It is hard to choose which will be the biggest treat for graphic designers in Adobe’s blockbuster CS3 announcement. But Photoshop CS3 Extended has got to be high on the list. Look at some of the features: Camera Raw Processing goes to a new level: Now many may say that the Camera Raw seems to […]
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Adobe is having a huge coming out party for its Creative Suite of products. And what a show! There are over 20 new products and bundles being announced. A lot will be the first looks at what the merger of Macromedia and Adobe will bring to the market place. The products of particular interest to
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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 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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Here are two plugins from Redfield. Let me describe them briefly: Redfield’s Craquelure allows photofinishers to apply a texture imprint onto their images of varying size, depth, rotation, and other properties. Craquelure has 12 basic texture templates from which photofinishers can apply an imprint of varying scale onto a part (using masks) or all of
These ads are appearing all over graphic design and publishing sites: Think of them as bulls-eyes for Adobe’s major product lines: Expression Web targets Adobe Dreamweaver Expresion Design targets Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Expression Blend targets Adobe Flash Expresion Media taargets Adobe Premiere Elements and Flash Video Like Madame Defarge of Dicken’s Tale of Two
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