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    Website critique - Restorations

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    <p>Looks pretty good, just a couple typo errors..</p>

    <p>On the front page<br>

    "...our experts will assess each photograph receive on an individual basis." I think you're missing a d on recieved.</p>

    <p>On the FAQ page, under "How long will my photographic restoration take?".<br>

    "Each restoration is unique and involves a different level of work to the next" should that be 'than the next'?</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    Website critique - Restorations

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

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    <p>Looks pretty good, just a couple typo errors..</p>

    <p>On the front page<br>

    "...our experts will assess each photograph receive on an individual basis." I think you're missing a d on recieved.</p>

    <p>On the FAQ page, under "How long will my photographic restoration take?".<br>

    "Each restoration is unique and involves a different level of work to the next" should that be 'than the next'?</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    Minimum screen size for editing in P.S.

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    <p>You can edit on any size really.. I have done it on 13" and 15" screens without much trouble. It's just a matter of hitting tab to get the palettes out of the way sometimes.</p>

    <p>That said, I don't know of any laptop screen, mac or pc, that gives great color for photo work. With any laptop I always recommend a nice independent screen to attach it to when you can.</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    Photoshop workshops

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    <p>While I highly recommend any of the NAPP stuff that Kelby or his buddies run to anybody just starting out, I just wanted to insert a warning that they are intended for those just beginning to learn photoshop.. they rarely cover anything 'advanced'. They are typically only a day, but they will give you a lot of information in that time.</p>

    <p>As I said however, they are great for those who want to get started and the format and design of the workshops is very nice. You basically get a book containing everything they cover so that you can actually remember what went on.</p>

    <p>If you are looking for a more formal classroom type setting, and don't want to spend a fortune, check your local community college as many will sometimes do short adult education classes (or at least might know of somewhere that does)</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    imac or mac pro?

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    <p>David,</p>

    <p>Right, but I can't imagine all the majorly complex things that photoshop does work under the same fairly simple algorithms. I do actually understand at least some of the math, so I know what you're getting at :)</p>

    <p>The reason things like video get huge boosts is because the multiple cores can start hacking away at a bunch of frames at once.. photos the best you can do is split up the sections of the image, but it's not the same kind of jump.</p>

    <p>Anyway, before we go off the deep end into technical aspects, let's just say time will tell? :)</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    imac or mac pro?

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    <p>Just a note for buying a Mac..</p>

    <p>If you know -anybody- who is in college, works for a college, or just in the school world in general.. buy direct from the apple online store under their education deal and you get a SIGNIFICANT discount on high end machines. (You get a discount on basically everything, but it's larger as the machines go up the line)</p>

    <p>For anybody who is in college, there is a 'student developer program' which costs $99 for one year. With that however, you get a once-per-lifetime purchase from the apple developer store.. for high end machines this can save you $700 or so and is -well- worth it. You must be in school however, and will have to show proof of enrollment. I used this years ago to save a fortune on a macbook pro, then used that extra cash to buy whatever accessories I needed.</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    imac or mac pro?

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    <p>Arthur,</p>

    <p>The point of the discussion wasn't to talk about it that way. The point was to figure out where it is best to spend the cash, and if it's worth additional cost to 'future proof' a machine, or if you can get away with something lower end.. so it's relevant to discuss what the future of photoshop is going to be.</p>

    <p>Anyway, generally speaking I suggest getting the best system you can reasonably afford and getting a really nice monitor. If your main focus is photos it may be worth opting for processor speed over a billion cores (most machines are dual or quad core now anyway)</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    imac or mac pro?

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    <p>Andrew,</p>

    <p>I don't see how they're going to fundamentally change the nature of sequential algorithms? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for seeing photoshop take full advantage of every core.. I just don't see how it can. Processing huge chunks of data is nice, but you still have to move it around (which is where the bottleneck occurs).. the article I linked explains the problem pretty well. Processors in the future will help with this by starting to remove that bottleneck, but we're not there yet.</p>

    <p>A company that spun out of MIT has created a 100-core chip that handles data distribution differently and avoids a lot of these problems, but we're not there yet in consumer products.</p>

    <p>Passing things off to the GPU really isn't related..</p>

    <p>Anyway, really hope to see improvements in future versions</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    imac or mac pro?

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    <p>" Go for a MacPro, more cores and more ram will be quite useful when the next version of Photoshop ships."</p>

    <p>This really isn't accurate.. as I've mentioned here before in several other threads about this type of question, photoshop does not lend itself to multi-core usage. Because of the way its algorithms work (the fundamental core of the system) many of its processes can't be split up, or don't benefit from it in any significant way.</p>

    <p>Here is an article from several years ago about the subject, still accurate despite being a bt old.. the problem hasn't changed at all. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/12/photoshop_and_multicore.html</p>

    <p>You're better off with a higher processor speed than a billion cores if you're primarily doing photoshop work. A boatload of ram is always nice too.</p>

    <p>I will agree that you should buy any and all upgrades you want to add, somewhere other than apple.. especially RAM. Other World Computing is a good choice will save you a fortune compared to apple pricing on upgrades.</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    How 300 dpi when only 240 dpi?

