3 Free iPhone Apps for Creating Your Own Stop-Motion Videos

1. Created with the Stop-Motion Camera App

… read more

Snapseed – The Awesome iOS Image Editor Comes to the Mac

A while ago I introduced Snapseed to the readers of iPhone.Appstorm and Apple honored the photo editing app with the App of Year 2011 award. For good reason: Snapseed took full leverage of the intuitive gestures on mobile devices and made editing a breeze.

Now Snapseed is available for the Mac… read more

Photo Startup Makes It Easy to Create Albums With Friends

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: ZangZing

Quick Pitch: Store and share your photos from multiple services in one place.

Genius Idea: Makes it… read more

10 Sources for Stock Photos

More often than not I find myself meeting with a prospective client and telling them one of the biggest keys to designing a stunning website are the images that you use. You can have the most elaborate interface, with parallax scrolling, fluid and responsive resizing capabilities, and the best color… read more

Instagram Co-Founder, Jobs’ Widow Join Michelle Obama at State of Union

The prom king and queen of Silicon Valley will be attending the State of the Union address tonight at the U.S. Capitol as guests of First Lady Michelle Obama.

We’re referring to Mike Krieger, co-founder of rapidly growing iPhotography app Instagram and Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of late Apple co-founder… read more

50 Wonderful Black & White Photos with Partial Color Effects

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Taking a black and white photograph and adding partial color to certain key points of the shot is one of the most popular techniques amongst professional photographers. You can understand its popularity when you look at the examples we have for you below. This technique… read more

iPhotography Calendar: 12 Months Captured in 12 Stunning Snapshots [PICS]

JANUARY: City Winter by Elinor Zach

Perfect timing sees just yellow cabs on the icy roads. This splash of… read more

Will Lightroom 4 Be Worth The Upgrade Cost?

It’s here! The latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Currently in beta release, meaning it’s not finished but ready for real world testing, I eagerly downloaded a copy of Lightroom 4 Beta and have been playing with it for a week now. I’m a constant Lightroom upgrader, starting with version… read more

25 Apps to Help You Reach Those Resolutions

For those of us who have trouble finding the proper motivation to make difficult changes in our lives, New Year’s represents a perfect opportunity to start fresh with some resolutions. There are dozens of great Mac apps that can help us to lead happier, healthier, and more organized lives.

This list… read more

40+ Super Secret OS X Lion Features and Shortcuts

OS X Lion has now been around long enough for us all to dig in and really find some interesting functionality that is either completely hidden or just enough below the service that many users don’t even know it exists.

We’ve spent hours combing through Lion for secrets and put out… read more

Snapheal: Pure Image Editing Magic

Do you remember the last time you searched frantically for your camera to capture a moment, a landscape or something else that took your breath away? And do you remember the disappointment when you later at home saw that something – a lamp post, a person, a trash bin… –… read more

Dropbox Tests Automatic Camera Uploads

Beta builds of the Dropbox software for Mac, Windows and Linux has added a nifty new feature to the cloud-storage service: Automatic photo uploads.

The new feature tries its hand at one of iCloud’s most appealing new features: Photo Stream.

With Photo Stream, Apple makes it easy to access photos from your… read more

So You Got an iPhone 4S? Here’s How to Accessorize

1. The iPhone Carabiner Clip

This kind of useful tool is worth its weight in gold. With a leather… read more

20 More Rockstar Mac Software Developers and Their Apps

At AppStorm, when we get excited about great Mac software, we love to give the developers who worked hard to bring it to us the credit and recognition they deserve. Back in 2010, we ran a post highlighting some awesome software developers and the apps they make that we love to… read more

25 Fabulous Image Sharing and Portfolio Apps

I have got a few gigabytes of photos lying around in my harddisk. Thanks to digital cameras and smartphones, now everyone has got a load of them too. Stashing them away in an external hard disks or DVDs doesn’t actually serve the purpose. Uploading them to one of the many… read more

Save 20% on All Topaz Post Processing Software – Today Only

Todays deal in the dPS 12 Days of Christmas is one that we’ve had people already guessing at and asking for because it was our most popular day in our 2010 Christmas promotion.

