Creative Cloud: Adobe's new all-access CS6 subscription priced at $50/month. After experimenting with subscription plans last year, Adobe is revamping its pricing strategy with the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud and the CS6 software suite. Creative Cloud—priced at $50 per month on a yearly subscription, or $75 month-to-month—offers unfettered access to all 14 of Adobe's new CS6 applications. The idea is that customers who may only need access to Creative Suite products on a temporary basis—beyond each product's 30-day trial period—can subscribe for only as long as needed. Adobe first experimented with subscription pricing last year when it offered CS5.5 versions of its Design Premium and Master Collection suites for $95 and $129, respectively, with a yearly commitment.
Now, however, the company has opted against tiered pricing, and is offering the entire CS6 suite for more than half the price. Some individual apps, however, such as Photoshop and Premiere Pro, can still be licensed for $19.99 per month on a one-year contract. View Instagram Photos in your Web Browser without Apps. New websites let you view Instagram photos inside your desktop web browser without requiring the Instragram mobile apps. Instagram, an extremely popular photo-sharing app that also lets you apply retro effects to your photos, has 40 million users and Facebook just paid around $1 billion to buy Instagram. All photos uploaded to Instagram are public by default but unlike other photo-sharing websites like Flickr or Picasa, Instagram doesn’t have a website where you can browse photos uploaded by other users.
You need to download their mobile app, available for Android and iPhone, to view photos. However, if you don’t have one of these phones or would like to view Instragram photos on your large desktop screen, check out Webbygram. Webbygram is a web app that lets you view Instagram photos inside any web browser without requiring any apps. In any case, if you have never had a chance to explore Instagram, now maybe a good time. 203 Photo APIs: Flickr, Foursquare and Yahoo Image Search. Our API directory now includes 203 photo APIs. The newest is the Getty Images Connect API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Flickr API. We list 600 Flickr mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of photo APIs. In terms of the technical details, REST and XML lead the way. The most common tags within photo are 56 social photo APIs, 29 video photo APIs and 15 mobile photo APIs On the mashup side, we list 753 photo mashups. For reference, here is a list of all 203 photo APIs. 10×10 API: Photo and news analysis service 23 API: Photo sharing service 3defy API: Online 3D modelling service 500px API: Online community for photographers Alexa Site Thumbnail API: Thumbnail images of web site home pages AOL Pictures API: Online photo management AppspotImage API: Image manipulation service Aviary Effects API: Photo filter and effects service Aviary Mobile API: Mobile image editing service Aviary Suite API: Image editing service Riya API: Photo search.
Digital media company raises $15M to monetize social photography on a mass scale. Mooter Media, a digital media shop based in Australia, has just sealed a whopping $15 million funding deal. The money will be used to create a social photography platform in partnership with Hot Shot Media that Hot Shot CEO Chris Jermyn says will “define and commercialize social photography.”
Social photography has been one of the most addictive — and most difficult to monetize — crazes of the smartphone era. When mobile phones are equipped with surprisingly adequate picture-taking hardware and apps for editing and sharing photographs abound, capitalizing on social photography seems like a ripe opportunity for many entrepreneurs. Mooter and Hot Shot’s plan involves an application called ImageSocial. The app will be launched initially on web, mobile, iOS and Android platforms later this year. This contest is scheduled to launch at the beginning of 2012. Image courtesy of katieharbath. Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage. MetaPhoto Converts Geo Data to Photo Metadata. Taking pictures on your iPhone gives you a great deal of data embedded in to your photos. Location, camera type, exposure, even camera orientation. But what if you want more. Well, MetaPhoto (currently available on the iPhone) aims to further enrich your photos. Using the Urban Mapping API, MetaPhoto looks up a great deal of information about the area a photo was taken and adds it to the photos header.
The level of information available is rather impressive. Ranging from simple information like address and neighborhood information, to rich location data like population density, and useful information like female percentage for an area. MetaPhoto is currently available for the iPhone in a free and paid version. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Object Recognition Is A Snap With Kooaba’s Photo API. Color App Hack Lets You Spy On Anyone’s Photos Anywhere - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. Gears. Xpire - Photos with expiration date. 20 January 2011Last updated at 12:19 Many people come to regret the images they post to Facebook Help is at hand for anyone who has ever forgotten about embarrassing images they posted to a social network or website. German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key. Once this date has passed the key stops the images being viewed and copied. Creators plan to levy a small charge to use the tagging system and put a digital lock on digital pictures. Naked online "More and more people are publishing private data to the internet and it's clear that some things can go wrong if it stays there too long," said Professor Michael Backes of the Information Security and Cryptography department at Saarland University, who led development of X-Pire.
Dr Backes said development work began about 18 months ago as potentially risky patterns of activity on social networks, such as Facebook, showed a pressing need for such a system. Picturenaut Overview. Picturenaut 3 with a completely redesigned interface. Pan anywhere with left mouse button, zoom with mouse wheel. Make better HDR images. You want the accuracy of HDRShop, with all the low-level control to squeeze out the maximum on image quality. But you you also want all the modern convenience features like exposure detection from EXIF data, image alignment and ghost removal? And you want a tone mapper where the final result looks exactly like the preview? Picturenaut is for you.
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Video. Beat censorship by hiding secret messages in Flickr photos. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a tool called Collage that will allow Internet dissidents to insert hidden messages into Twitter posts and Flickr images in order to circumvent the censorship measures imposed by oppressive governments. The tool, which is implemented in Python and uses the OutGuess framework, relies on a technique known as steganography to weave hidden messages into an image file. It uses an automated testing tool called Selenium to facilitate the deployment of the messages. The researchers believe that hiding subversive messages inside content that is indistinguishable from legitimate social network activity will reduce the chances of detection. "This project offers a possible next step in the censorship arms race: rather than relying on a single system or set of proxies to circumvent censorship firewalls, we explore whether the vast deployment of sites that host user-generated content can breach these firewalls," the project's website explains.
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