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October 23, 2003
Imaging/Design Industry News:
• Formac Ships New Gallery 1900 Display
LCD display gets enhanced brightness and contrast

• Epson Rolls Out Photo Printers
R300 and R300M offer direct CD/DVD printing capabilities

• Apple Ships G4 iBooks
eMac line gets price reduction

• Bauhaus Ships Mirage 1.0
Mac version set to arrive later this year

• Digital Anarchy Releases Microcosm 1.1
Additional Texture Anarchy presets also released

• Canto Announces Cumulus 6
Mac OS X client to be offered for first time

• Dynagram Releases INposition 6.0
Imposition software supports Mac OS X and QuarkXPress 6

• Epson Intros Stylus Pro 4000
17-inch wide-format printer offers high-speed, seven-color ink system

• QuickTime Gets Performance Improvements in 6.4 Update
Latest release also includes Pixlet codec and Java 1.4.1 support

• NewTek Debuts 'LightWave 3D for Print' Offer
Special Mac-exclusive discount brings LightWave to $795

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Lurker in the Shadows
An alternate method for bringing out detail in dark areas of digital photographs
by David Nagel
Normally when you're trying to pull the detail out of excessively dark or light portions of your image, you'd head over to your curves or levels adjustments in Adobe Photoshop and tweak your image until you get something close to your desired result. But more and more I'm becoming convinced that a different technique is more appropriate, one involving multiple layers that not only produces better results in situations requiring drastic image surgery, but also faster results with less fine-tuning.

Weekly Download: Illustrator Brushes, Series 4
20 custom vector-based Art Brushes
by David Nagel
This week we present our fourth collection of Art Brushes for Adobe Illustrator, a series of individually designed brushes that emulate the appearance of wet paint strokes. The brushes this week are smaller than the ones found in previous collections, but more numerous, with 20 brushes in total. Read on for examples and download and installation instructions.

Light Sweep
Organic 3D strokes of light in Adobe After Effects
by Ko Maruyama and Mason Yi
While After Effects allows for layers and even a camera to move in 3D space, there is no provision for moving or rotating spline depth without the 3D Stroke plugin from Trapcode. Artist Mason Yi has been using this plugin since its introduction, and today we explore a technique in which he combined 3D Stroke with Trapcode's Shine on a project for MountainDew.com to produce animated, organic-looking threads of light.

Autumn Leaves
Creating a custom wipe transition with Adobe After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D
by Ko Maruyama
By using Adobe After Effects, you can make all types of creative wipes for use in your favorite NLE. And, with the aid of Maxon Cinema 4D, you can add some 3D volume to your wipe shapes. We'll take a look this week at one technique combining these two programs to produce the effect of 3D leaves blowing across the screen to transition between clips.

NewTek Debuts 'LightWave 3D for Print' Offer
Special Mac-exclusive discount brings LightWave to $795
by David Nagel
NewTek today announced a special offer for LightWave 3D, the company's 3D modeling and animation suite. In an initiative called "LightWave 3D for Print," NewTek is offering LightWave 3D for a reduced price of $795. The deal is exclusive for Mac OS X.

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