One of the key marketing success factors for Adobe has been the uniformly high quality of Adobe’s written documentation coupled with the huge number of books and websites that are available for graphic designers or photo-editors looking for some creative ideas or operational help on key products like Illustrator or Photoshop. Look at the numbers: […]
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I saw one of these Lensbabies in down at THEx (Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario) and I nearly disgraced myself laughing out loud (murfle.. muffle.. lol). It looks like a dinky-toy not a lens. I chuckled for the rest of the day. However, I got my come-uppance at the Junction Gallery Festival along Dundas
I have already commented on how good documentation, both in house and third party books and websites, can have on the success of a graphics product line. Now I would like to say a few kind words about Visual Documentation. This is documentation laden, page after page, with visual illustrations and screenshots throughout the book.
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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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