I work (in IT) with photographers/journalists at a small news organization. True, they don't need the bells-n-whistles of Photoshop (effect filters, etc.). And yes, cropping is probably used on every picture that goes in the newspaper.
But:
Tempo. Photographers storming in from say a fire, an accident, etc., with a large number of images, and with minutes until the next assignment, or until the pages goes to print. Every second often counts, many times a week.
Good hardware shaving off a little time here and there helps.
Image corrections. Pretty much every image (to be published - in print or online) needs sharpening, color/hue/brightness corrections, and similar touch-ups (but never image manipulations like cloning, etc. Then, like you say, it would cease to be a journalistic photo, and become misleading and/or fraudulent). Actually, even cropping is done with caution - does the meaning change? is it still representative of the events that took place? etc.
Photoshop is still among the best software for doing this (corrections). Plus, most photographers are familiar with it, so freelancers, temps, etc., can jump into the production chain and be productive immediately.
So, I guess I'm arguing that they do need fast computers (we use P4s on the desktop, SUN servers & SAN) and Photoshop (we have additional image software, for batch conversions, etc.).
Without having RTFA (yeah, shocking, isn't it), I'd say/big/ business will fight anything they feel would be the slightest inconvenience to their business-as-usual focus on p.r.o.f.i.t.
"What?! Testing DDT before spraying it EVERYWHERE? What don't you understand: No bugs!! You friggin commie business playa-hata."
"Waddyamean cigarettes might be bad for pregnant women?? What? No, of course we don't need to test it - it's silky-smoooth isn't it?"
"Union? You're fired! Unite that, buster!"
"Our cars burst in flames, you say? For no apparent reason, huh? Well...how 'bout that.. look, cows!"
So who are all these Dave Gorman trolls mentioned?
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From the article:
In Britain, a former mathematics student named Dave Gorman has created a popular play, a book and a television series based on his "Googlewhack" adventure, in which he chased down 54 other Dave Gormans,
all while trolling you know where. [emphasis mine]
My interpretation of the sentence was: hmm, strange that so many Slashdot trolls share the name "Dave Gorman".
Troll, at least read before posting. On page ONE of the Bunker site, describing their technical team:
This team is led by Ben Laurie,
our technical director and author of the Apache-SSL web server. He is a founding director and head of security of the Apache Software Foundation, whose Apache webserver powers over 60% of the world's websites. He is also a core member of the OpenSSL Project (the world's most widely used cryptographic library), and numerous other internet projects. (emphasis mine)
Do check up on Ben Laurie. What kind of standards do you have?? Think RMS is a leech too? Sheesh.
And indeed, the upcoming bullshit/branding/naming meta-wars are cool; and by cool I mean totally sweet.
Re:Prediction about "social network software"
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Interesting, but could use some references to sources / related material, e.g.:
Andrew Odlyzko's paper Content is Not King which I often point to - it's that good:), and the groundbreaking Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan (written in 1964, in which he coined the phrase "the medium is the message". First 7 chapters also available online.).
Well, at 640x480 I'm not so sure. Seems way too lo-rez, especially for vaporware, no matter the price... (And reading the articles in their archive, I'm Swedish -- too, Mr. nickname-from-nastiest-'food'-in-Swedish-cuisine;) -- they claimed "600x800" in October 2002, article in Swedish.)
Furthermore, their current data/spec. on rez and price are (still) their own "target values".
From what I gather, they do have some new kind of cooling system (patents pending), which they claim is good enough to make next-generation projectors completely fanless. Time will tell, of course.
Heh, yes, Hagakure (In the Shadows of Leaves) has many insights on a lot of topics:). For the one at hand, a slightly more productive reflection from the book might be:
If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contradictory to expectation.
But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters. (Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure. Translation by William S Wilson)
Totally unralated: About you're current.sig, "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball(TM)". Was it you who had that awesome "The instructions SPECIFICALLY SAID... DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL!" (or something to that effect), I've seen around some time ago?
So, how do you feel Paint Shop Pro stands up against Photoshop Elements?
We did some comparisons at work about a year ago (local news organization) - we were (still are) looking for good, cost-effective, graphics tools for some of our photographer's tasks, for prepress work, workflow automation (image format conversions, meta-data creation, etc.), and so on.
I think I remember Photoshop (not sure if it applied to Elements too) has much stronger color handling, especially working with non-RGB colorspaces (i.e. handling CMYK, et al., making it more suitable for advanced printwork - which made e.g. GIMP a non-starter for many of our needs).
But, PSP Pwns PS in scriptability. PSP's scripting language is a more or less full implementation of Python (v. 9+ I think). Pretty cool stuff. I think every function/command/etc. in PSP is Python scriptable (I should check, but it's late...).
