Glyphs of Time :: a blog by jarvis grant

March 18, 2010

Protecting Your Images on the Web: A Look at Embedded Digital Watermarking vs. Digital Fingerprinting

Filed under: Digital Tech,How-To,Photography — Jarvo @ 12:31 am

By Laura Evenson and Kyle Gundersen, ImageSpan/LicenseStream
So you’re trolling the Web late one night and up pops an image of snowboarder that looks disturbingly familiar. It’s disturbing because you’re the only who could have shot that image of that snowboarder boosting 10 feet out of that halfpipe. What’s more, while it’s clearly your image, it is appearing on the wrong site, at the wrong time, and for an unauthorized use.
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An Excerpt from From Still to Motion, A new book of DSLR video

Filed under: Digital Tech,Media,Photography,Video — Jarvo @ 12:20 am

From Still to Motion: A photographer's guide to creating video with your DSLRWith the arrival of high-definition video-enabled DSLR cameras, photographers are faced with an opportunity for creativity and a competitive edge in their field unlike anything they’ve experienced before. Add to that the expanding demands from a video-hungry audience and it’s no longer a matter of if you are going to add video to your repertoire of skills, it’s when. Excerpted from From Still to Motion: A photographer’s guide to creating video with your DSLR by James Ball, Robbie Carman, Matt Gottshalk and Richard Harrington. Copyright © 2010. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders.
Get a copy of the excerpted PDF, here.

 
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March 16, 2010

John Knoll Recreates the Photoshop Demo to Adobe

Filed under: Art History,Digital Tech,Innovation,Photoshop — Jarvo @ 4:31 pm

This video, an episode from Adobe TV, celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Photoshop. Here John Knoll re-creates his demo of the application given to Adobe.

 
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Laptop Prototype Design

Filed under: Design,Digital Tech,Photography,Video — Jarvo @ 9:23 am

This ain’t nothin’ but a dream right now, but it sure is cool! With all of the innovation blah, blah, blah hype from Steve Jobs, I’m pretty sure folks were expecting something like this with the iPad. It’s a reminder that innovation isn’t designed with dollars in mind. As the Buddha states; “Excellent work cannot be done thinking about the reward”.


From, Schlagheck-Design – “The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer.
By virtue of the OLED-Display technology and a multi touch screen the utility of a laptop computer with its weight of a mini-notebook and screen size of 13 inch easily transforms into the graphics tablet, which with its 17-inch flat screen can be also used as a primary monitor.
On top of everything else all computer utilities from power supply through the holding belt to an interactive pen are integrated in Rolltop. This is really an all-in-one gadget.”

 
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March 6, 2010

Visual Proofreading: 10 Rules

Filed under: Design,Digital Tech,How-To,Media — Jarvo @ 6:58 pm

Visual Proofreading: 10 Rules.

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In this article by Fred Showker over at DT&G online design magazine, he gives us some good tips, that I’m sure you do anyway simply by instinct as a designer. But it’s always good to see a process spelled out for you. Then, you can argue the pros & cons for yourself, making you a stronger designer.

 
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February 26, 2010

Free Guide to All Photoshop Filters

Filed under: Digital Tech,Observations,Photoshop — Jarvo @ 2:22 pm

Free Guide to All Photoshop Filters

The original link is to the Studio Daily blog. In there you’ll find the link to Richard Harrington’s which has the PDF guide. For those you may not know, Richard is a motion graphics trainer/guru. He is a writer for Photoshop User & Layers Magazine. He is also a trainer at Kelby Training.

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February 25, 2010

NAPP Members Invited To Beta Test Next Version of Adobe Photoshop

Filed under: Digital Tech,Observations,Photoshop — Jarvo @ 1:26 pm

NAPP Members Invited To Beta Test Next Version of Adobe Photoshop

And guess who got in!?  ;-D

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February 21, 2010

The Vespers: evensong & other thoughts

Filed under: Digital Tech,Gallery,Observations,Photography — Jarvo @ 8:11 pm

These photographs are my first experiments using the Lensbaby Composer

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February 20, 2010

Photoshop Startup Dreams Video

Filed under: Art History,Digital Tech,Media,Photoshop,Video — Tags: , — Jarvo @ 2:32 pm

A trip down Photoshop’s Memory Lane, with the Knoll Brothers and a couple of their friends.

 
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February 17, 2010

You Get What You Pay For: Installment #1

Filed under: Digital Tech,Observations,Photography — Jarvo @ 11:31 pm

OK. When we hear this phrase, we think if I don’t pay a lot what I have is a chip piece of crap! Therefore, I must spend a lot for quality. Yes and No. For some odd reason, photographers feel that they must spend a lot of buck to get the “best” equipment. Sound logical. They also feel that the more they can spend, the better a photographer they must be. Hey it makes sense, right?

I’m here to tell ya, that’s what equipment manufactures want you to think For example, when you go into the field, take a laptop computer. A laptop? I’m not getting paid for these images.  So hey, let me take a hard drive with a screen into the field. That way I can see the images I’m taking and download those images to the drive and free up my capture card. That makes sense. Of course it does, but… What if I would like to backup those images while shooting? Damn,  I guess I do need my laptop?

Yet, I guess instead of taking a $600-$800 80 GB screened hard drive into the field that isn’t doing what I need, let me take a $1200 MacBook into the field, (or the PC equivalent) for more control and options. Yeah, That makes sense.
OR
How about this, maybe take a Netbook that cost, on the high-end, $400 with a DVD burner at $50? The Netbook has a 160 GB hard drive and an OS that will support basic photo editing package, like Photoshop Elements or even a pro package like Lightroom to review the day’s shoot (Not shoot tethered, it’s a Netbook for God’s sake!).  Plus with the introduction of the iPad, Netbooks will just get better. So, if you get what you pay for is true, then spend another $150 on a 350 GB portable hard drive to backup the photos on, and sync up everything when back in the studio.

So, photographers, stop being victims of marketing hype. Stop being so anal! Use your creative vision to do great things that don’t make other people rich at your expense. Remember, every 18 months, these folks will tell you that you need to spend more money on something that is even greater and better. For those who can, remember those $30,000 Kodak cameras in Nikon bodies that shot, 1.5 megapixel images? What’s the res of your iPhone?

 
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