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HUB: The Computer Paper
Volume 21: Number 09
News Briefs
USB Fridge, VolP and landline in one and more Editorial
David Tanaka
10 Packing heat tanakatdavid@gmail.com
HUB tests three notebook backpacks with sizzlin’ style Andrew MooreCrispin
andrew@ppublishing.ca
12 Pre and PostProduction ii a box Jennifer Kavur
Adobe Creative SUite 3 for Video pros jennifer@ppublishing.ca

16 Clutter-free workflow Contributing Editors

A new face for InDesign CS3 Sean Carruthers
Gord Goble
Mike Palermo
17 Graphics gone mobile Lee Rickwood
Quadro NVS Mobile GPU Marc Saltzman
Chad Sapieha
20 Through the viewfinder Gene Wiburn
A photographer's take on Adobe Photoshop CS3 Helen Bradley

24 Take one and call us in the morning... Advertising Sales

Tablets take control in digital ink and beyond
Ontario/Toronto Karim Rizk
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27 News Briefs
Montreal Brian Hillcoat
The latest in a line of iMacs
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Western Canada Vivian Jin
28 These fine mice. (See how they click) vivian@ppub ishingca
Computer mice worth laying your hands on
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30 Digital photography tutorial
The business of photography President Scott Piccolo
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What I did on my summer holiday
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34 Digitized documents and wired workflows
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44 Tech Training in BC
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Notice anything different? i
Believing that actions speak louder than words. HUB: Digital Living becomes HUB. The Computer Paper with neither pomp nor
ceremony. It's a return to the TCP and HUB legacies that together have spanned more than 20 years. What’s changing? The
name and the size are the biggest things. The name change brings us more in line with our readers and the industries we cover.
The new format gives us more room to do 50,4" along with a few extras like the comprehensive ISP listings and info on tech
training institutions. Wethink it’s an idea whosejli'me has come again, and we'd love to hear your thoughts at letters@ppub|ishing.ca.

In this first redesigned issue we are highlightmg the computer as a graphics instrument. For those of you whose computer expe
rience or memory doesn't go back more than la couple of decades, you may be wondering what the big deali s . With a current
Mac or Windows PC. highquality graphics andl colour are a standard part of the package. This means even when using inexpen‑
sive or free applications like OpenOffice Writerl,you can design documents that look pretty sweet.

But it was not always 50. Upuntil the mid~19$05, personal computing was a dreary, characterbased monochrome environment.
Computer graphics meant crude pictures made by creating patterns with alphanumeric characters and even that was consid‑
ered leading e d g ein its day. Real graphics work was done on specialized (expensive) workstations using specialized (expensive
too) software. Then the Apple Mac happened. And the Apple LaserWriter happened. And Adobe developed a little thing called
PostScript. Oh, and scalable fonts. And Aldus Corp. introduced an application called PageMaker, which allowed you to put text
and graphics on the same page- what a concept. These were the key enablers of what vVas to become the desktop publishing
revolution. It has driven a lot of the personal computer’s development and so today even a mid-range platform offers a powerful
foundation for professional graphic artists as Well as dabblers. These developments also created synergies with other things that
people were discovering they could do on a computer- like play or compose music, edit video or manipulate photographs.
Throw in a fast fat way to join in on the Internet and you have our present computing environment

Today, Apple still has the mindshare and heartspace of graphics types (although of course, Windows has the walletspace of
most computer buyers), while Adobe has become the fat cat of graphics software, swallowing up virtually every graphics soft‑
ware title worth owning. With Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia in 2005, it added to its stable some of the best titles for web
development, including Flash and Dreamweaver. So now, if you want any of the front runners in any graphics subcategory, you'll
likely be drinking deep at the Adobe fountain. Want bitmap graphics?_Photoshop has no peer. Page layout? InDesign has steadily
loosened Quark’s stranglehold on professional ‘DTP. Document workflow? Adobe Acrobat is the main game. Web development?
Adobe seems to have forgotten about its own GoLive (also an acquisition), now that it has Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flash, etc.
And for vector graphics, CoreIDraw used to be able to stand up to illustrator, but has faded in that marketmg race.

There are a few pockets of resistance. The best natural media application is Painter, which was acquired by Corel several years
ago. Adobe’s Premiere Pro Video editing suite ‘gets knocked around some by the competition, and Apple Quicktime goes on and
o n , And Adobe doesn't have anything in the 3D space to compete with products like 3D Studio Max.

Adobe is managing its diverse and extensive holdings in graphics software by mixing and matching the titles into variations
under the Creative Suite umbrella. So, there lS‘l’lOi one Creative Soite 3 title you can buy. but three variations (in standard and
p r e m i u m verSions). along With anall-encompassing CS3 Master Collection. This i s s u e devotes a good chunk of editorial real
estate to CS3 because it is a Significant product . and one that touches so many graphics endeavours.

One of my first jobs that involved both computers and editing was working on manuscripts that were computer typeset. We had
to code each change in font wrth tags, much like HTML is hand-coded today. I remember one distressing instance wheresome‑
one forgot to out in the end tag for a subtitlea so pages of the body copy of the manuscript came back from the typesetter in
large bold type. I sure don’t m i s s those good ol' days.

