I am always on the lookout for graphic editing software that is not too heavy on the pocket ($).  Paintshop has been around for a long time and now it is worth to take a second look at it.    
Here are a few of the key features that I found it to be useful for photographers :    
Organiser   
With the new Organizer we are able to import, manage, search and quickly touchup image files directly into PaintShop Photo Pro X3.  Photos can be tagged and rated, making them easier to find and group. The Organizer …

It used to be very expensive buying a photo from a traditional stock agency before the days of the Internet. Sock agencies had to publish thick catalogs showing the photographs in their library. The fees to license the use of a stock photo is not cheap too.
With the internet and subsequently microstock websites, all these has changed. You are able to license a photo for use for your website, brochure, annual reports  etc for a few dollars. For photographers, you will get paid by a certain percentage of the selling …

Corel has recently announced 2 new products  PaintShop Photo Pro X3 and VideoStudio Pro X3.  I also been looking for “lighter” photo editing software and will check out both products soon once I get whole of them.
They have setup a minisite here with some interesting videos. The light painting one is pretty cool.  I teach light painting and writing in my Foundation Photography Course but this vido shows how I can create an animated video of the light painting photos. Hope to create one of such video soon

Love photography, fashion and shopping ? Then this competition might interest you?
Harper’s BAZAAR will be hosting their first photography awards. Themed along fashion, art or architecture, this project creates an opportunity for new and emerging photographers to showcase their works on an international platform.
You may submit 3-5 digital images and you must shoot on location at ION Orchard (inside or outside).  Closing date is 5 April 2010. So start working on your images.
For more information, click on the banner below

For those who are not into the heavy and costly Photoshop application can try Photoscape, a handy and simple photoeditor. Moreover it is free although donation is always welcome.  I think it is perfect for those who captured photos and want to post small size photos on the web such as blogs or social networking sites.
Some of Photoscape functions :

Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow
Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, …

I know the Amazon Kindle 2 ebook reader is not a photographic equipment but I thought readers of this blog might be interested in other electronic gadgets. I always been an avid reader and usually borrow books from the libraries in Singapore.  I  would be quite willing to buy books that are not available in the libraries or books that I would like to keep eg photography books.  Therefore I  was quite interested to know more about the Kindle. The other ebook reader I had tried was a small PDA.  It …

Mandalay
From Kalaw I would move on to Mandalay, where I have the most interesting encounter with a trishaw driver, Mr Win Tin. Mr Win Tin offered to drive me around Mandalay. I told him I would get him to give me a ride down to U Bein Bridge in the afternoon if he was still around when I came back after a walk around the town. I walked away thinking that he would not be waiting at the same spot after a span of a few hours since he could …

Inle Lake
 
 

 I was glad I visited the Golden Rock temple and happily I set off for my ride back to Bago (K2500) the next morning. This was the start of a backbreaking 16 hours bus journey to Inle Lake via Bago. I paid and another 500 Kyats to upgrade my seat to sit next to the bus captain. Was it worth the ‘upgrade’? Well my 1.78cm body frame could use whatever extra space I could pay for. Again, this was not a tourist bus but a local bus. Ninety percent …