Glenn Feron – The Art of Retouching: http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/index.html
Wow: I’d seeen examples before, but not as many as this in one go and not with such small changes giving such a large overall difference. It ought to be top of the curriculum for every 9 year old in the country to see, understand, and try this out for themselves: I’m positive it’d have a far greater impact on eating disorders than all the talks in the world.
He’s pretty good at Photoshop too !
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Net label plans music revolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4176486.stm
It’s taken long enough: the bottom line is probably that any given act that pushes hard enough to get a contract these days (and isn’t simply a set of manufacturered-to-order puppets) is likely to have mastered the basics of recording and mixing: a couple of thousand pounds for computer and software might well give results that are up to 80 or 90% of the quality of using a full recording studio. Add in the fact that downloads are lossily compressed and it’d probably be hard to tell the results apart, although I’d be the first to admit that an experienced sound engineer would work wonders, are you going to get one for your first single ? No, probably not.
The best bit ? A startlingly honest usage of someone elses talent:
“…artists retain ownership of their masters and copyrights while signed to this label.”
That’s the part that I like the most, as it removes the biggest problem (in my view) of a big label although it could make life hard for independents. Perhaps they have realised that the biggest drain of their profits is paying the army of laywers and politictians, and if they just reduced all legal exposure to next to zero and simply spent on marketing and a really fast internet connection they’d make more money.
Nice to see they’re only 5 to 10 years behind the rest of the planet, then. Now, about the law suits aimed at 9 year olds and the retail price of the music vs the cost of manufacture and the artists profit margins…
camilla camel – Google Search : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=camilla camel&btnG=Search
Ok, so maybe it’s not something to be proud of quite yet but Camilla now comes in on the first page of Google for the term ‘camilla camel’, and is two out of the first four hits on Google Images.
Now I have to get it into the top 10 for a search on just ‘camilla’, although there is something rather pleasing about it being result 42 at the moment…
For those of you who have iLife ’05 and OS X 10.4 and haven’t yet tried it, iPhoto will now process RAW files from the Canon PowerShot G3 without any tweaks or modifications: this is something that the OS version brings to the mix of software as even using the latest point updates for all apps under OS X 10.3 does not enable this functionality.
So, if you’ve used any of the hints from my older post and now have OS X 10.4, you can stop using my hacks.
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
Apologies to the original site which pointed me at this stuff: it’s so long ago I’ve forgotten where I read it first, but this (new ?) version is much improved and works very nicely indeed in Safari 2.0
Do try out the demo and try all of the keyboard shortcuts – after having to play with presentation software a few weeks ago (for the first time), I’m probbaly going to try re-writing my slides in S5 just to see how good it is for general use. Now I just need to automate the conversion into PDF (make sure the page breaks are honoured, etc.) and trivial stuff will be easy to knock up.
Not that I want to give another presentation. Ever.
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