Adobe is beginning to fire more often on the web media front. Most interesting is the new media player. Its really oriented towards movies – but even there the restriction is that that the movies must be one of the following: .FLV – Flash Video .F4V – MPEG Flash Video .MP4 – MP4 Movie .MP4V […]
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By the standards of timeliness, Ning is late to market. WordPress and Google’s Blogger were among the first wave of social sites. Then Myspace and Facebook arrived – and set new standards for what could be done on a social website. Now Ning has arrived and set a new standard for how easily things can
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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
With so many good online photo gallery websites available, why bother to roll your own? You have to get some web space and a domain name which together will cost $60-100 per year. Plus add in the “pleasure” of installing and maintaining your own gallery – who wants the grief ? Besides some great gallery
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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
How quickly things change on the Web. Google has closed Picnik but it has arisen from the ashes as PicMonkey – still very good as one of the best online photo editors. I really did not expect online photo editing to ever happen, but Picnik.com has brought online photo editing to the Web as the
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InDesign CS3 One on One by Deke McClelland – O’Reilly Press – $55 ($35 at Amazon) I am not an absolute neophyte to DeskTop Publishing having used Microsoft’s Picture Publisher, early versions of Quark Express and Adobe Pagemaker from time to time. But for a project I needed to come up to speed in InDesign
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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