Jack Surveyer

Two More SLRs

I have been arguing that this year is the year of the SLR – as companies like Nikon and Canon contend for top spot as the conversion from film to digital reaches and goes pass its peak. Also Sony, Samsung, Olympus, and even Pentax strive for survival. All the vendors are worried about the Windows

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Xara Xtreme Pro 4

Xara Extreme Pro 4 is now out – and this photo tool comes to market with a reputation for handling huge 20-100MB image files (TIFF, PSD, JPEGs) with unbelievable quickness and speed. At the same time most of its tools are live effects – that is users drag and drop the tool with different settings

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Art School Shows

Its that time of year again, when image lovers get to see the latest works coming from the Art Schools. April 3, Ryerson Institute has added its shows. They are posted in alphabetical order: The Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary Alberta . Canadore College Graphic Design March 13 to 27th at WKP Kennedy

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Web Books

Try the following exercise at Barnes and Noble or Amazon – enter “Web Development” or “Web Design” in your search request for books. Click and you will get 100’s if not 1000’s of books recommendations – Web Creation for Dummies thru CSS Zen Garden to Learning Web Design. And many of the books will have

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Animation as App

I have just covered the wonders of online painting programs using Flash technology primarily. What can be done directly on the Web with photo-editing is … well astonishing to this observer. But Logomaker above shows the use of a bevy of simple Flash animation techniques to create a logo. The critical idea is to enable

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