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USB Fridge
File under utterly useless. but entirely awesome USB
widgets. The USB Fridge from DreamCheeky is a
novelty USB powered drink cooler. The "fridge" part
of the title is a little misleading; essentially, it's the
same technology as the USB Beverage Chiller from
Canadian company CoollT Systems with a retrostyled
plastic enclosure.
You’re limited to standard pop cans; no bottles of
water, no king cans or anything that won't fit inside the
enclosure. For this tradectf. however, you get one of
the nifty blue LEDs that often grace the more interest‑
ing USB peripherals; this one in the form of a light
inside the fridge. At about USS30, available from
www.usbgeek.com, you might find yourself wondering
why you didn't just drink your pop while it was cold in
the first place though.
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Canadian doctors decidedly low-tech
A recent study released by the Conference Board oi’
Canada suggests that North American physicians are
among the most low-tech of the developed world.
Canada and the United States are practically
interchangeable in last place in areas like digitization
of patient records, workflow and internet use.
The report, titled “Exploring Technical Innovation in
Health System,” suggests that despite the stereotype
of indecipherable handwriting, a majority of doctors'
offices in Canada prefer the oldfashioned approach
of hand-written notation on hard-copy'charts and
paper filing systems. According to the study, less
than a quarter of Canadian doctors’ offices use digital
patient records. What’s even stranger is the fact
that only about 65 percent identify themselves as
internet users.
While our physicians may be behind the curve where
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technology is concerned, they publish considerably
more articles than doctors in other countries, with
714 published articles per million as compared with
the 527 per million average." View the report at
www.conferenceboard.ca (registration required).
Panasonic launches “Globarange”
hybrid cordless phone
Panasonic has released a hybrid 5.8 GHz cordless
phone for people interested in VoIP, but not yet willing
to give up their landlines. Called Globarange, this
“transitional technology’ allows you to send and
receive calls using whichever line you prefer ‐ your
traditional landline or VoIP service provided by JOID.
This means you can still enjoy the benefits of having a
landline ‐ useful during power outages, for operating
a fax machine and traditional 911 service e while
av0iding huge long distance bills by utilizing those
lowcost VoIP rates.
The Globarange phone is easy to set up. All you have
to do is plug in the power cord, your landline and your
Ethernet cable (high speed Internet is required for the
VoIP line to work). You don’t have to install or download
any software, or even turn on your PC. No contract is
necessary, as the purchase of a Globarange phone
includes three years of unlimited calls to and from any
other Globarange user in the world.
f you want to make calls to landlines or cell phones
usmg your VoIP line, you will have to s i g n up for a
monthly plan, as this costs you minutes. (Minutes also
apply when you receive calls to your Volliiine‘from
andlines or cell phones.) Plans range from 56.99 per
minutes to the US and Canada).
reatures such as Call Waiting and Caller lD are includ‑
ed free with ioip. However, V0ice Mail, Conference
Calling and Call Forwarding are considered “advanced"
eatures and Wil cost you. You can plug a traditional
answering machine into the Globarange phone as an
alternative. or purchase the highend model ($179.95l
hat includes a digital answering system.
he Globarange phones hit stores at the end of
August, With the BB»GT15OOB base model starting at
$129.95. The phones are currently available in 10
countries: U S , Hong Kong. Brazil. Spain, Germany,
Austria. UK, lreland and Australia.
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Business folk like to haul their portable PCs in expen»
sive attache cases, and stylish technorati typically
obsess over messenger bags and shoulder totes, but
the most practical and ergonomic means of transport‑
ing a notebook‐preferred by students, cyclists and
urban hikers‐is the backpack. These double-strapped
shoulder bags are better for your back and can typical~
ly store a lot more than just a notebook and a few
papers. And, if you choose carefully, they can be
surprisingly easy on the peepers. Wechecked out
three laptop packs that give backs a break and provide
their wearers little need to fear the fashion police.
Targus Revolution
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($100)
If you can't decide whether you'd like a messenger bag
or a backpack-the Revolution might be worth a look‑
see. The spacious laptop compartment (fits screens up
to 15.4 inches) detaches from the rest of the pack and
Targus Revolution
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travel light when necessary. lt's‘a great solution for
people who need a backpack for the, bike ride to work
or school and a lighter, sleekerftote as they port their
notebooks to meetings or classes throughout the day.
The extra material makes the Revolution a bit bulkier
than competing laptop backpacks, but it’s a fair trade
given the pack’s unusual utility. The only real bummer
is a lack of additional pockets in the tote‐it’s a pretty
basic bag meant to stow little more than a notebook.
( O h ‐ a n d the backpack's beige and brown motif, while
pretty, requires a wardrobe composed mostly of earth
tones, assuming you don't want to clash with your bag.)
i and PDAs, the Terrain is also designed to make trans‑
Samsonite Pro DLX ‘ porting your yoga gear on bike or foot a piece of
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it durabilityis a factor and price isn't a concern,
renowned luggage designer Samsonite’s Pro DLXis
the notebook backpack to beat. Constructed with
heavy duty nylon fibres, the Pro DLX can take a
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of wear. The interior laptop compartment, which can fit
notebooks up to 15-inches, provides plenty of padding
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the professional vibe is a practical design that sports
far fewer outer zippers and compartments than the
norm for the backpack genus, lending it an efficient,
minimal appearance.
Iululemon Terrain
www.lululemon.com
($89)
Backpacks designed by lululemon, a rapidly expanding
Vancouver-based athletic clothing company, focus on
comfort, practicality, style and providing an easy way
to lug yourmyoga mat...around town. That's right: in
addition to dedicated pockets for notebooks, iPods
cake. Hipsters will appreciate the pack‘s funky little
details, including pictures of items meant to be stored
in each compartment found on their corresponding zip
per tags, while owners of pricey notebooks will wel‑
come the smartly designed laptop sheath, which opens
from the side to“ allow notebooks to be inserted length
wrse. Once stowed, laptops sit comfortably flat against
the wearer's back and on an elastic band that keeps
them slightly elevated and protected against the
impact of short drops.
By Chad Sapieha
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It is being called the single largest soft‑
ware release in the company/s history ‑
and it’s one of the most anticipated.
As such, it’s also one of the most
expensive ‐ listing at $1,699 ‐ and
most resource intensive: the minimum
recommended drive space just to load
the program is 23.5GB. A bare
minimum 163 of RAM is required to get
the most from the software, as is a
Pentium 4 1.4 GHz processor.
With these caveats aside, it is great
news - Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3
Production Premium Suite (one of three
new CS3 bundles, the other two
focused on graphics and Web work) is
now available.
Of course, Adobe includes a whack of
applications critical to the dedicated
videomaker - Premiere Pro for editing,
Encore for DVD authoring, After Effects
for compositing and VFX creation,
Photoshop for touchups and image
vector graphics creation. One could be
happy and content right there, but the
company has also added other interest‑
ing and intriguing media apps to the
suite: the familiar Flash, Soundbooth (a
taskbased tool that replaces Audition),
OnLocation (formerly known as DV
Rack) and Ultra 083 (a chromakey and
virtual set tool).
These last two apps come to Adobe by
way of its acquisition of Serious Magic,
a great little digital rhedia company.
Luckily, these unique programs have
only gained from the transition.
Adobe’s well-known strength in bringing
a consistent look and feel to its inter‑
face is evident throughout this new
release, and also in its integration of
what were once Macromedia (also
acquired by Adobe with integration in
this release) and Serious Magic assets.
Let’s look at the core programs first.
Premiere Pro css
Save for the fact this popular video
editing program has returned to the
Mac, it has not undergone many
changes. Given the fact that the previ‑
ous version, Premiere Pro 2, was a
somewhat disruptive release, perhaps
that's for the better.
It is still a powerful and sophisticated
editing program, capable of handling
DVand HD, among other video formats.
it can still output finished programs
to tape, disk, mobile device or
lntemet stream.
And there are some cool new features.
Handling HDV files is much smoother
and more accurate with Premiere Pro
CS3. You can also now open different
bins at the same time, making transfer
of captured video or other files easier
to move, copy and paste between bins.
Previews can be enabled or disabled,
too, which is handy if you have lots of
clips that need rendering and you
don't want to wait for Premiere to
update all of those files on the timeline.
Just click on the icon and Premiere will
disable previews.
New as well is time remapping, a fea‑
ture that lets you create variablerate
time stretches directly in the timeline;
you can now see the clip getting longer
or shorter, depending on the clip speed
that you choose.
Time remapping has been available in
l
After Effects for a while, but now it’s in
Premiere. Speed changes are keyframe‑
able, and a soft “ease in or out'
co mand brings a nice sense of real‑
isninto things that get slower or faster
over time. ' “louder“ instead of "normalizing"). The
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W‘ the new Encore, you can author
standard DVD titles, Bluray discs and
even Webbased Flash presentations
much in the same way that you always
have ‐ fully menudriven, with linked
chapters, customized buttons and a
fully-interactive and user navigable
int}rface. Bluray is becoming increas‑
ing popular as a distribution medium,
an anyone with a Sony PlayStation 3
or compatible player can watch your
burned disc.
Encore does allow you to create visual
aneditorial effects right onthe
tim line, and it gives added slow
mo ‘on and time‐remapping effect con‑
trol with precise keyframe placement
and; real-time feedback. You can add
colour correction, lighting and other
effects, audio filters and so on. As has
been one of its video strengths in
Premiere, Encore now accepts edited
footage from multicam shoots with ease
and precision.
By 1the way, perhaps because of a lot
of this functional overlap, Encore will no
longer be available by itself.
Sodndbooth 033
Previous Adobe video bundles included
Audition, Adobe's professional audio‑
editing application (formerly known as
Coo) Edit Pro). Soundbooth is a simpler,
oneclickand-youaredone audio
processing software. ,
Soundbooth is welidesigned for video
editors with little or no experience in
audio (you know who you are if you say
application is powerful, but the interface
is very graphical and uncomplicated.
With Soundbooth, trim, fade and
volume controls are really simple to
use, and so are the audio cleanup
features. Soundbooth shows other
tabbed functions on the left side of the
screen - you simply choose the function
that you want (audio cleanup, score
creator, etc.). ’
The new Spectral view is great for
noises from audio clips (cough, cell
phone, 60 cycle hum, etc.). You can
literally ‘see' the sound on screen,
and quickly eliminate it (and any others
like it).
Needlessto say, you can access
Soundbooth from within Premiere Pro,
simply by rightclicking an audio clip and
choosing Edit in Adobe Soundbooth >
Render and Replace. This will open a
copy of the clip in Soundbooth, leaving
the original untouched.
After Effects 083
Adobe went all out in the new After
Effects 083 version. New features like
Shape Layers and the Puppet Tool
make it the crowning achievement of
this release to some eyes.
Using the new Puppet Tool is a hoot! It
lets you to add ‘pins” or points to a still
layer that you can then use to animate
different parts of the layer. “Dancing"