(That said, for quick image manipulation, I still reach for PS more often, because I've used it since v2.5.)
Re:It will take years for these standards to settl
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Yeah, if they manage to become standards at all. What I found interesting/disturbing about the Barret (Intel) interview, was this telling quote:
"I think it's important... that we adopt a minimum base line of copy protection technology [...]" he said.
"I think this an area best left to he industrial members -- the content owners, the consumer electronics manufacturers and the PC manufacturers -- to deal with and government should take a stand-offish solution [...]"
Telling, in the absolute absence of the slightest mention of the "networked/~ing consumer" (I think the word 'consumer' in the traditional sense is increasingly misleading, but that's another rant).
Are these "industry members" deliberately trying to not understand?!
DVD region protections, the DRM in iTunes, etc. Problems and grief. And for what? If iTunes had no protections on the content, would their sales actually have suffered(?) And the regions, now that's just pathetic.
I mean, simply observing our (consumers-producers) uses, re-uses, combinations, sharing, etc., of this fabled "content".should tell them something. William Gibson wrote something like "The streets finds its own uses for things."
One would think it was abundantly clear by now, that the 80/20 sweet-spot (Pareto's law), is finding a low-ceremonial, painless way of just selling the content. And stopping there!
Ensuring control over it's use at the edges will cost (is costing) way too much (and will probably not work) - standards, systems, enforcement, irritation, inflexibility, etc. All this to make absolutely sure lil' Betty won't play her Aguilera 'songs' on her stereo and to her friends in her chatroom online...
I don't think they delved that deep into the tech... In the movie she's doing vertical take-offs and landings at will, but I don't recall seeing any nozzles/engines rotating (a la the British Harrier).
So, the artists painted whatever looked coolest, the sound engineers created the coolest sounds, the director told Nausicaa to get on the damned thing aaaand Action!
Oh, I'm in more want of clue than I initially thought:). Which was to be expected of course, google drive-bys being poor substitutes for knowledge and all.
I'll be paying ol' Amazon a visit to "get my learn on"*. Cheers.
*) And this is the kind of quotes my brain somehow decides to embed. (Chris Rock for chrissakes..) Purge! Purge I say!
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps (portable) fuel cells will be your 'Energon cubes'(?) - a quick Google search found some interesting links.
Closed archives, copyrighted databases, blocking "unauthorized" traffic, ... Sir Tim, all this does not have 'semantic' writ all over. Our condolences.
Forgive them, for they know not...
I work (in IT) with photographers/journalists at a small news organization. True, they don't need the bells-n-whistles of Photoshop (effect filters, etc.). And yes, cropping is probably used on every picture that goes in the newspaper.
But:
Tempo. Photographers storming in from say a fire, an accident, etc., with a large number of images, and with minutes until the next assignment, or until the pages goes to print. Every second often counts, many times a week.
Good hardware shaving off a little time here and there helps.
Image corrections. Pretty much every image (to be published - in print or online) needs sharpening, color/hue/brightness corrections, and similar touch-ups (but never image manipulations like cloning, etc. Then, like you say, it would cease to be a journalistic photo, and become misleading and/or fraudulent). Actually, even cropping is done with caution - does the meaning change? is it still representative of the events that took place? etc.
Photoshop is still among the best software for doing this (corrections). Plus, most photographers are familiar with it, so freelancers, temps, etc., can jump into the production chain and be productive immediately.
So, I guess I'm arguing that they do need fast computers (we use P4s on the desktop, SUN servers & SAN) and Photoshop (we have additional image software, for batch conversions, etc.).
Reading your link, I found their tests - in themselves - to be kind of hazardous ;).
As you understood from my sarcastic post, I don't know very much about the history of DDT - so, interesting article, thanks.
$ echo 'I CANT HEAR YOU' | rev
:)
UOY RAEH TNAC I
Ah, the silence
Without having RTFA (yeah, shocking, isn't it), I'd say /big/ business will fight anything they feel would be the slightest inconvenience to their business-as-usual focus on p.r.o.f.i.t.
"What?! Testing DDT before spraying it EVERYWHERE? What don't you understand: No bugs!! You friggin commie business playa-hata."
"Waddyamean cigarettes might be bad for pregnant women?? What? No, of course we don't need to test it - it's silky-smoooth isn't it?"
"Union? You're fired! Unite that, buster!"
"Our cars burst in flames, you say? For no apparent reason, huh? Well ...how 'bout that.. look, cows!"
From the article:
My interpretation of the sentence was: hmm, strange that so many Slashdot trolls share the name "Dave Gorman".
