A Digital Media Net Newsletter for Creative Mac Professionals
December 31, 2001
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Maxon Gives Away Plugins for Cinema 4D XL
Baker, dirtyNUTS available for download

Update: QuickTime's MPEG-4 Future
Format to support Simple and Advanced Simple visual profiles

Universe 4 Ships for Mac OS X and OS 9
Preorders are 'in the mail'

Pixels Ships Pixels 3D 4.0
Latest release half off through December

Alien Skin Discounts Software, Paraphernalia
15 percent off through holidays

Andromeda Offers Discount on Photoshop Plugins
Entire collection 10 percent off

ALAP Ships ImageAdjuster for Quark
New XTension provides color correction tools

RE:Vision Launches RE:Flex for After Effects
Plugins create warp and morph effects

TripleD Releases OS X Versions of Universe Filters
OS X shaders coming soon

Native Instruments Releases Version 3.05 of Reaktor for Download
Cross-platform sound design software


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Talkin' Smack: How I Spent on My Christmas Vacation
The trials and tribulations of retail and where I finally spent by business dollars
by David Nagel
I've used this column in the past rather mercilessly to deride the computer retailers in my environs. Victims of my Vorpal prose have included Microcenter, CompUSA and Fry's, and now I have one more to add to the list--the Apple Store itself. But before I get to this, I first have to give props to one of those stores I've dissed so harshly in the past.

Saturation in Adobe Photoshop 6
Adding color and cleaning up JPEG artifacts
by Deke McClelland
In this lesson from Total Photoshop 6, Deke McClelland starts with a digital photo that he snapped of his minivan. The color saturation in the photo is so low that the image almost appears to be grayscale. Simply increasing the saturation introduces ugly JPEG artifacts into the image.

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Update: QuickTime's MPEG-4 Future
Format to support Simple and Advanced Simple visual profiles
by David Nagel
Last week we brought you news of several key developments in the future of the QuickTime format. One of these notable developments was that MPEG-4 will actually become QuickTime's native file format in the next full version release of the software. Since we published that article, we've had several inquiries about further specifics on the format. While we can't provide all of the information requested, we do have a little more to share.

Digital Wrinkle Remover
Retouching facial lines in Adobe Photoshop
by Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems Inc.
So you want to do some major retouching and get rid of your wrinkles. And you want to do a real nice job of hiding those lines on someone?s face. This is how you do it: You use the clone tool in Adobe Photoshop. The secret though is to keep the realistic look of a person by altering as few pixels as possible.

Update: QuickTime's MPEG-4 Future
Format to support Simple and Advanced Simple visual profiles
by David Nagel
Last week we brought you news of several key developments in the future of the QuickTime format. One of these notable developments was that MPEG-4 will actually become QuickTime's native file format in the next full version release of the software. Since we published that article, we've had several inquiries about further specifics on the format. While we can't provide all of the information requested, we do have a little more to share.

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