Virtual Iris has created a website, Irisize.com, for online editing, including zooming, rotating, measuring, changing color and adding text. The resulting images, hosted on Irisize.com, are available for use on personal or business websites, auction sites, e-mails or presentations, and do not require plug-ins for receipt or viewing. Although the service eventually will charge fees starting at $1.99 for basic image conversion, it is available free...

The National Press Photographers Association has condemned Newsweek magazine's use of an altered photograph of Martha Stewart on its March 7 cover, calling it a major ethical breach. Stewart's head had been superimposed upon the body of a model who was photographed separately in a Los Angeles studio.

Despite the fact that Newsweek ran a page 3 disclaimer calling the cover image an illustration, the association is concerned that the average reader will not realize that Stewart's body does not appear in the photograph...

Getty Images has acquired London-based Digital Vision, a royalty-free photography business, for $165 million in cash. The majority of Digital Vision's current image collection already is available at gettyimages.com through Getty Images' Image Partner program. The company expects to increase investment in Digital Vision content to broaden the collection in terms of number of images, depth and geography.

Getty also announced a one-year partnership with PicScout, a provider of infringement detection software. The agreement allows Getty to use PicScout's Image Tracker Service on all of its 450,000 rights-managed images, including those that already have been licensed. PicScout will send reports of online infringements...

Known mostly for his pioneering sports shooting, our Photography Person of the Year also has spent half a century as a photojournalist, an editor and a mentor for the next generation of aspiring photographers.

By his own admission, he's no athlete, but Rich Clarkson holds a sports record unlikely to be broken soon: he has just photographed his 50th NCAA college basketball championship. He shot his first back in 1952, and hasn't missed one since 1960. Along the way, Clarkson's pictures have helped redefine the way we look at sports.

The Final Four is just one facet of a remarkable career with roots reaching back to the 1940s and still running full-throttle today. At 72, Clarkson is a photography dynamo, busy with a demanding shooting and...

The OpenRAW Working Group has launched a new website, OpenRAW.com, to advocate for open, documented digital-camera data formats. The goal of OpenRAW, as stated on the website, is "to encourage image preservation and give creative choice of how images are processed to the creators of the images."

Virtually all digital cameras store the raw image data in a proprietary file format. In the brief history of digital photography, digital camera manufacturers have dropped support for asset management applications, abandoned settings from older RAW processor versions and changed the methods of storing basic camera settings...

A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by Samy's Camera in Santa Barbara [Calif.] to check out their new location. After examining a new camera bag, I went over to pick up some product literature when the Spring [2005] edition of PhotoMedia caught my eye. I don't know if it was the large format of the magazine or the eye-catching cover photo, but I pulled one off the rack for a look-see. I had never seen a copy of PhotoMedia before, but this one was going home with me, that was for sure.

I headed over to the checkout counter to pay for it, but pulled up short when I noticed it was free. I went out to my car — my wife was patiently waiting.

Adobe Systems Inc. recently announced several new digital camera software upgrades, including the release of its Creative Suite software and a new version of Adobe Photoshop CS.

The new release, dubbed CS2, is a major upgrade to the entire suite and includes new versions of InDesign, Illustrator, and GoLive, as well as two new products: Version Cue and Adobe Bridge. The Creative Suite Premium Edition includes Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, Version Cue CS2 and Acrobat 7.0.

Adobe also recently announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen will continue as CEO, and Stephen Elop, Macromedia's president and CEO, will become president of worldwide field operations for Adobe. According to Adobe, the purchase of Macromedia will provide customers...

Epson America has redesigned its printer line, introducing four new models: the Stylus Photo R2400, Epson Stylus Pro 4800, Epson Stylus Pro 7800, and Epson Stylus Pro 9800. As an adjunct to the new printers, Epson has developed a new ink line, UltraChrome K3, which offers a wider color gamut and high print-permanence ratings.

With three levels of black and advanced driver controls, the new printers were designed to allow users to create professional-quality prints on a wide variety of media. Users have the choice of two interchangeable cartridges, photo black or matte black, to optimize black ink density and...

p>Nikon has introduced two compact, lightweight, affordable lenses for use with digital SLRs. The AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED is a 3x standard-zoom Nikkor, offering an 18-55mm focal-length range, with a picture angle equivalent to a 27-82.5mm lens in 35mm format. The AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED has a 3.6x 55-200mm focal range and a zoom performance of 55-200mm, providing a picture angle equivalent to an 82.5-300mm lens in 35mm format.

The 18-55mm lens features one ED glass element and one hybrid aspherical lens for...

Sony's new, thin Cyber-shot DSC-T7 digital camera is slightly more than 1/3 inch thick, with a 2.5-inch, hybrid LCD screen that covers about two-thirds of the back of the camera. Despite its small size, the camera incorporates the features of other T-series models. It features 5.1-effective-megapixel resolution, an enhanced power management system for extended shooting time and a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 3x optical zoom.

The camera also has an anti-reflection Clear Photo LCD, designed to prevent reflected light from...