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 […]
Video cameras are adding huge zoom capabilities. Optical zooms with image stabilization. The Pansonic SDR-H90 above is 70x true optical (think of it as a 37.9-2650mm (4:3) still camera telephoto range). The camera has a builtin 80GB drive and takes SD card with up to 32GB of memory for combined long play record of over
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Benq is showing the pint sized LED projector with power to burn … but this is just one example of the explosion of projector products that have been coming down the pike due to the miniturization of LEDs linked with ever smaller and more capable DSP chips coming primarily from TI. The result is a
It has been said many times before on this blog but the CES 2009 show in las Vegas made it big time official – Video is Going Still. Video cameras are now doing still photography in a big way as we can see in the camcoders above and below. For example the Sony CM1 line
PictureThat has featured the accelerating convergence in functionality and features between still cameras and video camcorders. Still cameras are borrowing much wider zooms, low lux performance, and image stabilization from video cameras while providing HD video recording capabilities with interchangeable lens in cameras like the Nikon D90 or Canon Mark 2D and the new Kodak
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Adobe has just concluded agreements with Intel and Broadcom that assure that the latest Flash Player technology will be available on TVs that will deliver more online, Web based experiences. Why is this important to graphic artists – read the fine print here, but it opens Flash on TV to a potential 1 billion customers.
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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The above screen shot is of Snipshot, another very good online photo editor. In a small but deliberate array of tests on a 900 x 600 pixel image, I found the response time from Snipshot to be very good and the array of commands at my disposal very useful for the quick image retouching or
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