Digital Tag

The air above us is busy now, as we walk along conversations and vital information (mostly witless Facebook updates I think) flies over our heads as we travel about. That’s fun, but working wi-fi is normally static so what’s the wandering photographer to do? Like Neo in the Matrix we need a way to get back to the wizard. Enter the Cradlepoint PHS300 3G/4G mobile WiFi hotspot!

You can be forgiven for not having come across the diminutive GoPro HD Hero before – it’s not what you might call a main-stream camera. Put simply, it’s a small, compact and easy to use HD camcorder and stills camera, capable of recording video in full 1080P high definition or capturing great quality 5 megapixel still photos. So what exactly is it that makes the HD Hero worthy of note? In a word, this…

If you’ve bought (or been bought) or are buying a digital SLR camera you may have already discovered that the camera itself is just one of the many things you need to make the most of it. While some are just nice to have, others are absolute essentials. In this guide we will look at both kinds; those accessories that you should not consider buying a camera without and those which you may want to put on a “wish-list” for another day.

If you’re a kid, they’re called comics. If you’re a big-kid, they’re called Graphic Novels. Whatever your take on these picture-books, much of the artwork and imagery associated with them is both striking and impressive. A Warehouse Express colleague stumbled across this tutorial online which shows how to turn a photo into a ‘Sin City’ style image in Photoshop. I’m rather impressed by the result – see what you think.

Daniel McMahon is an enthusiastic and talented Photoshop advocate. He’s also a huge movie buff, with his particular genre of choice being B movie horror and sci-fi films. Little surprise, then, that when I asked him to see what he could create using just Photoshop Elements, whatever props he could lay his hands on, and his imagination, he came up with a “Horror Movie Night” poster featuring is own particular brand of macabre artistry. Well, it is nearly Halloween…

This photo-manipulation technique is aimed at achieveing an effect based on the Pop Art of the 1950s and 60s. Rather than the messiness of screen printing and oils, this can all be done cleanly and digitally. You can even keep you pyjamas on if you so choose…

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a video must equate to an entire library. With that in mind, Adobe created a sneek-peak video to show off exactly what this new tool can do. If you’re not already familiar with the “Content Aware Fill” tool and aren’t blown away by this video, then there’s something clearly wrong with you…

Canon’s release of the S95 has excited comment from many bloggers and review sites as to whether it is a worthy update on its predecessor, the S90, which was very well received but had a couple of niggling problems. With these in mind I took the S95 on holiday with me to Ibiza for a thorough trial run.

For the benefit of any of you that are interested in the Photokina happenings, but didn’t want to travel to Germany, weren’t able to go to Germany, or, like some of us, had to stay behind and work while your colleagues went to Germany, we will be updating you with all the latest goings-on via the WEX blog and Twitter. What’s more, in an exciting new venture for WEX, we will be bringing you a visitor’s-eye view of some of the stands and products in the form of WEX TV video clips!

For the benefit of any of you that are interested in the Photokina happenings, but didn’t want to travel to Germany, weren’t able to go to Germany, or, like some of us, had to stay behind and work while your colleagues went to Germany, we will be updating you with all the latest goings-on via the WEX blog and Twitter. What’s more, in an exciting new venture for WEX, we will be bringing you a visitor’s-eye view of some of the stands and products in the form of WEX TV video clips!