LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
Creating a Web Comic with Comic Life
Anyone Still Using Dreamweaver Is A Chump
Web rankings depend on a mysterious mix of incoming and outgoing links, the quality of said links, and content. To achieve better rankings, most people assume external links (links from other websites) are more important. The truth is internal pages actually offer more link value. Alt tags, page titles, keywords all work together to make a site search engine friendly. Even so, content is king. Search engines crave new content therefore they give more importance to sites with constantly changing content.
New content & Digg can drive enough traffic to your site to compensate for not really understanding the SEO rules of website design. Read the story »
The Computer, The Painter, The Image and His Brushes
When Dr. Michael Roach asked me if I might consider writing an article for DigitalAppleJuice, I was taken aback. I am a painter, and, one could say, a primitive, when it comes to the making of digital images. At least I used to be. Over the past five years, for a number of very practical reasons, I have become more adept at manipulating images on my Mac, Read the story »
ImageWell
Free is good for about anything! A well-made, extremely usable, and still free application is incredible! Check out Xtralean’s website and navigate to IMAGEWELL.
First of all it’s available in fifteen different languages and…but what does it do, you ask? Read the story »
Asset Management for The Digital Artist.
Asset Management can mean different things. In every instance, it refers to the collection and organization of data about the things an organization or individual owns. To an accountant, this data is used to manage the financial aspects of ownership- taxes, cost of ownership, etc. In essence, everything having to do with MONEY.
To the digital artist, asset management refers to the organization of the ever growing library of fonts, images, reference pictures we depend on creatively. The building blocks of our ARTWORK.
Rawker: Keeping It Simple.
A friend recently received his new Nikon D300 camera, and as soon as he had a battery charged he went out picture taking and shot his images in the RAW format as was his usual practice. He stopped off in his travels at a another friend’s house to show off his new camera and to share some of the test pictures. Not satisfied with the small view on the camera back he sought to transfer the images to his friend’s Mac computer. Read the story »
Memeo’s LifeAgent: AutoBackup For Your Mac
New software for backing up your files and folders crossed my desk recently and I decided to give it a try. This software, LifeAgent from Memeo (http://www.memeo.com/) attracted me by the way it could be set up to backup a file or files automatically any time that I plugged in to an external drive. Since I use a laptop normally (MacBook Pro, 2.33. C2D) it would mean that simply plugging in to my external drives would backup selected files without my needing to specify anything. Read the story »
Adobe Bridge
Wow, what a great title for my first article on Adobe CS3 Bridge. Really, I came up with it myself. Me, you ask? Well, I’m kind of a manual/mechanical guy. I’m a photographer, and somewhat of a computer geek. I have always preferred cameras that can work without batteries, and have all the shutter speeds and f/stops work. I capture images in digital format almost exclusively for both my commercial photography and my personal work. So far I haven’t found any of the new-fangled digital gear that is mechanical, but the manual settings are all available. Just keep lots of batteries handy to power the sensor.
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Adobe Bridge Revisited
I’m a rambling man, but I generally ramble with a purpose. I love CS3 Bridge and Camera Raw, and can talk all day about how I use them. However, I understand that most folks kind of get catatonic when I ramble on too much… so here is the only somewhat rambling story of how I work with CS3 Bridge and Camera Raw to make my life easier, more enjoyable, more fulfilling, well… you get the picture. Read the story »
Super Duper Imac
Despite all the new security warnings , patches and updates, coupled with my own personal prejudices regarding anything remotely PC related, I finally broke down and ordered myself a refurbished IMAC with the Intel Duo Core, and 3 gigs of ram from 18004memory. I’m happy to say that, there is no longer the need to have to pop the back off the IMAC to add ram, unlike the G5 IMacs of the past. Read the story »
Graphic Converter
One of my best friends is an astrologer. Three times a year she sends me an email warning me of an impending Mercury retrograde (the latest being June 16 - July 10, 2007) . In a nutshell, when mercury goes retrograde, communication, dissemination of information, and transportation goes haywire. Quite literally wires get crossed, phones don’t work, computers tend to be difficult, buses are late, cars break down. You get the picture.
WIRE TAP PRO
Omar Little is one of the reasons I still watch TV. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, you don’t watch "The Wire" (HBO) ***. As much as I love Bunk, Omar is my idol. He is an exceptional thief who lives by a strict code of ethics. His unflinching devotion to this slightly twisted moral code has made him my business and corporate model. Read the story »
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LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
Seven Key Techniques For Taking Your Images From Flat To Fantastic
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
I recently encountered a relatively new book by Michael Meadhra and Charlotte K. Lowrie entitled Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only published by Wiley Press in 2007. Read the story »
Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom
Rocky Nook was founded in 2006 in Santa Barbara, California, and is closely associated with dpunkt.verlag in Germany. Rocky Nook is associated with, and releases books, through O’Reilly Media Company, hence the distribution through the O’Reilly address.
Rocky Nook specializes in books on digital photography, imaging, and workflow. Their stated goal is "to support creativity, and improve the quality and efficiency of photographic work". Read the story »
The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch
Film has never been able to capture the dynamic range of reality, and trying to achieve that result has been the goal of photographers and chemists, and then later lens and film designers, since the early beginnings of the photographic process. Read the story »
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