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The future of professional photography: 5 things we can expect in 5 years' time

Nov 16th 2013, 00:01, by jmeyer

The past decade made the photography industry more accessible than ever, harder to profit from, but also richer with choice, opportunities and possibilities. What will happen next? Only time can tell, but while we’re waiting for the future to unfold, the photo management and Canon Project1709 experts at Photoventure have listed five predictions for the graduates of 2018.

Prediction 1: more women photographers

There are now more women than men in photography colleges across the UK, and in five years’ time these women will be out in full force, buying professional equipment. The forward-thinking manufacturers will be launching more ergonomically suitable gear for women, and the variety of camera bags disguised as women’s handbags will be bigger.

Prediction 2: videos shot with RED

Some companies have already started asking for videos shot with an RED so they can pull out the stills that they want. As high-end cameras become better and cheaper, this could very well become a trend in certain areas of photography, including photojournalism, sport and weddings.

Prediction 3: more workshops

Everyone and their dog is doing photography workshops now, and with photography being a trendy hobby there is no shortage of hobbyists willing to pay to learn the craft. What this means is that these very same hobbyists will be advertising their own workshops in a few years (if they can wait that long). The landscape market is already knee-deep and looks set to drown by the time this year’s freshers graduate.

Prediction 4: diversified multimedia

Commercial photographers are already expected to produce gifs, behind-the-scenes videos and other types of web assets, but as our consumption of online entertainment refines, online editors will realise that good quality multimedia takes skill to produce, and boring behind-the-scenes videos are just not going to cut it anymore. Bearing that in mind, now is a good time to start diversifying.

Prediction 5: return of the still image

That being said, the constant buzz of gif-based entertainment might very well reach a boiling point, at which viewers will be tired of pointless, moving images. Web assets are only worth the amounts of eye balls that look at them, and maybe, just maybe, the still image will look like a sane alternative from an advertiser’s point of view. We live in hope…

Geotag photos: how to embed location data in Photoshop Elements 12

Nov 15th 2013, 12:34, by jmeyer

Discover how Photoshop Elements 12 allows you to geotag photos and organise your images according to where they were captured and view them on a map.

After travelling abroad it used to be traditional practice to print your holiday snaps and store them in an album. Indeed, you can create holiday albums in the Photoshop Elements Organizer with ease, and browse through them at your leisure.

The Organizer's Places panel provides you with a fun alternative way to see your pictures according to where they were shot.

When you shoot a snap on your smart phone, the software records the location of the shot using GPS (the satellite-based global positioning system). Thanks to the Adobe Revel service, you can sync your mobile phone shots to a cloud service and then automatically import them into the Organizer.

Photoshop Elements can then read the map coordinates in each mobile-sourced photo's metadata and display its location in the Places panel. You can see a map, see a flagged location and click to see any photos shot there. This is a useful new function in Photoshop Elements 12, especially if many of your shots are captured via a phone.

If your camera doesn't automatically geotag photos you can still enjoy using the map-based Places panel to organise them. We'll demonstrate how you can manually add location data to a photo by dragging them to the appropriate location.

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How to geotag photos in Photoshop Elements 12

1 Import images
Go to File>Get Photos>From Files and Folders. Browse to your intended images. Click Get Media. The files will appear in the Organizer. Click the Places panel, then click the Map icon at the bottom right. You'll see a collection of little red flags. Zoom in to any cluster.

2 View by location
Click a flag to turn it blue. Any photos captured at that location will be highlighted with a blue border. Click the arrow by the flag's Show Media label and only the relevant shots will be visible in the Places panel. This is a great way to discover what was shot where.

3 View by image
Click a thumbnail, then click the Info icon. Toggle open the Metadata tab. You'll see properties such as the shutter speed and aperture used to capture the image. Tick the Complete icon to the right of the metadata label, and scroll down to see the GPS data attached to the photo.

4 Geo-tag photos manually
Click back to the Media tab, then click one of your images. Click the Add Places icon. We typed Sandhaven into the search field and choose the Aberdeenshire option, which is where our picture was taken. Drag the crosshairs to fine-tune the location of the shot. Click the tick to geo-tag it.

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