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Waiting for the skinny on the Intel Macs

Apple announced their first set of machines based around an Intel processor, the MacBook Pro and the iMac. They’re claiming both machines significantly outperform the ones they’re replacing. Very easy to believe for the Powerbooks, since those were running 6 … Continue reading

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Lightroom, Core Image, Quartz Composer, and Channel Mixing

Lightroom has a greyscale mixer, similar to the channel mixer in Photoshop and the GIMP, and adds HSL Tuning with a similar user interface, but instead of the RGB values I’m used to, it also provides access to CMY. I’ve … Continue reading

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Georgia gets Share the Road license plates

Today I’m headed over to my County Tag Office to apply for Share the Road license plates for both our cars. The state needs to get 1000 registrations for these plates before they can be produced. It’s been open for … Continue reading

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A first look at “Mastering Black & White Digital Photography”

I stumbled across Michael Freeman’s book while browsing for a copy of Tom Ang’s “Digital Photographer’s Handbook” to give to my mom for Christmas. It looked interested enough in the store that I couldn’t resist buying it. So far I’ve … Continue reading

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Aperture to see some competition from Lightroom

It’s nice to see that Aperture will be getting some competition from Adobe/Macromedia Lightroom, but there are a few things missing even from Lightroom’s beta. Where is the crop tool? I almost always crop an image before I print it … Continue reading

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