It’s been about 13 hours since we started the upgrade, and we’re obviously not finished yet. The forum is working, but it still looks pretty funny. We’re basically having to rebuild the template (all the files that make the Corner look like the Corner) from the bottom-up, so it looks like it will take us a bit longer than we initially thought. We’re aiming to have most of the design bugs complete by this time (10pm-ish EST) tomorrow (Tuesday) night - we’ll be working on it most of the day tomorrow. In the meantime, feel free to continue to post stuff up in the forums and galleries, and don’t be freaked out if stuff looks different, or you get an error, or it’s blue instead of orange, or whatever - over the next day or two. Because of the delays, however, the winner announcement of Contest Corner Challenge #52, and the announcement of CCC#53 will be a day or two late. I’m aiming for late (as in past midnight) on Tuesday night for the CCC#52 winner announcement, and hopefully mid-afternoon on Wednesday for the announcement of CCC#53 (but don’t hold me to that… it depends on how the rest of the upgrade goes, and how tired I am by midnight on Tuesday night). But enough with the updates - go back and enjoy the new Corner forums. Read more »

Since 9am this morning (EST) we’ve been upgrading the software that the Corner forums run on (vBulletin). The upgrade is complete, and the forums are now open again. We do have some work to do, though, to make the Corner look pretty again. If you notice some things that look different or aren’t quite working properly, rest assured we’re working on it now (though we’re going to take a break for dinner and stuff soon). We’ll keep working on the finishing touches into the night. Once we think we’re done, I’ll open up a thread so you all can tell me what I missed. Hopefully by sometime on Tuesday, we’ll be all done! If you want to send me some coffee, though, you’re more than welcome to drop by with a latté.  Read more »

The time has finally come. We’re moving our site over to the new server!! And it’s happening tonight! Over the weekend, there will be a lot of changes going on around the Corner, so here’s the scoop on what’s going on and what to expect. Read more »

This is just a quick post to let you know that there’s a new product review up in the PhotographyCorner Resource Center by our very own Erik Bernskiold. You’ve probably seen the VueScan banners around the site, as well as their most recent sponsorship of the January 2008 Photograph of the Month contest. If you have a scanner, you’ll want to check out this product review: VueScan - Hamrick Software. Read more »

Bibble Pro Version 4.9.9 adds Nikon D300, D3, Canon 1Ds Mark 3, G9, Olympus E-3, Sony A700, and adds tethering support for Intel Mac's with Nikon dSLR's. This has gotta be the last version before we get to see version 5 (we'll have to give them award plaques when they finally get it out). In the meantime, here's the press release for version 4.9.9.

Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve got a review of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard courtesy of Erik Bernskiold in the Photography Resource Center. If you’re a Mac user and you’re thinking of upgrading, check out Erik’s recommendations and experience upgrading before you do!

Thanks Erik! Read more »

This post is sponsored by PortraitProfessional - makers of “intelligent portrait airbrushing software that has been ‘trained’ in human beauty.” I was able to download a trial version of the software and took a quick look through. My review below covers the features of PortraitProfessional, as well as some of the pros and cons of the software. Read more »

Here’s another round of interesting/essential photography-related news. Read more »

There is a lot of news in the world of photography. When I started this blog, I subscribed to as many newsletters, rss feeds, press release sources, industry news, blogs, etc. as I could, so that, if it was happening in the photography industry, I would know about it and could, therefore, pass along all the good stuff to you. A month and a half later, I have 2,698 items sitting in my rss feed reader, which makes me about 2+ weeks behind on the news. Now, if I wanted to catch up, you’d end up having 25 posts a day for the next 3 days (assuming I spent all day posting on the blog, of course), and no one wants that - You don’t want to have to read 75 posts in three days any more than I want to write that many. Read more »

One of the sponsors for the 2006 Photograph of the Year Contest was a photography software company out of Perth, Australia: Time Exposure. Peter, co-founder of Time Exposure has been on the road as of late, including at Imaging USA down in San Antonio, but has since returned home to Perth, and had a chance to answer a couple of questions for us about Time Exposure and their software ProSelect. Read more »

Jeff Stephens from Bibble Labs and I had a chance to chat recently about Bibble, RAW, and digital workflow. Jeff has been a member of the forum for a while and Bibble Labs is a Premiere Sponsor for the PhotographyCorner.com 2006 Photograph of the Year Contest. Here are some of the things that Jeff and I chatted about. Read more »

I recently had a chance to ask Graeme Frost of Grasshopper Limited (makers of ImageAlign™) a couple of questions about Grasshopper and ImageAlign™. ImageAlign™ is the Premiere Sponsor of our 2006 Photograph of the Year contest, and if you haven’t had a chance to check out the software, make sure you drop by and try the free trial. Read more »

Last year, Nikon announced the release of their new image processing and editing software, Capture NX. It claims to be a “powerful and intuitive new software [that] simplifies workflow while reducing the time and effort required to edit and process images.” From what I’ve seen of Capture NX, it is a pretty big improvement over their previous software Nikon Capture 4. If you’re somewhat computer literate, (even if you barely know how to submit your site to a photography directory), it’s easy and intuitive enough to figure out - especially if you have some experience in a program like Photoshop. Obviously the software is only good for those of us that own a Nikon camera (sorry Canon/Olympus/Fuji/Pentax/Other owners), and there are no plans to expand the software to work with other RAW formats (as far as I’ve heard). Read more »

Bibble Labs, one of the Premiere Sponsors of the PhotographyCorner.com 2006 Photograph of the Year Contest announces the first RAW Workflow update of 2007, adding support for new dSLR cameras like the new Nikon D40 and the Pentax K10D. Read more »

While over the next couple of months, I fully expect a flood of similar press releases to come from a variety of software companies, this is the first one to land in my inbox, and subsequently, in the blog. Basically, ACDSee has promised to make it’s products Windows Vista compatible. You can read the full release below: Read more »