The Adobe Max Show in San Francisco this week is becoming as important to Web and Cloud Designers and Developers as the Microsoft PDF/TechEd conferences used to be for staying on the state of the art in IT development. But now it is Adobe that is moving on a three prong front that is really […]
Nuit Blanche in Toronto gave me the opportunity to indulge a somewhat forgotten fancy – collecting live theater and show posters. I have a substantial collection of about 400-500 posters from the 1960’s through mid 1990’s – but I just have not been going to shows as often. So collecting has slowed to a trickle.
I wondered why was Adobe emphasizing so much the availability of speed boosts for Photoshop CS4 available through a 64bit version and special video drivers associated with various graphics chips ; particularly for the PC version of Photoshop. So I decided to do some quick benchmarks on my Vista and Windows XP laptops using CS3
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I have been checking some of the feature changes between Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 with particular attention to the animation capabilities and performance. In CS3, for example, I have found that a number of Photoshop editing commands are applied to all of the frames and that you have to think differently from Flash and
The price of Digital Cameras, Videos, and other Photo Equipment has dropped dramatically in the past few days. I just got a flier from Henry’s, one of Toronto’s larger dealers – and the prices are marked down by 15-25% on average. Sort of echoing what has happened to many people’s savings in the past few
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The Pentax K-m is Pentax’ response to the Canon XSi and the Nikon D60 among other mid to low priced SLRs. And the K-m has some very worthy features like 10MPixel images with a 16 point auto-focus, a 2.7″ TFT LCD viewer, image stabilization and two mode dust clearing system. This camera has borrowed artfully
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One can tell that Photokina, the CES of camera shows, is upcoming in Cologne Germany in mid-September. There is a proliferation of new camera announcements – particularly in the ultra competitive digital SLR business. Early this Spring, this site featured a story on the new digital SLRs. Yet already there are new cameras coming out
For the past few years I have been arguing that still and videos cameras are converging. Casio’s EX-F1 is currently the best example of that convergence. The Casio EX-F1 delivers 5 modes of still picture taking including auto-bracketing in four modes, multiple exposures from 2 to 60 frames per second, motion sensor triggered shots, plus
