“Adobe is launching a basic version of popular photo-editing software Photoshop as a free, browser-based application. While Photoshop is designed for trained professionals, Adobe says Photoshop Express, which it launched in a “beta” test version, is easier to learn. User comments will be taken into account for future upgrades.”
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If a digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself”, you’d get a 2-D photo, but you’d also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic “depth map” containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D.”
“If we take a look at the state of photography today, such as the advances of digital camera, artful image manipulation by Photoshop, and even the role of paparazzi in media - and the pervasiveness of photographic images in our lives, it is easy to forget that the first photograph ever was taken just 180 years ago.”
New optical disc technology on the horizon promises 1 TB optical disks.
“The Thunderbird developers aim to release the first Thunderbird 3 alpha next month. Plans for the new version include integration of Gecko 1.9, a calendar feature and user interface improvements for configuration and extension installation.”
This article shows screenshots from the visual effects workflow for the movie The Spiderwick Chronicles.
I’m proud to report that a photo of mine has been chosen as the March wallpaper at OzHonda.com under my screen name Balk2K. The photo was taken on Mt Coot-tha of a mate’s Honda Civic overlooking the Brisbane city skyline by night. If it’s still March, you can visit OzHonda’s homepage, scroll down a little and look in the left navigation bar for the photo. Even if you’re reading this after March, you can probably still download the photo in 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024 or 1440×900 versions via these links.
For anyone interested, I took the photo with a Nikon D80, it was a 4 second exposure at F4.8, ISO 250. We fired a Nikon Speedlight from the side midway through the exposure to light the side of the car and the ground below it.
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