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    <p>I'll echo the above about getting ask that.. it's become this mythical magical thing that if you ask for 300dpi you'll get a perfect file that you can use for anything.</p>

    <p>In reality of course, this is so oversimplified as to be completely false.. but it has stuck around with reps who have no idea what they're actually talking about. I've had several instances where I simply changed the number in PS without actually doing anything.. made them happy and when the image got to somebody who actually understood they had no problems with adjusting it as needed or asking me for more specific changes.</p>

    <p>I also agree with Tony about the CMYK thing. Color correct your images as you normally would for any other print.. the publisher is quite capable of adjusting to suit their printing, and since they actually have their equipment in front of them are much better suited to be doing it.</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    iMac core2duo or iMac i5 quad core

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    <p>As mentioned above, most software doesn't take advantage of multiple cores, especially not more than two.</p>

    <p>However, there are two additional points to consider..</p>

    <p>1) With the introduction of Grand Central in Snow Leopard designing software for multi-core got a LOT easier.. so more software will start to leverage that in the future.</p>

    <p>2) Photoshop is not likely one of those software packages. The way it is designed, the way it functions and processes things.. just doesn't lend itself to multi-core usage. They would have to fundamentally alter how the software works in order to do this, and even then some things just don't work that way. So yea, I wouldn't count on having a billion cores helping PS much.. just stick to going nuts with RAM (64bit architecture can theoretically handle what, 192gb? first one to do it gets a high five!)</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    Producing work in photoshop based on someone else's drawings

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    <p>The explanation I've gotten for Richard Prince is that he targets marketed media, which he is pulling under public domain. Basically there is some technical loophole that allows him to do what he does.. I still think he's extremely lame.</p>

    <p>As for the original question, I'm not a lawyer.. however, as far as I know, unless the work is protected I'm fairly sure you can get away with basically anything. If they have registered the image, it's a whole different story and you have absolutely no rights to use it in any form without permission.</p>

    <p>Why not take the inspiration from the work and just do something of your own with it? Printmaking is fun, do your own :)</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    Apple vs HP

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    <p>I didn't say they didn't have any problems, every company does. The funny thing about forums is that people get this skewed version of reality, since the vast majority that bother to come find a forum and post, are people having problems. It makes it seem as if -everybody- has problems, which isn't true. There have been plenty of cases where Apple did the right thing as well.. but no company is perfect. My point was that the majority of the time (and in my personal experience all the time), they do try to help as much as they can, even past the warranty. Even if they can't cover it, they'll at least try to find the problem for you.<br>

    --<br>

    "Ah, no. If they did that, they'd be in the same boat as Mac and Linux, wouldn't they. The reason they are number one is becasue they do excatly what you say they shouldn't. If that makes sense? The thing that makes Windows strong and number one is the same thing that makes them weak with a frustrated user base: Anybody can write anything for Windows."<br>

    --</p>

    <p>A lot of people seem to have this idea that changing the architecture of your system automatically means you can't use any hardware with it. This simply isn't true. Take a look at any system running both windows and osx, or windows and linux, or all three. Lots of PC configurations can handle it, many more just need driver support.. it isn't a big deal. All that was done by volunteers with spare time, MS is more than capable of doing it to a much larger degree. It would cause some compatibility problems no doubt, and it would require updating some software.. but so did Vista, and all it did was make thing worse, they obviously don't care about that.</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    Apple vs HP

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    <p>Every computer has a chance to fail.. heck every electronic device you own does.. that's just how it goes. Apple has a well documented history of being better than many others in how they deal with it however.</p>

    <p>They also have one major difference.. they actually help you with the problem. I've had things long out of warranty be replaced because there was some major failure that made no sense.. and if nothing else, they've always at least -tried- to help. I can't say the same for companies like HP, who won't necessarily even help you when you're under warranty.. and past that, forget it.</p>

    <p>The only thing I do knock apple for is their lack of ability to provide a solid power supply system for laptops. I've had 4, yes FOUR, laptop batteries blow up (by that I mean expand to several inches thick, not literally explode).. and 7, yes SEVEN, power chords replaced for just randomly failing. Of course, they've done it for free every time, so it isn't so bad. All it costs me is a trip to the local apple store and a few minutes of my time.. annoying, but tolerable.</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

    3d effect in slideshow software - how?

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    <p>Not sure what software is used, but the effects don't seem all that complex. The subjects are separated from their backgrounds and manipulated separately to create the illusion.. easy enough to split them in any image editor then combine them in layers in the production software. The image that appears to 'wrap' and change as the camera moves to the left appears to really be a flat image on a curved virtual background, something a 3d software could do easily.</p>

    <p>Very cool though..</p>

    <p>Kyle</p>

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