Performance enhancement is often on the minds of content creators, whether from application and system software, or in hardware, such as the graphics display card, storage devices, or memory configuration. Each component shares the load, which can either improve or impair the overall speed of your system. Considering the compute-intensive applications and large file sizes […]
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Excerpted from “Photoshop Color Correction” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Color-Correction Essentials If you take a consistent approach to the color-correction process, your images will invariably look better, and you’ll be finished faster. Regardless of why an original image looks wrong, you can […]
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With so many digital-video-editing applications available these days it’s no surprise that the market has stratified — products now range from no-brainers to ultra-high-tech with several specialized niches in between. Strata DV Pro 5.0 (Macintosh only) fills one of these niches, offering an easy-to-use editing program that’s designed to bridge the gap between occasional video […]
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In the winter of 1877, a 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the patent for his newly-discovered telephone to Western Union for a mere $100,000. At the time, Western Union held a near monopoly on the profitable and expanding telegram business and was one of the biggest corporations in the world. The executives at […]
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This story is taken from “The Design Authority” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Adobe Photoshop is best known for its ability to create and manipulate two-dimensional digital images. Best known for its 3-D landscape creation software called Animatek World Builder, Digital […]
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Some of you may recall the old George Carlin routine in which he rattles off the seven dirty words that aren’t allowed to be broadcast on network TV. It’s a good thing the censors weren’t in my office last week, because I was spewing these and other expletives daily as I tried to wrest control […]
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It’s a small site for a small company, but with all the elegance of an agency-designed site — the kind that only big companies can afford. From the site it appears that Griffin Technology manufactures and sells fewer than a dozen products, but each product is carefully targeted for its market niche and meticulously designed. […]
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After the cataclysmic events that struck New York and Washington during last year’s Graph Expo show held September 9-13, 2001, almost anything would have been an improvement. Stories about stranded travelers, airliners making abrupt landings in Lincoln, Nebraska, and long rental car treks with strangers were the staple of last year’s show. This year the […]
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Apple’s newest iPod, the 20GB version released at July’s Macworld Conference and Expo in New York City, came with more than just added disk space. The updated iPod added a few accessories, new software and a version of the digital device targeted to Windows users. The 20GB iPod looks the same as its 5GB and […]
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