Here's a brief article on what to look forward to in Adobe Photoshop & ImageReady 8, Illustrator 11, and InDesign 3 .

If you liked The Matrix and you can't bear the wait until The Matrix Reloaded, you should definately check out The Animatrix. Quoting from the article What Is The Animatrix by Brian Linder:


Currently, only the first two episodes have been posted online. Optionally, you can...

First, let me state LOUDLY that I'm sorry if my last post offended anyone, it certainly wasn't meant to. I thought I was passing along a bit of political humor in a "social area, where non-retouching talk is encouraged". Apparently I exercised poor judgement.

Yes, war is ugly...

War Explained
Date: 03-18-03 10:37
WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO PEACENIK (Author Unknown)

PN: Why did you say we are we invading Iraq?

WM: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of security council resolution 1441. A country cannot be allowed to violate...

Chiquitita - I agree that following up on all sites that have some type of info on you would be quite time-consuming. I was only recommending investing five or so minutes to knock one's self off of this particular free database. Knowing several people who have been victimized by identity theft, I...

Hi. I know I've been out of retouch for several months now, but I felt compelled to take time to pass along this information.

I normally don't make a practice of recommending web sites to visit, but after reviewing this particular site I felt it is truly in everyone's best interest to...

Next time that happens, check your Caps Lock key. It toggles the brush size cursor on and off.

At the risk of facilitating piracy, I'd like to note that there are several freeware/shareware utilities that purge Photoshop thumbnails, Macintosh headers, EXIF, JFIF and JPEG metadata from digital images. The basic (and legal) motivation behind these is to minimize the filesize of the image for faster...

Phyllis is right about the double exposure/shaky lines. Sharpening just enhances it. Here is color correction with levels adjustment, removed/replaced background, and about 20 minutes of cloning....

Alien Skin (http://www.alienskin.com/) Image Doctor JPEG Repair: two passes.

Pass one:

• Remove Artifacts 100
• Blur Edges 20
• Add Grain 0

Pass two:

• Remove Artifacts 100
• Blur Edges 20
• Add Grain 15

...

POV-Ray Basics continued

POV-Ray Tutorial (continued)

Recap
Last time, if you recall, you learned how to make a very simple raytraced scene composed of a camera, a single light source, and a sphere. Some of you might have been really thrilled to render your first...

I shudder to make comparisons between Bryce and POV-Ray, mainly because they are two very different programs aimed at two very different audiences. But I’m gonna anyway:

Bryce
Bryce was designed from the beginning to be a commercial, albeit unconventional 3D product marketed...

Quick POV-Ray Intro Tutorial

C.J. - here's my attempt at a quick tutorial thrown together over left-overs and soda tonight. I hope this might be of some benefit to you and others trying to get over the initial hurdle of approaching POV-Ray. Please excuse any typos or other strangeness...

And here is the .pov description. Take away all the gobbledy-gook and you basically have a camera, 3 light sources, a disc, a couple of donuts and cylinders, some lathes, and a fancy-schmancy b-spline sphere-sweep.

If you look at the Insert menu on POVRay, you'll see almost everything...

C.J. - fantastic composite! Very nicely done. The kitty looks really comfy.

POVRay can be very intimidating, I know, but if you take some of the simple scene description files and analyze them, I'm sure you'll see that there are really just a few necessities that are needed to create...