Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed. Suspended upside down, a titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype is prepped for radar testing at Area 51 in the late 1950s. After a rash of declassifications, details of Cold War workings at the Nevada base, which to this day does not officially exist, are coming to light—including never before released images of an A-12 crash and its cover-up. (Also see "Revealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft. ") Area 51 was created so that U.S. Cold Warriors with the highest security clearances could pursue cutting-edge aeronautical projects away from prying eyes.
During the 1950s and '60s Area 51’s top-secret OXCART program developed the A-12 as the successor to the U-2 spy plane. Nearly undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly at 2,200 miles an hour (3,540 kilometers an hour)—fast enough to cross the continental U.S. in 70 minutes. From 90,000 feet (27,400 meters), the plane's cameras could capture foot-long (0.3-meter-long) objects on the ground below. —Brian Handwerk. Paste Images on Tilted Surfaces in Photoshop. Photoshop History (Exclusive Article) | Photoshop Articles. Everyone has heard of the popular graphics editing software package Photoshop - a world-wide leader among raster graphics editing applications. In this article I will cover the major points of the whole history of Photoshop creation: significant dates, releases, basic improvements, and some additional tips.
Photoshop was developed and distributed by the Adobe Photoshop company. At the very beginning it was intended for editing images for print, but it has also gained popularity as a tool for creation and editing web graphics. This is another reason that it has become so popular. The last Photoshop versions also include the special application - ImageReady, which was added specifically for work with web graphics easier.
This story begins in 1987 when 2 brothers, Thomas Knoll and John Knoll started developing Photoshop. Photoshop was a real success, and in 1991 they released... Adobe Photoshop 1.0 - released in February 1990 for Macintosh. Mputer Arts - The history of Photoshop. Story Photograpy: History of Photoshop. From Darkroom to Desktop—How Photoshop Came to Light by Derrick Story Feb. 18, 2000 Ten years ago this month, Adobe shipped Photoshop 1.0. "Has it really been that long? " It has. The story of one of the original "killer apps" begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) with a college professor named Glenn Knoll.
Glenn was a photo enthusiast who maintained a darkroom in the family basement. He was also a technology aficionado intrigued by the emergence of the personal computer. "Photography was a hobby of mine in high school," explained Thomas in an interview for the Michigan Engineer. While Thomas learned about image manipulation in the basement darkroom, John was attracted to the odd-shaped box known as a personal computer that his dad had brought home. "Another memory that is really fixed in my mind" John adds, "was in 1984 when I picked up a copy of Time magazine that had a little article about the Macintosh, and I thought, wow, look at this thing!
" 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates. Twitter updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more. The following are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates.
These amazing updates have made the news, pushed the boundaries of what the status update can do, and have even fundamentally changed people's lives. This post is part of a Mashable mini-series providing analysis of social media’s smallest big trend: the status update. 1. On May 28th, Max Kiesler asked Emily Chang for her hand in marriage. Yes, in two little status updates, a couple got engaged. Others have gotten engaged using Twitter, including @garazi to @stefsull and earlier this year, @grobertson to @film_girl. 2.
When is it too early to let your kids tweet? Tyler, born on January 19th, 2009, now "tweets" from his new account, minimensch.