Latest Photographic News from the SWPP & BPPA News Desk

Anthropics Launches New Portrait Professional - 25/06/2009 02:01 PM

Portrait Professional 9 is portrait airbrushing software that has actually been trained in human appearance, using thousands of example photographs.

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New background systems from Kenro - 25/06/2009 11:27 AM

Kenro has announced the UK release of a new range of background systems

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PHOTO TRAINING OVERSEAS - 18/06/2009 01:27 PM

Simon John is one of the most exciting and entertaining speakers on the lecture circuit today he is one of a rare bread of innovators in social photography who has an exceptionally lateral thinking mind that operates outside the box of normality,

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Hasselblad Phocus 1.2 for Mac - 17/06/2009 11:27 AM

Phocus 1.2 has been substantially improved with regards to tethered shooting, image export and processing, and has been equipped with several brand-new features and workflow enhancements.

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Nik Software Releases Complete Collection Lightroom Edition - 17/06/2009 11:19 AM

Nik Software today announced that its popular Complete Collection, which bundles all of the companys award-winning digital imaging software tools, is now also available as a Lightroom Edition

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SWPP Plans A New Bump Start Scheme For Portrait Photographers - 10/06/2009 12:12 PM

The SWPP is working with Barrett and Coe and Emmas Diary, the leading parent marketing company on a new bump and baby photography initiative thats set to take the UK by storm.

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ePHOTOzine visitor numbers go through the cyber-roof - 10/06/2009 10:37 AM

The latest (April 09) official, independent audit of the award-winning, eight year old site, shows a massive jump in monthly unique user/browsers to over 700,000

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Wacoms Intuos4 voted best digital accessory in Europe by TIPA - 10/06/2009 10:12 AM

Wacom, the leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays and intuitive interface devices, today will receive a TIPA award at the awards ceremony in the Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg near Cologne, Germany

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Raw Photo Processor 3.9.5 - 08/05/2009 10:10 AM

Andrey Tverdokhleb has announced version 3.9.5 of his Mac-only raw developer, Raw Photo Processor.

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Roxio PhotoShow Touch for Windows 7 - 08/05/2009 10:05 AM

Roxio Unveils PhotoShow Touch for Windows 7 Gestures Replace Clicks in Innovative Multi-Touch Slideshow Creation and Sharing Application

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Nik Sharpener Pro 3.0 Webinar - 08/05/2009 10:02 AM

Sharpener Pro 3.0, the most advanced and powerful sharpening solution eliminating the guesswork typically required for achieving superior and consistent results. If you dont own Sharpener Pro 3.0 yet or just started to use it, than this online training will be exactly for you.

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Noise Ninja 2.2.0 Standalone - 08/05/2009 09:32 AM

The standalone version of Noise Ninja has been upgraded to 2.2.0. Noise Ninja Standalone now has a Sidekick Mode.

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Nikon Camera Control Pro 2.5.0 - 08/05/2009 09:15 AM

Nikon have released a new version, 2.5.0, of Camera Control Pro. This software allows photographers to control a camera remotely from a computer using either a wired or a wireless connection. Changes in this version include added support for the new Nikon D5000 DSLR camera

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Nikon RAW Codec 1.7.0 - 08/05/2009 09:09 AM

Nikon has released a new version of its RAW codec, which lets you view NEF files within Windows. Version 1.7.0 now supports NEF (RAW) images taken with the D5000 DSLR camera

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Epson Stylus Pro 900 Series Proofing Editions - 07/05/2009 11:39 AM

EPSON AMERICA AND EFI COLLABORATE TO REDEFINE THE PROOFING INDUSTRY WITH NEW EPSON STYLUS PRO 900 SERIES PROOFING EDITIONS

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imense launch Annotator, the first semi automatic keywording tool - 21/04/2009 11:27 AM

With more sales channels available for photographers, and more of those channels expecting metadata and keywords to be supplied with image files, photographers are becoming bogged down in keywording, meaning less time for doing what they do best, creating images.

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Wacoms Intuos4 redefines the pen tablet for digital content creators - 25/03/2009 10:32 AM

Next generation pen tablet delivers new proprietary pen technology

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Calumet Focuses On Hasselblad Solutions In The Medium Format Marketplace - 23/03/2009 11:32 AM

Calumet Photographic has announced that it will stop selling Leaf cameras and backs

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Colour Confidence introduces Tecco and Moab to the UK photographic market - 12/02/2009 09:05 AM

Europes leading independent colour management and digital imaging specialist, Colour Confidence

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NIKON LAUNCHES AF-S DX NIKKOR 35MM F/1.8G - 09/02/2009 11:05 AM

Nikon UK is pleased to announce a brand new wide aperture DX NIKKOR lens

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