Photo Finishing manipulations have been used from the earliest days of photography. No less a photographer than Matthew Brady in 1860 altered a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by adding Lincoln’s head to the body of political rival, Senator John C Calhoun of South Carolina: The Daily Show crew would be proud & applaud M. Brady By the late […]
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Great slideshows for great images has been a problem long addressed by photographers. As a member of the Calgary and Toronto camera clubs the slideshow command performances were a show in themselves with dual projector setups, music [or narration] and fantastic slide transitions. So it is not surprising to find some great Web slideshow apps.
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Cody Willard at Marketwatch is predicting an App-based revolution- where 1)smartphones and tablets displace notebooks and desktops for the bulk of media consumption and a large portion of media creation which is the world of Photoshop, Autocad, Flash and many popular clones, etc. Going in favor Cody’s notion has been 1)the swelling usage of smartphones
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The Winter Olympic games have been quite exciting and picturesque – inspiring this series of Olympic Plugins reviews that highlight some of the best free and for fee plugins available. The improvement in plugins capabilities over the past 3-4 years have been quite dramatic. Here are two from the AutoFX that are both free and quite compelling.
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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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Apple is getting a stranglehold on the evolution of computing devices, particulary for consumers. iPod + iTunes dominates the media playing world. iPhone + iAppStore dominate the phone plus highly portable app and messaging world. But Apple missed the boat despite a huge technology leads on the PC desktop and laptop world back in the
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JPEG2000 has shrivelled and not quite died but certainly is not what it promised to be as a replacement for the JPEG image format. Here are the ugly facts: Graphics Support in the Major Browsers Web Standard IE8 Firefox 3.x Chrome 1. Opera 9.6 Safari 4 JPEG2000 No No No No No SMIL Dropped? 3.1
Sitegrinder is a Photoshop plugin – not an ordinary photo-effects oriented plugin; but rather a Web Development tool. SiteGrinder allows graphic artists to layout the design for a website page (or pages) in Adobe’s Photoshop. Using the extensive Layer and Layer Comp facilities in Photoshop one can add sophisticated buttons, links, page transitions, galleries, and
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