HARMAN Technology Limited Press Release: Harman, the leading professional imaging specialist has provided the first ever glimpse of its new professional photo inkjet paper, just days before officially unveiling the products to the industry at the Photokina exhibition in Cologne, Germany. This exclusive shot of the product and its packaging has only been distributed to [...]

Fuji press release: Fuji Hunt’s dedicated R&D division has long been developing methods to bring digital printing media to a par with traditional papers. Now, a new trio of especially smooth finishes have passed the quality barrier and represent the very best materials on which imagery of all types can be printed. Fuji Hunt’s range [...]

The introduction of new papers from Hahnemuhle, Innova, and Museo have everyone scrambling for these papers, as they are suppose to be the reason to finally come out of the darkroom. After all, B&W silver gelatin paper manufacturers are starting to disappear, causing more artists/photographers to convert to digital printing methods. This does not mean [...]

Paul Butzi writes in The Online Photographer: Different isn’t synonymous with bad. Instead of viewing every difference between silver-based photography and digital photography as weaknesses in the new technology, it’s far more productive as artists to pick up the new technology and ask ourselves, “Where can I go with this that I couldn’t go before?” [...]

Darren of One Stop Under writes: "Edwin Leong over at CameraHobby.com has done a nice roundup review of several fine art matte inkjet papers from Crane, Legion, and Moab. "I like the way Edwin has published two sets of results – one titled ‘Technical, Nitpicky and Anal-Retentive Comments’ to keep the pixel peepers happy, and [...]

What can I say other than a long string of positive expletives? Check out how he did it at chromogenic.net.

Swamp, inkjet transparency transfer by Wade Beals This jaw-dropping photo was made with and links to this inkjet transparency film transfers how-to by Donia Nance. There’s also a Yahoo! group about this technique. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks fairly easy and the results are clearly amazing.