Most photo editors have good brush capabilities. Adobe Photoshop takes it to a new level and allows users to customize their brushes much like Photoshop Styles – to a surprising extent. But the best painting tool on the market has been Corel Painter with its huge set of brushes, their amazing set of properties, their […]
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The new ThePhotoFinishes.com recognizes the reality of the past year, almost all of the postings for the site have been to the Picthat blog. In our theOpenSourcery com web development site, the consistent recommendation has been to use a CMS with WordPress being the top choice. So now we are eating our own stew and
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In the previous PF blog post on the booming compact cameras and their rapid technology improvements, credit was given to smartphones for stimulating those changes. However, compact cameras have an advantage that smartphones could not easily crack – better lensing with optical zoom capabilities beyond the reach of smartphones. Then the article goes on to
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Spoiler update: See the bottom of this page… In our previous post on Compact Cameras vs Smartphones, the advantage appears to be swinging to smartphones as they slowly approach compact cameras in the quality of their camera components. But smartphones [smartphones really means “smartphones and tablets” for most of the following remarks] have 3 other key features
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iPhone 4 vaults to the top but begins to trail off in recent months If you follow the Flickr Camera usage statistics, then the answer to question of smartphone vs compact camera is smartphone. Last year compact camera sales fell by 30% as fixed lens smartphone cameras started to displace fixed lens compact cameras [in 2010
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Google is selling SketchUp Pro for $495 – Why? The program, SketchUp Pro is not strange – its a architecture and landscape design program which appears to have not only a nice range of features but also integrates well with AutoDesk DWG and other CAD files. No the novelty here is that Google is doing
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Back on April Fools Day 2009, the headline was RIP: Corel PaintShop Pro. I had just tried the latest version, PaintShop Pro X2, and found it to be awful – slow, bloated and failing like its fellow software boondoggle of the day, Microsoft Vista. Having already seen the downward trend with PaintShop Pro X1 –
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Given the wave of great automatic digital cameras, it would appear easy to produce great Web images. But actually getting from here – good images in the digital camera; to there, great images on your Web pages can present some non-trivial and vexing problems. Here are 3 general problems: 1)On the web, image size still
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