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 [ text, animated objects, motion graphics
and much, much more can be created
simply and easily.
After Effects CS3 also supports the
new video layers in Photoshop CS3
Extended (more on that later), which
makes rotoscoping inside of Photoshop
and reimporting into After Effects easy
and intuitive.
Vanishing point is an important new
feature in After Effects. It lets you work
with Photoshop to create planes on a
still image for applying 3D animation. It
works especially well with images of
buildings, for example, where the 2D
planes are easily identified and then
exported'to After Effects, where a fully
30 composition of your still is ready to
be animated with a keyframe technique.
Also new is the ability to animate and
replicate vector graphics in order to
create cool backgrounds and graphic
elements. Folks who have worked in
Illustrator know how exciting this is.
Shapes, layers, animation and more can
be added across resolutions and to
each individual parameter that a graphic
file includes.
Photoshop 053 Extended
Because Photoshop has been out for a
couple of months and is covered
elsewhere, we’ll just mention some new
videocentric features.
As usual, Photoshop is at the heart of
the enhanced integration features in
CS3 Production Premium. Regardless of
the primary editing or composition appli
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cation you use, Photoshop remains a
constant in the video/print/web world.
Photoshop imports video; After Effects
reads this video. Send a DVD menu
directty into Photoshop or After Effects
for animation or editing, and bring it
back into Encore DVD for authoring,
seamlessly and without rendering.
In this release, Photoshop's new Movie
support app lets you retouch videos
one frame at a time (great for rotoscop
ingl), with a familiar After Effects-like
interface. There’s also lots and lots of
support for video and compositing
applications (like After Effects, as dis‑
cussed earlier).
Flash
One of the most exciting additions to
the Production Premium is Flash CS3.
For those of you who don’t know Flash,
it‘s an application designed for (among
many other things) delivery of content
through the Web, or even interactive
(computer-play only) DVDs. Flash has a
market penetration of more than 96
percent oncomputers that are used to
browse the Internet, so almost everyone
with a computer is capable of playing
Flash files.
You can now export Flash video with
markers or cue points that trigger a
specific event while your Flash video is
playing. Graphics, subtitles, another
video clip - you name it! You can easily
update your whole presentation just by
updating that one file, not the whole
video. You can also copy and paste
into Flash and retain the layer styles.
l match shots from one location to anoth‑
unis 053 m m: only)
Ultra CS3 is another application former‑
ly owned by Serious Magic and now
inte rated into the Adobe suites. it‘s
used for easy and accurate chromakey‑
ing and virtualset compositing. This
doesn’t change much from the Serious
Magic version, but it brings some great
new functionality to the Production
Preinium suite.
Foir those of you who do not know
Ultra, this product lets y0u key back‑
gro nds, even those encumbered with
wri kles and uneven lighting. Of course,
Ultra supports all standard DV and HDV
resolutions.
Ontocaoon cs3
Fo erIy known as DVRack from'
Seripus Magic, OnLocaticn is a powerful
diagnostic and monitoring tool for
recording DVand HDV content directly
from a FireWireequipped camera to a
laptop or hard drive.
Onltocation displays (on your Iaptop's
screen) valuable diagnostic information
about your video clips, including Zebra
displays and help with White Balance,
Safe Zones, Scopes, Audio levels, cam‑
era calibration and more. It does not
affect the video, but it carefully meas‑
ures and monitors it, giving you greater
confidence on location. You can start
and stop record, log clips and write
scene names, descriptions and so on.
OnLocation can also be used to help
er or one day to a different day through
scope comparisons and measurements,
making post production efforts (espe‑
cially colour correction and audio) that
much easier.
To use OnLocation’ on a Mac, you will
need the BootCamp platform
transcoder.
On the way out: CS3 Media
Encoder and Device Germ!
You can now use Adobe Media Encoder
(Premiere Pro, After Effects,
Soundbooth and Encore DVD) to export
your work for a wide variety of audi‑
ences and target devices, with newly
included support for 3GPP and H.264
content. There's also a new Device
Central preview feature, letting you see
you a realistic preview of how your par‑
ticular file will look in a specific cell
phone (or iPod, or whatever).
Taken together, Adobe Creative Suite 3
Production Premium is a powerful set of
video tools, intended for the profession
al or working videographer. Hobbyists
and weekend warriors will probably be
better served by “scaled down' versions
like Premiere Elements and Photoshop
Elements. But if you make a living from
video, or if you intend to, this suite is
the way to go.
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InDesign when it was first introduced
was that, because it is part of the
Adobe family, it could benefit from a
high level of integration with Adobe’s
other graphic arts and publishing
tools such as illustrator, Photoshop
and Acrobat.
With the previous version, lnDesign
C52, i felt this integration was quite far
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advanced. You could, for example,
place a layered Photoshop PSD file on
the page without having to first flatten
the image. That, paired with the ability
to edit the original from wibhin InDesign,
meant that you needed only one master
image for each piece of placed artwork,
not a series of variations that could
become a nightmare to keep track of.
Thus, at any given time in lnDesign,
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you can look at a graphic, and if you
want to change some aspect of it,
simply select "edit original." Photoshop
launches (this also works with illustrator
files), you do what you need to do on
the original - maybe change the type‑
face on a text layer - save the file, and
when you jump back into InDesign, the
revised graphic is now on the page.
PDF workflow has become a central
part of the prepress workflow for many
printing houses, and InDesign’s “export
to PDF" is a delight to use. The first
time i tried this, i was also sending files
to a printer that i’d never dealt with
before, so l made PDFs of just a couple
of pages using InDesign’s presets for
offset press and emailed them to the
preApress guy, thinking that i would have
to make a lot of fine tuning adjustments
before i got it right. A short email back
said that the only thing i needed to
change was to set the bleed to a quar‑
ter inch all around. (I’d set it at an A
eighth of an inch.) That done, it took
just a few minutes to export the 32‑
page magazine supplement to PDF, and
a few minutes more to FTP the PDF to
the printer's computer. Anyone who’s
worked in page layout when you had to
“package" the file (which meant making
sure every little piece of artwork and
every font was included in the files you
sent to the printing house) will know
what a dramatic simplification PDF
