Audio Visual publishing. Covers video, audio and music (to some degree) editing. Mainly aimed at sceencasting, videocasting and podcasting as multimedia methods for online publishing of content, with an eye for re-purposing this content for broadcasting.
What a great idea: a book that lists all of Shake’s many tabs, nodes, views, and functions. And all in a small book the size of a pocket book. Unfortunately, Peachpit Press made the unhappy decision to make the book so small that you can hardly read some of the text next to the many screenshots.
He has seen the horror in postwar Iraq from close by. He dedicated a book and a web site to it, containing a number of the many photographs he took there. “He” is Geert van Kesteren, a Dutch Magnum Photographer, a photo journalist who won the Visa d’Or at the Festival Visa in Perpignan.
IT-Enquirer interviewed Geert van Kesteren and asked about his digital camera, his computer equipment, his preferred workflow, and the photo editing software tools he uses. And of course we asked him what makes a good photograph.
The important Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions allow you to publish your images to a web server. Some of them even support dynamic serving of images. We took a look at Portfolio 8, iView Media Pro 3, Apple Aperture 1.0.1, and Adobe Bridge. From these four, only powerhouse Portfolio 8 is capable of serving semi-dynamic image catalogues, and fully dynamic catalogues if you have the server edition installed.
Publishing to a server is child’s play with all digital asset management applications we discuss in this article, but still there are differences. Portfolio 8 is the most powerful of all, but if you are going to publish using NetPublish and a dynamically served catalogue with the database on a remote machine, there is more to it than just clicking some fields and selecting some templates. Adobe Bridge is the least powerful of all, and the least user-friendly. iView Media Pro isn’t bad, but the interface lacks some refinement. Aperture is Aperture: a lickable interface, a smooth user experience… but no dynamism at all.
Nik Software announces that it has reached a worldwide agreement with Nikon Corporation that enables technological collaboration between the two companies to develop and distribute digital photographic software and imaging technologies.
Nik Multimedia has changed its name to Nik Software, Inc. and has unveiled its new corporate identity to better represent the company’s focus on software development for the digital imaging market. Additionally, the company’s wholly owned German subsidiary Nik Multimedia GmbH will become Nik Software GmbH.
Digital photography brings along its own problems. Noise is one of those problems. In contrast to film grain, there’s little to no creative use for digital noise. It is something which you just want to get rid of. Photoshop has its own noise filter, but that only goes so far. NoiseNinja is even better than Fixerlabs’ NoiseFixer.
On the 23rd of December 2005, Carl Koch, inventor of the modular Sinar camera system, died at the age of 89. In 1948, this Swiss photographer and inventor introduced the Sinar camera, which was revolutionary for its time, heralding a new era for view camera photography.
Rogue Sheep develops plug-ins for Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 and Illustrator CS/CS2, among others. Their Magma Effects plug-in is now available for InDesign, with a version coming uip for Illustrator. Special about Magma Effects is that all effects are Image Core effects.
The French company Aquafadas keeps introducing novelties in its flagship software, iDive. iDive 1.5 comes with Mosaic, a slideshow on steroids. iDive 1.5 is the latest new version of Aquafadas’ iDive, a program which they call a “digital video tape shoebox”. In reality, iDive is a pretty complete video tape managament application.
Aperture has many photographers run scared with its Library concept and the inability to actually see where your photos reside on the system. Unless you’re really comfortable with the Finder in Mac OS X, and especially those OS X specific files, folders and other quirks, Aperture leaves you with the uncomfortable idea that it swallows your photos without you ever being able to retrieve them easily.
In cooperation with Sinar AG, Franke & Heidecke GmbH now launches a unique digital super package: Rolleiflex 6008 AF and Sinarback eMotion22 make a high-end combination with 22 million pixels.
Digital cameras need memory cards to store photos. One is useless without the other. Professional dSLRs require professional memory cards, usually CompactFlash format while midrange cameras often work with SD cards which are much smaller than CompactFlash cards. But if you thought SD cards are amateur-style and CompactFlash is professional gear, you’re wrong. An increasing number of professional dSLR cameras accept SD cards. Which makes one wonder: what does professional-grade amount to in the world of memory cards?
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