In an article on GUI Clumsiness, I argue that OS desktop vendors like Apple and Microsoft could learn not a few tricks from the world of graphics software where GUI innovation has really made photo finishing and 3D drawing much more approachable. One only has to see a movie almos inevitably digitally enchanced these days. […]
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Pic2Color has some really interesting fun with colors – similar to what we covered in our 2 articles on the main site. Try this out: See if you have as much fun as I did.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 has become clearly the best bitmap photo editor, wresting the last vestiges of better features from Corel, Ulead and others. And Photoshop continues to forge huge leads in HDR/32 bit image processing, photo retouching, panoramas + photomerge, plus first steps towards 3D and video integration. It also retains a wide lead in
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Sharpcast at first appears to be another photo sharing site like Fotki or Flickr… and it is but with a couple of differences. First, Sharpcast does most of its transactions on your local computer; then when you connect to the Web it can do such important transactions as uploads, back up and syncing with your
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Can you believe that Apple Inc, the self-appointed Deans of Great GUI Design – have still come up lame on basic GUI operations . This is even true with Apple’s new Leopard. True with Spaces, Apple finally sees the Linux Light and brings a capability that every design program worth its salt (think diversely of
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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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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