Author: gulley

I’m pleased with this: a

I’m pleased with this: a stripped-down version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements is available. I would have paid for it, but it came free with my new D-40 Olympus camera, so I’m doubly pleased. If it’s missing many features relative to the much more expensive Photoshop, I haven’t spotted them yet. I’m sure it IS missing high-end features, but as a non-power user, I’m happy to have a more reasonably priced Photoshop. I’ve used Photoshop for years at work and have gotten very fond of it, but it looks like the Photoshop Elements feature set is all I really need.

Fonts in movies

I love this kind of attention to detail… Typecasting is a discussion of how well movies do getting time period appropriate fonts in their onscreen typeset materials. A sample: In the movie Chocolat (set in the 1950s), we see a sign that features a font that was introduced in (quel horreur) 1978! “Perhaps the mistake is understandable. ITC Benguiat was designed in a quasi-Art Nouveau style. It is likely that Art Nouveau typefaces would still be in use in provincial France of the mid-fifties. But not ITC Benguiat. It didn’t exist. [seen on xplane.com]

The West Virginia Surf Report

The West Virginia Surf Report is good stuff. Snide, cynical, and most important, funny. Any fool can be snide and cynical, but it takes work to be funny. As Jeff Kay, the site auteur, observes, “Yes, due to the recent well-publicized shortage of amateur websites produced by assholes who consider themselves to be clever, I’ve been drawn to the web — out of a powerful sense of civic duty.” [seen on BoingBoing]