Jack Surveyer

Corel has long had one of the best Windows natural media paint programs, Painter 11. The program offers numerous brush+media types with master control over each brush+media and its effects. Artist colleagues use Painter 11 as a basic creative medium and tool. Photographers use it to refine photos with subtle brush effects and enhanced compositions. […]

This is a story about the new forbidden fruit – picture taking at public events. After the Cobourg Highland Festival was washed out with a downpour, your PhotoFinishes editor wearing a PhotoFinishes cap and trying to rescue the day went down to the Cobourg Beach to catch the storm clouds over Lake Ontario. The graying

Whats a waste! Apple’s Steve Job is getting awfully close to libelous scamming of Adobe Flash Player.Adobe has made the critical mistake of not putting enough resources into developing for Linux and Mac. And so Steve throws out HTML5 as a solution – and walks right into 3 big punches. First, HTML5 is far from

Your browser does not support iframes. This series of pictures shows that if you have any choice, err on the side of underexposure because everyone of the photos was underexposed by 1 to 3 stops as dusk became nearly full night. One can tell the more underexposed images by the amount of noise and/or blue

The Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival’s Art Show was a real find with a range of excellent artworks from sculptures to ceramics as well as photos and paintings. The entries were not only top notch but often very witty as well. However, taking pictures of the photos did not work as the glass covering of the

Newspapers have long lead the parade with cartoons and pictures as integral parts of their papers. The Web has changed that just a bit and now a broad set of media are starting to show up in the websites of newspapers and magazines. The problem of course, is that new media such as slideshows, animated