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Samsung Mobile introduces the Galaxy Core Android phone : Samsung Electronics is proud to present the Galaxy Core, a new Android smartphone designed to offer powerful dual core processing power for multitasking, Dual SIM functionality for easy transition between work and play, and a wealth of innovative features. The Galaxy Core (also known as: Samsung GT-I8260) is a mobile device that can operate seamlessly and effectively in all aspects of life. This Android phone from Samsung is the perfect mobile handset for the users looking for optimal balance of portability and power. The Galaxy Core will be available in Single SIM and Dual SIM versions. Official price information was not mentioned in the press release.

Adobe has announced that Photoshop Express is now available for Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface. Previously, Photoshop Express had only been available for iOS and Android devices. Photoshop Express for Windows 8 offers the following capabilities: Make basic photo enhancements such as crop, straighten, rotate, flip, or remove red-eye. Enjoy creative, one-touch filters that provide eye-catching effects — more than 15 to choose from! Let their photos shine with a one-tap correction that adjusts color, contrast, and brightness all at once. Use slider controls to enhance contrast, exposure, and white balance, or let the app auto-correct it for them. Upload their photos to Adobe Revel to sync them across their Windows 8 tablet, iPhone, and computer. You can download Photoshop Express for Windows 8 here on the Windows Store. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay and is protected by copyright laws. It is unlawful to (a) edit, modify, alter, or create derivative works of the text, content or links supplied by Photography Bay, (b) use any robot, spider, scraper, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Photography Bay RSS feed, (c) sell, retransmit or commercially exploit the Photography Bay RSS feed, headlines or content in any manner except as expressly permitted in writing by authorized representatives of Photography Bay, (d) incorporate advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Photography Bay RSS feed or (e) use the Photography Bay RSS feed for any unlawful purpose or in violation of the rights of others. RSSID#794326 Related posts: Adobe Photoshop Express Photoshop Express Beta Gets Update Photoshop Express 2.0 for iOS

A month before public availability of its controversial, subscription-only Creative Cloud product line, including the next-generation Photoshop CC, Adobe has issued a release candidate version of the Photoshop Camera Raw 8 plug-in. As the company promised at the Creative Cloud launch, Camera Raw 8.1 also compatible with the existing retail release of Photoshop CS6. The move is a little unusual, as in the past, Camera Raw updates have typically only functioned with the latest version of Photoshop, a fact Adobe justified by stating that it wasn't... (read more)

Zoltan Bekefy is a Polish Photographer that now lives in Ireland. We talk to him about his work.

Check out this affordable digital camera from Winait, the DC-V100. Priced at just $63.30, this compact camera sports an 8MP CMOS image sensor, a 5x optical zoom lens, a 2.7-inch TFT LCD screen, an SD card slot (up to 32GB), a USB 2.0 port, a built-in polymer Li-battery and can capture 640 x 480 VGA video. [Product Page]

The TV Guide Watchlist Recently, the conversation turned to POW movies, which inevitably got me talking about "Stalag 17," the classic that inspired the (inferior) TV series "Hogan's Heroes." I hadn't seen the film in years, but now, with it at the forefront of my mind, I was dying for a screening. Indeed, I thought even my kids were old enough to enjoy it, what with its great blend of humor, mystery, and suspense. Ah, but where could I find it? I needed to know if and when it might be showing on cable, or, failing that, where I could stream it. First stop: The TV Guide Watchlist. After you sign up for a free account and specify your local TV provider, you can add any movie to immediately find out when and where it's available: TV, streaming, DVD, etc. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Samsung's family of DIL cameras have provided some great models over the past few years, including the NX10. The latest Samsung DIL camera is now available, and the NX2000 looks like another very impressive camera....Read Full Post

The winners of the 4th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest were announced this week and there are some amazing shots of the night sky and the surrounding landscape. The contest was created by The World at Night (TWAN) in conjunction with Global Astronomy Month and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). The theme of this year's contest was "Dark Skies Importance," and it was designed to showcase preserving "the natural beauty of a starry sky" by preventing the encroachment of light pollution on the world's... (read more)

