Photo Finishing manipulations have been used from the earliest days of photography. No less a photographer than Matthew Brady in 1860 altered a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by adding Lincoln’s head to the body of political rival, Senator John C Calhoun of South Carolina: The Daily Show crew would be proud & applaud M. Brady By the late […]
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Ever since Adobe transitioned to a profit maximizing for itself plan of annual charges for Photoshop and its suite of products, this reviewer has been looking for alternatives to Adobe’s offerings. The reasons are simple: 1)the hefty price increases based on my 4-6 year upgrade cycle; 2)Adobe’s overweaning prescription of how files and resources are
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In November of last year, thePhotofinishes looked at Corel Painter Lite as a possible economic version[$50 vs $300] of full Corel Painter X3. But what we discovered was a program that was so severely stripped of painting features it was really only good as a Paint program with a reasonable set of brushes and layering
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Despite having 2 PhotoBlogs, Picsof Canada and PixofToronto [and a few defunct one], this photobug is also an avid PhotoAlbum user of such services as Flickr.com, Fotki.com and Facebook. But over the past year I have found myself migrating to the Photo Albums on Google Plus. Here are 5 reasons why and then 3
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Adobe faced 3 perilous marketing conundrums where almost all its sales options look like Lose-Lose More propositions. The first conundrum is the emergence of Freemium pricing where core app software is given away for free and money is made on add-ons, plugins, plus special editions. Freemium pricing has taken over the mobile world and will
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The screenshot above is appropriate bcause Corel Painter Lite is ripped out of Corel Painter. Corel has stripped away Painter’s Clone, Trace, AutoPlay and most of the Effect commands but has left in 15 brushes including Acrylics, Airbrush, Digital Watercolor, Impasto, chalks, pastels among others. Their are 7-10 presets for each brush and you can
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As a photographer and graphic artist, these are words I never thought I would write. After more than two decades of being a dedicated graphics power user, someone who over that time has polished and finished tens of thousands of images and video clips while desperately waiting for Mac and Apple to deliver an effective
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Adobe Flash and PDF continue to thrive despite all the efforts of Steve Jobs and Apple in the case of Flash plus Google and Microsoft in the case of PDFs. Microsoft’s first incarnation of Metro was an XML-based alternative to the PDF format spawned in 2004-5 and then retired in 2008-2009. Google would like to
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