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Today I'd like to introduce you to another piece of new technology from Microsoft Research Labs – Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion.  In the current version of ICE, it provides advanced features for panoramic stitching such as choosing the stitch’s…

Today's Modern Monday project a new Windows 8 SDK that will help you quickly add some fairly awesome photo editing capabilities to your app's. It's quick, easy and for the standard package, free! Aviary Launches Windows 8 SDK with 6 PartnersWe’re proud to launch Aviary’s Photo Editor SDK for Windows…

Thanks to the recent refresh of the Windows Live Essentials beta, Windows Live Photo Gallery now supports geo-tagged photos via Bing Maps. Geo-tagging (adding location information to a photo) helps you see, on a map, where a particular photo was taken. By supporting geo-tags within Photo Gallery,…

Matthew Scott of Microsoft Research demonstrates new technology that can make advertising based on image content a reality. In existing online-advertisement platforms, the relevance between advertisers and users is decided largely by textual keyword matching. With this new technology, advertisers…

It's here and it's all yours. The new release of Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you be a photo editor and one touch publisher. It's so easy now to share all your tagged images on sites like FlickR and Spaces. Plus, you've got to check out the new panoramic photo editing feature- go ahead…

If you thought Photosynth was cool, you haven’t seen anything yet! On his blog, Long Zheng shares with us an amazing video out of Microsoft Research that focuses on a new immersive 3D technology for manipulating digital photos. The technology, which appears to be an advancement of an older…

Adam Kinney just blogged about a new app called PhotoSuru, a WPF sample application that lets you browse and share your photos. The app takes advantage of WPF features like Pixel Shaders, Adaptive Layout and Custom Themes. It’s designed to be more of a starter kit for developers who want to learn…

MSNBC has just launched a new and improved photoblog (the one called “Photo Blog,” actually). The site is run by Robert Hood, who has been on MSNBC’s multimedia team since 1996 in addition to freelancing for The New York Times and the LA Times. His team is responsible for all the photography and…

You probably heard about GigaPan recently – maybe for the first time, if you weren’t already a photo enthusiast – thanks to this widely shared and discussed image from the Obama inauguration. The GigaPan technology creates high-res gigapixel panoramic images which can then be zoomed in and out on…

LiveUpload for Facebook is a new plug-in for the Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that lets you upload your photos from your PC directly into the social networking site, Facebook. Besides making it extremely easy to get photos off your PC and onto the net, the absolutely coolest thing about this…