workflow is, and why print houses have
embraced it. And with lnDesign,
creating a printerready PDF is no more
difficult than sending a copy of your
pages to your laser or inkjet printer
for proofing.
One of the features of inDesign that
Adobe has been crowing about since
the beginning is its typesetting engine.
The multiline composer, as the name
suggests, works on muitiple lines of
copy, so that you can make adjust‑
ments to create a very even text block,
without the unsightly rivers of white
space running though the block.
For me, the biggest improvement in
InDesign CS3 is the redesigned work‑
space. With previous versions, your
computer screen could become vew
cluttered with control palettes strewn all
over. in this latest version, the toolset
palettes are all neatly tucked away to
the right of the workspace, but fly out
when you need to access one of them.
There are also a number of new or
improved features in the program. if you
work with tables, you'll be happy to see
table and cell styles, which allows you
to assign a consistent style to a table
or table elements just as you do with
paragraph styles. There are a slew of
frame and object effects (like what
you have with Photoshop). such as
feathered gradients that allow you to
apply feathering to objects, and bevel
and emboss effects. There is also a
more flexible transparency control so
you can apply different transparency
settings to different parts of an object.
For lntel‐based Mac users, perhaps
the most welcome news is that
InDesign C83 (and the whole CS3 suite)
is a universal binary application so it
will run full tilt onIntel as well as
PowerPC-based Macs.
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nVidia’s family of graphics processors
for notebooks share a common archi‑
tecture, but provide a range of perform‑
ance to suit your need for speed and
your pocketbook.
Late last year, Microsoft released
Windows Vista, which included many
new, but unfortunately resourceheavy,
technologies. A couple of months ago,
Intel launched its latest revision to the
Centrino Mobile brand (dubbed Santa
Rosa), further alleviating the perform
ance concerns surrounding Vista while
also leveraging many of its most
advanced functions. Around the same
time, nVidia brought its new business‑
focused mobile GPUs to the market as
well. Not surprisingly, these new GPUs
are completely compatible with the
Santa Rosa chipset and are designed
specifically for Windows Vista.
The great thing about the Quadro NVS
Mobile series is that there is one avail‑
able in every price category and all of
mem are based on the same architec‑
ture. What this means for the consumer
is that while the various Quadro NVS
GPUs have different performance levels,
because they share the same DNA ‑
they include the same major features.
For example, if you're a CAD profession‑
al or 3D animator, it would be worth the
additional cost of purchasing the high
end Quadro NVS 510M with 512MB of
dedicated video RAM. Onthe other
hand, if you’re only planning to use your
notebook for word processing and
spreadsheets, but still want to use
nVidia’s award-winning nView multidis‑
play technology, it would be more cost
effective to go with the entrylevel
Quadro NVS 110M with only 64MB of
dedicated video RAM.
Regardless of which Quadro NVS you
choose, you’re going to get the same
vivid graphics, functionality and features
with the only noticeable difference being
the clock speed and memory configura‑
tions. The following are some of the
highlights present in all of the new
mobile Quadro NVS GPUs.
Application Conundblllly Towns
and Unified Driver Architect“:
As with the previous generations of
Quadro GPUs, nVidia has tested the
Quadro NVS hardware and drivers with
a wide array of today's leading business
applications in order to ensure
complete compatibility. The tested
applications range from everyday
software like McAfee Virus Scan and MS
Office, to more specialized software like
Hummingbird Exceed and Bloomberg.
Furthermore, because the Quadro NVS
uses nVidia’s Unified Driver Architecture,
continued compatibility and stability are
assured with future updates (or at least,
that’s the intention).
PowerMizer 7.0: _ suite of hardware accelerated HDvideo
PowerMizer is nVidia’s trademark intelli
gent power management system that
adaptively adjusts the GPU on the fly to
reduce power consumption. Along with
dynamically altering the GPU and memo
ry clocks, PowerMizer can also shut
down inactive portions of the GPU to
increase battery life. With other features
like SmartDimmer (actively adjusts the
screen brightness) and OnChip Power
“Watchdog” (circuitry dedicated to moni
toring GPU utilization in order to throttle
appropriately), the Quadro NVS Mobile
GPUs offer much better battew life than
previous generations.
DirectXlO and OpenGL 2.1
Optimization:
DirectX 10 is the graphics API used to
power the more advanced visuals of
Windows Vista. The entire Quadro NVS
line of GPUs fully supports DX10 and
Shader Model 4.0 to offer the most
impressive graphics currently possible.
Full support for OpenGL 2.1 ensures
compatibility with a robust OS‐independ‑
ent graphics API as well as all OpenGL
applications. Most of the visual improve I
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As‘digital photography evolves, the
trend in digital editing has been towards
providing the photographer with a work‑
flow: selecting and transferring images
from a camera or card reader, sorting
and organizing them, then editing them
for various outputs including prints and
posting on the web. While Adobe
Photoshop has been the industry's
premier graphics editor for years, it has
lagged behind other products such as
Aperture and Lightroom in providing the
photographer a complete workflow and
easeof-use features specifically
focused on photography rather than
graphic arts.
Consequently, each successive release
of Photoshop has seen Adobe add
additional or improved features related
specifically to digital photography.
Photoshop CS3 offers a strong list of
new and improved features designed
to help professional and advanced ama‑
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083 and CS3 Extended. Photoshop
C53, which is the focus of this review,
is the basic upgrade from 082. CS3
Extended includes advanced features
for those working with videos and 3D
applications. Those features will not be
discussed here.
For Mac users, Photoshop C83 now
runs Inteinative code, allowing Intel‑
based Macs to run the program faster
and more stably than C82. Performance
improvements are not limited to
Macintosh, however. CS3 code has
been optimized, improving performance
on Windows machines as well and the
performance enhancements-also extend
to Adobe Bridge.
Adobe CS3 Bridge
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Photoshop itself. The starting program
of the workflow suite is Bridge, a stand‑
alone application that works faster and
better than the C82 version. It contains
a downloader for transferring images
from camera or card reader to your
computer, and highly customizable
options for viewing them and making
culling decisions“. You can nuke the bad
shots and rank the good shots, rename
the images in various ways and save
them to disk in two different locations if
you wish, such as a main drive and
backup drive for safety. You can add