For her series of Photoshopped images titled “The Real Life Models,” 19-year-old Hungarian photographer Flora Borsi created a set of heavily post-processed self-portraits that imagine what real life models of strange abstract paintings would have looked like. For the series, Borsi picked abstracts by greats such as Kees van Dongen, Gelber Narrenhut and Picasso, and then tried to help us visualize what the models of these strange paintings would have looked like if they had existed in the real world and not only in the artists’ strange imaginations. For each photo, she painstakingly found the proper clothing and accessories before modeling them herself. Once the photo was taken, she would upload it into Photoshop and replace her shape and features with those of the distorted subject in the painting: Several sources are already comparing her work to that of Spanish-based photographer Eugenio Recuenco, who used Picasso’s paintings as inspiration for a creative fashion series. And while Borsi and Recuenco did both draw from the same well of inspiration, Borsi’s photos take a more whimsical swing at abstract art. To see more from Borsi and/or purchase prints from the “Real Life Models” series, head over to her gallery or check out her B?hance page here. (via Colossal) Image credits: Photographs by Flora Borsi.

I had a hard drive fail on me once. It was a total nightmare. I lost two years of digital photos and all of my music that i’d digitized. Never again. Thankfully this happened to me before I was a professional photographer and it was just my own images. Not a wedding client’s. If you charge people for your photography, you need to be professional and have a proper bomb-proof backup strategy. There is a famous saying that ‘data doesn’t exist unless it’s in three different places and two different locations’. Read that again. It’s very important to get that into your head. So sometime last year, I took a good hard look at my back up strategy and decided that I wanted to improve it and ‘futureproof’ my workflow. I asked a load of people, I read articles, I did a lot of homework on this subject. Now I’m going to share with you how I back up. It may be overkill, but I’m pretty certain that I’m covered against most things that could go wrong. So lets start at the beginning: Drobo To put this simply without too much technical jargon, this is an external hard drive with a difference. It’s the mother of all external hard drives. It’s basically a big black box, which is the housing, that can hold a number of hard drives. The data in a Drobo is stored across all the hard drives in the housing (in a RAID system) — my Drobo houses five of them. If one hard drive in there fails, the Drobo will move the data across the remaining four. This allows me to replace the failed one and when the new hard drive is placed in there, the data gets written back across all five again. This is a great backup strategy as the data is safer than if it were in a standalone hard drive (which if that fails, it’s gone). The other good thing is that as I need more storage space, I can swap out the hard drives in there for bigger ones. I think I have five X 2TB drives in there at the moment. But in a few years I may need to change them for 4TB drives, and I can easily do this. The only downside of a Drobo is the expense, as you need to pay for the Drobo itself and also the hard drives separately. You are also limited to using Drobos in the future as I believe that it uses its own mojo (I’m not that geeky) that isn’t compatible with other types of storage drives. But I didn’t mind these two downsides, as 1. I earn a living through photography and need to be covered and 2. I liked the Drobo system and it’s used by a lot of photographers, so I hope it’s (hopefully) going to be the market leader for a long time. External Hard Drives I also have separate external hard drives, which house backups of the finished images, my documents, etc. The main two that I use I’ve named HD3 and HD4 (when these get full, I’ll get two more and call them HD5 and HD6). They both have duplicate backups of all my important information. These are failsafes as my info is in three places in my office. Time Machine This is my Mac’s backup utility and is included with my Mac’s OS. Time Machine makes incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date. It allows me to restore the whole system or specific files. To be honest, I don’t totally understand Time Machine, but I know that it copies my Mac’s hard drive, and if I need something that I’ve been working on there I can go back to where I store my Time Machine backups and retrieve something. I use my HD3 to store the Time Machine backups and this backs up every so often and writes over old backups. It just does this in the background without me having to worry. BackBlaze So now we go into the off-site/online storage. What happens if (knock on wood) my house burns down and the Drobo and all my other external hard drives are lost in the fire? I need some kind of off-site/online storage solution and, after asking quite a few professional photographers, I settled on BackBlaze. Backblaze is an online backup tool that allows Windows and Mac OS X users to backup their data to an offsite data center