Adobe is having a huge coming out party for its Creative Suite of products. And what a show! There are over 20 new products and bundles being announced. A lot will be the first looks at what the merger of Macromedia and Adobe will bring to the market place. The products of particular interest to […]
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Adobe has finally entered the high end 3D and video rendering market with the new Photoshop CS3 Extended product. Call it PS3x for short. This product will have: – all the features of the new Photoshop CS3. – render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. – edit motion graphics on video layers. –
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I have been using intensively the Photoshop CS3 beta and Xara Xtreme Pro prior to writing review of both. I have also highlighted the return in photo finishing software to the core workflow in digital image processing – refining and color/contrast correcting original raw images. One of the common features in all these new programs
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Two recent photofinishing tools, Adobe LightRoom and Nikon’s Capture NX have set a new back-to-the- future direction to photofinishing. Neither of these tools has either layers or masks or filters – the concentration in both is rendering a photo finished – not composited, filtered or gardened – finished. My brother Greg has raised the following
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I was just about to go off to Barrie’s Winter WindFest to take pictures there. WindFest features all sorts of iceboats, kites, and wind riders taking advantage of the ice on Lake Simcoe that has been generously applied this bitterly cold February. But as I was looking for directions I stumbled across this notice: Media
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What is your first impression of this book cover? The designer is obviously having fun with type and in almost classic style. And that is the jist of what’s behind the cover of Carl Dair’s outstandingly vigorous yet remarkably crisp Design with Type. I cringe at books on typography that are long on alphabetical examples
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I used to argue that the four most difficult tasks in photofinishing and photo editing were color corrections, masking, sharpening and touch ups. But the good folks from Adobe, Corel, Ulead and a host of plugin suppliers have been slowly but surely whittling away at these problems. Color Corrections have moved well beyond Hue/Saturation/Lightness and
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Corel recently launched version 10 of its Painter program: Now what makes this program of interest to photofinishers are three things: 1)Corel is now specifically addressing the needs of photographers and photofinishers with a number of feature; 2)Corel has also speeded up the processing of Painter – this has been targetted specifically; 3)Painter continues to