metadata. such as your name, copy»
right information and keywords to all the
images prior to transferring them. CS3
Bridge includes a new Loupe tool that
lets you magnify parts of an image from
100 percent to 800 percent to check
on critical sharpness. Bridge can also
be used to batch convert images to
other sizes and formats.
Adobe Camera Raw
Adobe Camera Raw, or ACR as it‘s
often abbreviated, provides the
foundation of a digital photography
workflow. This core program, as the
name indicates, converts a camera
manufacturer‘s RAW files into a form
that can be viewed and edited. ACR is
used to make global adjustments to an
image or set of images. In CS3, this
has been extended to TIFF and JPG
format as well. Despite its intuitive
and easy-muse interface, ACR packs
a whollop. Its feature set is so rich
and powerful that entire third-party
books are available on squeezing out
its full potential.
At its most basic level, ACR can be
used to adjust colour temperature, tint,
exposure, brightness and contrast. Its
'Recover,‘ 'Fill Light’ and 'Blacks' slid
ers work like the Shadow/Highlight tool
in Photoshop, helping bring back detail
in underexposed dark areas and trim
ming back highlights in overexposed
light areas. A new 'Vibrance‘ slider
works as a kind of 'Smart Saturation'
tool, making some colours more vibrant
without disturbing others. The traditional
Saturation glider is present as well, The
greyscale conversion in ACR resembles
the greyscale conversion in Lightroom,
with multiple tonal sliders. With ACR,
you can prep your images (including
batch adjustments) to be optimized
before they reach Photoshop for
final polishing.
One of the most interesting features of
the Photoshop CS3 suite is Photoshop's
new ability to handle files as 'Smart
0biects.‘ When a photo has been
adjusted to your satisfaction in ACR,
you can now open it in Photoshop in
this new non-destructive mode, further
applying ‘Smart Filters‘.to the photo.
The flow from ACR to Photoshop can
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flow of Aperture or Lightroom.
User Interface
A first look at the Photoshop compo‑
nent of the C83 suite is startling - the
user interface has been dramatically
altered and simplified. Palettes are now
contained in special docks that can be
expanded and contracted, and the tool‑
bar on the left has been shrunk to a
single column located at the left border.
This allows more space for the images
as you work on them - a welcome
change. Palettes can be torn off the
dock and floated on the screen or
combined with other palettes, and for
anyone who finds the change too
drastic, the interface can be switched
back to "classic“ mode. l liked the new
interface as soon as l saw it. it's intu‑
itive, attractive and the larger image
working area is an improvement.
Small Enhancements
Let's start with some of the little
enced Photoshop users: top on my list
is the refined Curves tool. It now fea‑
tures a histogram behind the graph and
a black-andwhite slider under the
graph, similar to Levels. There are a
number of new presets available such
as ‘Cross Process," "Darker," lighter,"
"Medium Contrast" and “Color Negative."
An advanced control lets you to work in
percentages of ink/pigment rather than
light. A less obvious update has hap
pened to the previously lame
Brightness/Contrast tool. It‘s finally a
simple way of adjusting brightness and
contrast that doesn't mess up the distri
bution of values in your image. The
“Channel Mixer“ tool has sprouted six
new presets: infrared, plus blue, green,
orange, red and yellow filters. The
infrared filter doesn't make anything
look remotely like infrared, to my eye,
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Black and Miite
For years, I've'been perfecting my
ability to convert digital colour images
' to convincing B&W in Photoshop.
There are dozens of techniques and
approaches to B&W conversion, and
they may have all just been rendered
unnecessary by CSS‘s new Black-and‑
White Conversion tool - an addition that
was likely borrowed from Adobe
Lightroom. l've been pitting this tool
against my honed techniques from
previous releases of Photoshop, and
I haven't been able to significantly
improve upon it. Worse, it‘s easy.
Forget all the pain and esoteric
knowledge - Adobe got it in one with
this new addition. It's just plain good.
The Black‐and‐White tool is available
both as a basic tool and as an adjust
ment layer. it offers 10 presets: Blue
Filter, Green Filter, High Contrast Blue
Filter, High Contrast Red Filter, Infrared,
Maximum Black, Maximum White,
Neutral Density, Red Filter and Yellow
Filter. The tool itself has sliders for
Reds, Yellows, Greens, Cyans, Blues
and Magentas. By customizing the
sliders, you can achieve very sophisti‑
cated tonal adjustments. You can also
tint your B&W‘s and control the satura‑
tion of the tint. And did i mention it‘s
easy? if this tool doesn‘t tempt you to
create sumptuous B&W images, stick
with red and yellow tulips.
Quick Selection and Refine Edge
If you've ever wished for a Magic Wand
tool that really worked, or at least
worked better, you'll find it in the new
Quick Selection tool. Just click the tool
on something in your photo and drag,
pressing left bracket and right bracket
to decrease or increase the size of the
brush. It can do most of the selection
work for you, relatively accurately. Then
click the Refine Edge tool to finesse the
selection, all the while previewing the
results in a number of optional ways. At
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The Quick Selection won't help with very
delicate. fine detail, but it gets you into
the ballpark in a hurry. If you've been
reluctant about extensive selecting in
the past, this addition may spur you
onto trying some photocompositing ‑
creating an image from bits of several
other images.
Easier Composifing
AutoAlign Layers can align layer eie~
ments based on similarities, such as
corners and edges. It can be used for
compositlng elements from several
layers to create a photomontage, or to
create panoramic images from several
images. One such use for this, outlined
in the 083 online help, is for group
portraits in which one person blinked. if
'there's another shot with the person not
blinking, it can be used to replace the
blinking person in the otherwise good
group shot.
Improved 32-bit HDR
Photographers who strive to achieve
High Dynamic Range photos by combin‑
ing different shots of a subject taken
with different exposures will find a few
improvements in 32-bit editing and
Merge to HDR. 32-bit images can con‑
tain layers with layer masks and certain
filters. In addition, a 32bit image can
be retouched with updated versions of
core tools such as Brush, Pencil, Blur,
Sharpen, Gradient, Smudge and Pattern
Stamp. Merge to HDR can now store
response curves for each of the
cameras you shoot with.
Smart Filters
Compared to some of the newer photo
editing and workflow products on the
market, such as Aperture and
Lightroom, Photoshop has lagged in the
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Photoshop is catching up with its new
Smart Filters that let you add, adjust
and remove filters from an image with
out having to resave the image or start
over to preserve image quality. As with
Lightroom modules, you can apply fil
ters to visualize changes and expert
