One-third of all enterprises will use SaaS in 2010

According to a recent Forrester report, about one-third of all enterprises have already subscribed to software-as-a-service applications, or plan to do so within the next year. The report surveyed nearly 2,200 IT executives and technology decision-makers from a variety of midsized and small businesses in North America and Europe. The difficult economic climate has resulted […]

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HPA Tech Retreat 2010 – Day 4

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The fourth and final day of the 2010 HPA Tech Retreat started off with the vexing problem of TV loudness, and ended with an inspirational talk by Belden’s irrepressible Steve Lampen. [Previous coverage: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.] (As usual, these are barely-edited notes, scribble-typed as people spoke. Screenshots are copyrighted by their creators; […]

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Another good article on color correction from Stu

Stu posts up another great article on color correction, and it boils down to making certain things look the way they are EXPECTED to look, rather than what they DO look like. ProLost – Memory Colors: “The truth is, skin tones are just one of a small handful of what I call “memory colors.” Memory […]

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On iPhoto to Aperture 3 migration difficulties and new hard drives

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Just a few quick notes as a follow up to the article I wrote last week entitled Aperture 3 announced – time to upgrade from iPhoto ‘09?:1.) migration not so easy2.) damn, modern hard drives are fast Explained after the break. iPhoto ’09 to Aperture 3 migration Nawt Sew E-Z, Akshully (at least for me) […]

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What do you use to deduplicate assets?

Continuing on my earlier blog post about deduplication of DAM assets… If you deduplicate assets, what method do you use? Posted by Henrik de Gyor on February 19, 2010 Continuing on my earlier blog post about deduplication of DAM assets… If you deduplicate assets, what method do you use? [polldaddy poll=2726980] […]

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First impressions of the Euphonix MC Color

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The delivery guy walked in the door just over a week ago with a box containing a sparking, new, fresh off the assembly line MC Color control surface from Euphonix. For those who aren’t familiar with this unit, it’s a brand new entry into the affordable (relatively speaking at $1,499) trackball based hardware support for […]

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Happy Anniversary, Photoshop

When you think of retouching, image editing, just about anything to do with processing photography these days, what do you think of? Thomas Knoll’s famous software, Photoshop. It’s so ubiquitous, it’s become a verb (much to Adobe’s chagrin). The original version showed up for sale 20 years ago today, running on Mac’s OS 6. Knoll […]

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Open Text Digital Asset Management for SAP® Solutions

Is your company ready for rich media? Is your business ready to capture the next business opportunity with media syndication? Is your content supply chain transparent to the relevant business processes? As Web 2.0 turns mainstream, it places rich media on a fast track to become the preferred format for capturing and delivering the brand […]

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Happy 20th Anniversary Photoshop!

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. Come celebrate with us. PhotoShop Celebration Take a trip down memory lane with Photoshop founders – John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, Russell Brown, and Steve Guttman. They will tell you the […]

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HPA Tech Retreat 2010 – Day 3

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The Tech Retreat’s third day covered regulatory issues, HDR imaging, using a plasma for reference monitoring, SOA, networking, file-based workflows… and Mo Henry. (As usual, these are barely-edited notes, scribble-typed as people spoke. Screenshots are copyrighted by their creators; poor reproductions thereof are my own fault.) Jim Burger, Dow Lohnes, gave the Washington (legal) update. […]

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