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Anti-Abuse Lenticular Print Show Kids And Adults Different Ads

Noam Galai — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:18:55 +0000

A Spanish organization called “Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk” (ANAR) created a new ad campaign to bring awareness to kids at risk, using a cool new idea (but a very old technique). By using Lenticular printing, they were able to show two different ads in one print – one for kids, and one for adults. Adults see a different image and message than what the kids see. Smart, creative and important. [more]

Free Prints From Your Facebook and Instagram Feeds, Automatically!

Corey Melton — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:58:03 +0000

The other day my brother told me about 2 of his friends, Stephen Potter and Jackson Stephens, that have created a very cool service called Prints Forever. Prints Forever sends you prints from your Facebook and/or Instagram feed and mails them to you automatically! For the next few months the service is in beta mode and they are sending out prints free of charge to everyone that signs up, no strings attached. Click through to the post for the registration link. Enjoy! [more]

AdobeRGB vs. sRGB

Zach Sutton — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:12:32 +0000

If you’ve dug through your camera’s settings a few times, you’ve likely ran into the Color Space setting. You may have asked another photographer what it all means, and they’ve probably just told you to set it to one or the other, and forget about it. However, both sRGB and AdobeRGB have their advantages and disadvantages, so how do you distinguish one from the other? [more]

PostalPix Arrives on Android Devices: Get Printing!

Jaron Schneider — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:16:22 +0000

The wonderfully affordable and easy-to-use mobile printing app for the photos on your phones has arrived for Android. I personally love this app because of… well, everything. It does everything right, and the final product is of great quality. For those of you originally disappointed that it was only on iOS, be disappointed no more. [more]

A Look Into The Best Post Production Business In The World: Box Studios

Pratik Naik — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:30:52 +0000

Pascal Dangin is the founder and chief of Box Studios, a retouching house based out of NYC. They’re known for retouching some of the world’s best photographs, some of which grace Vogue and Vanity Fair. He also works with Annie Leibovitz and Steven Meisel. Unofficially, he’s credited as being the world’s most sought after retoucher in the industry. He is also very mysterious and so is Box. Here, we get an in depth look at what goes on behind the scenes at Box. [more]

Perfected Perspective Photography: Chef René Redzepi Recreated in Food

Jaron Schneider — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:26:11 +0000

Marketing and advertising treads a fine line. Put too little into an initiative, and the audience never engages. Go too far, and it becomes cliché and unattractive. But if you can hit that perfect balance and walk that fine line, perfection can be truly beautiful. When the guys from Golpeavisa were tasked with shooting a cover photo of two-Michelin star chef René Redzepi for Premier Class Magazine, they walked that line with unmatched poise. [more]

PostalPix is the Hassle-Free Way to Print Your Mobile Photos

Jaron Schneider — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:44:27 +0000

We all take a lot of photos with our phones. And you know what? That’s ok. The camera on the iPhone takes pretty darn good images, and the plethora of mobile editing apps gives us all more flexibility than we would ever need. But what happens to all these photos after we edit them and post them to Facebook or Twitter? We forget about them. Well now we can actually make use of those photos, and bring them into the physical world hassle free, insanely cheap, and unexpectedly gorgeous. [more]

Is Reflectance Printing Here To Stay?

Noam Galai — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:46:49 +0000

In this scientific project, a group of researchers decided to find a way to make normal 2D prints react to light the same way 3D objects react to it. As you can see it works really great, but the photo quality is still not so good. I’m sure that with some more research and development it will get much better. This can change the way we print and see physical pictures the same way Lytro Changed the way people take pictures.
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[BTS] Inspiration: Ian Ruhter Makes Massive Wet Plate Prints Out Of His Truck

Lee Morris — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:21:15 +0000

Photographer turned wet-plate artist Ian Ruhter basically dropped everything and cashed in his life’s savings to follow his passion, morphing his van into a massive camera and making enormous wet plate prints as he travels the country. From hand-making the silver emulsion to the financial risks of shooting at a whopping $500 a plate, this video “Silver & Light” gives an in-depth [more]

[Workflow] Kevin Kubota Explains Color Management And Profiles

Patrick Hall — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:44:43 +0000

As any photographer knows, understanding color space and color management can be one of the most difficult concepts to wrap your head around. What is the difference between Adobe RGB and sRGB? Why do magazines always print my images with funky colors? Why do I need different profiles for different devices? I still have trouble with these concepts. Luckily photoshop guru Kevin Kubota has made a really useful video explaining how [more]