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A Protocol for Upgrading to Adobe Photoshop CS5

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Apr 22, 2010 in Featured Articles | 7 comments

Some people measure time on a clock. Others on a calendar. And, there are those of us who measure time in terms of “software life cycles” — the time between major product upgrades. For those of us in the latter category, this is a time to celebrate. Adobe Creative Suite 5 was announced on...

Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part II — Batch Processing

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Feb 22, 2010 in Featured Articles | 3 comments

In the last post, we created a “brush” to use when signing or placing a copyright notice on our images. Using the brush, one image at a time, works well. But, when we have a big job, a lot of images we want to protect all at once, it’s not the way to get the job done. That’s where...

onOne Suite 5: Diverse and Powerful Plugins

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jan 28, 2010 in Quick Focus | 0 comments

With the release of Plug-In Suite 5, onOne has raised their prices — including the discount price they have allowed me to offer my students and readers. Graciously, onOne has allowed me to offer my students and readers the Suite at a heavily discounted price — $379.99. The latest version of...

Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part I.

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jan 28, 2010 in Featured Articles | 3 comments

Yes, I know. It’s a crime against art and beauty to put a watermark across model Hai Thi Ngo’s eyes. I had to. The placement was dictated by my site software. But, in some ways, the placement is appropriate; it shows the quandary in which we find ourselves when we take desperate measures to...

Survival Stories — Going Live

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Dec 17, 2009 in Quick Focus, Survival Stories | 34 comments

The immediate response was overwhelming. More than 150 of you sent emails saying “yes” to my inquiry as to whether I ought to start “a survival stories” section on this web site. My web developer, Nina Sossen, who knows a lot more about web site interaction than I do, tells me that...