Here’s a nightmare scenario for illustrators and photographers: you send your proofs to a prospective client and never hear back: then, a few weeks later, you see your work on the client’s Website or in its advertising. This is the reason so many creative professionals opt to send out proofs with a text watermark. It discourages outright theft of artwork and photos, and helps avoid agonizing (and costly) litigation. Note that text watermarking is only one way to digitally ID your work, but it is a very simple and aesthetically acceptable way to get the job done quickly.
Adding a text watermark to single image is a simple process, but adding it to hundreds of images can be exhaustingly repetitive. I’ll show you how to automate the entire process using Photoshop CS3, CS4, or CS5.
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This new version of Lightroom comes with a slew of new features, including much better noise reduction to sharpen images up considerably. It also comes with lens and perspective correction to fix distortions that might otherwise make your photography look extremely odd. Watermarking is also thrown in, which is essential if you’re concerned about your work being stolen. Another neat addition is the ability to add grain to a photo to give it a vintage look for that series of photos you’re doing about the interaction between the past and the present.
An interesting new addition is tethered capturing, which will automatically import photos as you take them, providing you’re hooked up to your computer via USB. The potential here allows for you to instantly adjust the photo on your laptop or retake it if Lightroom cannot achieve what you want. We found this makes it a little awkward to take the shots you’re looking for, however, and preferred to manually import them afterwards. Lugging your laptop around with you to tether capture is not exactly every photographer’s cup of tea.
The update with the most impact in this package is definitely the speed boost, however. Older versions of the software could lag pretty badly at times when trying to deal with a large volume of photos. Apart from small lag when switching between the main screen tabs Photoshop Lightroom 3 is a very speedy application, a fact that many photographers will greatly appreciate.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide show videos with music, and on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.
MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated CINEMA 4D exchange plugin for Adobe After Effects CS5. The plugin features 64-bit native compatibility for Windows and Mac OS X to allow users of CINEMA 4D to take full advantage of available hardware operating system performance for improved rendering and workflow efficiency directly inside the After Effects application.
CINEMA 4D – MAXON’s leading 3D motion graphics ‘powerhouse’ – is highly praised for its ease of use, quick workflow, fast rendering, rock-solid architecture and seamless export of composition files. Its unmatched integration to leading compositing tools like Adobe After Effects, supports not only 2D compositions, but also 3D camera, light and object data.
The new After Effects CS5 plugin is available free of charge in the download section of www.maxon.net.
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software enables students, teachers, staff, and administrators to reliably create, combine, and share media-rich PDF documents, resulting in more engaging communication and collaboration. Acrobat 9 Pro makes it easy to combine a wide range of content including documents, textbook pages, images, and videos in a single, compressed PDF Portfolio. It’s also easy to create dynamic forms that can be filled out by parents, students, and anyone else using free Adobe Reader software.
An overview of some of the new features in Adobe CS5 that become even more powerful when used with Wacom pen tablets and displays. This video covers: the new Adobe CS5 brush engine, icons, brush dynamics, the mixer brush, bristle-tip brushes, and more.
Adobe is pleased to make a technology release available of the Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 HTML5 Pack extension. This extension provides initial support for HTML5 and CSS3 in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, and helps you easily create HTML5 pages and CSS3 styles.
While HTML5 and CSS3 will not be finalized for some time, the extension provides support for a set of currently-implemented features.
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Here’s a nightmare scenario for illustrators and photographers: you send your proofs to a prospective client and never hear back: then, a few weeks later, you see your work on the client’s Website or in its advertising. This is the reason so many creative professionals opt to send out proofs with a text watermark. It discourages outright theft of artwork and photos, and helps avoid agonizing (and costly) litigation. Note that text watermarking is only one way to digitally ID your work, but it is a very simple and aesthetically acceptable way to get the job done quickly.
