Photosynth, a new service available at photosynth.com that will change the way you experience and share photos.
You can share or relive a vacation destination or explore a distant museum or landmark. With nothing more than a digital camera and some inspiration, you can use Photosynth to transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. Anybody who sees your synth is put right in your shoes, sharing in your experience, with detail, clarity and scope impossible to achieve in conventional photos or videos.
Synths constitute an entirely new visual medium. Photosynth analyzes each photo for similarities to the others, and uses that data to build a model of where the photos were taken. It then re-creates the environment and uses that as a canvas on which to display the photos.
Whenever I find someone talking about Fireworks I can’t help but to post it. Fireworks isn’t just great for prototyping as posted here. It’s great for doing visual design. I’ve been hooked on this application for the longest to the point I stopped using Photoshop. Imagine that. Maybe it’s all the cool features:
Vector and bitmap editing
Image optimization
Efficient Photoshop and Illustrator integration
Streamlined Dreamweaver and Flash integration
Multiple Pages
Shared Layers
Oh yes you can’t forget “Rapid prototyping”
and many more.
Below are a few examples of some screens from a few projects I worked on using Fireworks.
You ever wonder how naming a product really happens behind closed doors? I was lucky enough to get footage from WebEx/Cisco’s marketing team hard at work.
Adobe has released an update to Adobe Bridge CS3. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 software and all professional Adobe creative applications, Bridge provides centralized access to project files, applications, and settings, as well as XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.
The update is available through Bridge via the Help menu > Updates and also through Adobe.com. The update includes the following enhancements:
Multilevel Keywords
Organize your keywords into groups and subgroups as deep a hierarchy as you want by using the multilevel support in the keywords panel. Convenient keyboard shortcuts for applying single keywords or parent keywords are now available. Search Advanced options allow for storing hierarchy into the file metadata. In addition, easily import and export keywords using tab delimited file formats.
Improved Cache Management
Control the size of the Bridge cache of thumbnail and metadata information to better improve responsiveness. The cache can also be compacted to improve performance.
Other additions include new preference control over video and audio file previews, improved scrolling and renaming and usability improvements to customized workspaces.
Microsoft Surface represents a fundamental change in the way we interact with digital content.
With Surface, we can actually grab data with our hands, and more information between objects with natural gestures and touch.
Surface features a 30-inch tabletop display whose unique abilities allow for several people to work independently or simultaneously. All without using a mouse or a keyboard. Microsoft Surface
While all owners of Intel Macs will be thrilled to finally have an Intel-native version of Adobe’s Creative Suite, Illustrator users typically haven’t had to deal with slow-moving progress bars the way that many Photoshop users have, so performance hasn’t been a primary concern for them. However, there are plenty of other reasons to upgrade to the CS3 version: Adobe has made some significant interface changes, updated some important components, and added some innovative new features, such as Live Color, a complete color-exploration environment that makes it easy to develop and experiment with different color themes. In addition, no matter what kind of Mac you’re using, you will notice some performance improvements when you’re scrolling and zooming, and you’ll see faster screen redraws when you’re working with very complex documents. But there’s still a little room for improvement, especially in the program’s basic color-picking facility.
Interface changes
Illustrator’s interface has been updated to match the rest of the CS3 programs’—its tool palettes (now called panels) sit inside of docks that can be expanded or collapsed, allowing you to better manage screen real estate.
Jim Babbage goes through some of Fireworks integration with Photoshop.
Communication—that’s what this industry is all about. For years, Adobe® Fireworks® and Adobe Photoshop® have been like those two brothers who never really talked to each other and wouldn’t share their knowledge either.
With the release of Creative Suite 3 (CS3), these two applications have finally buried the proverbial hatchet and are clasping hands—if somewhat tentatively at times.
Many graphics professionals use more than a single application to create their work. Personally, I’m always moving from Fireworks to Photoshop, depending on my client’s needs and the goals of the project.
This shuffling back and forth has become much easier with CS3. A great deal of effort was put into making Fireworks and Photoshop more compatible in this release. Here’s the list in brief:
Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.
This may not be so new but it’s still neat to be able to capture any size web page into one screenshot. It beats piecing together multiple screenshots into one.
