"Effortless perfection"--much Photoshopping required
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Blog: Media standards don't just demand beauty, they demand superhuman perfection.  A side-by-side comparison of a Redbook cover image of Faith Hill and the unretouched original shows how manufactured images of beauty have become.
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Mikko Koppanen has posted another quick hit ImageMagick hint to his blog - this time it deal with "seam carving", a process for cropping and resampling of an image to make a different composite picture.   Today I was reading trough the ImageMagick ChangeLog and noticed an interesting entry. "Add support for liquid rescaling". I rushed to check the MagickWand API docs and there it was: MagickLiquidRescaleImage! After about ten minutes of hacking the Imagick support was done. Needless to say; I was excited   You'll need to have the libqr library compiled into the ImageMagick installation, but the actual use of the functionality is simple - about three or four lines do the work for you. He includes the original image and the result from his test (as well as another example of the same result image scaled down automatically.
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Although photography has been around for generations, its digital overhaul opens up new possibilities. Tell me what you want to find out about. From CNET Blog Networks.
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Dutch engineers stitch together hundreds of images to create a photo with 2.5 billion pixels. Photo: Giant digital image
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Is there a way to "retrofill" sprawled suburban landscapes?.
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The publishers of Photoshop whip up another impossible looking earnings score.
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A photojournalist who can write...CS3's link to Omniture...Olympus' raw codec for Windows Vista...film scanners rated...OLPC ups and downs...nice NYT neologisms
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Printing with Lightroom on Leopard...getting Photoshopped for Christmas...cell phones with 5x optical zoom...the optical triangle illusion
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In photo land, a new gizmo extreme white balancing than the traditional white paper. David Becker's PMA coverage continues in Gadget Lab.
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New Premiere Elements, updated Photoshop Elements coming soon.
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Blog: RawShooter customers can covert image editing settings to Photoshop Lightroom equivalents with a new Adobe Labs tool.
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I&#8217;ve been sitting on this for a week now, not sure how to properly frame or present it. Paul Southworth described it as &#8220;&#8230;like getting a Valentine from God.&#8221; Today it came in the mail and I decided the best thing to do was just photograph the unboxing. This office is now hallowed ground. I [...]
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Consumers are embracing camera features that make them look thinner and more youthful. But what about society's trust in photography? Photos: Camera makeovers
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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There&#39;s no denying that the PSP is a slickly designed gadget with a certain fashionable cachet. The images are breathtaking. Not that there&#39;s anything new here in terms of graphics, but seeing
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If people can't install you new program easily and quickly, without endless tweaking and reconfigurations, what good is it?
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be an arduous (and expensive) task.