Monitor from LaCie Ltd., which has a superior viewing angle along with color fidelity and text legibility. It is also cited that to avoid the problem of shifting colors or a loss of contrast while viewing the monitor screen, superior display should be preferred. Several charts on electronic products including camcorders, scanners and digital cameras are presented.

The article offers information about the different ways in which Apple Inc.'s Aperture and Adobe's Lightroom store images in image library of a camera. It is observed that Aperture stores photos in a hierarchical, and project-based system with every photo residing in a project. It is noted that each project can have multiple albums, light tables, Web galleries, and Web journals associated with it. It is informed that Lightroom's management features are simpler than those of Aperture's. It in noted that the Library pane lets one see all of the images, while the Folders pane offers a visual representation of how the images are organized on the hard drive.

The article reports on the launch of the beta version of the computer software Photoshop CS3 by Apple Computer Inc. In addition to compatibility with Intel microprocessor-based Macintosh computers, the software also has other features, including interface changes, nondestructive filters, easier compositing, improvements to Camera Raw and a redesigned version of Bridge, Adobe's image file browser. Any photography filter could be attached to the software to assist in image processing. Photoshop CS3 adds a new Quick Selection brush, which lets one select an object simply by brushing over it. As one brushes, the program analyzes the image to determine which pixels in the region need to be selected.

The article presents information on Apple Computer Inc's contribution to media entertainment. Apple is not content with its domination of the digital music market. Apple's chief Steve Jobs introduced the next stage in its growth with the addition of movies to Apple's download stocks. It is planning to enter the home entertainment sector. Apple has introduced movie downloads from films produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Miramax Films, Pixar Animation and Touchstone Pictures. Previously, the company offered TV shows at 320-by-240-pixel resolution. Apple now offers movies at four times that resolution-640 by 480 pixels.

This article offers suggestions on how to extract maximum benefits from Raw file formats of digital photography. One can be sure of getting informed about the wonders of shooting in Raw mode while talking to professional digital photographers. When one presses the shutter button in Raw mode, the camera's sensor captures the image data and stores it on the media card. That's it. The camera doesn't do any image processing or compression--one ends up with raw and unprocessed data. Skipping the processing step gives Raw files several advantages over their JPEG counterparts. While many cameras do a very good job of processing JPEGs, the image adjustments aren't reversible. With a Raw file, one can delay image-processing decisions until he or she is in front of his or her computer. That means one stands a better chance of getting an image that looks just the way he or she wants it to be.

This article presents information related to the use of low-light photo processing with the help of Macintosh computer. By using camera's menus to increase the ISO setting, one can capture tricky shots such as these and expand his picture-taking options--but at a cost. Raising the ISO will also increase the amount of image noise--unsightly flecks that can make it look as if user took his picture during a digital snowstorm. In the Reduce Noise dialog box, drag the Strength slider to the right to increase the amount of noise reduction. INSET: Plug In to Noise Reduction.

Reviews the image processing software Final Cut Pro 5 from Apple Computer Inc. INSETS: Final Cut Studio;Compressor Expands.

This article presents instructions to use the Core Image Fun House and Quartz Composer tools to create a screen saver on a Macintosh (Mac) computer. On the DVD, open the Xcode Tools folder and doubleclick on XcodeTools.mpkg to install the tools. When that's done, go to the root directory of your main hard drive and look in the Developer folder. Core Image Fun House lets user quickly apply effects to his images. Launch Fun House and select one of the vacation images in the Open dialog box. The Effect Stack palette A works like Adjustment Layers in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. From here, one can add or delete layers, make adjustments, and toggle layer visibility. But unlike most image editors, Fun House displays layers from the bottom up. Click on the plus sign (+) B in the top layer. The Image Units palette will appear C, listing options for effects. Fun House adds Color Controls to the Effects Stack palette and offers sliders for adjusting Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast. Bump up the saturation to make the colors more intense. INSET: Buried Treasure.

This article offers tips for optimizing online portfolio images on Macintosh computers. All online portfolio images, whether project artwork or interface designs, should be optimized--that is, transformed into a Web-readable format that balance image quality and size. The easiest way to optimize is to apply a preset in Adobe Photoshop's Save For Web window. The optimization method should depend on the image's ideal final file type. To determine the proper format quickly, open a file, go to Save For Web, and click on the 4-Up tab. For each optimized display window, select a different default preset from the Preset menu: JPEG, ONG-8 128 Dithered or GIF 64 Dithered, for instance. The more colors a PNG or GIF file contains, the larger its file size. When Photoshop optimizes a file, it decreases colors by determining how frequently each color appears. As you decrease the number of colors in the palette, the software throws out the least-used ones. The trouble comes when you have a print project with spot color. The standard optimization quickly eliminates critical colors. The standard optimization quickly eliminates critical colors. To keep the spot colors, you have to use a bigger-than-necessary palette. You can prevent this palette bloat by locking spot colors. INSET: Faster Flash.

Offers techniques on creating layered images in Adobe Photoshop. Gathering of images from old books, stock-image collections and libraries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art; Use of filters and layer-blending modes in creating background.

The article reviews several application software for iPhone and other mobile accessories, including "Hipstamatic" camera application, "CameraBag" image processing application, and the "Gorillacam."

The article reviews several application software for iPhone and other mobile accessories, including "Color Splash" imaging application, "Animation Creator HD," and "SketchBook Pro" drawing application.