It is from the very popular Topaz Labs and is 20% off any of their post production software…. read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them SyncMate Expert for Mac.

Winners of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Zee Patel
Hugo
Cheryl
Buddy
Jawor5

With SyncMate you can sync data between… read more

Why You Should Shoot Raw

Before we go anywhere, we should answer the question, what is RAW. Well the word itself is the clue, put simply a RAW file is just the raw data from the sensor put into a readable file format. No adjustments of any kind are made to the image, it is… read more

Get c’t Digital Photography Magazine – It’s Damn Good

Earlier this year we were made aware of a new quarterly photography magazine out of Europe called c’t Digital Photography. After taking a look at a few issues, we have to say that this new magazine has shot up our list of favourites and is now on our “must buy”… read more

SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac Giveaway

Eltima Software is running a contest, where 5 licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition are givingaway. Well, you guys know what is SyncMate? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

With SyncMate you can sync data between your Mac and various devices and accounts within one app. You don’t need to install… read more

MemoryCloud: Simplified Cloud Storage for Multimedia

Digital photography has made it cheaper and easier to capture the brightest moments of life. The number of megapixels in digital cameras go up with every new model and so does the size the of images we capture. After a few months, even those who occasionally use their cameras end up… read more

10 Explosive iPhone Fireworks Photos [PICS]

1. The Devil Inside by Jamie Pachomski

This amazing capture shows the glowing red heart of the firework.

Click here… read more

The Most Popular Post Production Software [POLL RESULTS]

In a recent dPS reader poll we asked our community about the post production software that they use most. The results are in (with over 22,000 responses) and here’s the state of play in the post production world of our readers.

Lightroom is way out in front with Photoshop CS and… read more

10 Creepy iPhone Photos for Halloween

1. Twickenham Riverside by Andy Blackwell

Fancy a slow stroll along the river? We don’t either.

Click here to view… read more

Get $100 Off Topaz Post Production Plug-In Bundle: This Weekend Only

Are you looking to improve your post production of images?

Our friends at Topaz Labs are offering dPS readers a special $100 discount off their Plug-In Bundle this weekend only. The offer ends at 11.59pm this Sunday night (23 October).

The bundle includes 10 great tools for amateur and pro photographers… read more

Lytro Launches: Amazing Focus-Free Camera Will Cost $399

Remember Lytro, the camera that couldn’t care less about focus? The one that captures all the information in its light field, so you can play with the focus after the fact?

Well, it’s no longer just a nice idea. Lytro (the company) just started taking pre-orders for Lytro (the camera)… read more

15+ Improvements iOS 5 Brings to Your iPhone 4 Camera

1. Camera Access From the Lock Screen

Double-tapping the home key now brings up a camera icon on the… read more

Teaching Yourself Web Design While You Freelance

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There is plenty of opportunity to make a decent living online. The field of web design is extremely popular in the current information age. Everybody needs to have a website up and you can always find a few solid business clients. But what about building upon… read more

Fall Foliage: 10 Fantastic iPhone Photos That Celebrate the Season

1. Fall by Tom Rauwerdink

Apparently “taken on whim” and later processed with the TiltShift Generator app, we are… read more

Best of the Week #192

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Apple’s iCloud: Fine on Mobile, Dead on the Desktop [REVIEW]

Along with iOS 5, Apple officially released iCloud Wednesday. The successor to the much-maligned MobileMe, iCloud is Apple’s first major attempt at unifying its product lines with online storage.

Unlike MobileMe, iCloud is free to anyone with an iOS 5 device. It’s also available for OS X Lion — and yes,… read more

iPhone 4S Cases: 15 Fresh Designs [PICS]

Let’s get one thing straight — most iPhone 4 cases will fit the iPhone 4S, so if you’re upgrading your phone, but happy with your existing case, you don’t need to splash out on a new one.