ment with an image without altering
original pixel data. Unfortunately, not all
filter effects can be used on lfrbit
images, but all are available while edit‑
ing Bbiti mages.
Bottom Line
Although Adobe Photoshop CS3
Standard is an expensive program
($740 or $240 for an upgrade), it easily
retains its status as the premier photo
editor of the industry. For any photogra‑
pher working seriously with layer adjust‑
ments, fine selections, composite
images, and extensive thirdparty plug‑
ins, Photoshop has no peer. The CS3
version has brought welcome improve‑
ments and sprucedup workflow
options. Nonetheless, for many photog‑
raphers, these features are overkill. if
your photographic needs are simply to
get image files sorted and organized,
adjusted a bit in terms of contrast, tone
and tint, and sharpened a little for print‑
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Technology, the pen and tablet interface
is a much more natural interface than
the traditional mouse. Using a mouse
generally only engages muscles in the
wrist and can lead to issues related to
overuse. A pen and tablet interface
requires the use of the entire arm and is
therefore a more natural way to interact
with the PC. The study is, conveniently
enough, archived on leading tablet
maker Wacom’s website
(www.wacomcom/comfort/Ergonomic
Studypdf).
Pen and ink style
Aside from the obvious benefit of a
more natural, pen-like interface for
artists and graphics professionals, the
biggest benefit that graphics tablets
offer is the sensitivity of the pen. When
using a mouse to create, users must
manually adjust brush sizes and pres‑
sure (opacity) in whatever graphics
program they are using.
Graphics tablets remove the step and
rely on the actual physical pressure put
on the pen to determine the coverage
of virtual ink on the virtual page. For
example, when using the airbrush tool in
Photoshop, a light touch will result in
lighter coverage, while a heavier touch
will lay the paint on thicker.
Cheapo tablets sometimes offer as lit‑
tle as 256 degrees of pressure sensitiv‑
ity. The defacto minimum for a truly
usable tablet is 512 degrees with most
recent tablets going beyond, doubling
the sensitivity to 1,024 points.
Products
Wacom is the industry incumbent where
graphics tablets are concerned. While
other brands offer competilive products
and even more competitive pricing,
Wacom has the benefit of a wider prod‑
uct line and a big portfolio of addons to
draw from. The company’s airbrush sty‑
lus uses the same technology as the
touch pen, but gives a much more
refined control when using a software
airbrush; a rolling wheel emulates the
feel of a real airbrush with tilt sensing
and a rolling wheel to control the
amount of digital ink going on the
virtual page.
Other add-ens include a cross-hairs
mouse for use in CAD applications and
Wacom's Tool ID, allowing users to
assign a unique code to each tool and
program how it should perform.
Wacom Graphire Bluetooth 6 x 8 Tablet
www.wacom.com
Estimated price: $300
Wacom's Graphire Bluetooth 6 x 8
Tablet is a wireless addition to its
(Virtual) pen and ink in Vista
All versions of Windows Vista except the Home Basic flavour offer much improved
native support for tablets. Building upon the foundation laid by Microsoft's Tablet PC
Tablet Dimensions: 25,7cm x 28m x push, a whole world of possibilities has been opened to tablet users in Vista and in
2.3cm Office 2007. Some of the revamped tablet support includes:
l
Active Area: 15.1cm x 20.9cm the Taking ‐ Microsoft Journal is an application exclusively for the benefit of users
(5.94 x 8.22 inches) working with a pen tablet, interact'Ne pen displayor Tablet PC. Journal simulates a
Pressure Levels: 512 physical notebook, but with all the advantages of a digital medium. The pen can be
used in Journal to jot notes and capture quick sketches, providing valuable collabora
0 interface: Bluetooth Specification 1.2 don options for use at home, school and work. Journal also incorporates a powerful
with adaptive frequency hopping
Search engine that can even locate handwritten content.
Battery: Rechargeable Lithium Polymer,
3.7V, 1800mAh i-Endwrifing Recognition ‐ Vista introduces intelligent handwriting recognition asa
Bluetooth Class: Class 2 for upto n, tural supplement to keyboard input. This new recognition technology efficiently and
30 feet wireless working distance accurately converts a wide variety of handwriting styles into typed text. For example,
during a brainstorming session, a pen user can scribble down ideas and sketch con‑
System Requirements: cepts for collaboration with colleagues. The user has the option to share the infor‑
mation in handwritten form or convert it to typed text. In addition, the eraser end of
ai compatible pen automatically activates an eraser tool to quickty and easily remove
0 WinZOOO/XP or Mac OS v10.2.8+ with
mistakes.
Bluetooth 1.1 (or higher)
(JD-ROM Drive I stores - There are a variety of pen gestures available within Vista that enable
0 Colour Monitor xers to navigate faster and that enhance the overall computing experience. Flicks
dffers eight customizable gestures ivith actions determined by the user and Scratch
Colour Efex Pro 2 GERequires Adobe Qut allows pen users to delete text automatically with a scratching motion of the pen
Photoshop Elements 2.0 (included) or dver the targeted text. ,
Photoshop 7.0 or higher
Digital lnk inOffice 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 and a tablet offer new capabilities that allow users to work
more naturally and efficientiy. Office 2007 applications such as Word, Excel, Oudook,
already wellreceived line of tablet inter‑ BowerPoint and OneNote running on Vista all support digital markup with a tablet
faces. It works anywhere you’d typically and pen, and the user interface provides easy access to digital inking tools for
use a mouse and allows for refined con‑ ihtuitive collaboration. Users can select a pen or highlighter toolto mark-up docu‑
trol in supported graphics applications, ments, spreadsheets, presentation slides and email messages.
With a 25 hour lithium polymer battery,
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one wire for another (the USB cable for Q ehostinga f Ptoudty tM-u‘
a power cord) and allows for truiy
wireless use. The tablet can, of course,
be charged and used at the same time,
but that ruins the whole wireless
desktop thing.
Using Bluetooth 1.2, the tablet can be
up to 30 feet away from the monitor in
optimal conditions. in normal use
though, it won’t find its way more than a
few feet from the monitor.
The 6 x 8 inch (3:4 aspect ratio) will
work with, but is not optimized for,
widescreen monitors.
Wacom lntuos3 6 x 11 WideFormat
USB Tablet
www.wacom.com
Estimated price: $500
Bluetooth offering, the lntuos3 6 x 11
Wide-Format USB Tablet is optimized for
widescreen monitors and duaimonitor
desktops, giving a much more represen
tative workspace.
Soft keys at the top of the tablet,
above the active area, can be pro
grammed using the included software
to run programspecific macros or to
launch software. For example, in the
Windows desktop, hitting one of the
keys might launch a portion of the
Adobe CS3 suite. Within Photoshop,
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low end of the tablet scale; 4 x 5

