I was just about to go off to Barrie’s Winter WindFest to take pictures there. WindFest features all sorts of iceboats, kites, and wind riders taking advantage of the ice on Lake Simcoe that has been generously applied this bitterly cold February. But as I was looking for directions I stumbled across this notice: Media […]
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What is your first impression of this book cover? The designer is obviously having fun with type and in almost classic style. And that is the jist of what’s behind the cover of Carl Dair’s outstandingly vigorous yet remarkably crisp Design with Type. I cringe at books on typography that are long on alphabetical examples
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I used to argue that the four most difficult tasks in photofinishing and photo editing were color corrections, masking, sharpening and touch ups. But the good folks from Adobe, Corel, Ulead and a host of plugin suppliers have been slowly but surely whittling away at these problems. Color Corrections have moved well beyond Hue/Saturation/Lightness and
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Corel recently launched version 10 of its Painter program: Now what makes this program of interest to photofinishers are three things: 1)Corel is now specifically addressing the needs of photographers and photofinishers with a number of feature; 2)Corel has also speeded up the processing of Painter – this has been targetted specifically; 3)Painter continues to
Here are two plugins from Redfield. Let me describe them briefly: Redfield’s Craquelure allows photofinishers to apply a texture imprint onto their images of varying size, depth, rotation, and other properties. Craquelure has 12 basic texture templates from which photofinishers can apply an imprint of varying scale onto a part (using masks) or all of
These ads are appearing all over graphic design and publishing sites: Think of them as bulls-eyes for Adobe’s major product lines: Expression Web targets Adobe Dreamweaver Expresion Design targets Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Expression Blend targets Adobe Flash Expresion Media taargets Adobe Premiere Elements and Flash Video Like Madame Defarge of Dicken’s Tale of Two
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Sony announced this week a new video image sensor that does the following: 1)takes images at 60 frames per second 2)and at 2921Horizontal pixels by 2184Vertical pixels = 6.4Mpixels 3)and can seamlessly take still images at this full resolution 4)and performs at high speed plus alternate resolution versus speed settings. Go to the Sony site
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All through December and the first half of January I was gearing up psychologically and physically to do battle with Winter. But Winter was feinting – some cool nights, and a little snow but then followed by those Glow in the Night and “it must be Global Warming” days of early January. In short it