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Photoshop idleness

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Got bored, looked at Flickr, launched Photoshop:

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Photoshop CS3: Quick soft-edge Masking

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

From a John Nack's post, through to a Business2.0 story.
From what I can see (but obviously not experience until it ships!) prepress people making masks (deep etches in AU magazine speak) are going to drool at this feature.
The Photoshop engineering team is going to have operators fall at their feet as gods: just like the healing [...]

Americans on Mars, Photoshop on Venus

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Using old tapes of the USSR Venera missions to Venus, Don Mitchell a retired Bell Labs and Microsoft Researcher, used Photoshop to "clean up the images"
How long before these turn up on Google Universe?

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Photoshop on the Mac Pro

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Macintouch readers have reported on the performance of the new Mac Pros, and specifically how Photoshop CS2 performs under Rosetta vs. old Power Mac G5s.

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photoshop, adobe, technology, apple, macpro

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Mr. McHugh

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Mike McHugh attempts Obscure Aussie InDesign humor on the world, and wins.
The first video-cast I watched was Mike. He's a star with Photoshop - email him and ask him to post more hints retouching cars for print; and also with the whole Creative Suite.
He's a mad keen surfer living in Victoria. I think [...]

Graphs and Sheets

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

State of the Computer Book Market, Q206 details in a TreeMap 2D graph the rise of C# and Ruby, decline of Java as languages.
In typical MBA fashion, I am enamored with the graph. How do you create these style of graphs? How does the set of data need to be formatted? The graph is an [...]

CMYK is not Evil

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

When taking your piece of digital design to the printed world, there is this nasty, some would say: evil, thing called CMYK. Dynamic Graphics magazine has a five-point article on how to survive in a CMYK world. http://www.dynamicgraphics.com/dgm/Article/28597
Excellent read, and even better: tag/bookmark it for later.
Some notes of my own, based on 8 years of [...]

Photoshopped Magazine Covers

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

This is 100% true: How pictures are manipulated to make more appealing magazine covers.

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JPEG2000 and Photoshop CS2

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

JPEG2000 and JPF Files: What, When, and How (JPEG2000 support in Photoshop CS2)

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Moonshine

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

I am half-famous: Moonshine2: The art of Scripting to make your own Distillery

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