tablets like Wacom’s Graphire4 4 X 5
can be had for about $120.
Smaller tablet and pen interfaces are
also widely available in independent
computer and component retailers,
but these are focused on creating a
more natural text input method for
Chinese, Japanese and Korean charac‑
ter sets and offer neither the refined
sensitivity nor the software support for
graphics programs.

The biggest change to hit graphics

tablets has been the shift from 4:3 to
widescreen aspect ratio monitors (see
Marc Saltzman's story on page 38 for a
look at some recent entries into the
widescreen monitor category). While
dual-monitor desktops‐offering a much
wider desktop than a traditional 4:3
monitor‐are nothing new, the shift to
widescreen format monitors for graph‑
ics professionals has opened the mar‑
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bit of departmental budget to burn, an pen interfaces, While a standard aspect
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size or switch to a commonly used tool.
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1.5cm over virtual brush, airbrush etc. pres‑
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(6 x 11 inches) package includes a battery‐free wireless
Pressure Levels: 1,024 mouse (that must be used atop the
tablet, not independently on the desk)
Interface: USB
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Battery: N/A A fingersensitive touch strip works
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With a widescreen format, 1,024 levels
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Photoshop Elements 3 (included) or CyberTablet 212 gives the industry's
Photoshop 7 or higher
incumbent Wacom a run for the money.
The CyberTablet 212 doesn't include a
wireless mouse in the package; for any‑ less dead space around the active area
one that’s used a tablet before, and although it doesn’t waste room with
however, this likely isn't a big deal. hardware keys, it’s still takes up a good
Rather than being something that’s sore chunk on the desk.
ly missed in the package, it’s just one Also, while Wacom tablets have a wire
less piece of useless plastic to store in less pen that doesn't require batteries,
the drawer; the addon mice that come Adesso‘s CyberTablet 212 requires a
with graphics tablets tend to be of AAA cell in its pen, adding a little to the
questionable worth. weight and putting one more peripheral
Twelve ore-programmed hot keys (new on your desk whose battery is sure to
document, save, undo along with email, run out at the most inconvenient time.
browser buttons and so on) look after By Andrew MooreCrispin
common tasks in graphics and other
applications. Down each side of the
tablet's active drawing area sit eight
programmable keys that can be
mapped to commonly used functions so
that users can stash the keyboard to
focus on the design task at hand. The
tablet successfuly treads the line
between graphics professional tool and
daily computer input device.
At just under lcm thick, the Z12 looks
razor sharp on the desk. The main prob
lem here is one that is common to
many tablets and all widescreen
tablets: the footprint. While the Z12 has

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this!" And indeed, maybe you can. Welive in a rich visual environment, and every
photograph you see on TV, in a magazine or book or on the web was taken by
somebody. The huge appetite for good photography is certainly there, but the
other side of the coin is that the number of people trying to sell photography has
also exploded.
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copyright and permissions. As an amateur who takes pictures for your own enjoy»
ment, you can generally take a picture of anything in a public place with few legal
restrictions. The minute you put a price tag on your photo, your world changes. This
applies to photographs of people as well as objects.
With people, one can see the reasoning behind it - it’s a matter of personal privacy.
Often people are delighted to see their picture appear somewhere, but consider this
scenario. Suppose a manufacturer creates a magazine ad with a photo of your
friends laughing to show how much fun using the product can be. But suppose that
your friends happen to be dead set against this product - maybe they are animal
rights activists and the company uses animals for testing their products, or maybe
they are against child labour and the company's products are made in third-world
sweat shops. There can be any number of reasons why you or any other person
might resent the use of their image paired with a product - or in any other context
that you haven't agreed to.
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try to sell a picture of the Eiffel Tower taken at night and you’ll run into another legal
issue. There is a copyright on the lighting effects that illuminate the tower at night,
so you need to negotiate with the copyright holder before you can sell your photo.
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in the spirit of sharing, and to circumvent some unevenness in copyright laws from
country to country, people who participate in the Creative Commons are saying, in
essence, “This is my photograph, but if you want to use it (usually for personal, non‑
commercial situations), you have my permission." That’s an over-simplification, so if
you are interested in Creative Commons, go to a site like Flickr where you'll find
detailed information.

