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GoPro and Google officially launch Omni, their smaller, cheaper 6-camera VR rig

Gannon Burgett

Last September, Google teamed up with GoPro to launch its 16-camera VR device, Odyssey. At $15,000, it was far from a consumer-grade device and even pushed the boundary of many professional uses. Now, Google and GoPro have announced a brand new VR rig that is set to target those who don’t care to drop dive […]

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Google’s Nikon Collection Just Dropped from $150 Down to FREE!

Eric Reagan

The Nik Collection of photo editing plug-ins from Google is now free. The software suite once sold for $500. Once Google acquired it, the price dropped down to $150. In a statement released today, Google noted: As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos […]

Google is giving away Nik Software’s entire desktop collection away for free

Gannon Burgett

Nik Software, now owned by Google, has announced today that their entire Nik Collection is available for free, to everyone. Citing their goals to focus on long-term investments in their photo editing tools for mobile devices, Nik says the desktop versions of their plugins, which range from sharpening tools to analogue filter applications, will be […]

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The end of a long-forgotten era: Google is officially killing off Picasa

Gannon Burgett

It’s official. Today, Google has officially announced their plan to retire Picasa, an online image editing program that was the foundation upon which many of Google’s current photo services were built on. Google has had a strange, love/hate relationship with photo management and editing services. Acquired from Lifescape in July 2004, Picasa was Google’s first […]

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YouTube partners with GoPro for VR content, hopes to support HDR video ‘soon’

Gannon Burgett

It looks like YouTube is getting extremely interested in up-and-coming video formats, including virtual reality (VR) and high dynamic range (HDR). During YouTube’s keynote at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas, Chief Business Officer of YouTube, Robert Kyncl, announced the video platform is partnering up with GoPro to produce and share 360º […]

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Speed Up Your Photography Site

Per Zennstrom

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Google Photos Now Supports Shared Albums

Liron Samuels

Perhaps in the spirit of the upcoming holidays, Google has announced that its Photos app will allow sharing collaborative photo albums. While a Google account is necessary in order to be part of a shared album, the app works on Android and iOS devices …

Stop Obsessing over Stats and SEO!

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Great you finally have your website up and going. You have set up stat counter and google analytics. A few weeks later you check your stats and you don’t have any visitors. You start internet searching and everything is overwhelming. A Quick Explanation on How Search Engines Work As you can imagine there are billions of […]

RAW Editing Comes to Snapseed for Android

Liron Samuels

The popular photo-editing app, owned by Google, launched version 2.1 and is now capable of editing RAW files. “Traditionally, shooting and editing RAW photos has been the domain of DSLR cameras and desktop software”, a Google engineer said, adding that combined with the RAW capabilities added to Android phones last year, “RAW is now becoming […]

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This cheat sheet shows every single profile photo size for every social media platform

Anna Gunn

Social media platforms seem to change their image sizes pretty much every time you login. And every time that happens, photographers everywhere have to scour the internet searching for the new sizes. You just know that facebook is going to CRASH your photo if you don’t feed it the exact right size. Well, here’s some […]

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