Recently I was at Downtown Camera looking for a new digital SLR to replace my Canon XTi. I got to chat with the the staff- and they were recommending the Canon Mark III or Nikon D3. We all agreed that Sony’s Alpha had been interesting with built in image stabilization and sensor cleaning; but the […]
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I have been looking for new methods of adding punch to my posts and reviews on this website. The CES2008 story just below uses a YouTube Video. That sort of launched the interest in finding some other rich media that could be used. Here are the results of that search: FlashPaper and Zoho Show. Each
CES 2008 – the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 has long replaced Demo, COMDEX (sigh ….RIP)and other IT shows. CES is the place to be just after Christmas to see what will be the popular electronic gadgets for Christmas 2008. The market does need the lead time even in the frenetic electronics gadget market place. If
I have already commented on how good documentation, both in house and third party books and websites, can have on the success of a graphics product line. Now I would like to say a few kind words about Visual Documentation. This is documentation laden, page after page, with visual illustrations and screenshots throughout the book.
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I have been using intensively the Photoshop CS3 beta and Xara Xtreme Pro prior to writing review of both. I have also highlighted the return in photo finishing software to the core workflow in digital image processing – refining and color/contrast correcting original raw images. One of the common features in all these new programs
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Two recent photofinishing tools, Adobe LightRoom and Nikon’s Capture NX have set a new back-to-the- future direction to photofinishing. Neither of these tools has either layers or masks or filters – the concentration in both is rendering a photo finished – not composited, filtered or gardened – finished. My brother Greg has raised the following
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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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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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