Evocowire is the strange name of a website crammed with photofinishing resources and tutorials. Most of the resources like the actions shown in the picture above are for PhotoShop – sets of actions, brushes, and templates abound on the site – and they are topnotch. But there are also resources for Paint Shop Pro, Adobe […]
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Well we spent most of the weekend trying to figure out our benchmarks results – would Windows 7 be able to beat Windows XP in raw speed and performance? Here is that tale of the table: Speed Comparison: Windows 7 versus Windows XP Test Windows 7 Windows XP Copy 800MB file from USB 29sec 27sec
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I am still looking for an inexpensive fast, easy to learn photo editor. Don’t get me wrong – Adobe has the top 3 bitmap photo editors in Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS4. But all of these Adobe photo editors have 4 consistent problems with the biggest 2 being price and a huge learning curve.
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Well a graphics-oriented client currently running Windows XP wants to try to make the transition to Windows 7 from XP – so I have been commissioned to test out a Gateway NV74 17.3″ 4GB RAM, 500GB hard disk@5400RPM [Passmark rating of 1.243]. The OS is Windows 7 Home Premium. I think this PC Model and
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A few clients have been asking me a for a fast, inexpensive photo editor. But after recommending Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, I quickly learn that what they really want is a fast-starting, inexpensive, easy-to learn/easy-to-remember-how-to-use photo editor. Unfortunately the Adobe products miss on these traits and so I have been on the look-out for what
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Apple is getting a stranglehold on the evolution of computing devices, particulary for consumers. iPod + iTunes dominates the media playing world. iPhone + iAppStore dominate the phone plus highly portable app and messaging world. But Apple missed the boat despite a huge technology leads on the PC desktop and laptop world back in the
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See the latest in this saga with review of PaintShop Pro Version 3 Corel Paint Shop Pro has been one of my favorite Paint editor tools for the past 10 years. Jasc, the original developers, understood that users wanted a lighttable-like interface to their images-> a browsing windows of thumbnail images from which users could
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JPEG2000 has shrivelled and not quite died but certainly is not what it promised to be as a replacement for the JPEG image format. Here are the ugly facts: Graphics Support in the Major Browsers Web Standard IE8 Firefox 3.x Chrome 1. Opera 9.6 Safari 4 JPEG2000 No No No No No SMIL Dropped? 3.1
The above screen shot is of Snipshot, another very good online photo editor. In a small but deliberate array of tests on a 900 x 600 pixel image, I found the response time from Snipshot to be very good and the array of commands at my disposal very useful for the quick image retouching or
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For the past 3-6 years, the facilities in graphics programs have improved such that it is simple to create very good looking galleries on the Web. The programs do all the major taks: 1)help gather together the photos into a collection; 2)allow simple resizing and/or watermarking of the images; 3)provide many templates for the basic
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