Welcome to Pix of Toronto on WordPress 2.7. Our Toronto blog was down out for the count for the past few days. But thanks to some help from the WordPress people we have been able to restore Pixof Toronto.com to its full resplendent state! In addition we have added some new postings long overdue. Please […]
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Yahoo/Flickr had a great idea for the the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. They would have two gals, Yahoo employees, ride bicycles with specially mounted cameras on the front steering wheel of the bikes. Then automatically, once a minute a picture would be snapped of the parade as “observed” by the bike riders/picture takers and automatically
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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
Nuit Blanche in Toronto gave me the opportunity to indulge a somewhat forgotten fancy – collecting live theater and show posters. I have a substantial collection of about 400-500 posters from the 1960’s through mid 1990’s – but I just have not been going to shows as often. So collecting has slowed to a trickle.
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