Professional photographers use programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, but there are plenty of cheaper programs available.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration's photography program, which commissioned photographers to document the rural poor of America in the late thirties and early forties, the curators Jens Hoffmann and Jana Blankenship commissioned twelve contemporary artists to travel the U.S. for a year and document the impact of today's "great recession".
Flickr says that prior to this program, photographers could work directly with Getty Images to license their work, but it now has a new arrangement with Getty that allows Flickr to work directly with its creative community to provide the licensing and monetization opportunities.
At a meeting in June of the New York chapter of the Electric Railroaders Associationn, a club formed in the early 1950's, about 200 people filled an auditorium at the College of Insurance in Lower Manhattan, where Harold Pinsker, a popular amateur train photographer, presented what the program called "a mix of his best slides from the 1980's".
I also (being a photographer) enjoyed the Canvas program.
Many new photographers find a simpler program with a set of basic tools both easier to master and less expensive.
A photographer who coordinates summer programs at the International Center of Photography, he was sitting with a colleague, lamenting his not-so-great love life.
Just this spring, we've seen the launch of drone rental program for photographers and Google Ventures invested in a "services industry" robot.
With the new version, Apple makes it easier for people to step up from iPhoto to Aperture, while still providing professional photographers with a powerful program for editing and managing their libraries.
Lindsay Branham, a documentary photographer and filmmaker, is the Program Director for the international NGO Discover the Journey.