Troll, at least read before posting. On page ONE of the Bunker site, describing their technical team:
Do check up on Ben Laurie. What kind of standards do you have?? Think RMS is a leech too? Sheesh.
Lol, good one.
And indeed, the upcoming bullshit/branding/naming meta-wars are cool; and by cool I mean totally sweet.
Interesting, but could use some references to sources / related material, e.g.:
:), and the groundbreaking Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan (written in 1964, in which he coined the phrase "the medium is the message". First 7 chapters also available online.).
Andrew Odlyzko's paper Content is Not King which I often point to - it's that good
Well, at 640x480 I'm not so sure. Seems way too lo-rez, especially for vaporware, no matter the price... (And reading the articles in their archive, I'm Swedish -- too, Mr. nickname-from-nastiest-'food'-in-Swedish-cuisine ;) -- they claimed "600x800" in October 2002, article in Swedish.)
Furthermore, their current data/spec. on rez and price are (still) their own "target values".
From what I gather, they do have some new kind of cooling system (patents pending), which they claim is good enough to make next-generation projectors completely fanless. Time will tell, of course.
Ah to hell with the dogs, I want a Reason! :)
Heh, yes, Hagakure (In the Shadows of Leaves) has many insights on a lot of topics :). For the one at hand, a slightly more productive reflection from the book might be:
n/t
Reposting the AC's link: Didel, PicoBird.
Hehe, nice one.
.sig, "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball(TM)". Was it you who had that awesome "The instructions SPECIFICALLY SAID ... DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL!" (or something to that effect), I've seen around some time ago?
Totally unralated: About you're current
So, how do you feel Paint Shop Pro stands up against Photoshop Elements?
We did some comparisons at work about a year ago (local news organization) - we were (still are) looking for good, cost-effective, graphics tools for some of our photographer's tasks, for prepress work, workflow automation (image format conversions, meta-data creation, etc.), and so on.
I think I remember Photoshop (not sure if it applied to Elements too) has much stronger color handling, especially working with non-RGB colorspaces (i.e. handling CMYK, et al., making it more suitable for advanced printwork - which made e.g. GIMP a non-starter for many of our needs).
But, PSP Pwns PS in scriptability. PSP's scripting language is a more or less full implementation of Python (v. 9+ I think). Pretty cool stuff. I think every function/command/etc. in PSP is Python scriptable (I should check, but it's late...).
(That said, for quick image manipulation, I still reach for PS more often, because I've used it since v2.5.)
Yeah, if they manage to become standards at all. What I found interesting/disturbing about the Barret (Intel) interview, was this telling quote:
Telling, in the absolute absence of the slightest mention of the "networked/~ing consumer" (I think the word 'consumer' in the traditional sense is increasingly misleading, but that's another rant).
Are these "industry members" deliberately trying to not understand?!
DVD region protections, the DRM in iTunes, etc. Problems and grief. And for what? If iTunes had no protections on the content, would their sales actually have suffered(?) And the regions, now that's just pathetic.
I mean, simply observing our (consumers-producers) uses, re-uses, combinations, sharing, etc., of this fabled "content".should tell them something. William Gibson wrote something like "The streets finds its own uses for things."
One would think it was abundantly clear by now, that the 80/20 sweet-spot (Pareto's law), is finding a low-ceremonial, painless way of just selling the content. And stopping there!
Ensuring control over it's use at the edges will cost (is costing) way too much (and will probably not work) - standards, systems, enforcement, irritation, inflexibility, etc. All this to make absolutely sure lil' Betty won't play her Aguilera 'songs' on her stereo and to her friends in her chatroom online...
What are you saying, at day's end, do the NSA or I get real ultimate power over my kernel? ;)
True, but the 'deleet' bookmarklet m4k3h r34d1|/| I7 4 li'l ez13R.
Holds zealous connotations as well, but I think it's slightly more neutral than your new favorite :).
It's The Patent's world, we just live in it..
I don't think they delved that deep into the tech... In the movie she's doing vertical take-offs and landings at will, but I don't recall seeing any nozzles/engines rotating (a la the British Harrier).
So, the artists painted whatever looked coolest, the sound engineers created the coolest sounds, the director told Nausicaa to get on the damned thing aaaand Action!
Oh, I'm in more want of clue than I initially thought :). Which was to be expected of course, google drive-bys being poor substitutes for knowledge and all.
I'll be paying ol' Amazon a visit to "get my learn on"*. Cheers.
*) And this is the kind of quotes my brain somehow decides to embed. (Chris Rock for chrissakes..) Purge! Purge I say!
Gotta love the /. effect on torrents.
And yea, be good citizens and keep your seeds alive.