With the exceptions of Gimp (Photo editing), Blender (3D graphics), and OpenXL(3D library), there are not a lot of prominent graphics software from the Open Source camp. BlueMarine from Italy seems to be wanting to change that with its challenge to Adobe’s LightRoom and Apple’s Aperture photo editing workflow software. I have dropped by and […]
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Mike McGrath CSS in Easy Steps If you are into formating and laying out Web pages you need to read this book. Why ? Because it graphically shows how to format Web pages using CSS in a color graphics format that make learning some of the inricacies of CSS much easier. Remember there are 4
The stock photo businbess has certainly changed. Look what I found at iStockphoto.com: Yes, this is a vector illustration and there is more lots more. Animations, 3d models, and Flash movies among other graphics objects for sale. And all are royalty free. The prices are pretty competitive and the choice is quite broad. However, I
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Photoshop Restoration and Retouching by Katrin Eismann – New Riders Press Don’t let the title fool you, this book really has a very broad scope Here are some of the chapter headings_ Correcting Tone, Exposure, and Color Essential Restoration, Reparing, and Rebuilding Portrauit Retouching Rebuilding and Re-creating Images And ech of these chapters is chock
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The race is on. The race for GUI and therefore desktop PC supremacy is back on between Apple and Microsoft officially. Again. Microsoft made it so this past week with the intro of its response to Apple’s widely praised and wildly popular iPhone. Surface is the name of the Big Box, and Microsoft thinks so
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There are a new crop of digital SLRs and David Pogue at the New York Times has reviewed these 10MPixel (slightly overweight for most uses) machines. The key new features are: 1)lower price – well below $800 for body only while keeping a full set of SLR features and performance; 2)adding dust clearing agitator for
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Gizmodo tracks the latest geek gizmos, so it should be no surprise that they have picked up the first sightings of the prototype digital camera which will largely replace digital SLRs – the dual capable video cameras. These 3 cameras all offer the capability of not only taking HDTV video images – and directly onto
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Well I finally relented and upgraded to Adobe CS3 Premium Suite – and after paying all the taxes I was relieved to see my account down nearly $800 for the upgrade. So I have been working frantically with almost all of Premium Suite such that I have some notable First Impression evaluations. Note again these
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