What is your first impression of this book cover? The designer is obviously having fun with type and in almost classic style. And that is the jist of what’s behind the cover of Carl Dair’s outstandingly vigorous yet remarkably crisp Design with Type. I cringe at books on typography that are long on alphabetical examples…
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…
Corel recently launched version 10 of its Painter program: Now what makes this program of interest to photofinishers are three things: 1)Corel is now specifically addressing the needs of photographers and photofinishers with a number of feature; 2)Corel has also speeded up the processing of Painter – this has been targetted specifically; 3)Painter continues to…
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…
