PictureThat has featured the accelerating convergence in functionality and features between still cameras and video camcorders. Still cameras are borrowing much wider zooms, low lux performance, and image stabilization from video cameras while providing HD video recording capabilities with interchangeable lens in cameras like the Nikon D90 or Canon Mark 2D and the new Kodak […]
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Adobe has just concluded agreements with Intel and Broadcom that assure that the latest Flash Player technology will be available on TVs that will deliver more online, Web based experiences. Why is this important to graphic artists – read the fine print here, but it opens Flash on TV to a potential 1 billion customers.
Sitegrinder is a Photoshop plugin – not an ordinary photo-effects oriented plugin; but rather a Web Development tool. SiteGrinder allows graphic artists to layout the design for a website page (or pages) in Adobe’s Photoshop. Using the extensive Layer and Layer Comp facilities in Photoshop one can add sophisticated buttons, links, page transitions, galleries, and
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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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Welcome to Pix of Toronto on WordPress 2.7. Our Toronto blog was down out for the count for the past few days. But thanks to some help from the WordPress people we have been able to restore Pixof Toronto.com to its full resplendent state! In addition we have added some new postings long overdue. Please
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Yahoo/Flickr had a great idea for the the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. They would have two gals, Yahoo employees, ride bicycles with specially mounted cameras on the front steering wheel of the bikes. Then automatically, once a minute a picture would be snapped of the parade as “observed” by the bike riders/picture takers and automatically
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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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In our previous posting on Web Photo Galleries: Upsides, some of the attractive features of photo editor based Web Gallery creation software held center stage – it is called the Upside. Now we discuss some of the Downsides to current Web Gallery Creation Software. No Comprehensive Tool In the previous review, the issue of a
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