You would think that PMA-Photo Marketing Association would be the best source of information for what went on at their annual show, PMA 2008 this year, which shows off in Las Vegas all that is happening in the world of photography. Well, not exactly. For some reason, the PMA puts on a humdinger of a […]
Recently I was at Downtown Camera looking for a new digital SLR to replace my Canon XTi. I got to chat with the the staff- and they were recommending the Canon Mark III or Nikon D3. We all agreed that Sony’s Alpha had been interesting with built in image stabilization and sensor cleaning; but the
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InDesign CS3 One on One by Deke McClelland – O’Reilly Press – $55 ($35 at Amazon) I am not an absolute neophyte to DeskTop Publishing having used Microsoft’s Picture Publisher, early versions of Quark Express and Adobe Pagemaker from time to time. But for a project I needed to come up to speed in InDesign
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I have been looking for new methods of adding punch to my posts and reviews on this website. The CES2008 story just below uses a YouTube Video. That sort of launched the interest in finding some other rich media that could be used. Here are the results of that search: FlashPaper and Zoho Show. Each
CES 2008 – the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 has long replaced Demo, COMDEX (sigh ….RIP)and other IT shows. CES is the place to be just after Christmas to see what will be the popular electronic gadgets for Christmas 2008. The market does need the lead time even in the frenetic electronics gadget market place. If
onOne Software has one of the best tools for resizing images I have found, Genuine Fractals: Now onOne has bought Liguid Resizing technology which will bring a revolutions not just to downsizing and upsizing software but also advanced retouching/editing as well. See here for a astonishing video demo of the technology. onOne will have a
In an article on GUI Clumsiness, I argue that OS desktop vendors like Apple and Microsoft could learn not a few tricks from the world of graphics software where GUI innovation has really made photo finishing and 3D drawing much more approachable. One only has to see a movie almos inevitably digitally enchanced these days.
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Pic2Color has some really interesting fun with colors – similar to what we covered in our 2 articles on the main site. Try this out: See if you have as much fun as I did.
