The prevailing theme of the InDesign Conference Master Class in Seattle last week was definitely "taking control." Not that the attendees weren't talented creative types, but this group seemed to be particularly concerned with how to work as elegantly, efficiently, and painlessly as possible. Sessions on .INX, XML, and scripts were where it was at. InDesigners have clearly taken...
I've got an amazing dentist who I've been seeing for about twenty years -- his name is Dr. Meng Syn. Meng has also become a close friend over the years, so I actually look forward to going to see my dentist if you can believe it. Meng is not only an extremely talented dentist, but steeped as a technologist as...
Harris Fogel sits down with O'Reilly author Deke McClelland at NAPP Photoshop World Las Vegas to talk about Photoshop Elements, InDesign, and his new training videos. You can tune in yourself by going over to Mac Edition Radio and downloading the podcast....
You can catch Chuck Joiner interviewing digital photography pioneer Stephen Johnson on the MacVoices podcast. (O'Reilly Media recently published Stephen's latest book, On Digital Photography.) In the interview, Stephen talks about his philosophies of taking and manipulating images, the future of digital photography, why his approach to photography is to capture light and not objects and more....
I'm in Seattle for the InDesign Conference Master Class; coming to you from the Adobe campus this morning, in fact. In preparation for this week, I spent some time catching up on the coolness at InDesignSecrets.com. (ID Secrets guy, David Blatner is the Conference Director here.) Thought I'd start the week by sharing a cool InDesign tip I discovered there---the...
A report from my intrepid boss, Executive Editor Steve Weiss, who's at PhotoPlus in NYC this week: The 2006 O'Reilly Photoshop Cook-off Awards ceremony took place last night, held at Javits Center in NYC, as part of the PhotoPlus Expo. Many thanks to a long list of generous co-sponsors, who donated prizes totaling in the tens of thousands of dollars,...
There is no shortage of opinions about the fate of television - be it professionally created or user generated content (UGC.) Views range from the misguided "UGC has changed TV forever! Power to the People!" — to the pensive "TV ain't what it used to be... where's Milton Berle?... I want my MTV!" To say that the future lies...
Motion DSP's new Ikena system, announced today, looks to perform some astonishing cleanup on cruddy-looking, overcompressed videos. The initial Linux-based product (including hardware) will set you back $30,000, but this type of interpolation-based cleaning will certainly trickle down into affordable systems before too long. Check out the examples at MotionDSP.com and prepare to be amazed. I particularly like how the...
Some things are just basic, and you do them daily right? Like showering, flossing your teeth, locking your front door (unless you live in one of 'those' small towns where that's still not necessary). Right in line with this list should be backing up your hard drive regularly. It's one of those things that's just absolutely necessary, especially if you...
No matter how good your camera is, no matter how pretty you are, no matter how great your script, it's the audio that will make or break your video podcast. We can suffer through bad lighting, a poorly scripted joke, an ugly background, etc. But if we can't hear or understand you, you're podcast is going in the trash.
