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Resizing Software

onOne Software has one of the best tools for resizing images I have found, Genuine Fractals: Now onOne has bought Liguid Resizing technology which will bring a revolutions not just to downsizing and upsizing software but also advanced retouching/editing as well. See here for a astonishing video demo of the technology. onOne will have a

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Plugins Aplenty

In a previous posting I have cited how much Adobe and Photoshop dominate the 2D photo editing world. Now the same dominance does not extend to animations (despite Flash), 3D graphics, and video editing although Adobe is a major player in all three arenas especially with new 3D offerings in Photoshop Extended. However there is

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Color Corrections, Masking, Sharpening, Touch ups

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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Redfield Plugins

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

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