Digital Arts February 2010 - out now
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Updated 08/02
Sigma may be better known as a supplier of affordable third-party lenses, but it has been developing digital cameras that make the most of its heritage and deliver digital SLR quality within compact casings.
The latest austere-looking Ricoh digital model marries a high-quality, 10-megapixel sensor to new processor and high-quality, wide-angle lens.
This 12.1 megapixel Lumix is the only one in this test that lets you change lens.
Pitching itself at the value end of the market, this Kodak model has plenty of surprises.
Changing the colours of photographs in your InDesign project requires Photoshop, right? Not necessarily. If the photo is black and white and saved in grayscale mode in a compatible format, you can tint it directly in InDesign. You can even assign it two colours for an attractive duotone.
Digital Arts | Pariah S Burke | Read more...
It looks like Apple's iPad really is magical after all. Marketing materials for the iPad mysteriously morphed overnight following complaints that they misleadingly depicted the device showing Flash-based content. As of Saturday morning, presto-change-o: The Flash is gone.
Digital Arts | JR Raphael | Read more...
One of the best places to find desktop art is Bobby Solomon’s Desktop Wallpaper Project. We chat to the designer and blogger about what he gets out of curating this.
We talk to Ben The Illustrator about The Renmen Project, which will sell artwork from leading artists to raise money for the Unicef Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal.
Nikon took the wraps off its 2010 Coolpix point-and-shoot camera line today, which include from a 26x optical zoom model and a bunch of pocket zoomers too.
The February issue of Digital Arts -- out today -- brings you the lowdown on retro style, how to earn money from your designs, and six brilliant tutorials to help you take your design skills to the next level.
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Dynamic lighting isn’t new – far from it. The 16th-century Baroque art movement saw artists such as Giovanni Baglione use chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) to add a sense of depth, atmosphere, and emotion to their work. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how the same lighting principles can be applied to your photo manipulations.
Are you inspired by the mundane? The seemingly normal everyday things you come across? If not you should be, because what may appear to be nothing, can be turned into something unique.
Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.
Tom Waits has one of the most instantly identifiable voices in contemporary music: it’s a sort of booming roar. Kool Keith has one of the most staccato, distinctive rap styles out there. How do you animate these iconic – but very different – voices?
Gavin Stoker surveys six compact cameras that promise digital SLR-like quality and effects without the bulk
We talk to the team behind the VFX for recent hit movie The Road.
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