That said, some people will want a fresh new look for their fresh new… read more

iPhone 4S Camera: A Quick Look at What’s New [PICS]

One area in which the iPhone 4S has gotten a major update is its camera. All-new specs have led Apple to dub the upgraded snapper the “you-can’t-believe-it’s-on-a-phone-camera.”

This improved camera, which has yet to be independently tested, could be big news. As Apple stated in its 4S presentation, the iPhone 4… read more

Analog: Simple and Fun Retro Photo Processing on Your Mac

Analog is a new retro photo processing app from rockstar Mac developers Realmac Software. In just a few clicks you can apply cool effects and borders, crop, rotate and share photos on your favorite social networks.

As the little niche of retro photo apps grows, can Realmac jump into the fray… read more

Designers Know Your Code: Web Design Tutorials

As almost any web designer worth their salt, and a large percentage of web developers will tell you, to be fully considered a web designer you have to have some background in code. Not to the depth that full on developers must, but it really is unfair to the rest… read more

62 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

This week seemed to go by fast, am I wrong? You barely had time to finish last week’s roundup — it was a doozy with 61 stories — before our newest list rolled out this week.

Not to worry! Mashable has organized all of our features into manageable categories so you… read more

Down By the Sea: 25 Brilliant iPhone Photos From the Beach

As we say a sad goodbye to the summer of 2011 and welcome the fall, we thought it would be a good time to look back on the sunny season with a collection of iPhone photographs.

More specifically, beach pics galore. We’ve assembled a gallery of 25 fabulous photos snapped… read more

Lightroom Print Preset – Multi-Photo Portrait Grid

I’ve been working with the print templates a lot lately. A while back I released a multi-photo travel template that turned out to be pretty popular. I went back to it yesterday to work with some portraits, and made a few tweaks since the last time I’ve used it…. read more

Shoot the Moon: Lunar Photography Tips [PICS]

On this day in 1977 the Voyager I space probe took the first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together, an image that would give us a new interplanetary perspective about our position in the universe.

To mark this anniversary we’ve decided to look to the sky and offer tips… read more

41 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

The features roundup is back and kickin’ more than ever. Tune in as we neatly package all of the past week’s features coverage, analysis and trending topics that span the digital realm.

So, what’s breaking these days? For starters, we got a peek at an early beta of Windows 8, and… read more

Go Mono: 3 iPhone Apps For Black & White iPhotography [PICS]

While many iPhone photography apps offer a monotone filter, there’s a lot to be said for having an app in your iPhotography arsenal that’s dedicated to creating excellent black & white photographs.

We’ve tried and tested a handful, and here bring you three brilliant black & white iPhone photography… read more

15 Fantastic iPhone Photos of Rainbows [PICS]

Everyone loves a good rainbow. Even the most world-weary of folk can’t help oohing and ahhing when the colorful spectrums of light brighten up the sky.

Here at Mashable we’re also big fans of rainbows, so we figured a cool collection of fantastic iPhotography rainbows would keep us cheerful as… read more

App Showcase: 10 Inspiring iPhone Panoramas [PICS]

One of the best things about the many iPhotography apps available is that they increase the capabilities of the iPhone’s camera. One great example is panoramic photography. Pano is one such app featured in the App Store’s Hall of Fame. It is available for both iPhone and Android devices and… read more

New UI Patterns in App Design: A Blessing or a Curse?

Software design has made some interesting strides lately. It’s possible that we’re beginning to see Apple’s role in setting UI standards give way to the innovation of third party developers.

Unfortunately, this shift makes for a much more complicated scenario for developers and designers. Tempers rise, fingers are pointed and… read more

5 Free iPhone Apps to Send a Photo Postcard

Writing and sending postcards is a traditional vacation ritual and, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, can cost you no more than a little time and energy.

