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Under the Desktop: The Real Nitty Griddy

Technology that can beef up the performance of either hardware or software is always of interest to professional content creators, whatever their medium of expression. Likewise, the demands of digital-video applications, especially for the generation of high-resolution effects, can eat up the performance of most mainstream computing platforms on the market. To no surprise, technologists […]

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Sony DSC-F828 Cyber-shot: Long Lens, High Quality

Just a year ago, if you were looking for a digital camera with resolution higher than 6 megapixels, your only options were the $8,000 Canon 1DS and the $4,000 Kodak DCS 14n. As of today, though, you can choose from among four different 8-megapixel cameras, each priced around $1,000. Sony’s entry into this new higher-resolution […]

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Design How-To: Adding Photographic Texture to Type

This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine. Adding texture to objects makes them more interesting, whether they be in the three-dimensional world or on a two-dimensional page. But finding suitable textures can be tricky, especially when masking textures into type outlines. Some pre-packaged textures look contrived. Others are so complex as to detract […]

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Heavy Metal Madness: It's All in the Cards

Like a perfect storm, several things happened recently that led to this particular column. First, an article appeared in the “Wall Street Journal” a few months ago about how Gen-Xers are taking up Canasta and other card games in droves, a desperate attempt to return to the simpler times when entertainment didn’t require memory chips […]

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QuarkXPress How-To: Experimenting with Initial Caps and Text Runarounds

This story is taken from “QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design.” Initial caps and text runarounds are the bells and whistles of setting text in a page layout program. But while they seem like pure adornment, drop caps provide important points of entry into text-heavy pages and text that runs around graphics breaks up […]

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Out of Gamut: Calibrating Camera Raw in Photoshop CS

For my money, one of the most-underrated features in Adobe Photoshop CS is the Camera Raw plug-in, which reads raw images from just about every camera on the market that supports that format. (Version 2.2, which adds support for several new models thus bringing the total to more than 60 cameras, was released in late […]

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