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January 9, 2003
Imaging/Design Industry News:
• Jobs Keynote: Apple Beefs Up Mobility with New Notebooks, Wireless Technologies
New PowerBooks, FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme, creative apps highlight announcements

• SCM Ships USB 2.0 Card Readers
Dazzle drive supports eight card types

• @Last Updates SketchUp
New version gains additional file format support

• Macromedia Ships JRun 4 for Mac OS X
ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers also released

• eZedia Releases eZediaQTI
Suite offers drag and drop interactive QuickTime authoring

• Alias Releases Maya Personal Learning Edition 4.5
Free 3D suite supports Mac OS X

• ALAP Updates InBooklet
Software enhances features, fixes bugs

• Adobe Updates InDesign
Version 2.0.2 revision addresses bugs, installation issues

• Anark Studio Coming to the Mac
Beta phase begins this month

• Sonnet Ships 1.2 GHz G4 Upgrade
Processor enhancement supports Graphite, QuickSilver Macs

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Film Gimp in an X11 World
Installing and configuring the 16-bit image editor on your Mac
by David Nagel
Today, friends, we're going to dip our little tootsies into the shallow end of the Unix pool and learn how to install Film Gimp and run it under Apple's new X11. Sound scary? It is. But, in the end, you'll have a 16-bit image manipulation program running in a relatively fast, friendly, Aqua environment right alongside your regular Mac OS X applications. All for free!

Analysis: After the Keynote
Apple's realities versus expectations
by David Nagel
With Steve Jobs's annual keynote address out of the way, it's pretty safe to say that the major announcements coming out of the Macworld SF 2003 conference have now been made. Not that I can take the rest of the week off or anything, but you know what I mean. The "big news"--the stuff we've been waiting to hear for the last few months--has been made. And it's now time to compare Apple's offerings against expectations.

Weekly Download: Textures, Series 1
30 smooth and rough stone surfaces
by David Nagel
For our first weekly download of the new year--that being 2003, for those of you living in the distant future--we have a collection of 30 texture files for use in a variety of applications. They all fall roughly into the category of rock or stone surfaces, though I defy you to put a name to any one of them in particular. At any rate, they're pretty (for the most part) and should come in handy for surfacing, backgrounds or bump or displacement maps.

Jumbo Jillions Part 1
Custom Gradient Wipe for After Effects
by Stephen Schleicher
After Effects typically isn’t used to edit transitions, yet the program has some simple transitions built in. While you may not use the After Effects transitions as a transition between video clips, you may discover other uses for these effects; especially the Gradient Wipe.

Creating a Magnifying Glass Effect in Photoshop
Using layer groups to reveal hidden content
by David Nagel
My headline on this article is a little misleading. We're not actually going to create a magnifying glass effect in Photoshop, but rather fudge one. What's the difference? Well, if Adobe Photoshop were perfect, I'd be showing you how actually to magnify a portion of a layer interactively, as is possible with a program like Adobe LiveMotion. Instead, I'm going to show you how to make it look like you're doing this without actually doing it.

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