One of the more surprising new features of Photoshop CS3 is the Brightness/Contrast command, which has gone from being one of the worst features to one that is actually quite useful. I'll show you what I mean with this example. Let's start with an image that's a little bit washed out. Image by David Politi courtesy of iStockphoto Notice how...
The folks over at CameraArts magazine run a cool weekly photo contest. Readers vote the winners in--American Idol style. Editor and publisher Tim Anderson explains: The contest is designed to be fun, easy to enter, and to enable photographers much needed exposure, through the aid of such services as Blogger and Flickr. Out of the entries we receive, five finalists...
Bridge CS3 (already in dot-release, 2.1, as I write this) is the new version of the Adobe Bridge that ships with Photoshop CS3, the other individual CS3 applications, and the six, count them six, skews of Creative Suite 3. While I imagine lots of folks will be confused by Adobe's marketing strategy, the Bridge itself is as much of an...
Photoshop World is one of my favorite conferences of the year in terms of actually sitting down in sessions and learning something. In fact, there's learning to be had all over the Hynes Center next week, much of it brought to you by O'Reilly authors: Deke McClelland will be giving his orientation to Photoshop CS3 live and in color. This...
So CS3 is official, and the first thing anyone familiar with Photoshop is going to notice is that the interface has changed with this version. Our own Deke McClelland, of Photoshop One-on-One fame, has graciously stopped by with some interface wisdom to help you get your bearings. For the full Deke experience, be sure to pick up your copy of...
Stephen Johnson checked in to say he was back from Antarctica, I went looking online to see if any photos were posted yet. (I'm partial to penguins.) But I ended up engaged by this report from the trip's organizer Michael Reichmann about how various pieces of equipment fared under the extreme circumstances. I have a similar fascination with Derrick's anecdotes...
Sophie, a project to create multimedia books, is now available in Alpha release. Based on Squeak, Sophie is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sophie is not a tool to render traditional paper books to read on your PC. The Sophie project is aimed to go beyond print and utilize the interactive capabilities...
The next Maker Faire will be on May 19 and 20, 2007 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in Northern California, USA. Organized by the staff of Make and Craft magazines, Maker Faire is a newfangled fair that brings together science, art, craft and engineering in a fun, energized, and exciting public forum. The aim is to inspire people of...
Last night, four of our photographer-authors met at bay area bookstore Book Passage to discuss the joys and pains of the digital photographic experience. (Can't say enough what a cool bookstore that is!) A lively, engaged, and intelligent audience of close to 100 people (many more than the store expected, they kept adding chairs, but many were still standing wherever...
I'm a geek. So I spent the morning googling through YouTube to see what was new over at CES 2007. Along the way, I came across this video for the Quik Pod, which is a gadget that allows you to hold your digital camera at arms length and then trigger a snapshot. It's an almost 4-minute video that takes forever...
