SF: Annie Leibovitz photography exhibit

Annie Leibovitz is America's most famous celebrity photographer -- maybe the most famous photographer, period -- but she's unfazed by the idea of celebrity as she juxtaposes her family and friends with Chris Rock, Brad Pitt and Queen Elizabeth in her latest exhibit.

Read what Photographer Annie Leibovitz tells about her work, "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life,... " at Contra Costra Times

and watch a slideshow of Leibovitz's work

Take a look at her photogaphs j and visit the Legions of Honor Museum, San Francisco, California.

credits: Robert Taylor

Photo of the day:

Recreation and Sports:

Eisstock Schiessen, a fun native bavarian winter sport similar to curling

Photography lovers who liked this also liked:

bright art
bright canvas prints
bright framed prints
bright prints
bright posters
bright greeting cards
bright photos

many art
many canvas prints
many framed prints
many prints
many posters
many greeting cards
many photos

row art
row canvas prints
row framed prints
row prints
row posters
row greeting cards
row photos

growing metal prints
healthy metal prints
land acrylic prints
land metal prints
fields metal prints

Old Jewel Software announces Painter's Picker version 2.2

Old Jewel Software is pleased to announce the release of Painter's Picker version 2.2, the latest iteration of our popular color selection utility.

Old Jewel Software is pleased to announce the release of Painter's Picker version 2.2, the latest iteration of our popular color selection utility.
Painter's Picker puts an interactive color wheel in almost every Mac OS X application. It adds the ability to choose related colors, such as complementary colors, analogous colors, etc. directly within the standard color picker. It also adds more precise controls for choosing saturation, hue angle, and brightness.
Lesa Snyder of planetphotoshop.com had this to say about Painter's Picker "... with Painter's Picker, it's like having a virtual color theory teacher by my side to boot."
Others, like this person from macupdate, have put it more simply: "I love colors, I love Painter's Picker..."
Painter's Picker, as its name implies, is the way for people who work with color on a daily basis to quickly find colors that work well together from within almost any application they use.
Version 2.2 updates Painter's Picker's interface and includes some other changes:
Painter's Picker now supports custom color spaces (such as color spaces that derive from color profiles). It will accept them, work within them, and report them to the user.
Fixed a problem where Leopard would not report Painter's Picker's name correctly in the fly-away menu of the color picker
Updated website information within the program
Improved the ability to paste the registration code into the registration dialog
Hopefully fixed an incompatibility with GL Golf
Painter's Picker is shareware. A single user license costs $19.95 US. Nearly all features are available without registering, but users will be reminded regularly until they choose to register and a watermark will appear behind the color wheel reminding users to register. For the time-being, users ordering from the Old jewel Software store can get a 15% discount when ordering more than one copy of any product, including Painter's Picker.
Information about Painter's Picker 2.0 can be found at http://old-jewel.com/ppicker/
Support and feedback can be directed to feedback@old-jewel.com

credits: http://www.creativepro.com/article/painters-picker-22-old-jewel-software

Picture of the day:
Recreation and Sports: Eisstock schießen - a bavarian winter sport similar to curling

Photography lovers who liked this also liked:

goddesses art
goddesses canvas prints
goddesses framed prints
goddesses prints
goddesses posters
goddesses greeting cards
goddesses photos

karma art
karma canvas prints
karma framed prints
karma prints
karma posters
karma greeting cards
karma photos

eternity art
eternity canvas prints
eternity framed prints
eternity prints
eternity posters
eternity greeting cards
eternity photos

collection metal prints
grunge metal prints
digits metal prints
number metal prints
numbers metal prints

Kodak at a crossroads

After a four-year overhaul, the American photography giant has leapt into the digital age, but will it be enough?

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The boom in digital photography triggered a series of aftershocks at Eastman Kodak Co. as one after another of its aged factories was dynamited.
Since 2004, the world's biggest film manufacturer has eliminated 27,000-plus jobs, cast off major operations and invested billions to gain a firm foothold in the highly competitive arena of electronic imaging. It now offers an alluring patchwork to help people harness their photo collections: a 70-million-member online service, 80,000 retail kiosks and an array of digital cameras, printers and other devices.
The most perilous turnaround in Kodak's 127-year history is officially over, and fourth-quarter results due next Wednesday will spell out the final four-year toll — upward of $3.4 billion.
But questions about the photography pioneer's prospects are intensifying: Will it adapt and flourish, propelled by a rich portfolio of patents? Is it destined for a breakup? Might it even join forces a few years from now with Xerox Corp., its historic cross-town rival?
"Their strategy makes sense, they're doing the right things ... but the competitive reality they face is extremely daunting and will only grow more challenging over time," said Citigroup analyst Matthew Troy.
Chief Executive Antonio Perez, who ran Hewlett-Packard Co.'s digital printing operations before succeeding Dan Carp at Kodak's helm in June 2005, "is doing an excellent job," Troy said. "It's just that, with what he has, I don't know if anyone can do that job."
Ten of 11 key analysts rate Kodak neutral or advise selling its stock. The shares, which topped $94 in 1997, skidded to a 30-year low when they closed at $18.04 on Jan. 15. Kodak's payroll, which peaked at 145,300 in 1988, has shriveled to around 30,000, a level not skimmed since the Great Depression.

Read on at mailtribune.com

Credits: By BEN DOBBIN - The Associated Press

Picture of the day: Sport and Events Photography: Bull Riding at the Rodeo



Photography lovers who liked this also liked:

ponds art
ponds canvas prints
ponds framed prints
ponds prints
ponds posters
ponds greeting cards
ponds photos

fat art
fat canvas prints
fat framed prints
fat acrylic prints
fat prints
fat posters
fat greeting cards
fat photos

balance art
balance canvas prints
balance framed prints
balance acrylic prints
balance prints
balance posters
balance greeting cards
balance photos

ponds acrylic prints

whimsy acrylic prints
whimsy metal prints