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WhatsApp soon to let you send photos and videos without compression?

Jul 9, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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According to recent reports, two new features are coming to WhatsApp. It looks like we’ll soon be able to share photos and videos at their “best quality.” In other words, it’s possible that WhatsApp will let us send them without compression.

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Is it unprofessional to text your clients?

Nov 27, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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Text messaging has become a part of our everyday lives a long time ago. Many of us prefer it to other forms of communication such as emails or phone calls. But what about talking to your clients? Photographer Jessica Whitaker suggests that texting your clients can be not only unprofessional but also far less efficient than emails. In this video, she goes through the reasons why you shouldn’t text your clients, so let’s see if you would agree.

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Instagram finally lets you send direct messages from a browser

Apr 11, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 5 Comments
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There have been hints that Instagram would let us send messages from your desktop. It was enabled in the desktop app for Windows 10 earlier this year. And finally, now you can send Instagram DMs through a web browser.

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You can now (finally) send Instagram direct messages on Windows 10

Feb 28, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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If you would love to be able to send Instagram messages from your computer, here’s some good news. Instagram has officially made it possible for Windows 10 users to send and receive direct messages on desktop.

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Instagram finally tests direct messaging from desktop app

Jan 14, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 6 Comments
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One of the most inconvenient things about Instagram is that it doesn’t allow you to send direct messages through the desktop app. Well, not for long, as it seems. Instagram is finally testing this feature, and it could soon become possible to read and write direct messaging on your computer.

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Instagram is killing Direct, its standalone messaging app

May 16, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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Over the next few weeks, Instagram will kill Direct, its Snapchat-clone standalone app for direct messages. Instead, all conversations will be transferred to the direct messaging feature within the main Instagram app.

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Instagram may soon enable you to send direct messages from your desktop

Feb 13, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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Instagram is reportedly testing a feature that will allow you to send direct messages through its desktop version, and not just via the mobile app. It was recently spotted by one of the users and it can be great news for all of you who find it annoying and limiting to send DMs only through the mobile app.

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Is it okay for street photographers to take photos of private messages?

Jul 6, 2018 by Dan Ginn 1 Comment
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This week Business Insider ran a story that covered images taken by a street photographer, of people’s private phone messages. That photographer was the highly respected Jeff Mermelstein, someone who has a long list of celebrated work. Whilst all images were taken in public places, they do contain a level information that the subjects may not want the world to know about. Whilst no law has been broken, it could be argued that this is a lack of respect for a person’s privacy, raising the question – is it okay to photograph people’s private messages?

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How Good (And Bad) Retouching Impacts Your Objective Age

May 3, 2015 by Stefan Kohler 2 Comments
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A few days ago it started – suddenly these portraits sprouted everywhere like mushrooms after the rain, with pictures of people and a postit note on their forehead which states their age.

Behind this fed is a new “service” called how-Old, which claims to give an accurate guesstimate of your age based on a single photo. As a retoucher I often encounter this problem; a model still has a few more years to “steal” or actually to “give” to the industry. I had to test how many years I can take of a model with retouching and while this is a lighthearted post, the results were quite interesting.

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The Amusing/Horrifying Texts Between Photojournalists And Their Editors

May 27, 2014 by Peter Bower Add Comment
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A brand new Tumblr account has emerged in the last two weeks. Simply named “Photo Editor Texts” the Tumblr shares the amusing texts between photojournalists on assignment and their editors back in the office.

Ah, Tumblr, you a place of wonderment. Between the amazing photography related blogs (such as Zack Arias’ now retired 1,500 Q&A Tumblr) and amazing photo projects shared there, it’s a wonder I get much work done at all. But theres also a whole lot of ‘shipping of fictional characters and even more fan-love toward Supernatural and Dr Who, plenty of amusing cat gifs, and some genuinely hilarious people. Occasionally, you come across an amusing little project like this one.[Read More…]

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