Bibble Update and Panasonic LX3 Lens Correction

July 1, 2010 Bibble

This is an update to my recent article comparing Bibble 5 and Photoshop CS3. Bibble had gone through several small updates in the past week or so. The updates are coming so fast I can hardly keep up. It seems that every time I load the application, it tells me there is a new update. [...]

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Myriad Pro For Web Readability

July 1, 2010 Typography

The font I used in this graphic below here is Myriad Pro. It was designed in the late 1980s at Adobe Systems by Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach and released in its original incarnation of Myriad MM in 1992. Myriad Pro was released in 2000. Myriad Pro is used by Apple Corporation for its corporate [...]

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A Great Adobe Lightroom Resource

July 1, 2010 Lightroom

Herre is a link to a great Adobe Lightroom resource named the Photographer’s Toolbox. The plugins include being able to export images directly to Gmail, to your blog, add watermarks and borders, annotations, create online galleries a host of other useful things. Some of the plugins are for Lightroom 2 and above and a couple [...]

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A Link To An Article About Aspect Ratios In Photography

June 30, 2010 photography

I just posted an article on the QC Blog about aspect ratios in photography. It covers the ubiquitous 3:2 ratio used in 35mm film for generations, as well as the ratios used in digital cameras today. There is also a section on panoramic photographs and Polaroids and the Poladroid application for making images that look [...]

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Modern Balance – American Typewriter

June 29, 2010 Typography
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My Reaction To Certain Letters In Typography

June 28, 2010 Typography

I am writing about a personal reaction of mine to the way a letter is formed in a particular typeface. I wonder whether my reaction is typical or whether it is just my personal reaction that is particular to me. The Hypatia Typeface According to Wikepedia, Hypatia was a ancient Greek mathematician who lived in [...]

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