ThePhotoFinishes has been an admirer of Xara’s photo finishing software like Xara Photo Designer Pro. And why not?. Xara software is super fast particularly when dealing with large bitmap images [30MB or larger] and vector graphic files[20K graphic point or more]; many of its operations are drag and drop simple to do or just a […]
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If you goto the Pinterest site here, you will find 150 of the best photos from the Olympic Games in London. These are compiled from a number of sources – but the bulk of them come from the LATimes Photography Blog and the London2012.com official Olympic website. There are 3 reasons for this choice of sources
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Lets be honest, this reviewer was not looking for much in the PS6 3D set of commands. After all this was just going to match the 4year old 3D and beveling commands of Xara’s Designer Pro at double the price and half the speed. And the first part of our tests seemed to confirm that:
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The Blur Gallery appears to be incomplete in the first beta of Photoshop 6. And I sincerely hope so and shall show you why here. You can find the Blur Gallery under the Filter Menu – choose anyone of Field Blur, Iris Blur or Tilt-Shift Blur – and then screen above will appear. The sidebar
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PhotoFishes is watching closely the fast rate of innovation at Adobe as appearing in the Adobe Labs. Adobe’s new HTML5 animation tool, Edge, has been of particular interest. And just 5weeks after its intro, the Edge team has produced a new beta 2 preview. Here is what the Edge IDE now looks like: See our
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Is this just a Photo? Toronto Winter City Festival – Angel of the Apocalypse Exhibit by the Flaming Lotus Girls I have been blithely producing this series of Olympic Plugin articles without asking a very relevant question – when is a picture more than just a picture? By that I mean in the process of
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The Vancouver Winter Olympic Games have been a delight despite the warm weather. And the coverage in the Press around the world has been a lot more than I expected given that it is Winter events that just do not have traction in much of the warmer climes. What really surprised was the mixed coverage
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The last step in PhotoFinishing is to add a frame to your image – and this can be an extraordinarily dangerous business. I have seen too many very good shots diminished by overstated metal/wooden frames and mattes. And in the digital world , the ability to do great harm to a good image seems to
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