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Dancing Ink Productions. Investigating the Cause of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout - Interactive Graphic. Soleil Noir 2012. Noel Benedetti. How Chris Burden Created Metropolis II, A Tiny City Where 1,100 Toy Cars Zoom. The blogs have been buzzing about California artist Chris Burden's toy-car megalopolis project, Metropolis II, for ages.

How Chris Burden Created Metropolis II, A Tiny City Where 1,100 Toy Cars Zoom

The latest news: A collector bought the installation for "millions" of dollars, but was gracious enough to donate it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for display over the next 10 years. (Whew!) But what does it take to design something like Metropolis II, and what does it all mean, anyway? It took Burden and his chief engineer four years to make Metropolis II. The first question is easy: It took Burden and his chief engineer Zak Cook four years of R&D and construction in Burden's studio to make Metropolis II. Burden doesn't have any particular interest in transportation or urban planning, he says, although he has used toys in his artworks since the 1970s. Pathways to purchase pdf - NYU lecture.pdf (application/pdf Object) Silktide - tools for testing websites. The Lexus and the Olive Tree (9780374192037): Thomas L. Friedman. Steve Johnson Media - Home. Color Picker Versatility. The vast majority of the time, the vast majority of us use Photoshop’s Color Picker in the default configuration.

Color Picker Versatility

Perhaps we use Custom Colors to select a spot color, but when using the Color Picker itself, we ignore the eight optional modes. (What? You didn’t know that the Color Picker has different modes?) By default, Photoshop’s Color Picker opens in Hue mode. The color field, the square area to the left, shows variations in saturation from left to right and variations in brightness from top to bottom. When the button to the left of S is selected, saturation is displayed in the color slider and the color field is used to determine hue (left-right) and brightness (top-bottom). Click on the button to the left of B to switch to Brightness mode.

You can also use red, green, or blue as the basis for selection in the Color Picker. When the color slider is positioned higher, the component color value is higher than zero. Mick Mountz: The hidden world of box-packing. Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. All-new Smart Sharpen Rich textures, crisp edges, and distinct details.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

All-new Smart Sharpen is the most advanced sharpening technology available today. It analyzes images to maximize clarity and minimize noise and halos, and it lets you fine-tune for high-quality, natural-looking results.See how it works › Camera Shake Reduction Save shots you thought were lost due to camera motion. Adobe Camera Raw 8 and Camera Raw as a filter Apply Camera Raw edits as a filter to any layer or file, and then enhance them any way you want. Image resizing improvements The Image Size command now includes a method to Preserve Details and provide better sharpness while enlarging images. Editable rounded rectangles Resize shapes, edit them, and re-edit them — before or after they're created.

Multi-shape and path selection Select multiple paths, shapes, and vector masks at once. Adobe Edge Reflow CC integration Extended features included. Sundance Film Festival. Computer Graphics Training in New York. Portraits of snake charm worth elephant-killing bite. Rowan Hooper, news editor King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) - the world's longest venomous snake (Image: Mark Laita) Talk about taking risks in the name of art.

Portraits of snake charm worth elephant-killing bite

In the course of his work photographing snakes, Mark Laita was recently bitten by a black mamba - one of the 10 most venomous land snakes in the world. Bites have been known to kill a human in under 30 minutes, but luckily for Laita it was a "dry" bite, where venom is not injected. In 2006 a bite killed an adult elephant. A lucky escape (Image: Mark Laita) Laita says he finds snakes so evocative and sensual that photographing them - in zoos, serpentariums, anti-venom labs and private collections - is worth the occasional close call. If the photos help publicise the plight of reptiles, so much the better. "The jury is still out regarding why populations of some snake species appear to be declining whilst others appear to be relatively stable," says Reading.

For more of Mark Laita's snake images, see this week's magazine.

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Create Animation Using Photoshop. Light Stalking. Digital Photography Tutorials. Learn how to take and edit digital photographs using visual tutorials that emphasize concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens.

Digital Photography Tutorials

This is a complete listing of all tutorials on this site; click the drop-down links in the top menu to see particular topics. Photography is going through an exciting transition period as many film photographers are beginning to explore the new capabilities of digital cameras. While the fundamentals have remained similar, other aspects are markedly different. This is a great time to get involved with digital photography. These tutorials are rarely influenced by changes in image editing software and camera equipment — due to their unique concept-based approach. View in other languages: Português Русский Deutsch Français Italiano.

Self Study Preparation Guides and Test Simulators for Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Exams. Genuine Fractals is now Perfect Resize 7. Fantastic photomontage and its possible influences, 1857 - 2007 : a timeline. Photo Manipulation as artform. Tutorials - Photoshop.