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Derrick Story Answers CS4 Workflow Questions

Derrick Story, author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, is available in our photography forum from Dec. 16-19 to answer your questions about Photoshop CS4 from the photographer point of view. This is a great opportunity to exchange tips and learn about the excellent CS4 workflow that uses Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, and Photoshop to help shooters manage and improve their images.

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Early Registration for TOC Conference Ends Tomorrow

The $200 early registration discount for the Tools of Change for Publishing conference, held Feb. 9-11 in New York, ends tomorrow. Event information and registration details are available at the...

XForms, a pause for reflection

The other day I had what could only be described as a 'Roy Scheider moment', you know the bit in the film Jaws where the camera tracks-in whilst zooming-out at the same time. Well, whilst debugging an XForms enabled application, the Mozilla XForms plug-in had exposed the host document, XForms and all, as the content of the empty xf:instance. How odd. I mean, what good is that? That's when it struck me in a Roy Scheider sort of way; this was Reflection, the ability of a program to look at itself and change its behaviour.

Year of Science promotes scientists' responsibility to educate

I was excited to hear of a nationwide Year of Science initiative, launched by a Boston-based conference in the first week of January. This conference will help people working in the sciences learn how to educate the wider public about what they do, why it's important, and what its implications are for public policy.

O'Reilly Week in Review for Dec 15th, 2008

This week's (delayed) podcast includes excepts of interviews with Dr. Joshua Wurman about storm chasing and Professor Rich Gordon about the adoption of the web by traditional print media. There's also a new quiz question (your chance to win free O'Reilly books!)

Surplus, Scarcity and the iPhone App Store

George Gilder once pointed out that when the availability of a given resource shifts from scarcity to surplus, a lot of wealth is created. In the technology realm, one can think of processing power, storage and bandwidth as the great “wealth exponential-izers” of first the PC era, then the Internet era, and now, the Mobile Broadband era (as these...

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Derrick Story Answers CS4 Workflow Questions in the Photography Forum
Dec 16-19, 2008
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