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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Adobe Photoshop CS3 has become clearly the best bitmap photo editor, wresting the last vestiges of better features from Corel, Ulead and others. And Photoshop continues to forge huge leads in HDR/32 bit image processing, photo retouching, panoramas + photomerge, plus first steps towards 3D and video integration. It also retains a wide lead in
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Can you believe that Apple Inc, the self-appointed Deans of Great GUI Design – have still come up lame on basic GUI operations . This is even true with Apple’s new Leopard. True with Spaces, Apple finally sees the Linux Light and brings a capability that every design program worth its salt (think diversely of
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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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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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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It is hard to choose which will be the biggest treat for graphic designers in Adobe’s blockbuster CS3 announcement. But Photoshop CS3 Extended has got to be high on the list. Look at some of the features: Camera Raw Processing goes to a new level: Now many may say that the Camera Raw seems to
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The biggest treat for this observer in the new Adobe CS3 announcements is the continued refinement of Premiere Pro and After Effects. You Tube video artists already have the more then versatile Adobe Premiere Elements. But the semi to pro video crews have a lot to like in the new dynamic duo for video production.
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