Adobe has released an interim upgrade to its various Creative Suites; but more importantly changed its update policy and pricing schedule. The driver according to Adobe is the fast rate of development in the mobile space – and so as can be seen below the major changes are in Web and mobile targetting products: Updated […]
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Nikon D5100 16.2MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR Nikkor Zoom Any doubts about the convergence of video cameras with digital SLRs went by the wayside with the arrival of the new Nikon D5100 video SLR. This blog has foreseen convergence for the past 4 years and now it has happened with Nikon D5100
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Paint.NET is like Artweaver, it is a free, Windows program that supports roughly Photoshop 4-5 level photoediting. These capabilities are nothing to sniff at – it means users can do all the essential photo-edit operations: Crop, Straighten, Resize, Color-adjust including to B+W, Smooth, and Sharpen an image or selected portions of it. Also like Artweaver,
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Ever since Jasc Paintshop Pro version 8 and ACDSee 10 passed their prime, ye Editor has been looking for a fast viewer and editor for Windows. Jasc came to Corel while ACD Systems Pro Photo Manager 3.0, Adobe Photoshop Elements , and Corel PaintShop Pro [all supposedly geared for novice users] have become too complicated to
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Xara has the fastest bitmap + vector draw program by far with Xara Designer Pro. Xara has had as one of its consistent virtues blazing speed. Xara is able to handle big bitmap 30-80MB files [great for the thunderously sized images being produced by top of the line Canon, Nikon, and other SLR cameras] and
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Corel has long had one of the best Windows natural media paint programs, Painter 11. The program offers numerous brush+media types with master control over each brush+media and its effects. Artist colleagues use Painter 11 as a basic creative medium and tool. Photographers use it to refine photos with subtle brush effects and enhanced compositions.
Last year I wrote RIP: Corel PaintShop Pro on this blog and made the following comments: Unfortunately, After Corel took over Paint Shop Pro – they appear to have applied their vaunted Corel Reverse Midas Touch [think PhotoPaint, Picture Publisher and Word Perfect franchises]. Right now, Paint Shop Pro V2 is in a contest with
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Is this just a Photo? Toronto Winter City Festival – Angel of the Apocalypse Exhibit by the Flaming Lotus Girls I have been blithely producing this series of Olympic Plugin articles without asking a very relevant question – when is a picture more than just a picture? By that I mean in the process of
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The Winter Olympic games have been quite exciting and picturesque – inspiring this series of Olympic Plugins reviews that highlight some of the best free and for fee plugins available. The improvement in plugins capabilities over the past 3-4 years have been quite dramatic. Here are two from the AutoFX that are both free and quite compelling.
Olympic Plugins: AutoFx Free Dreamy and Mosaic Read More »
The last step in PhotoFinishing is to add a frame to your image – and this can be an extraordinarily dangerous business. I have seen too many very good shots diminished by overstated metal/wooden frames and mattes. And in the digital world , the ability to do great harm to a good image seems to
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