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Last Updated on Sunday, 28 February 2010 14:41 Written by Carlsson Chee Sunday, 28 February 2010 14:30

Photoshop is one of the most important tools today in the design industry. In the late 1980s, Thomas Knoll and John Knoll developed a pixel-imaging program — first called Display, then Image Pro, and finally Photoshop. They made a well-received presentation to Russell Brown at Adobe and then licensed Photoshop to Adobe in 1988. From then onwards, Photoshop started changing the way we view the world.

For 20 years, the world has used Adobe Photoshop software to transform creative inspiration into nearly everything we see in print, online, and across media. Photoshop today has major uses including editing photos to send to that hot guy or girl you just met online. The image-editing software, embraced by amateur and professional photographers alike, is used to make family photo albums, labels for beverage bottles, magazine fashion spreads and scene designs for Hollywood movies, such as the blockbuster "Avatar." Comedians from Jon Stewart to Conan O'Brien have used it in punch lines. It even has entered the popular vernacular, as in, "It's Photoshopped" when something appears too good to be true.

I hope you have enjoyed the presentation made by Linus, as well as Stefano, who has 11 years of experience (I only have 5 years of experience. LOL!).

The video, shot in January 2010 is a great interview with the creator of Photoshop, John Knoll about its early days.

http://www.youtube.com/v/iItTsYmy8lQ

Enjoy!

Written by Stefano Virgilli Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:38

Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 December 2009 02:12 Written by Linus Lim Wednesday, 09 December 2009 02:07

Dear members,

We just had a wonderful meeting for our last meeting of the 2009. Creative Crew will like to take this opportunity to thanks all our members and speakers for all your support for the year.  A special thanks to National Library Board for their great support and all their helpful library staff who always go to the extra mile to facilitate our meeting to make it happen. Also thanks to Red Dot for their support too.


Roundup of December meeting
This month is Photoshop month.  We have a fabulous 3 speaker sessions on photoshop by William Aung who give us a series of eye candy photography effects using adjustment layers as non-destructive layers and blending modes to bring out the moods and artistic feel for your photos, and Lynus Hee give us an interesting insights on what High Dynamic Range imaging is about and demostrate using the Adobe Bridge to merge series of camera raw images to turn into HDR photo and showed how we can enhance the rich color information in those 16 and 32 bits photos.  Also we have Sayanee Basu sharing with us on using a free photoshop plugin called, "FiTS Liberator" to create beautiful cosmo imagings that Nasa used for their image processing for their astronomical images. She demostrated using free FITS images found online and combine them using plugin and photoshop actions to transform these static photos into beautiful composition.  You can reference her presentation slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/sweska/colors-of-the-sky

You can also find more Photoshop materials in the Library near you.  NLB have prepare a brochure call "Photoshop CS4 Pathfinder" to help you to search for some of the interesting Photoshop CS4 titles.  Go Check it out here!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0tgmmoycqdr

See you all again in 2010 at the Central Public Library on 12 January.
Merry Christmas!!

 

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:07 Written by Linus Lim Wednesday, 25 November 2009 03:59

Dear crews,
check out these high quality wooden textures released under Creative Common license.
Browse them on Flickr > http://www.flickr.com/photos/31288116@N02/sets/72157622722856121/
[Source from http://sixrevisions.com]

Just like what we shared during our August meeting (video below) about Creative Commons License, such licensed images are free to use in your design projects free of charge.

[Video] Creative Commons Licensing on August Meeting by Lam Chung Nian

For more information on Creative Commons License, please visit this website
http://creativecommons.org/international/sg/