By Derrick Story
The number one question I get from photographers about Photoshop CS4 is, "Why should I bother to upgrade?" If you haven't seen the application, it's a totally reasonable query. So, we've put together an introductory package that will show you the highlights (for photographers) in CS4. It's a great plan, and here's how it rolls out.
If you missed my post last week, Rombla is a powerful WYSIWYG editor for Flash content. Built entirely in Flex, the application serves as both a powerful design tool and CMS. Rombla was built by Piria, a software company based in Louisville, Colorado.
I recently caught up with Piria CEO Bob Lang. Bob was kind enough to agree to an interview about Rombla, and gave me some great insights into how they built such an excellent application in such a short time.
Friday Google announced a new RIA platform called Google Native Client (NaCl). NaCl provides a browser plug-in that allows your browser to run C/C++ applications directly on your x86 processor.
RIA has been around for roughly 5, maybe some would say 7 years so many of us were at one point working in other areas of technology. For instance, before I started working with RIA as my main focus, I...
Aargh! Now I have Microsoft software on my iPhone. And of course it is as ugly as something designed by a city council commitee and totally unintuitive. But don't send in the Knights just yet: what Seadragon does is pretty...
A few years ago I made a decision in Photoshop that is affecting me greatly today. I chose to save my Photoshop (PSD) files with Maximize Compatibility (MC) turned off. MC saves a flattened version of your file along with...
A short while ago, Adobe released Camera RAW and DNG converter 5.2. These freebie updates herald an upcoming update to Lightroom - 2.2 which I am looking forward to for several reasons. In the mean time, DNG converter can be...
One of the biggest hassles in the home studio has always been recording drums and percussion. DrumCore, the database of celebrity grooves you play like an instrument, aims to make building better drum tracks drag-and-drop simple. Is it the breakthrough songwriters have been waiting for? Producer Tim Tully digs deep.
Creative professionals are routinely roped into frivolous art projects for their families. You don't want to spend much time on them because who wants to do more of what you already do all day? But you don't want to do a lousy job because your cred's at stake. Oh and because, sure, you care about your family. In this episode of dekePod, Deke shows you how to create a spectacular birthday party invitation, with little effort, using a combination of found art and Photoshop.
Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 features a handful of terrific new tools, including Snapshots and the Targeted Adjustment Tool. In this screencast designed to supplement The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, Derrick shows you how to use these great new components.
The palm-size GT-R1 combines a 24-bit stereo WAV recorder with guitar effects, drum patterns, infinite overdubbing, and even a looper for practicing. "What we have here," says impressed reviewer Mark Nelson, "is a recorder that will make you a better musician."
Like its misanthropic superhero, director Peter Berg created unintended havoc off the set of Hancock, as Sony Pictures Imageworks, the company that created the film's visual effects, scrambled to keep up with his run-and-gun style. Read about how the VFX team augmented the prison scene by creating a CG inmate whose head gets stuck in another inmate's, um, bum, and all about the spectacular SUV chase sequence that was largely practical. And digital effects supervisor, Ken Hahn, talks about the coming revolution in 3D delivery.
Ah, the holiday season, a time of expansion. Great physical expansion. Fatty, high-calories food is everywhere you turn. And so we grow. But not this year. In some distant future, when you review Thanksgiving 2008 in your photo album, you’ll look back on it as the first of many years that you actually lost weight. "Thank you dekePod," you'll say. Because in this episode, Deke teaches you how to transform fat into fit using the Liquify command—and with smooth, stretch mark-free results.
By Derrick Story
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