In case there were any question that geek chic is the defining style statement of today, we now have an awards show to celebrate it. It’s called the Webby Awards and it took place last Thursday night, smack in the middle of San Francisco’s old establishment stronghold. That’s right, Nob Hill. Residents in the tony […]
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It’s a tough time to be in the newspaper business these days, but not necessarily for the reasons you might expect. Despite the explosive growth of the Internet and the public’s growing penchant for getting its news online, printed newspapers are weathering the storm well — at least in terms of advertising. Ad revenue climbed […]
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Versions: 5, 5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Quite frequently you’ll be given less than stellar scanned images to work with, so it’s useful to know several enhancement strategies that will boost an image’s overall quality. In this article, we’ll take you through the general process we used to correct our original image, shown in Figure […]
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Color management systems such as Apple’s ColorSync and Microsoft’s ICM 2.0 are touted by their creators as easy, automatic tools for matching colors from your original, through your scanner, to your monitor, to your printer. In practice, they’ve proven to be complex and often unwieldy, but one thing is clear: color management lives or dies […]
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It’s a common problem: You open an old file and QuarkXPress reports that a font is missing. Or you need to make a small change on an existing letterhead but haven’t a clue what typeface was used for the original. Or your client is in love with the look of the ads for the latest […]
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There are no stars on the Web. No big names, no instantly recognizable faces, no paparazzi, no cults of personality. Unless you count Jeff Bezos, the son of Cuban immigrants who runs what is probably the least profitable venture on the Internet; or Jerry Yang, the Stanford geek who was lucky enough to get to […]
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I don’t know how you use your digital camera, but mine is always in my backpack. Well, sometimes it’s on the center console of my SUV as I’m cruising scenic highways or tackling the rocks and mud and snow of Oregon’s backroads. In fact, just last week the C-3030 Zoom, the new 3.3-megapixel camera from […]
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About three years ago, in a moment of human triumph over technology, I unplugged a SCSI cable in the middle of copying an entire hard disk of information to another disk drive. The consequence of this action was, well, disastrous. The irony was that I was in the process of backing up my disk when […]
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It’s graduation time. At least, it is at the School of Visual Arts, where I feel fortunate to teach Advanced Digital Photography. During the school year I try to devote at least one session to discussing the business issues seniors will face when and if they venture forth as commercial photographers. Stock photography usually figures […]
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