July 31, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2 by Bruce Fraser is shipping.
It’s a sad but undeniable fact of life: Whether you scan, shoot, or capture, the process of digitizing images introduces softness, and to get great-looking results, you’ll need to sharpen the great majority of digital images.
The softness introduced during digitizing results from the very nature of the digitizing process. To represent images digitally, we must transform them from continuous gradations of tone and color to points on a grid. In the process details gets “averaged” into the pixels, softening the overall appearance.
July 31, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements will now be available on Lenovo PCs sold to education customers in the U.S.M
Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — July 31, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Lenovo today announced an agreement to deliver digital imaging and video solutions to educational institutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Lenovo will include Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 software on ThinkPad® laptop, tablet and ThinkCentre® desktops it sells in the U.S. education market.
July 31, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Press Release: Haarlem, Netherlands, July 29, 2006– MisterClipping.com is an online supplier of hand-made Photoshop clipping paths. The company was founded in November 2005 and is entirely dedicated to making clipping paths for third parties. The online application, which has been active since June 1, was developed by a renowned Dutch Internet company. In September, the campaign “Let Mister Clipping do the clipping” will be the starting shot for a worldwide roll-out of the service.
July 31, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: Brigham Young University
A new software tool developed by computer scientists at Brigham Young University will allow surgeons to instantly visualize any part of a patient’s anatomy by extracting a 3-D computer image from an MRI, CT scan or similar data with just a few clicks of the mouse.
July 31, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: The News & Observer
Written by Ryan Teague Beckwith, Toby Coleman, Eric Ferreri and Josh Shaffer, Staff Writers
COUNCIL, PHOTOSHOPPED: Jilted lovers could learn from Cary.
July 28, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Adobe has updated many of the original white papers and primers available as PDF downloads from Adobe.com. Explore these papers and primers — written by some of the biggest names in the industry — to learn more about the world of digital photography.
July 28, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
The company leaves room for delay if the new OS isn’t ready
Source: COMPUTERWORLD
Written by Elizabeth Montalbano
July 27, 2006 — REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. continues to give itself room to further delay the release of Windows Vista.
At its annual financial analyst meeting today, Kevin Johnson, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division, said that while Vista development remains on track for now, the company won’t ship the new operating system until it believes the product is ready.
July 27, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
John Nack, Photoshop product manager writes on his blog that over 100K downloads happened in just five days.
July 27, 2006
Posted by Jeff Schewe
Written by Mike Johnston on The Online Photographer, the author takes a funny (tongue in cheek?) look at the wealth-or at least abundance-of Photoshop book titles during a recent trip to a book store.
July 27, 2006
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
The new chips offer better performance, greater efficiency
Source: COMPUTERWORLD
Written by Sumner Lemon and Ben Ames
Intel Corp. unveiled its new Core 2 Duo processor lineup today, increasing the pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The 10 new dual-core chips promise markedly better performance and greater energy efficiency than Intel’s existing products.
