Remember the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project? Well, Gerard Maynard shot over 2,000 images taken in Yosemite with a D2X and a 300mm f/4 with a TC1.7 for them.

Here is his part of the job, 2,046 photos from Glacier Point stitched together.Gerard used NX2

The result? A panoramic picture over 17 gigapixels!! Zoomify allows you to zoom in closely enough to count the number of people on top of Half Dome ah!

Make sure to check the other four location point he shot from… it’s incredible how detailed these panoramics are!!

onOne Software just released PhotoFrame 4 in two different version, Pro and Standard edition.

“Both editions share the same base content of 1,000 frames and have the same exact feature set allowing you to search, find, combine, modify and apply frame edges & adornments in real-time.

PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition will give you an additional set of nearly 300 frames, textures, overlays, adornments and presets that were designed by some of the top Photoshop gurus and trainers of our time including Jack Davis, Jim DiVitale, Dave Cross, Laurie Excell, Helene Glassman, Kevin Kubota, Rick Sammon, Vicki Taufer and Vincent Versace.

PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition also includes support to work with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1.”

Now, that’s a great new because it’s another step towards a fully integrated digital studio, allowing to skip buying Photoshop.

The frame content in PhotoFrame 4 has been completely re-mastered. They added only the new frames that people have been asking for.

The new frames also come with more realistic film edges along with new textures, backgrounds and adornments.

If you love all the older frames you can download them for free from the onOne website, giving you access to over 4000 frames!!

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Yeah, yeah, I know… but it’s kinda funny.

Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X is being updated!

“Version 1.3 Tempo Features Major Performance Improvements, Click-and-Drag Tools, Improved Adjustment Tools, Smart Palette Hide Feature, and More.

The Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.3, codenamed Tempo, a third major update to the revolutionary GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. Available today as a free software update, Pixelmator 1.3 Tempo features major performance improvements: click-and-drag technology-based Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, and Magic Eraser tools; improved Hue and Saturation, Replace Color, and Colorize tools; Smart Palette Hide; and more.”

Pixelmator is an awesome, cheap ($59) tool for anyone to enjoy the benefits of image editing, and now with innovative click-and-drag tools, improved adjustment tools, and major performance enhancements it is becoming one of the most innovative, top-quality image-editing tools for Mac OS X.

Pixelmator 1.3 Tempo is a free update to current Pixelmator customers.

It’s been a while since I last wrote about this amazing software and today comes a major release with the V4.0 of Parallels.

The good news is that all customers who have purchased Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac since September 1st, 2008 are eligible for a FREE upgrades to Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac.

For those who don’t know what Parallels is, it’s an intuitive, easy-to-use virtualization platform for switchers who need to run Windows applications alongside OS X.

“The programs you need. The computer you want. The best of both worlds.

Already the world’s No. 1 selling Mac system utility, Parallels Desktop for Mac now has more than 1.5 million users worldwide and counting. Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac provides the complete suite of essentials to run Windows on the Mac the easy, fast and powerful way.

“Parallels Desktop is currently the best solution for running Windows, Linux, or any of many other operating systems alongside OS X.” “

With more than 1.5 million users worldwide, Parallels Desktop for Mac is the world’s No. 1 Mac System Utility. The industry’s best selling, top rated, most trusted, award-winning solution, Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac is a must-have for running Windows on Mac OS X.

And they claim Parallels 4 is 50% faster than Parallels 3!