September 3, 2010 3:21 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

The nHD model in Texas Instruments’ Pico DLP line is geared for tiny projector devices such as mobile phones or cameras. Six of them are shown here against a background of rice grains.
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Texas Instruments)

BERLIN–Gadgets such as cameras, portable game consoles, and mobile phones that [...]

August 31, 2010 9:05 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Canon's 202×205mm image sensor, left, dwarfs even the full-frame 36×24mm sensor to the right, a large model by conventional industry standards.
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Canon)

A week after announcing an image sensor with a whopping 120 megapixels, Canon revealed Monday it’s created another boundary-pushing prototype: a chip with a [...]

August 10, 2010 4:38 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Lightroom 3.2 gets a publishing tool to send photos to Facebook, replacing them if the originals are re-edited.
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screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Adobe issued a release candidate for Lightroom 3.2 on Tuesday that fixes dozens of bugs, lets users publish photos to Facebook, adds automated optical [...]

July 27, 2010 9:34 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Jeffrey Friedl created a tool to optimize JPEG photo quality in Lightroom and has incorporated the results into his Lightroom photo export software.
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Jeffrey Friedl / screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

It’s a fair question for photography enthusiasts uploading their latest shots to the Web or backing [...]

June 16, 2010 2:23 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6.4 update Tuesday contained several additions of note to serious photographers: support for several cameras’ raw image formats and for tethered shooting with Canon cameras in the company’s Aperture software.

After the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, tethered shooting in Aperture [...]

June 7, 2010 9:00 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Adobe Systems plans to release Photoshop Lightroom 3 late Monday, swapping in a new engine and bolting some significant new photography extras onto a user interface that largely remains the same.

Available for Windows and Mac, highlights of the new version include a speedier interface, [...]

June 1, 2010 11:59 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland

Photoshop CS5 is getting the ability to automatically correct lens flaws in raw images.
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screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Adobe on Tuesday released the final version of an update to its new Photoshop CS5 that gives the program the ability to automatically correct lens flaws while editing [...]