One of the advantages of the Web 2.0 RIA revolution is that Flash and JavaScript websites are not only getting more features but also much faster in performance. Color Wheels and Color Chooser websites have gotten very sophisticated. Going to my old wheel favorite Color Scheme Designer I could not find it - it has [...]
Apple is getting a stranglehold on the evolution of computing devices, particulary for consumers. iPod + iTunes dominates the media playing world. iPhone + iAppStore dominate the phone plus highly portable app and messaging world. But Apple missed the boat despite a huge technology leads on the PC desktop and laptop world back in [...]
Caribana took place this last weekend in Toronto - see PixofCanada for pictures and a complete description of the event. What I want to show here is some of the great colours and ideas to be found in the many Caribbean cultures that put on another splendid show in Toronto this summer. The hues were [...]
It is Spring!
So color is on mind. And so exploring what is available in color wheels and creative aids followed in interest along with a web blog development project. And in the process I came across a … uhhh color tablet from GenoPal:
Get the genopal widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
Now this [...]
I really did not expect online photo editing to ever happen, but Picnik.com has brought online photo editing to the Web as the screenshot attests to. And if you can live with the online ads - its also free. I suggest that you live with ads because [...]
Pic2Color has some really interesting fun with colors - similar to what we covered in our 2 articles on the main site. Try this out:
See if you have as much fun as I did.
Adobe is conducting an experiment - a very ineteresting one with Lightroom.
They are testing to see if there is a market for a photo editor that has no capability to do either selections/maskings or any layering. This program is devoted to taking camera RAW or JPG images and cropping, straightening (a little weak here), color [...]
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 have [...]
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 essential [...]