Cody Willard at Marketwatch is predicting an App-based revolution- where 1)smartphones and tablets displace notebooks and desktops for the bulk of media consumption and a large portion of media creation which is the world of Photoshop, Autocad, Flash and many popular clones, etc. Going in favor Cody’s notion has been 1)the swelling usage of smartphones […]
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Spring is my favorite time of year because Nature’s colors are a rare delicate and pastel hue. In short it is a season to imbibe and enjoy as a new cycle of vernal sounds, fragrances and colors cover the landscape. And if ye Editor is not mistaken, there is an invigoration in step and mood
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Adobe has released an interim upgrade to its various Creative Suites; but more importantly changed its update policy and pricing schedule. The driver according to Adobe is the fast rate of development in the mobile space – and so as can be seen below the major changes are in Web and mobile targetting products: Updated
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Nikon D5100 16.2MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR Nikkor Zoom Any doubts about the convergence of video cameras with digital SLRs went by the wayside with the arrival of the new Nikon D5100 video SLR. This blog has foreseen convergence for the past 4 years and now it has happened with Nikon D5100
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Paint.NET is like Artweaver, it is a free, Windows program that supports roughly Photoshop 4-5 level photoediting. These capabilities are nothing to sniff at – it means users can do all the essential photo-edit operations: Crop, Straighten, Resize, Color-adjust including to B+W, Smooth, and Sharpen an image or selected portions of it. Also like Artweaver,
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Ever since Jasc Paintshop Pro version 8 and ACDSee 10 passed their prime, ye Editor has been looking for a fast viewer and editor for Windows. Jasc came to Corel while ACD Systems Pro Photo Manager 3.0, Adobe Photoshop Elements , and Corel PaintShop Pro [all supposedly geared for novice users] have become too complicated to
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Xara has the fastest bitmap + vector draw program by far with Xara Designer Pro. Xara has had as one of its consistent virtues blazing speed. Xara is able to handle big bitmap 30-80MB files [great for the thunderously sized images being produced by top of the line Canon, Nikon, and other SLR cameras] and
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Corel has long had one of the best Windows natural media paint programs, Painter 11. The program offers numerous brush+media types with master control over each brush+media and its effects. Artist colleagues use Painter 11 as a basic creative medium and tool. Photographers use it to refine photos with subtle brush effects and enhanced compositions.
Last year I wrote RIP: Corel PaintShop Pro on this blog and made the following comments: Unfortunately, After Corel took over Paint Shop Pro – they appear to have applied their vaunted Corel Reverse Midas Touch [think PhotoPaint, Picture Publisher and Word Perfect franchises]. Right now, Paint Shop Pro V2 is in a contest with
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Is this just a Photo? Toronto Winter City Festival – Angel of the Apocalypse Exhibit by the Flaming Lotus Girls I have been blithely producing this series of Olympic Plugin articles without asking a very relevant question – when is a picture more than just a picture? By that I mean in the process of
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