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...
Despite all the cool features we're discovering in the Photoshop CS3 public beta, one of the most talked about items seems to be the replacement of the "feather" icon with a simple 2-letter "Ps" on a blue block. Because the public beta also gives us a glimpse of the "Br" icon that comes with Bridge CS3, we can extrapolate that...
If you do nothing else this weekend besides shopping and downloading the Photoshop CS3 public beta, I highly recommend watching at least the second entry ("The new interface") in Deke McClelland's video Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview, which is available for free viewing for the time being from lynda.com (you'll see a link to Deke's video at the top of...
By now you've heard, Adobe has announced that a public beta version of Photoshop CS3, will be made available starting tomorrow to anyone with a valid CS2 serial number. This unprecedented release gives users (especially Intel-Mac users who will get to benefit from the Universal Binary-ness of CS3) a chance to see what's in store for Photoshop before the official...
If you've got a Photoshop CS2 license, you will soon be able to download the Mac CS3 beta. Details here. John Nack of Adobe states the beta should be available within the next 24 hours. FAQ is here. Update: Download is now available here. You'll need to generate a serial number for the CS3 beta by entering your CS2 serial...
Do I use Curves or Levels first? O'Reilly author Ken Milburn got an email from a reader asking about his magically layer-creating action for Photoshop that he describes in the second edition of his book Digital Photography Expert Techniques, and I thought everyone might like to share. You can apply this action to any file you've just opened for...
In case you missed the news, a few months ago Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) split into two groups. The digital group moved to the Presidio facilities in San Francisco under the ILM banner, and the physical production group stayed at its home port in San Rafael & was subsequently renamed Kerner Optical. I recently visited a colleague of mine...
The new 1.10 firmware update for the Edirol R-09 WAV/MP3 recorder reportedly makes it the world's first SDHC- (SD High Capacity) compatible stereo field recorder. (See our review.) SDHC memory cards break the 2GB barrier and offer increased data transfer speeds. Roland has certified the new Panasonic RP-SDR04-GJ1K 4GB cards for use with the R-09. 8GB cards are expected...
