Director Chris Cairns has teamed up with Beardyman and holographic projection experts Musion to create a live performance based on his Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs film, which features a number of disembodied rapping heads…
The film below shows live footage from an initial test performance of the holographic heads, with no post-production added.
Photoshop turns 20 this week, the product that has become the byword for picture editing, and is seemingly ubiquitous in the modern world.
Adobe, the company behind the software, are going to conduct a celebratory broadcast bringing together the team that first created Photoshop to discuss and demonstrate their work.
In a recent interview, Shantanu Narayen, President and Chief Executive Officer at Adobe, said: “For 20 years Photoshop has played many different roles – it has given creative people the power to deliver amazing images that impact every part of our visual culture and challenged the eye with its ability to transform photographs.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that, thanks to millions of creative customers, Photoshop has changed the way the world looks at itself.”
In 1987 Thomas Knoll developed a grayscale pixel imaging program that blossomed into a way to process digital image files. Called Photoshop, it was licensed by Adobe, with the first product hitting shelves in 1990. Knoll recalled that originally Adobe expected to sell 500 copies of Photoshop a month.
“We knew we had a groundbreaking technology on our hands, but we never anticipated how much it would impact the images we see all around us,” he said. “The ability to seamlessly place someone within an image was just the beginning of Photoshop’s magic.”
Here’s a look at how the main tool palette has evolved over the years:
So what has made Photoshop the industry standard?
For one, it integrates perfectly with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring. The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop’s native format, stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings.
The software’s popularity means that the .PSD format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, print and the Web.
Photoshop can utilise the color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write both raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Adobe Fireworks.
It really has to be in every professional creative’s toolbox. With CS5 due out in mid-2010, rumoured to have new 3d brushes and warping tools, there seems to be no end to the continual development.
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created in Japan in 1994. The ‘QR’ is derived from ‘Quick Response’, as the creators intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.
QR Codes are most common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera.
Initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR Codes are now used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users – this is known as mobile-tagging.
QR Codes storing addresses and URLs are starting to appear in magazines, on signs, buses, packaging, business cards or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL. This act of linking from physical world objects is known as a hardlink or physical world hyperlinking.
In 2006 the QR Code became ISO recognised – this means the QR Code should be around for years to come – keep your eyes peeled for more and more QR Codes cropping up in daily life and start linking the real world with the online wor…
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