Adobe-Maxon Power Integration Tour 2
This tour is all about Two Powerhouse Packages – One Dynamic Workflow.
The Power Integration Tour demonstrates how you can enjoy increased speed and efficiency in your production pipeline by combining the power of Adobe CS3 Production Premium and MAXON CINEMA 4D. The Adobe/MAXON workflow is the proven choice for top motion design studios worldwide.
Oh…and did I mention $60,000.00 in prizes.
Full information and registration is on the Maxon Website (link below), but here are the cities and dates:
San Francisco Feb 26
Vancouver Feb 28
Seattle Mar 4
Minneapolis Mar 20
Boston Mar 25
New York City Mar 27
Montreal April 1
Toronto April 3
So if you love 3d or 2d animation, broadcast graphics or anything like it, don’t miss this tour.
See ya there!
http://www.maxoncomputer.com/tours2008/adobe/
MacBook Air: First Lab Tests
For this first set of tests, we used a default-configuration MacBook Air powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 4200 rpm, 1.8-inch 80GB parallel ATA hard drive. The MacBook Air’s processor clock speed lags well behind current MacBook (2.0GHz or 2.2GHz) and MacBook Pro (2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, and 2.6GHz) models, and its hard drive is also slower than those used in the other models.
Our tests reveal that the slower processor and disk make the MacBook Air quite a bit slower than the other portables in Apple’s product line. The MacBook Air was also outpaced in our tests by the its closest desktop cousin, the ultra-compact 1.83GHz Mac mini Core 2 Duo.
Photoshop CS3 and Cinema 4D R10.5 are benchmarked on the MacBook Air.
Stop Motion Pro V6 Overview
Stop Motion Pro V6 Overview PDF which provides details on the features and differences between versions of Stop Motion Pro.
The document also gives a brief outline of the site license model used for Stop Motion Pro.
Office 2008 for Mac Academic Volume Licenses
The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac.
Pricing for Office 2008 for Mac Academic Volume Licenses is now available. We are now accepting pre-orders for Office 2008 Mac Volume Licensing which is expected to ship in February.
Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition Now Shipping!
The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac.
With the familiar Office for Mac basics priced for home and students, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition helps nonprofessional users achieve more. This edition includes three user licenses for non-commercial use on up to three personal computers.
Features
Universal binary support
Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based machines for peak performance.
Compatible
Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student shares technology with the Windows-based Microsoft Office 2007 products, including Open XML file formats and OfficeArt, a powerful graphics engine.
Publishing Layout View
Dynamic layout guides and specialized tools like loupes and pasteboards put the power to publish at your fingertips.
Document elements
You can add pre-designed and customizable cover pages, bibliographies, tables of contents, and more to your documents with a single click.
Ledger sheets
Managing your finances is easier with pre-formulated workbooks for everything from retail invoices and inventory lists to personal stock portfolios.
Creating Panoramic Images in Photoshop CS3 using Auto-Align Layers
One place we went to that blew me right away was Sun Studios, in downtown Memphis. Sun Studios has seen artists like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and more recently, U2 pass through their doors, and when my wife, mother-in-law and I were standing in the recording studio, I thought to myself, “I have got to get a picture of this” Well, my little digital camera definitely does not have a lens wide enough to capture the entire studio, so I took three separate pictures, and I figured that I would just put them together in Photoshop to create a panoramic picture. Below are the pictures I took inside Sun Studios.
2008 Hot One Award Winners (Professional Photographer Magazine Web Exclusives)
Professional Photographer magazine congratulates the 2008 Hot One Award Winners below. You’ll find our full coverage in the February issue of the magazine.
SOFTWARE
Painting
Corel Painter X
The Professional Photographer Hot One Awards provide the magazine’s readership with a definitive list of the newest, hottest, most innovative products available. Each year, Professional Photographer editors oversee a submission and judging process that calls on companies in all subfields of the photography industry. For the 2008 awards, a panel of 18 judges voted on products that ranged from digital cameras to inkjet printers to educational resources.
“We are thrilled that Corel Painter X continues to be recognized by the photography community carrying on the tradition of quality, innovation, and power established by previous versions of Painter,” said Rob MacDonald, Product Manager, Corel Painter. “Working closely with our users, we continue to introduce innovations like the Real Bristle Painting System and Photo-Painting Palettes to help professional photographers explore new, creative opportunities as they transform images into custom painted creations.”
The RealBristle Painting System and Photo-Painting Palettes represent a major leap forward in blurring the line between traditional and digital art like never before. When selected, RealBristle brushes faithfully replicate natural art media right down to the individual brush strokes. For photographers who want to experiment with different artistic effects, Painter’s Photo-Painting Palettes allow them to apply a variety of artistic styles to an image – including Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook and Chalk Drawing – without ever having to put stylus to painting tablet. Painter’s Smart Stroke Painting system automatically adjusts brush size, stroke length and pressure based on the detail and focal areas of the original image to provide users with original works of art in just minutes.
PC World’s Techlog Wacom’s Cheap, Sleek New Cintiq Tablet
One of my favorite products from the Consumer Electronics Show was actually released last month. But it’s still pretty new and exceptionally cool: Wacom’s Cintiq 12WX pen display, a PC peripheral that lets you draw directly on the screen with a pressure-sensitive pen.Cintiqs have been around for a long time, and have been one of the best digital tools an artist could have–they replicate the natural feel of working with pen and paper in a way that no other input device can.
But they’ve been pricey–two grand and above–and big, bulky beasts that needed lots of room. (I have the 21ux model and love it, but it occupies an entire small desk all by itself.)
At $999, the 12UX is half the price of any previous Cintiq, making it a plausible purchase for a lot more serious amateur artists. But the price is less interesting than the tablet’s design, which bears little resemblance to any previous Cintiq. It’s the first Cintiq you’d describe as sleek–it’s .67″ thick, compared to 1.8″ for the 21UX model. Actually, in terms of form factor, it looks more like Wacom’s Intuos tablets, which don’t have displays, than the other Cintiqs.
How to Recreate Depth of Field in 7 Steps [Post-Production]
The following article on creating depth of field using photoshop was submitted by Emma Cake from Big Bouquet Photography.If you didn’t quite get your aperture settings right when you were out and about with your camera it’s possible to recreate a depth of field effect in Photoshop.
Similarly if you want to heighten the either of depth of field in your photography you can use Photoshop to do that too. Depth of field allows you to draw attention to an element in your photograph.
With some quick tweaks to your image’s sharpness using Photoshop’s filters and Layer Masking you can easily recreate the look of a small depth of field.
Request a Free Pocket Calendar from Creation Engine.
Please email sales@creationengine.com your name and address to request a free Creation Engine Pocket Calendar.
This calendar is based on Joe Lanman’s submission for the elzr: Infodesign challenge for a readable calendar card.
Update 5/19/2008: The 2008 Free Pocket Calendar is no longer available.
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