Monthly Archives: September 2007

Sep
22
2007

The Adobe Documentation Advantage

One of the key marketing success factors for Adobe has been the uniformly high quality of Adobe’s written documentation coupled with the huge number of books and websites that are available for graphic designers or photo-editors looking for some creative ideas or operational help on key products like Illustrator or Photoshop. Look [...]

By jbsurv | Posted in software | Comments (0)
Sep
16
2007

Lensbaby

I saw one of these Lensbabies in down at THEx (Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario) and I nearly disgraced myself laughing out loud (murfle.. muffle.. lol). It looks like a dinky-toy not a lens.
I chuckled for the rest of the day.
However, I got my come-uppance at the Junction Gallery Festival along Dundas Street [...]

By jbsurv | Posted in stillcamera | Comments (0)
Sep
10
2007

Visual Documentation

I have already commented on how good documentation, both in house and third party books and websites, can have on the success of a graphics product line. Now I would like to say a few kind words about Visual Documentation. This is documentation laden, page after page, with visual illustrations and screenshots throughout the book. [...]

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Sep
10
2007

Corel PaintShop Pro X2

The screenshot says it all. At a time when Corel has greater competition in the mid range bitmap photo editing space - Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Gimp, plus a flock of other programs - Corel could not afford to release anything but a real winner update to its PaintShop Pro line. PSP [...]

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Sep
08
2007

BlueMarine:Open Source Graphics Software

With the exceptions of Gimp (Photo editing), Blender (3D graphics), and OpenXL(3D library), there are not a lot of prominent graphics software from the Open Source camp. BlueMarine from Italy seems to be wanting to change that with its challenge to Adobe’s LightRoom and Apple’s Aperture photo editing workflow software.

I have dropped by and [...]

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