Am-pro Impressionism with Corel's Painter Essentials
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Corel Painter Essentials 4 puts the art back into photo editing and the desktop studio with a stable, well-designed, feature-laden update.
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As a companion to the podcast version of his review, Matthew Turland has posted his comments in text form over on his blog today.   I received an e-mail recently from a very nice gentleman at Packt Publishing - their representative asked if I would be willing to review one of their books, namely PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects by Shu-Wai Chow. Reviewing books is not something I had done before, so I thought I would give it a good old-fashioned college try.   He mentions the size of the book (and how it's not an indication of the quality) and the basic structure of the book, including spotlights on some of the specific topics covered.
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$39.2 million for a Gauguin. $20.1 million for a Monet. The cost of impressionist and modern art continues to go up as evidenced by sales at two recent auctions by Sotheby&#39;s and Christie&#39;s.
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It is not easy to fit Paul Robeson in a box, but the Criterion Collection has done its best with âPaul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist.â
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An image gallery containing creatures and objects made with Blender, an open-source 3D tool.
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Adobe Systems invites outsiders to sample color combinations supplied by users of the company's Kuler service.
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In data 14 Ottobre 2004 la canadese Corel Corporation ha annunciato di aver acquistato Jasc Software Inc produttrice della famosa suite grafica Paint Shop Pro giunta in tempi recenti alla versione 9. Questa
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A look at three GUI front-ends for the LilyPond music notation software.
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Reviews of the Alexander Wang, Alice Roi, Bruce, Duckie Brown, John Bartlett and Karen Walker fall 2007 collections.
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Corel has released a free Corel Painter X v10.1 update for its natural media painting and illustration solution.
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Pierre-Alain Joye takes a look at building Cairo (a vector-based graphics library for PHP) on a Windows system.    While trying to get the cairo (and pimp) PHP binding ready to be released, I finally sit down and port Wez build cscript to cairo. It still needs some cleanup, a nice summary message but it works already. I tested it with Visual C++ Express Edition but it should work with other versions as well.   My next goal is to add the tests (nmake tests) and fix the nmake instal    He describes the process he went through to try to get things up and running, but is still having a few issues and has required a few tweaks to get it working. He also links to two resources: a ZIP of the development libraries and a ZIP ready to use package.
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Kore Nordmann has written up some benchmarks of some of the more popular PHP image creation libraries testing their output times and results for generating the same image.   In my article series I showed several ways on how to create images with PHP, going into implementation details etc. Now I just want to provide a very rough overview on speed and quality of the extensions.   He ran them with some settings disabled to optimize things as they ran and came up with results pointing to Cairo being the fastest to generate and output the image. It also had the benefit of outputting an image with the highest quality of the five tested (Cairo, SVG, Flash and GD with and without supersampling). His benchmark code is also included.
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This week you'll learn about solid software design practices, many of them borrowed from working with Windows applications. The result is the development of a Web based drawing package. By Guyon Roche. 0802
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Gallery is a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities.  Gallery 1.4.4-pl2 is an update to Gallery 1.4.4-pl1 that addresses two issues discovered after the release. Skins will now work properly in all situations and extra long filenames for uploaded files are now handled properly.   Download 1.4.4-pl1 from http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130  Visit http://gallery.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=135 for more details.
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Corel Corporation has expanded its software portfolio with the acquisition of Jasc Software, which produces the Paint Shop family of image editing and digital photography programs.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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On the SitePoint PHP blog today, Troels Knak-Nielsen has written up an article that talks about dependencies in your applications - those little interconnections your code relies on to do more with less.   In lack of better words, I'll call this compositional programming style. It's a style which is usually more prevalent with experienced programmers. [...] There is, however, a dark side to composition - dependencies.   He starts with a definition to bring everyone up to a level field then moves on to how their used (through a "global symbol" or directly passed in) and how they can "leak" if you're not careful.    To help protect you and your code from any kind of damage down the line, Troels suggests making a container to keep objects where they need to be. He even includes an example with namespace support to make things even easier down the road.