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Cinema 4D XL 7 Now Available
Mac OS 9. OS X version get radiosity, caustics, explosion effects

Steinberg Ships Nuendo Studio System One for Mac
Company also offers new Nuendo DD8 converter

Best Color To Offer Remote Proofing
System uses photometer to compare output

Flaming Pear Releases Flexify
Photoshop plugin creates effects with panoramas

Curious Labs Launches Service Release for Poser Pro Pack
New version gets 3ds max support, some bug fixes

Epson Intros Print Image Matching Camera
BodyPaint also available; OS X upgrade free for current users

Profile
Multimedia Production on the Mac
Star Wars Chronicled
Five questions with Orphmedia President and TFN Digital Producer Peter Orphanos
by David Nagel
By now, many of you have heard about or seen TFN Digital, a twice-monthly Web broadcast that covers news about the Star Wars universe and carries features about those who make things happen in said universe. For Star Wars fans, it's a must-see. For video professionals, it stands out as an example of how to use streaming media (QuickTime and Windows Media) not just to deliver entertainment, but to showcase the services your production company offers.

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Review
Flaming Pear Flood
Water effects for Adobe Photoshop
by David Nagel
Flaming Pear is a company that you might not be familiar with but that has put out some pretty serious effects filters for Photoshop. I've previously reviewed two of their products, BladePro and Super BladePro, both of which are designed to generate general material effects like stone and metal. This week we'll look at a plugin of theirs that has a much more limited scope but that might prove pretty useful to you compositing folks out there. It's called Flood, and its sole purpose is to place bodies of water onto an image.

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Tutorial
Video Tutorial: The Secret of Good Gamma in Photoshop
Designing for cross-platform viewers
by Deke McClelland
Cross-platform computer users have probably noticed how different the same image can look when viewed on a Mac or PC screen. This lesson from Total Photoshop 6 is of especial interest to Macintosh web designers; instructor Deke McClelland shows how to use the Levels controls to approximate-and correct for-the gamma differences inherent in the two platforms. Let Deke help you to see your onscreen images the way "the rest of the world" sees them!

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