The screenshot says it all. At a time when Corel has greater competition in the mid range bitmap photo editing space – Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Gimp, plus a flock of other programs – Corel could not afford to release anything but a real winner update to its PaintShop Pro line. PSP […]
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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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Mike McGrath CSS in Easy Steps If you are into formating and laying out Web pages you need to read this book. Why ? Because it graphically shows how to format Web pages using CSS in a color graphics format that make learning some of the inricacies of CSS much easier. Remember there are 4
The stock photo businbess has certainly changed. Look what I found at iStockphoto.com: Yes, this is a vector illustration and there is more lots more. Animations, 3d models, and Flash movies among other graphics objects for sale. And all are royalty free. The prices are pretty competitive and the choice is quite broad. However, I
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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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In a previous posting I have cited how much Adobe and Photoshop dominate the 2D photo editing world. Now the same dominance does not extend to animations (despite Flash), 3D graphics, and video editing although Adobe is a major player in all three arenas especially with new 3D offerings in Photoshop Extended. However there is
Adobe is conducting an experiment – a very ineteresting one with Lightroom. They are testing to see if there is a market for a photo editor that has no capability to do either selections/maskings or any layering. This program is devoted to taking camera RAW or JPG images and cropping, straightening (a little weak here),
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