Don’t be forced to choose among cheesy print postcards at your vacation destination — use your own iPhone photos with one of these… read more

Make Your Photos Pop with Colorize

If you scan the features page on the Adobe Photoshop CS5 website, you’ll find descriptions for almost 70 different features, everything from “Automatic lens correction” to “Fluid canvas rotation” to “Puppet warp.” But anyone who’s ever used Photoshop knows that 70 features is just the tip of the iceberg, and… read more

30+ Awesome Utilities to Boost Your Mac’s Functionality

The Mac App Store has brought about a whole mess of new utilities that make your Mac more functional than ever.

Today we’re going to dive and find thirty particularly useful utilities that you’ll definitely want to check out and consider downloading.

Performance
MiStat

MiStat shows detailed information for your CPU, memory, disk… read more

Lollapalooza in Photos: Check Out This Instagram Aggregator

Lollapalooza kicks off Friday in Chicago. If you’re unable to attend, take heart: You can still look at snaps, all cast in various flattering filters evoking the 1970s.

Behold Lollagram, a fun little hack created by PR firm Golin Harris that aggregates pictures from the festival tagged with words pertaining to… read more

Hand-Shaped iPhone Case is the Latest in Serial Killer Chic

Back in 1963, the Beatles crooned about wanting to “hold your hand.” In 2011, a Japanese cellphone accessory store has created the perfect remedy for that desire: the Dokkiri Hand Case for iPhone 4.

Sadly, the case only comes in two models. The first is a replica of a lady’s hand… read more

5 Ways to Experience Flickr on Your Mac

Whether you’re a photographer, designer, writer or any other creative sort, you’ve probably either uploaded images to Flickr, downloaded images from Flickr, or both. It’s easily the most ubiquitous photo sharing site on the planet.

Today we’re going to take a quick look at some awesome desktop apps that will… read more

Historypin Launches, Shows Your World As It Was

Ever wonder what your house looked like 75 years ago? Or if that beach from your childhood photo album still looks the same? Historypin is hoping thousands of users will crowdsource those kinds of answers after its official launch this week.

Historypin is a non-profit website and mobile… read more

3 Fresh iPhotography Apps: LEGO Photo, KaleidaCam & WordFoto [PICS]

Do you love finding cool new iPhone photography apps? So do we. In fact, here are three that we’ve tried, tested and think you just might love.

Our trio will let you create cool typography images from your photos, a LEGO mosaic portrait and have tons of fun by turning your… read more

Top 10 TrueHDR iPhone Photos

We recently brought you an in-depth tutorial on how to use the iPhone’s built-in HDR functionality. Now we’re taking a look at an iPhone app that helps create high dynamic range images.

Pictional’s TrueHDR goes beyond the iPhone’s built-in HDR abilities. It can help you capture better images and even improve… read more

Fun With Fauxlaroids: Top 10 ShakeItPhoto iPhone Snaps

If you’re always on the lookout for exciting iPhotography apps, then ShakeItPhoto is well-worth a peek.

It emulates Polaroid cameras of years gone by with realistic sound effects and fun shake-to-process functionality. To give you an idea of the app’s creative capabilities, we’ve teamed up with the Banana Camera Co. (the… read more

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of the iPhone Camera’s HDR Functionality [PICS]

Amateur and professional iPhotographers have a little-known tool in their mobile belt. The iPhone 4 offers “HDR” functionality that can help you get the most out of the phone’s built-in camera.

Here we take an in-depth look at the feature and offer advice for when it’s best to… read more

How to Build Your Own iCloud Today

Unfortunately, for the Apple-consuming public, iCloud won’t be hitting us until the fall. That means we’re going to have to wait several months because all the cloud-based syncing magic becomes a reality for us. However, either for those going crazy in anticipation, or those who oddly despise Apple, there’s a… read more

iA Writer: Simple, Beautiful Text Editing On Your Mac

There are already many options available to those of us who’re after simple writing tools. These apps encourage their users to focus in on the evolving text, minimizing distractions by cutting back both on visual clutter (I’m looking at you Microsoft Office) and on informational overload in the form of… read more

10 Stunning iPhone Bird Photos

When you think of bird photography, do you imagine men in anoraks laying in wait with a ton of photo gear and an enormous zoom lens? Well, we’ve got a gorgeous gallery that will prove all you need is your cameraphone and a few apps to grab great bird shots.

