Photoshop: Secrets Of The ProsAuthor: Anna Lim
Photoshop: Secrets of the Pros is a book that features one-on-one competitions between twenty top artists and designers. Designers include some of the most talented web, print, broadcast, 3D designers in the world. This friendly competition was called the Photoshop Tennis.
Sounds like another tiring outdoor game? Its not an outdoor game and its not tiring. Well, it may be tiring in a way but not, at least, for those skilled designers.
The Photoshop Tennis was invented by Jim Coudal, founder of Coudal Partners, a Chicago advertising and design agency, one summer before the September 11 terrorist attack. He and a friend whacked a file back and forth to kill time. Then he invited designers he knew to play in official matches.
Photoshop Tennis is an on-line game in which players are mostly web designers. The object of the game is to add one layer of design on an image document that is sent back and forth by two players. Only one image document is used. Players are allowed to put different layers of designs such as background and foreground. Results are posted on a website in real time. The game ends whenever the players decide to end it or if it takes hours the decision will be based on the number of votes.
After the four test matches and four official matches were completed, designers from ad agencies and design shops visited his site. Some of them contacted Coudal for a chance to play in a match.
The book PhotoShop: Secrets of the Pros is all about this type of competition. It is the first book to feature such game. As explained by the author of the site http://photoshop.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=22104, in Photoshop Tennis in this book, two designers take on one another over the internet over a ten round or volley period. In each volley, the designer either creates a new theme (in the initial volley), or they take what has been sent to him or her and start playing off of what was previously created. The competition results to a different appearance each time out. Programs used in this competition range from Illustrator and Freehand to Flash to 3D Studio Max and Maya. The designers used the basic tools and the basic commands like, brushes, and fills instead of shortcuts.
The book is not about web designing, it is about the 10 different competitions played by 20 professional designers. It is about teamwork and adaptation of different styles from their competitors.
One thing that is frustrating about this game is that sometimes it takes hours for a player to finish his work while keeping the other player waiting and it will only take minutes for the other player to destroy the art work. You can tell a story out of it but most of the time players tend to make his own story. Next thing youll notice is that the story of the image focuses on the destruction of the flow of two different stories.
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For comments and questions about the article you may contact Anna Lim at 800 591 1644 or visit http://www.colorprintingwholesale.com
anna@colorprintingwholesale.comeConnect for Microsoft Great Plains overview for consultant / programmerAndrew Karasev
eConnect for Microsoft Great Plains was initially intended as a set of tools to enable web developers (eCommerce web sites) use Microsoft Great Plains as back end accounting and order processing info. Also it is extended to serve as your web-front intranet to enable Payroll, Project, AR, AP, GL, etc. You can purchase eConnect in three options (January 2005):
- eConnect Core (GL, RM, PM, PR)
- eConnect Distribution (SOP, POP, IV)
- eConnect Project or
- eConnect Total Solution (Core, Distribution, Project)
eConnect pricing obviously differs, especially for product line (Microsoft Great Plains or Microsoft Great Plains standard) and region you should expect several thousand US dollars investment even for Great Plains Standard. You should also know that different modules/series of eConnect are required in the case of transaction import you can import and integrate master records with any version of eConnect
Well be following up with technical article on Microsoft Great Plains eConnect version 8.0 or 7.5
In this short article we would like you to get first ideas about this customization and integration tool.
- eConnect is good if you do one transaction entry from the website.
- It may not be good option if you plan on regular data import in this case you dont need web-front you can use either:
- Great Plains Integration Manager if the transaction level is low to moderate or
- Use direct SQL scripts or stored procedures to quickly integrate huge lots of transactions
Happy implementing, customizing and modifying! You can always appeal to us to help you with your system. Give as a call 1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com
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Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ), Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Microsoft CRM, Navision, Microsoft RMS customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Boston, New York, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Toronto, Montreal, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Australia, Canada, UK, Europe, Russia an having small offices in multiple states and internationally.
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