In exploring Adobe Illustrator CS4 and trying out new tools and tricks I stumbled across the multiple artboards feature. It looks great for marketing, banner ads, etc. and initially I didn't think it would be much use to me. The basic concept is the ability to have more than one page on the same "drafting … Continue reading Ai CS4 multiple artboards
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Google announces TIME Photo archive online!
Google has teamed up with the LIFE Photo archives to bring what promises to be around 10 million images out of the archives and onto your screen! Apparently many of the images were never published, so they're not just releasing the famous images we've all seen before.from the Official Google Blog:This effort to bring offline … Continue reading Google announces TIME Photo archive online!
three enemies of digital image preservation (in a nutshell)
1. Corruption I'm not talking about dirty politics here, but rather compression of the file, lossy compression in specific - the type that creates smaller file sizes for jpegs and what not. Lossless Tiff formats keep all the pixels, which mean the image quality won't suffer over time. One thing I learned long ago about … Continue reading three enemies of digital image preservation (in a nutshell)