Monthly Archives: May 2007

May
12
2007

First Example: SLR to Video Camera

Gizmodo tracks the latest geek gizmos, so it should be no surprise that they have picked up the first sightings of the prototype digital camera which will largely replace digital SLRs - the dual capable video cameras. These 3 cameras all offer the capability of not only taking HDTV video images - and directly onto [...]

By jbsurv | Posted in hardware, stillcamera, video | Comments (0)
May
10
2007

Adobe CS3 Premium Suite: First Impressions

Well I finally relented and upgraded to Adobe CS3 Premium Suite - and after paying all the taxes I was relieved to see my account down nearly $800 for the upgrade. So I have been working frantically with almost all of Premium Suite such that I have some notable First Impression evaluations.
Note again these are [...]

By jbsurv | Posted in 3D, design, software | Comments (0)
May
10
2007

Plugins Aplenty

In a previous posting I have cited how much Adobe and Photoshop dominate the 2D photo editing world. Now the same dominance does not extend to animations (despite Flash), 3D graphics, and video editing although Adobe is a major player in all three arenas especially with new 3D offerings in Photoshop Extended. However [...]

By jbsurv | Posted in plugins, software | Comments (0)
May
08
2007

The LightRoom Experiment

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 [...]

By jbsurv | Posted in color corrections, software | Comments (0)