The above screen shot is of Snipshot, another very good online photo editor. In a small but deliberate array of tests on a 900 x 600 pixel image, I found the response time from Snipshot to be very good and the array of commands at my disposal very useful for the quick image retouching or […]
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For the past 3-6 years, the facilities in graphics programs have improved such that it is simple to create very good looking galleries on the Web. The programs do all the major taks: 1)help gather together the photos into a collection; 2)allow simple resizing and/or watermarking of the images; 3)provide many templates for the basic
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The Adobe Max Show in San Francisco this week is becoming as important to Web and Cloud Designers and Developers as the Microsoft PDF/TechEd conferences used to be for staying on the state of the art in IT development. But now it is Adobe that is moving on a three prong front that is really
I have been checking some of the feature changes between Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 with particular attention to the animation capabilities and performance. In CS3, for example, I have found that a number of Photoshop editing commands are applied to all of the frames and that you have to think differently from Flash and
On the margin between bitmap photo editing and vector drawing/illustration, there is a new world of image composition that combines vector+bitmap in new and innovative ways. A lot of vendors have dabbled in this arena including Deneba(now ACDSee) Canvas, Adobe Fireworks and Xara Xtreme Pro – even hints of it in Adobe Photoshop with its
Grokking the Gimp by Carey Bunks, O’Reilly Press, Feb 2000 – $45 Anybody who has just read my Portable Gimp posting will know why I also have been perusing around for a “brush up your Gimp” skills book. There is a piece of software call Gimp Photoshop Layout which helps reconfigure the Gimp toolboxes and
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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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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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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