From… read more

Essential Apps for New Chromebook Owners

Google, in association with Samsung and Acer, is launching the new Chromebooks today, a set of notebooks that run Google’s cloud-based operating system. If you’ve already seen all the coverage of what exactly the Chromebook is, including on AppStorm, you’ll know that a Chromebook has no local storage, and all… read more

Boxee: The Death Of Front Row

This review should, in hindsight, be more of an obituary. As you are probably aware, Apple is planning to ditch Front Row from its latest release of Mac OS X, Lion. Why is anyone’s guess, but the fact that the last update for it was released in November 2009, I… read more

The Cloud and The Future of Files

Last week at Apple’s annual WWDC, Steve Jobs took the stage during the keynote address to unveil Apple’s latest product: iCloud. The successor of .Mac and MobileMe, iCloud was pitched as the unifier between Apple’s disparate computing devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Macs. With it, your data would be accessible… read more

Carousel: A Stylish Instagram Experience for Mac

Instagram has become a very popular service and app on the iPhone, by allowing you to create and share vintage-looking pictures with your social networks and check the recent pictures from your friends. Unfortunately, though, there isn’t really a way of interacting with the service on your computer. Instagram’s developers… read more

Steve Jobs’ Keynote: The Apple News You Need To Know

Greetings from our perch at Moscone West where Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at WWDC 2011, the Apple developers’ conference, is about to get underway. Luminaries milling around the stage include Jonathan Ive, Apple’s star product designer, and Walter Isaacson, author of the forthcoming official Jobs biography.

We’re… read more

Sharing Pictures From Your Desktop With Poster

Desktop apps that aim to work along with popular web apps are a pretty common niche in the market, as they make it much faster and easier to use certain features of those websites by always remaining open in your desktop and allowing you to use features like drag-and-drop that… read more

6 Factors Behind the Mobile Photo Sharing Boom

Shane Snow is a Mashable contributor and co-founder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands and professional bloggers.

Within one week of its launch in October, photo sharing app Instagram had 100,000 signups. Seven months later, it had 4.25 million users.

Online photo sharing has long-been popular: Picasa… read more

Mac OS X Lion: What Apple Has Got In Store?

With Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) coming up on June 6th, forums and message boards across the internet are filling up with speculation about what is going to be announced. Apple are inviting us to “join us for a preview of the future of iOS and Mac OS X” and… read more

Flexible Tripod Takes iPhone Photography to the Next Level

The Gadget of the Day Series is supported by the Energizer® Inductive Charger, which brings you the next generation of charging with Qi technology. Qi is the new universal standard for wireless charging … now that’s positivenergy™.

Product: Joby GorillaMobile for iPhone 4

Price: MSRP of $39.95 (£34.95) but… read more

13 Instagram Apps For More Photo Fun

In this collection of our favorite Instagram-infused applications, each offers an interesting way to view or enjoy Instagram’s ever-expanding photo archives — some are Instagram-only clients, while others use Instagram to enhance their existing products.

Instagram delights its more than 4.25 million users with photo-enhancing filters, tilt-shift, cool… read more

Dissecting MobileMe: How Useful is it?

Lot of us work on quite a few computers and smartphones, thanks to the highly fragmented personal and professional computing environment. People these days don’t look for apps to sync their multiple computers and smartphones. They demand it. Google has a pretty good and simple syncing solution for Android phones,… read more

MacGourmet: iTunes for Your Recipes?

The internet has opened up a whole new world of recipes, available to anyone, anytime, without the need for piles of sauce-stained cookbooks. With so many amazing recipes out there, it can be hard to keep track of your favourites. Some people are content to use bookmarks, but what if… read more

10 Amazing Hipstamatic iPhone Photos

The Hipstamatic app for iPhone has been one of the most influential photography apps launched for the mobile platform. The app generates quirky results by emulating toy and vintage cameras with a variety of lenses, filters and flashes.

