The New York Times has been caught up in a controversy over digital manipulation controversy that not only sullies its name, but really doesn’t make any sense why it was even done.

If you live in the U.K. and you’ve been putting off buying any of Adobe’s CS4 products, you may want to make sure you do it before July 1.

Want to take your own 1,474-megapixel photos? Now you can with the Gigapan Epic. The device was recently used to create a huge picture of the inauguration, and now you can purchase one of your own and create mega-sized pictures at home.

In a world where everything seems to be going to the Web, or “clouds” so to speak, it’s about time for photo-editing to make the jump.  There’s yet to be a simple, intuitive Web-based photo-editing suite that allows for the quick edit of images on the fly, until now that is.

Snapter lets you use your digital camera as a scanner and create a .pdf file. If you do not have a scanner then it is possibly a must.

The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 is the latest addition to the abuse-resistant camera range of Olympus. It shares the same ruggedness as the previous 1030SW but, improvement, will now go down to 33 feet (previously 10), will work in as cold as 14°F, has a 3.6x zoom and will arrive in the United States in February for US $400 in plenty of time for the summer.

BuyThisImage is an online sales partner for professional photographers. Photographers can put the BuyThisImage widget on their Web site or blog, and then site visitors can use the widget to streamline the process of purchasing prints of the photographs. As a photographer you can choose to offer a variety of different print sizes or specialty items with your picture on them and adjust prices for the items (although some basic price guidelines are pre-set by BuyThisImage).

ContrastMaster offers three local and four global contrast adjustment methods as well as various masking, saturation and brightness options. The three local adjustment methods allow you to dramatically improve contrast in small image details without blowing out highlights or damaging the image. You can apply these three methods separately or use various options to mix them together for even better results.

Photodex has released its new ProShow Producer software, the software now in it’s fourth release is designed for users who want to create professional looking photo slideshows for their business, or professional portfolio. The program allows you to export your final product to play back on a television, the web, or on a Blu-ray disc and has a variety of pre-created templates to make making a professional looking slideshow as quick and easy as possible.