For the past 3-6 years, the facilities in graphics programs have improved such that it is simple to create very good looking galleries on the Web. The programs do all the major taks: 1)help gather together the photos into a collection; 2)allow simple resizing and/or watermarking of the images; 3)provide many templates for the basic […]
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In our previous posting on Web Photo Galleries: Upsides, some of the attractive features of photo editor based Web Gallery creation software held center stage – it is called the Upside. Now we discuss some of the Downsides to current Web Gallery Creation Software. No Comprehensive Tool In the previous review, the issue of a
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The Adobe Max Show in San Francisco this week is becoming as important to Web and Cloud Designers and Developers as the Microsoft PDF/TechEd conferences used to be for staying on the state of the art in IT development. But now it is Adobe that is moving on a three prong front that is really
I wondered why was Adobe emphasizing so much the availability of speed boosts for Photoshop CS4 available through a 64bit version and special video drivers associated with various graphics chips ; particularly for the PC version of Photoshop. So I decided to do some quick benchmarks on my Vista and Windows XP laptops using CS3
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I have been checking some of the feature changes between Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 with particular attention to the animation capabilities and performance. In CS3, for example, I have found that a number of Photoshop editing commands are applied to all of the frames and that you have to think differently from Flash and
I would like to tell you that the new Firefox 3 web browser is blazingly fast, full of new GUI features yet with great ease of use. And FireFox 3 has one of the best set of add-ons, themes and extensions. It leaves even the upcoming IE8(early next year likely) in the dust. But I
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On the margin between bitmap photo editing and vector drawing/illustration, there is a new world of image composition that combines vector+bitmap in new and innovative ways. A lot of vendors have dabbled in this arena including Deneba(now ACDSee) Canvas, Adobe Fireworks and Xara Xtreme Pro – even hints of it in Adobe Photoshop with its
Grokking the Gimp by Carey Bunks, O’Reilly Press, Feb 2000 – $45 Anybody who has just read my Portable Gimp posting will know why I also have been perusing around for a “brush up your Gimp” skills book. There is a piece of software call Gimp Photoshop Layout which helps reconfigure the Gimp toolboxes and
