LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., January 23, 2008 – Canon U.S.A., Inc.’s EOS Rebel series of digital single lens reflex cameras – the cameras that defined and refined what it means to be an “entry level” digital SLR – have now redefined the gateway prowess and “pro-ness” of the DSLR category with the introduction of the line’s [...]

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Steinberg Presents Classroom Resource Pack

New integrated package offers creative music education with Cubase 4 and Cubase Studio 4

Hamburg, Germany (February 15, 2008) – Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is pleased to announce that its unique new product for the English-language education market, Classroom Resource Pack, is now shipping. Written by teachers for teachers, the [...]

In writing our feature article “Adding MIDI to Your Shop”, we needed to get up and running with the formidable program Cubase 4, by Steinberg (www.steinberg.net). This program is both a top notch MIDI sequencer and digital recording studio in one. Obviously a lot to learn, and ramping up for this type of complex audio [...]

Press Release SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0
 
Shortcut Software is introducing the RAW converter software product in the United States & Canada
 
December 1, 2007, Shortcut Software International Inc. Irvine, California, United States
Shortcut Software is pleased to announce SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 as a RAW image converter.
 
The product SILKYPIX was previously sold primarily in [...]

With the software biz in a bit of a topsy-turvy spin the last few years the question had often been, “which 3D package is Adobe going to buy?” After all, went the reasoning, they had just about everything else, so why not? But the years clicked by and Adobe never made the play.
The new [...]

Texturing is a specialty within the niche of 3D work. Along with lighting it is an integral part of scene design and construction, and there are many ways to approach its execution. While this topic is often a chapter or two within a larger book, we decided to look at two books that [...]

Remember being a kid and having the circus come to town? Well for those in the creative and media communications fields, Adobe’s CS3 Tour aims to give the same type of thrill.
But with all that is truly new, like the iPhone and other products, could new releases of old products really change our lives [...]

With so many (too many?) Photoshop books on the market, we thought we would look at two recent offerings from two top publishers. The first is the very successful “How to Cheat in Photoshop” book by Steve Caplins, now in its third printing. The second is “Photoshop for Right Brainers” by Al Ward.
Each book takes [...]

It seems this version of Maya can’t always tell the difference between getting things right, and getting things wrong.
Click on the thumbnail to bring up the larger version of the screenshot, and take a look at the feedback text near the bottom. Now if only all errors were that easy to live with.

Excerpt from 3DNY’s MediaBook: MAYA | Multi-Pass Rendering
Recent versions of Maya have added enhanced support for the multilayered Photoshop file format. In doing so, Maya has added a great deal of capability. However, as might be expected, this new recognition of layers is not as easy to control as it is in Photoshop. That disclaimer [...]