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Make Your Own Time-Lapse Photography System
Movies were born when Auguste and Louis Lumiere (and ultimately Thomas Edison) projected a series of still photos in rapid succession, causing the viewer to perceive motion where there was none. Matching the projector’s speed with the speed of the camera made the motion lifelike. Undercranking (running the camera slowly) and overcranking (running the camera […]
Continue readingInDesign’s Secret Component Information Dialog Box
Sometimes it’s helpful to get a glimpse into a document’s history. Fortunately, InDesign offers you all kinds of background data on your copy of InDesign and currently open document in the Component Information dialog box. To open this secret window, hold down the Command or Ctrl key while selecting About InDesign from the InDesign menu […]
Continue readingFont Info: But Wait, There’s More…
Judging by the number of problems I’ve heard from my students, or seen posted here or on other InDesign forums and lists, fonts must rank as one of the top issues which confound people. But InDesign gives you more clues and information about the fonts it uses than any other application that I know. To […]
Continue readingPhotoAlto Announces Release of Catalog 12
PhotoAlto today announced the release of their newest printed catalog, “Opus 12,” which includes images from 50 new CD collections containing 2500 brand new images. Since PhotoAlto’s inception, “Opus” is the 12th printed catalog of a series designed to help inspire creatives, facilitate image searches, and exhibit the latest photographic trends, themes and techniques explored […]
Continue readingVeenix Font Tools Version 6.0 Adds Document Font Activation
Veenix Software announced today the release of version 6 of Font Tools, a set of Mac OS X tools for previewing, cataloging/printing and managing fonts. The new release adds the Document Font Activator and Exporter tool. This tool allows users to scan documents for font usage and then quickly activate all the necessary document fonts […]
Continue readingPantone Stirs Up the Paint World with Pantone Paints
Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, is changing the way architects, interior designers and homeowners select paint color schemes for their homes and design projects. Pantone today announces a partnership with Fine Paints of Europe, creating the ability to match PANTONE Colors in paint. […]
Continue readingMaster Colors Announces the Immediate Release of HVC Color Composer Plug-in for Photoshop in Windows
Master Colors, LLC has announced the availability of the HVC Color Composer plug-in for Adobe Photoshop in both Macintosh and Windows platforms at a new lower price. The HVC Color Composer ($129.95 Professional, $49.95 Standard) is the inexpensive digital color solution that starts with perfect color design and ends with perfect color output. "I was […]
Continue readingReview: HP DesignJet 130 Large-Format Printer
HP’s DesignJet 130, a 24″-wide, photo-quality inkjet printer, is aimed squarely at the photography and design market. Priced at $1,295 for the base model, the six-color, dye-based DesignJet 130 produces high-quality large-format printing. The HP DesignJet 130 The DesignJet 130 is a little long in the tooth, but its output is good enough to […]
Continue readingActivation on Vacation
As I was upstate in New York’s Catskills, for the long U.S. Labor Day weekend, I thought about others who move away from their homes/offices for vacations. How do they transfer activation and registration from one computer to another? And then, when I bought a new computer at the Sony outlet up in Harriman, NY […]
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