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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Steve Jobs has been dissing Adobe’s Flash for the past 2-3 years for reasons public but still fundamentally unknown. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2008 Flash has been programma non grata on Apple iPods and iPhones. Various reasons have been supplied including not fast enough, buggy, and drains power. The legitimacy of these
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When I did my recent review of 3 NextGen Compact Cameras I could not help wondering where were Canon and Nikon. Well Canon has answered in no uncertain terms with its new Powershot line up. The top of the line Powershot SX210 IS is particularly impressive staking NextGen highs for MPixels and optical zoom: Canon
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NYTimes David Pogue has a great sense for value – and this year’s choices for the best compact camera for under $300 are as usual quite good. As seen in this very helpful chart, 10MPixel or better storage and some prices well under $300 rule the roost. Many of David’s recommended cameras have 10x zoom,
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As a photo-artist I really appreciate always having a camera with me. Rather than taking a bulky, heavy SLR everywhere I have reverted back to compact cameras because they are certainly delivering on thin, light, wide zoom-range and gobs of features. They are also bound and determined not to provide a view finder – to
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The comments on Apple’s iPad are starting to really roll in the best I have found so far is by New York Times David Pogue: * Like the iPhone, the iPad is really a vessel, a tool, a 1.5-pound sack of potential. It may become many things. This catches the overall theme of many gadget
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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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Online Photo-Editing sites have been covered by thePhotoFinishes.com before; but not a free online PhotoFinishing site. Befunky changes that – it is devoted to taking your photos and transforming them into works of art using special effects like Cartoonizer, Oil Painting, Inkify, Old Photo, Charcoal, Impressionist, and my favorite – PopArt. Then add some goodies.
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