We’ve hooked up with Hipstamatic to bring you a gallery of great shots… read more

38 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Mashable has finally returned from Disney World (also known as the happiest place on earth) with the conclusion of Connect. Since returning, we’ve have no time to slump, turning out another great week of tools and resources for your social media pleasure.

Read on for some great stories… read more

15 Mesmerizing iPhone Photos of Cloudscapes

Come join us on cloud nine as we look skyward in our latest iPhotography gallery.

Whether cirriform, cumuliform or convective, we’ve got a wide variety of clouds for your viewing pleasure, as snapped by iPhotographers from all over the globe.

If you enjoy a picturesque water particle formation, take a look through… read more

57 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Hello and how are you from Disney World! With most of the Mashable staff in Orlando for Mashable Connect, we’ve had our hands full. However, that hasn’t stopped us from turning out another week of digital media tools and resources.

Have a look through this megalist for stories… read more

Mobile Photography: 20+ Resources for Apps, Snaps & Inspiration

The rise of mobile phone photography as an art form, rather than just a convenient way to grab casual snapshots, has greatly inspired us here at Mashable.

We’ve showcased galleries, accessories and apps over recent months, packed with fabulous hardware, even better software, and some amazing photography from all around the… read more

iPhotography App Showcase: 10 Color Splash Creations [PICS]

iPhotography isn’t just about the iPhone; it’s as much about the apps, too. We’re taking a closer look at some of the most popular iPhotography apps from the viewpoint of the developers, showcasing great photos created with some great apps.

Color Splash [iTunes link] is one such popular… read more

Better Resources for Photographic Inspiration

We are always on an endeavor to make our reader’s lives a little easier. That is why every now and again we trawl through the internet for you to muster up some of the best inspiration resources we can find. Great photography can be as inspiring as any other form… read more

Tell us About Your Post Production Workflow

At dPS headquarters this week we were discussing our post production workflows, tools and the things we’d like to know more about post production.

So we thought it might be a good discussion starter too.

What one thing about post processing photos do you wish you understood better?

Answering this will help… read more

Tagging & Organizing Files With Yep

If you’re anything like me, your downloads folder is a huge mess of disorganized PDFs, Word documents, Keynote presentations and text files with uninformative names like form.doc and scan0111.pdf.

To clean up this mess, Ironic Software developed Yep, promising iPhoto/iTunes-like management for your documents

I’m a die-hard Alfred fan, and when I’m… read more

HOW TO: Document Your Life Using Photo Apps

The Digital Photo and Film Series is supported by Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. To connect with the product team, find creative tutorials, tips and information, join them on Facebook and Twitter.

With smartphones projected to take over feature phones in the United States this year, there are a lot… read more

Layers in (sorry WITH) Lightroom Follow Up :)

Hi all. I wanted to take a VERY quick moment to follow up to the onOne Perfect Layers post (and comments) from the other week (sorry, I was on vacation last week). Here’s the deal. I saw three types of comments. 1 and 2 below address them pretty quickly. Number… read more

HOW TO: Get Started With Photo Blogging

The Digital Photo and Film Series is supported by Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. To connect with the product team, find creative tutorials, tips and information, join them on Facebook and Twitter.

The term “photo blog” has almost become redundant. Between the popularity of microblogging, and the fact that smartphones… read more

47 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

What a week for Mashable! We recently launched Follow, our social layer to help you create a profile and find and share stories to the public. Despite the good news close to home, this week was also a tough one for the journalism community with the death… read more

HOW TO: Create a Printed Album From Your Digital Photos

The Digital Photo and Film Series is supported by Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. To connect with the product team, find creative tutorials, tips and information, join them on Facebook and Twitter.

Mobile photo sharing services like Instagram and Picplz continue to be a big app trend in 2011. Users… read more

From A to Z: The iPhotography Alphabet [PICS]

Combining two of our favorite things — iPhotography and typography — we thought it would be fun to set the challenge of recreating the alphabet using great pics snapped on Apple’s mobile.

