Show Notes: Episode 105
Founder, Pixel Corps
Pixelmator is still in Beta but it looks promising! Is it a Photoshop Killer? Hardly. But, at $59, it doesn’t have to be. It has a modern GPU-based engine and it allows you to do most of the basic editing you would do in Photoshop. It doesn’t have some of the bells and whistles that I’d like to see (like Channels) but it does have most of what the average person using Photoshop needs. It’s definitely an exciting version 1 of the software!
RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
www.pixelmator.com
Electronics Engineer, Color Scientist, Teacher, Speaker
1. Explain the history of using filters when shooting B&W photos to map tones
2. Explain that Ansel Adams used colour filters to make his famous B&W prints
3. Review quickly the “Levels” dialog and explain that this is the equivalent of the Zone System
4. Demo the “B&W” dialog in Photoshop CS3
5. Explain that you can use the “Channel Mixer” in older versions of Photoshop
6. Show final B&W printsPRODUCTS SHOWN
Adobe Bridge
Camera RAW
Photoshop
Co-Host/Producer: www.DigitalUnderground.tv
We have all used Parallels on our Mac to run Windows or Linux but now the heavy weight in virtualization has jumped into the game with VMWare Fusion.
Seamlessly run Windows, Linux and other PC operating systems on your Intel-based Mac. VMware Fusion gives you the freedom to unite Windows and Mac OS X, Play Windows games on your Mac, Use an already established BootCamp partition, download and run VMWare virtual appliances, take snapshots of your operating system if your PC crashes or becomes corrupted.
RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
VMWare Fusion - http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/PRODUCTS SHOWN
VMWare Fusion - $79 USD
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Air Date: November 9, 2007
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Matt, Bundaberg, QLD
- Stevin, Oakville, ON
- Dusan, Toronto, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- Scratchwindowsmac
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. Scratch is available free of charge.
Kate’s Tips
- Change
Firefox add-on by Reivax
In any email you received, as well as on any webpage you are visiting, double click on a numeric amount to display its equivalent right next to it, in one of the 36 currencies you may chose from the toolbar. The rate itself will be displayed on the toolbar as well.
Your currencies settings will be remembered for each web site for next visits, so that the toolbar itself might even be hidden using its context menu.36 major currency exchange rates are read once a day from the Central European Bank, a source that one can trust !
Still works when you are offline using the last rates downloaded, but warning you if they are outdated, which can be convenient with a laptop.You may also disable the automatic insertion and only use the reading from the toolbar, or hide the toolbar and leave the automatic insertion.