The article offers tips for configuring YouTube videos. To tweak a video to start playback at a certain time, a user can add #t=XXmYYs to the end of the link, wherein XX represents the number of elapsed minutes and YY is the number of elapsed seconds. YouTube videos become grainy when viewed at full-screen but this can be solved by placing setting the Video Playback Quality to play high-definition (HD) when switching to fullscreen.

The article presents information on the benefits of shooting raw images. It is said that raw image means an unprocessed image file. To convert these data into an usable image, the file must be processed with the help of raw converter software like Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop Camera Raw. With raw images, white-balance can be changed easily which is impossible to do with JPEG files. Highlights in the image can also be changed along with other extensive editing options.

The article offers information on Scrapblog which has all the tools needed to create an appealing digital scrapbook from digital photographs. Scrapblog provides a library of design elements. There are background textures, clip art, text boxes and balloons, shapes, and image frames. Scrapblog has built-in image-editing tools, so users can make a number of tweaks to their pictures on the fly, including cropping and color effects.

The article provides information on using a digital single lens reflex' (SLR's) image-stabilized lens. It states that image stabilization technology allows digital photographers to get sharper photographs. Image stabilization is also called IS among Canon lenses and VR for Nikon but these lenses tend to work the same way. Active and normal modes of image-stabilized lens are also tackled.

The article shows how to edit a photo through adjusting some aspect of it in a layer. It suggests to open the photo and choose Layer.New Adjustment Layer. Levels or Brightness/Contrast is needed to improve exposure. To sharpen an image in Elements, it is recommended to open the photo and choose Layer.Duplicate Layer and click Enhance.Unsharp Mask to set the sharpness. The Eraser tool can be used to remove the effect once the adjustment was made.

The article offers information on various DVD-based calibration tools to calibrate a high-definition television (HDTV) to fine-tune the picture quality. It states that the THX Optimizer tool offers a set of test patterns, and some of the Optimizer's tests require special blue glasses. It mentions that the Optimizer can also assist in setting up a home theater's surround-sound system. It offers information on the HDTV Calibration Wizard tool from the Imaging Science Foundation that uses live video instead of test patterns for calibration and gives a good sense of what the real picture will look like. It provides an answer to a question of how to turn the log-in password of a personal computer off.

The article presents information on the Street View feature of the Google Maps website. It reports that the feature provides 360-degrees images of the street. It mentions that Google Inc. and its partner Immersive media Corp. created the images by the use of cars having 11-lens and spherical digital cameras. It reports that Google used the Dodeca 2360 cameras for shooting video and still images, and the Ladybug camera for capturing the imagery. It also mentions that the cameras captured the geospatial locations of the streets and the complete image information was then loaded in the mapping database of Google. Also mentioned are the name of the cities included in the feature.

The article evaluates several picture viewers including products from Epson Inc. and Digital Foci Inc.

The article reports that digital photography is becoming easier with the emergence of affordable SLRs that are viable options for photographers. Nikon recently released the D40, a $600 compact digital SLR with a lens. The lower prices have opened up the digital SLR market. Sales of digital SLRs were up 48 percent from January to August of 2006, compared with the same period the previous year. Also in that same time period, sales of compact digital cameras were up 21 percent. Canon and Nikon both now offer in-camera software that can detect faces in a scene and optimize the focus and exposure appropriately.

The article presents the author's views on various features of the utility called PicLens from Coollris. After it is installed by moving a mouse over an image on a given Web site, a small icon appears that indicates it is a slide show. When the icon is clicked on, the image zooms to full screen. In the background, PicLens preloads the next few full-resolution images, so there is no delay when one moves to the next image.

The article answers a question of whether image quality is lost every time the JPEG images are rotated or resaved from the digital camera. The JPEG format uses lossy compression, so whenever you change an image and resave it as the same file, it will be recompressed, which in turn can lead to noticeable image degradation. Not all imaging applications support lossless JPEG rotation; those that do, including ACD Systems' ACDSee, Apple's iPhoto, and Breeze Systems' Breeze-Browser, generally save a copy of the unrotated image so you can revert to the original as needed.

The article presents information on some new imaging softwares. It is informed that the company Red Giant Software has released new software Knoll Light Factory 2.5 to create a simulated flare effect. Autodesk Inc. has released new the Maya 8 software to upgrade high-end 3-D-modeling and -animation programs.

The article presents information on the updated version of the Shake, an application software from Apple Computer Inc. Shake is a professional video-composing software. It has been released by the company at a reduced cost of $499. The improved version of the software that has been named as Shake 4.1 brings native Intel support. The software is meant to the users of Machintosh computers. According to Kirk Paulsen, Apple's senior director, they were willing to make Shake approachable to their 500,000 Final Cut Pro users. Shake is equipped with the features including 3-D multiplane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying and Optical Flow image processing.

The article presents information on the factors to be considered before purchasing a scanner. One should take stock of the types of media one need to digitize. In addition, one should consider that they have negatives or prints and whether all the negatives are of 35mm or are wide-format negatives. These factors will have an impact on the type of scanner one needs. It highlights two main categories of scanners namely flatbed and film scanners. Flatbed scanners are designed primarily for scanning prints and other hard copy, many flatbed scanners include adapters for scanning different film formats. Resolution and bit depth were once top considerations of people shopping for scanners. In order to scan film and prints, one may need a scanner that includes Digital ICE. Part software and part hardware, Digital ICE uses a special infrared light to detect dust and scratches on to the film and then removes any trace of them during the scanning process, using the surrounding pixels to fill in the missing data.