A few years after writing about Xara Xtreme in my book Irreverent Photo Tools for Digital Photographers, I have taken a look at Xara’s new Photo & Graphic Designer 7 software package and found a power house worth of tools for photographers – all in an $89 Windows (only) software package. While Photo & Graphic [...]
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I read this compelling statement by Jim Jannard on the Red User forum: “You can extract “Getty worthy” still images from an EPIC motion stream.” I’m usually all ears when Jim Jannard makes a compelling statement, but I don’t see the Epic listed on Getty Images’ approved camera list for contributors. Getty is extremely picky [...]
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Adobe’s new CS5.5 creative suite products have only been out for a short while and we have them installed on our workstations at Imaging R & R. But what’s amazing me is how fast people seem to be adopting the new Suite. We’ve already run classes in Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Captivate for students who [...]
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According to Nikon Rumors, Nikon is making a major announcement of new cameras on August 24th. I am very curious whether Nikon will leapfrog Canon on this one, or come out with <Canon 1Ds Mk III, 5D Mk II>-like features in a slightly more water tight body, with slightly better ergonomics, and somewhat better high [...]
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Having just returned after completing a week of teaching Advanced Digital Photography, I have to say I am quite proud of my students, and glad to be a part of the Maine Media Workshops community. Great work by the entire class making some fantastic images, both color and black-and-white. All the students’ Photoshop skills were [...]
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