Canon EOS 1000D
Dotata di un sensore CMOS da 10,1 Megapixel e della stessa tecnologia dei modelli professionali Canon, EOS 1000D offre tutta la potenza dell’imaging EOS in un prodotto facile da usare e dal prezzo interessante.
Caratteristiche
* Sensore CMOS da 10,1 Megapixel
* Velocità di scatto continuo di 3 fps
* Sistema AF a 7 punti ad area allargata
* Unità autopulente del sensore
* Display LCD da 2,5” con modalità “Live View”
* Processore DIGIC III
* Slot per schede di memoria SD/SDHC
* Impostazioni “Picture Style”
* Compatta e leggera
* Compatibile con gli obiettivi EF/EF-S e gli Speedlite EX
Nei negozi dal prossimo luglio, la 1000D sarà venduta a 549 euro nella versione solo corpo e a 649 euro per il kit con obiettivo 18-55 IS stabilizzato.
Paint.NET v3.35 Beta
Nuova versione di Paint.NET, un software per il ritocco fotografico e l’editing di immagini di qualunque genere che fa uso dei livelli, di “undo” illimitati (si possono annullare tutte le operazioni compiute su un’immagine), effetti speciali oltre ad una vasta gamma di potenti strumenti. Necessita del .NET Framework 2.0
Ecco le modifiche introdotte in questa release:
This releases introduces a new Posterize adjustment, a new Intersect selection mode, and dramatically improved performance for selection editing.
- New: Posterize adjustment, by Ed Harvey.
- New: Intersect selection mode.
- Improved: Dramatically improved selection editing performance for the Add and Subtract modes (and also for Intersect). The performance used to be dependent on image size, and thus was often unusable on images larger than 1024×768 pixels. It is now dependent only on selection complexity (number of polygon edges) — the improvement is generally between 3x and 1000x.
- Changed: Hotkeys for selection modes are now Left click for Replace, Control+Left click for Add (union), Alt+Left click for Subtract (difference), Ctrl+Left click for Intersect, and Ctrl+Right click for Invert (xor).
- Fixed: Sometimes pasting would result in a crash when certain types of malfored data were on the clipboard.
- Fixed: It was possible to get around some of the protections imposed by the IndirectUI system. This was causing instability with some plugins.
- Fixed: There were some issues with the implementation of “linked” sliders in IndirectUI.

Link: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
The GIMP 2.4.6
Rilasciata la versione 2.4.6 di The GIMP, il programma GNU per la gestione delle immagini. E’ un software liberamente distribuibile adatto per il fotoritocco, composizione e creazione di immagini. Ecco il changelog:
- fixed handling of the “antialias” tool option (bug #521069)
- when loading a TIFF image, always set a filename on it (bug #521436)
- fixed initial state of curve type in Curves tool (bug #523873)
- fixed potential crash in the Dicom load plug-in
- respect the brush mask in the Heal tool (bug #521433)
- plugged some minor memory leaks
- fixed a glitch in the DND code (bug #317992)
- gimp-image-convert() must not accept palettes with > 256 colors (bug #525471)
- fixed parameter description in the Map Object plug-in (bug #526679)
- fixed compilation of unit tests on Mac OS X (bug #528160)
- fixed handling of “argc-lower-val-y” PDB parameter in Curve Bend plug-in
- fixed overlap problem in Hue-Saturation tool (bug #527085)
- fixed asymmetry in Unsharp Mask plug-in (bug #530077)
- don’t show non-existant color profiles in the selector (bug #528958)
- fixed issues with default aspect ratio in the Crop tool (bug #532057)
- fixed compilation of the PDF import plug-in with libpoppler 0.8
- fixed bug in clipboard brush code (bug #532886)
- corrected layer mask flag in PSD save plug-in (bug #526811)
- fixed an issue with tablets and newer X.Org releases
- keep the JPEG save plug-in from writing an empty EXIF tag (bug #529469)
- fixed crash in Selective Gaussion Blur plug-in (bug #529280)
- added new translations (Belarusian, Catalan, Norwegian Nynorsk)
- translation fixes and updates
(ar, ca, de, el, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ko, pl, pt_BR, ro, sv)

Link: http://www.gimp.org
