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Mastering Digital Photo Processing

Perhaps the most important thing that the digital revolution has brought to photographers is an unprecedented level of control over processing their images. In this special issue, noted photographers examine how to get the most out of this new power.

In one handy reference, you’ll have previously published in PHOTO Techniques articles on digital photo processing.

You’ll learn about:

• Burning and Dodging in Photoshop
• Digital Color Corrections
• Polishing you Digital Prints
• Getting Better Skin Tones
• Bringing Low-Contrast Photos to Life Digitally
• Coloring Monochrome Images Digitally
• Dealing with Digital-Image Noise
• Image Interpolation Options

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Photo NEWS

Google will analyze “one trillion” online images

We’re seeing . . . a hundred billion images being captured and made available online every year,” is the amazing statement made by R.J. Pittman, Google’s Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties. “There are over 750 million camera-phone-equipped mobile phones . . . sold every year, and over 100 million digital cameras . . . sold every year . . . and these numbers continue to accelerate. We envision, in the not too distant future, a corpus of over a trillion images online.” (To be facetious for a moment, that would make a stack of prints more than halfway to the moon in height, but it would probably fall over. And if we divvied up those trillion images equally, given the current world population of 6.8 billion plus, every man, woman, child, and infant on earth would get 147 photos.) “So for Google, we see a big opportunity to organize the world’s images. And frankly because there are so many of them, it’s a big challenge, and . . . could be a really big value to our users in the future.”

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Press Releases

dxomark.com Updates Include Detailed Measurements and Rankings for Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Pentax K200D
dxomark.com also now features a Frequently Asked Questions & Answers section
Paris, France – December 10, 2008 – DxO Labs announces today the addition on its popularwww.dxomark.com rankings for two new Digital Single-Lens Reflex cameras: the highly-anticipated new Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which has just appeared on the market, along with the Pentax K200D.

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Product Review

Canon PowerShot G10: Solid update to a take-anywhere camera

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