Adobe PR had a lot of fanfare over what would appear to be a small item: Adobe Premier Pro, the top of the line video editor tool from Adobe, would be available on the Mac. What ? I thought all Adobe software ran on the Mac. One of the attractions of the Macromedia buyout by…
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…
The biggest treat for this observer in the new Adobe CS3 announcements is the continued refinement of Premiere Pro and After Effects. You Tube video artists already have the more then versatile Adobe Premiere Elements. But the semi to pro video crews have a lot to like in the new dynamic duo for video production.…
Adobe is having a huge coming out party for its Creative Suite of products. And what a show! There are over 20 new products and bundles being announced. A lot will be the first looks at what the merger of Macromedia and Adobe will bring to the market place. The products of particular interest to…
Adobe has finally entered the high end 3D and video rendering market with the new Photoshop CS3 Extended product. Call it PS3x for short. This product will have: - all the features of the new Photoshop CS3. - render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. - edit motion graphics on video layers. -…
I have been using intensively the Photoshop CS3 beta and Xara Xtreme Pro prior to writing review of both. I have also highlighted the return in photo finishing software to the core workflow in digital image processing – refining and color/contrast correcting original raw images. One of the common features in all these new programs…
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…
I was just about to go off to Barrie’s Winter WindFest to take pictures there. WindFest features all sorts of iceboats, kites, and wind riders taking advantage of the ice on Lake Simcoe that has been generously applied this bitterly cold February. But as I was looking for directions I stumbled across this notice: Media…
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…
These ads are appearing all over graphic design and publishing sites: Think of them as bulls-eyes for Adobe’s major product lines: Expression Web targets Adobe Dreamweaver Expresion Design targets Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Expression Blend targets Adobe Flash Expresion Media taargets Adobe Premiere Elements and Flash Video Like Madame Defarge of Dicken’s Tale of Two…
Sony announced this week a new video image sensor that does the following: 1)takes images at 60 frames per second 2)and at 2921Horizontal pixels by 2184Vertical pixels = 6.4Mpixels 3)and can seamlessly take still images at this full resolution 4)and performs at high speed plus alternate resolution versus speed settings. Go to the Sony site…
CS3 takes a Second Seat ???
Adobe’s CS3 announcement tommorrow may still take second seat to the following: Hunhh – you say. This is the Flash+PDF runtime upgrade called Apollo. It will be able to display both PDF and Flash and HTML output including all that rich multimedia such as video, audio, Flash animations plus images in a variety of formats…
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