Archive for OS X

Apple's New Final Cut Pro X, a Revolution in Video Editing

By Trevor Current
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

June 22, 2011 – PRESS SUMMARY – Apple® announced Final Cut Pro® X, a revolutionary new version of the world’s most popular Pro video editing software which completely reinvents video editing with a Magnetic Timeline that lets you edit on a flexible, trackless canvas; Content Auto-Analysis that categorizes your content upon import by shot type, media and people; and background rendering that allows you to work without interruption. Built on a modern 64-bit architecture, Final Cut Pro X is available from the Mac® App Store™ for $299.99.

“Final Cut Pro X is the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cut Pro,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We have shown it to many of the world’s best Pro editors, and their jaws have dropped.”

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OSXcellence – ImageConvert Review

By Mark Myerson
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

ImageConvert IconDigital image files go through a number of manipulations – the precise number varying on how excitable the photographer is in Photoshop – on their way from camera to print or online sharing. In addition, however, many images end up being changed from format to format, especially when the images are on their way to an image library.

To change single images between file types, programs such as Photoshop can be used to re-save the image into the desired file type, but this isn’t particularly quick or efficient.

A number of OSX apps offer an alternative to this method, allowing drag-and-drop conversion. One example of such an app is the not very imaginatively named, ImageConvert.

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ImageConvert is probably one of the simplest apps available in any genre, providing the user with just two options – “preferences” or “quit.” Read More→

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Apple Announces Mac OS X Lion with 250 New Features

By Trevor Current
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

June 7, 2011 – PRESS SUMMARY – Apple® announced that Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs, will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac® App Store™ for $29.99. Some of the amazing features in Lion include: new Multi-Touch® gestures; system-wide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac App Store, the best place to find and explore great software, built right into the OS; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail app.

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Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud to be Announced at WWDC on June 6

By Trevor Current
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

May 31, 2011 – PRESS SUMMARY – Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software – Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.

WWDC will feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers. Mac® developers will see and learn how to develop world-class Mac OS X Lion applications using its latest technologies and capabilities. Mobile developers will be able to explore the latest innovations and capabilities of iOS and learn how to greatly enhance the functionality, performance and design of their apps. All developers can bring their code to the labs and work with Apple engineers.

For more details, visit the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 website at developer.apple.com/wwdc.

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Portraiture 2 for Adobe Lightroom

By Trevor Current
Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Aug 29, 2009 – Portraiture 2 for Adobe Lightroom was released this week. The plug-in helps to eliminate the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows,
eyelashes etc.

Portraiture 2 works seamlessly with the Lightroom workflow and users will benefit from two usage modes, using both the Edit In and Export techniques for individual and batch image editing and processing. The plug-in also includes native 32 and 64-bit support for Windows Vista and support for the latest Intel Mac OS releases.

Portraiture 2 is available for immediate use as a free, 15-day trial download. For new customers the Lightroom edition will cost $199.95 and for registered users of Portraiture 2 for Photoshop or Aperture, it’s available for a discounted price of $99.99. Read More→

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