photography

Link Removed High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR) is a technique that uses multiple exposures of the same shot in order to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging or photographic techniques. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) empowers you to...

Heading home for the holidays? First, put together a fun out-of-office image through Microsoft’s Center for Out of Office Excellence to let everyone know you’ll be away from the workplace. With the holiday break just around the corner, you should be wrapping up your reports or putting a pause...

The already-powerful Lumia imaging tools such as Living Images and Rich Capture in the Windows 10-enabled Link Removed and Link Removed have been improved to give you the best photos ever. Link Removed The Lumia family smartphones has always been notable for its imaging prowess. Zeiss...

In this episode Soumow, Kaitlin and Golnaz have a great conversation with Sonya Koptyev, from being the only woman in her C++ class, photography, working for a dotCOM, her fitness hobby, through to the work she's doing today on Office 365. For more information on Office 365 development please...

National Geographic photographer and Microsoft Devices Ambassador, Stephen Alvarez, traveled to Australia to explore one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World—the Great Barrier Reef. Stretching 1,200 miles along the northwest coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef is larger than...

Let’s take a closer look at the imaging capabilities of the new Surface devices. Link Removed We recently caught up with Microsoft’s Luke Cui, a color-imaging scientist who leads the Surface image-quality team, to learn more about the care and expertise packed into the imaging software and...

When I have file explorer open it refreshes every five seconds or so. If I'm scrolling through pictures, it's constantly jumping back to the top of the file....it's infuriating!!! I can't even rename files or create file names unless I am lightning quick. I am at a loss as to what to do...and...

Here our choices for the week’s five best new apps for Surface and Windows phone. Now that both Lumia and Surface are being covered in the Microsoft Devices Blog, we are featuring apps for both devices in our weekly list. Most of these apps work on both, so try them out and see which one is...

Last week I was super excited to be in NYC where we launched the latest Lumia flagship phones, Link Removed and Link Removed. These innovative Link Removed devices have our most advanced smartphone imaging hardware and software to help you take beautiful and natural photos every time. Under...

This week, surprisingly enough, we're going to be doing a "Holly Cow, that was an awesome Hardware Event last week!" theme, focusing on related SDK's, projects and such. I'm sure you've already heard all about it, but incase not, check out this post, A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from...

So many looks, so many apps for Lumia! Capturing an interesting selfie means more than pointing your Lumia camera at your face and snapping a photo. Many apps exist to spice up your personal style and highlight your mood, ambition level, and even sneakiness. Check out these free selfie apps...

The video option on your Windows Phone isn’t the only way to capture the passage of time. Be creative and experiment with time-lapse photography. Oxforddictionaries.com defines time-lapse as: “the photographic technique of taking a sequence of frames at set intervals to record changes that...

Welcome back to Ping! We talk about more ways to use Cortana, some new games for Windows Phone, the world's very first 3d fabric printer, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about... Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Last Week... Link Removed...

Drones! It's been like forever since we've highlighted drones here, so when I saw this and that Shahed Chowdhuri not only used an Xbox Controller but also Windows 10, well heck, there's no way I could pass that up! Flying a Drone with Windows 10 and an Xbox Controller ... Introduction I...

Recently I decided to put up a website, using Smugmug. After creating it and uploading a few of my photos, I noticed significant desaturation of color, not drastic but significant. The vibrant colors of a golden sunset on red rocks is noticeably desaturated, making it appear somewhat drab...

AutoDesk Pixlr is now available to download for free to your Windows PC, laptop or tablet. Pixlr is an easy-to-use app that equips you with the tools to turn your photos into beautiful works of art. From cropping, rotating and adjusting to customized collages and options that let you change...

Every year I set up a temporary wired network of 3 laptops for helping my camera club to adminster its annual international photographic competition. A back end MS Access database is stored on a Win 7 Home Premium laptop and this is accessed by two Win XP laptops running a front end Access...

Hey, guys! I`m a Vista user. I do like to make some cool nature and people photos in my free time. As a result i have an ocean of folders and stuff on my computer. And vista actually offers kinda annoying folder icons and sometimes it literally makes me fell uncomfortable to find the folder with...

CyberLink has announced the release of PowerDirector 13 (from $79.99), PhotoDirector 6, ColorDirector 3 and AudioDirector 5($129.99), all available individually or as a part of the new Director Suite 3 ($299.99). PowerDirector 13 highlights include a new Transition Designer, which enables you to...

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