We have found all 26 letters as captured by iPhotographers from all over the world, made… read more

Worldwide Photography #14: Kingston

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Kingston.

For the next week we’re going to feature Cape Town,… read more

Meet the Designers: Dmitry Novikov of MacPaw

Mac OS X has a very high standard of interface design, more so than most other operating systems. This is thanks to designers to work extremely hard to make your software work the way you want it to. They may spend hours perfecting a single icon that you will use… read more

30+ Design Apps on the Mac App Store

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ColorSnapper: A Slick, Simple Color Picker for the Mac

If you’re a web or graphic designer, you know how useful a desktop color picking application can be. There’s nothing more ridiculous than loading up Photoshop just to identify a particular color value. Although OS X does have a native app for this in the form of DigitalColor Meter (in… read more

5 Creative iPhone Accessories That Could Be Made With Your Help [VIDEOS]

Kickstarter’s crowdsourced funding service has already seen success for entrepreneurs with a penchant for Apple’s mobile with the Glif iPhone tripod. We were interested to see what other iPhone-themed projects are in the works.

We’ve found five fabulous iPhone accessories that are currently live on Kickstarter that we think might be… read more

10 Ingenious iPad Self-Portraits [PICS]

Now that the iPad 2 boasts a camera, we’re seeing even more creativity in the iOS photography arena. One concept that has raised a smile here at Mashable is the iPad self-portrait.

We’ve selected 10 top examples of iPad owners having fun with both versions of the Apple tablet to create… read more

12 Popular Mac Apps You Can Sync via Dropbox (& Instructions!)

Dropbox is one of those tools that spends most of its time sitting in the background, and yet has become an essential app for users on just about every platform. Dropbox as cloud storage, as a syncing solution, and even as a way to host a website is an incredibly… read more

HOW TO: Master Smartphone Photography [PICS]

The Digital Photo and Film Series is supported by Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®. To connect with the product team, find creative tutorials, tips and information, join them on Facebook and Twitter.

Flickr currently hosts more than five million photos taken on a Sony Ericsson K800i, more than seven million… read more

13 Quirky iPhone Accessories [PICS]

Don’t just settle for standard issue accessories. We invite iPhone owners out there to take a walk on the fun side of the street with some downright silly accessories for your Apple mobile.

Whether it’s a stand with a witty design, a decal that evokes retro tech, or a case that… read more

iDive 2: Catalog & Organise Your Digital Video

iDive, which is produced by French video tool specialist Aquafadas Software, sets out to give you a way to ‘create and organize your digital video catalog’.

If you have a large collection of video files, you might want to consider additional software alongside your editing tools to organise… read more

Give Your Pictures New Life with Posterino

People love photos. We love taking them, editing them, and most of all we love sharing them with our friends and family. From Facebook albums and email attachments to online services like Kodak galleries and Shutterfly, the options seem limitless for how we get our pictures into the hands of… read more

Flare for Mac: Image Processing for the Rest of Us

Pro photographers know the drill: plug in digital camera, import to Lightroom/Aperture, spend hours getting that image to look just right, and the results speak for themselves.

However, if you’re an amateur photographer, hobbyist, scrapbooker or just trying to make use of the camera you got for Christmas, you might find… read more

Worldwide Photography #9: Taipei

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Taipei

For the next week we’re going to feature Venice, Italy,… read more

10 Terrific Tilt-Shift iPhone Photos

Tilt-shift has been around in analog photography for years, but a crop of iPhone apps that simulate the effect has led to some great iPhotography experiments.

You’re no doubt familiar with the classic tilt-shift photos that makes cityscapes look like toy towns with “fake miniature” people and vehicles…. read more

Eight Great Tools Windows Users Would Never Want To Miss

There are many apps out there for you, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Eight Great Tools Windows Users Would Never Want To Miss. Read each entry in… read more