threatened with a lawsuit. Eventually, it will come back to you. The creative director
that bought the photo from you might pointedly ask, “The contract says we only buy
people pictures if there are signed model releases - where are your releases?” Then
it dawns on you. You read the bit about model releases, and you thought, “Theyre
myfriends. if I'm lucky enough to sell the photo, 1can ask them later." But of course,
they are now your ex-friends, and you are left dangling in legal limbo.
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do not need permission if it’s a breaking news event. For photo features where there
is more time, the rules and procedures will vary with the publication. I know a staff
photographer for a newspaper that will introduce himself and ask the subject for per‑
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them to your computer as JPG images
that you can then print.
Scrapbook pages can also be created
using special scrapbooking software, or
indeed, any graphics program. To cre
ate a page in Photoshop Elements, cre
ate a document the size of the page completed digital scrapbook pages in
that you want to print at 300 dpi resolu‑ your backup routine so you keep them
tion. Open the photos to use, drag and safe in the event of a hard disk crash.
drop them onto the page and size and When you have created your scrap
position them as desired. Add text for a book page, you can share it with others
title and more text for your journaling. online. One popular site is the PeaNut
To finish the page, you can download gallery forum at Two Peas in a Bucket
digital backgrounds and elements from www.twopeasinabucket.com. Here you
the web. There are lots of sites that can upload pages to share online and
offer free and feebased downloadable also view pages that others have
digital scrapbook papers and’ embellish created. If you need some inspiration
ments. One place to look is for your designs, you can borrow
Scrapbooktlaircom, which offers free (scrappers call it scraplifting) ideas
downloadable scrapbook kits that ' from others.
include backgrounds and decorative By Helen Bradley
embellishments. In general, kits cost a
few dollars each with many being free.
Other places to find free and for fee ele‑
ments include digiscrapdepot.com and
cottageartsnet.
There are lots of downloadable embell‑
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Photoshop tutorials explaining how to
create digital scrapbooking elements at
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tags, screws, rivets, punched shapes,
paperclips, paint chips and other popu
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recolour to match your page design.
Download and unzip the embellish‑
ments, open them in Photoshop
Elements and drag and drop them onto
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As people started scrapbooking in
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computer monitor to one of those thin,
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PCmonitor?
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your entertainment needs - movies,
games, viral videos or camcorder
footage - but there's a productivity
bonus to a 16:9 or 16:10 panel, too,
screen while working on documents or ,
spreadsheets or surfing the Web. Just
ask a graphic artist, who uses one side
of the screen as a palette of colours
and tools and the other side as a can
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itors side-by‐sidel).
Other productivity boosters are the
extras built into today's computer moni
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inch display that offers a built-in 1.3
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ergonomic features, including height
adjustment and 360degree swivel,
and a bright screen to help reduce
eyestrain.
Consumers, too, can multitask more
easily, such as having an email window
open on the left side of the screen while
navigating through your favourite music
tracks or photos to the right.
According to Evans Research, the
sale of widescreen PC monitors is
expected to grow by tripledigit rates
through 2008.
Some buying tips
Be sure to look for a monitor with low
response times (eight milliseconds or
lower is good; 5 ms or lower is fantas‑
tic) so it can handle fast motion smooth
Iy, such as computer games and DVD
movies. Otherwise, a flatpanel LCD
monitor with a refresh rate of, say, 20,
may not look as good as you may
notice "ghosting' (trails) following a fast‑
moving object.
Another consideration is contrast ratio,
which refers to how white the whites are
and how black the blacks are. Flatpanel
LCD monitors typically have a contrast
ratio of 300:1 on the lowend and up to
2000:1 on the high-end. Look for at
least a 700:1 contrast ratio, it you can.
Other bells and whistles you may want
to look for include the ability to swivel
the LCD monitor from a portrait view to
a landscape view; adjustable height and
tilt angles; VESA‐compliant mounting if
you want to hang it on a wall or mount
it to a retractable arm; buttons that are
easy to access; USB or FireWire ports
to connect devices to; and integrated
speakers for audio playback (though
they won’t likely sound as good as
stand-alone speakers).
Compatibility and performance
When it comes to compatibility with
your computer, keep in mind most flat‑
panel monitors offer an analog "VGA"
input port (three rows of five holes),
while some offer both an analog con
nection and a digital “DVl” input port
(usually white, with three rows of eight
holes). If your video card offers digital
output, and your new monitor gives you
this option, go with this instead of ana
log for higher video quality (though
some argue the difference is negligible).
Finally, for the best performance, you
should make sure your computer has
the proper software programs, or driv‑
ers. That is, sometimes you can con
nect the monitor and voila - the picture
will look great - while in other cases,
you may need to insert the CD that
shipped with it or visit the manufactur‑
ers website to download related files.
If the images on the screen look
stretched and unnatural after you've
updated the drivers, try adjusting the
(Windows) computer‘s resolution by
pointing your mouse anywhere on the
blank desktop, rightclicking the mouse
and selecting “Properties," and then
“Settings” (in Windows XP) or rightclick‑
ing on the desktop and choosing
“Personalize," then "Display Settings" (in
Windows Vista). You might need to
tweak the size of the icons and text to
suit your preference.
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Express Card combining NTSC (analog) and ATSC (digital) TVcapabilities into
one tuner. For less than $150, users can watch (and record) over-theair analog
or HDTV on a laptop. The card supports up to 1080i signals in aspect ratios of
4:3 and 16:9.
Genius ®
Pinnacle Systems offers its PCTV HD Stick, available online for less than $100.
This donglesized device delivers regular analog TV, full spec HDand even
internet radio via a USB port to a Windows (there is also a Mac version) machine
for viewing or recording. It comes with its own miniantenna, so moments after
set-up, you can be watching available HDchannels on your notebook or desktop.
In my case, the stylish little gadget found some 11 different HD channels ‑
including both Canadian and U.S. border stations ‐ with just a simple auto scan
once connected to my Vista ultra-portable. Watching a football game on both my
standard definition 4:3 home TV and on my 16:9 high definition notebook display
clearly showed the dramatic difference in viewing experiences. The HDpicture
was remarkably crisp and detailed; the wider aspect ratio showed much more
image content and context (especially in sports - this makes a world of differ‑
ence for the viewer); even the PC sound had greater apparent fidelity and sepa‑
ration (through stereo headsets) than the TV.
With its timeshifting capabilities, TV pause, FF, rewind and a downloadable elec‑
tronic program guide, the PCTV Stick turns a PC into a PVR (personal video VPZQr’fubtv’e Speaker
recorder), with the option of recording direct to hard drive or to DVD included in For ind'Dbfikihg ; -. _:
the software. Lots of space (a minimum 20GB to start) is required for recording
HDTV. Trimming and basic editing of recorded material is supported.
Several other companies offer HD/PCTV solutions via a USB device, including
Hauppauge with its WinTV, Elgato and its EyeTV and others. Depending on your
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existing platform (Mac or PC) and its current configuration, you may be ready to
watch HDfaster and easier with your PCthan with your TV!
By Lee Rickwood
As we‘ve discussed here before, anyone without the
right combination of HD delivery services, HD display
screens and/or HD playback devices could be in
for an unpleasant surprise. Sometimes, simply
having the right cables can make or break an HDTV
viewing experience.
Watching HDTV on a personal computer hasn’t been
that much different. The right mix of processing power,
audio/video codecs, graphic cards, source media and
other hardware and software products have always
been necessary to get thg best performance.
But integrated solutions and the Iongpromised con‑
vergence between the and PC are now arriving.
New computerbased tools for HDTV playback and
recording are available for the Windows PC and Apple's
Mac, in desktop as wellias portable configurations.
For example, a big advance is the H.264 codec that
makes it possible to play high‐definition video on a PC
(Mac or Windows) without additional hardware.
Already ratified as part of the internationally accepted
MPEG4 standard (MPEG4 Part 10) and the latest
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videoconferencing standard, H.264 is now mandatory
for HD‐DVD and Bluray (the two formats for high-defini‑
tion DVDs) as well. It’s also been ratified as the DVB
(Digital Video Broadcasting) and 3GPP (3rd Generation
Partnership Project) standard of choice.
The need for a powerful codec (for compressing and
decompressing video) like H.264 is unavoidable ‑
there is simply too mu‘ch data in a video stream (not to
mention a high definition video stream) for a computer
to handle properly without robust compression tools
that can ‘squeeze' or ‘zip' that data somehow. H.264
delivers the same high quality as MPEGZ at a third to
of MPEG4 Part 2 at the same data rate.
You still need a recent model computer with a power‑
ful configuration, but it is possible to play back full
spec HD (1080p) on an Apple G5 or equivalent
Windows system. The more powerful the system. the
better the playback experience it can deliver.
For example, Quick'l'ime (H.264) manufacturer specs
indicate that a minimum configuration for playing 1920
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that‘s not 30 frames, but 24) is a dual 2.0 GHz G5 or
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least 512MB RAM; and a 128MB graphics card. For
Windows, the requirements are even greater: a 3.0
GHz Pentium D (Dual Core) processor or faster; 168
RAM; and at least a 64MB graphics card.
High definition video playback on a PC (with Windows
Media Player 9 series or higher) requires a 3.0 GHz
processor, 512 MB RAM and a 128 MB graphics card.
Of course, in both situations, a suitable screen (1920 x
1440 resolution, for example) and a multichannel
sound card (24bit, 96 kHz) are recommended.
All that is just for HDcontent you have in hand; a DVD
or digital file, for example. For HDviewing over-the-air
or via cable, there are some cool new computer-based
products with tuners, antennas, program guides,
recording and file management systems built in.
AverMedia has just released its new hybrid High
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storage‐it comes in 4GB ($100) and 8GB ($205)
models‐and a chic geek form factor. Featuring a
brushed metal case with a piano black accent, the
Contour's USB jack is revealed by pressing down on
the top of the key and sliding it towards the base.
Push it upagain and the jack pops out and locks
firmly into place. it's the same sort of smooth,
nerdycool motion that users of sliding mobiles and
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surprised? if you find yourself playing with the key in
your pocket).
Like many newer flash drives, the Contour is
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users to store programs like Skype and Winamp on
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The Professional (available in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB
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concept and some shared dialogue, vir~
tually everything about the PCversion is
different from the console edition. Of
course, we still have access to the tran‑
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advanced functions. Around the same
time, nVidia brought its new business‑
focused mobile GPUs to the market as
well. Not surprisingly, these new GPUs
are completely compatible with the
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