Real or Manipulated?

They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital image manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these photographs are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly create ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be untouched, genuine portraits of the unexplained.

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LazyMovie - Tapping the Digital Film Restoration Industry

Jane Kirk has done it again. After successfully establishing LazyMovie, a service provider of rotoscoping and chroma keying, she is now once again penetrating another industry with a new outsourcing solution up her sleeve.

She calls it, with a smirk I might add, ’The Other LazyMovie’; a new service niche dedicated to answer the expensive needs of the film restoration industry.

LazyMovie: digital film restoration - is a facility that specializes in dust-busting, scratch removal and other clean-up work for problem frames. Through this, Kirk aims to aid film laboratories and film restoration companies in their pursuit to preserve cinematic memorabilia.

”This other LazyMovie is a cost-effective answer to the expensive industry of film preservation. Just like my other businesses, clients can bank on a (a) fast turn-around time, (b) experienced video editors under Scandinavian Management, (c) minimal linguistic and cultural misunderstandings and (d) of course a lower project cost since my production team is based in Cebu, Philippines” said Jane Kirk.

She also added that working with M.I.R and Diamant has given her Philippine-based team of video editors the right panache to effectively handle film retouching issues at hand. “Investing with the right kind people and the right kind of technology ensures quality at its finest.”

LazyMovie is also the sister company of LazyMask, a clipping path service provider, and LazyAnimation, a digital animation studio.

Interested clients are given a free trial of LazyMovie’s digital film restoration services so that they can asses the quality of work delivered by LazyMovie.

DigitalFilmRestoration Press Release

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The Evolution of Adobe Photoshop Start-up

I’ve been using Photoshop and I usually see the startup screen several times. Due to curiosity, what did the startup screen look like before? I had a little research, you can really see the difference. The memory lane of the world’s most powerful image editor and its humble beginnings.

Philippine Outsourcing

The Philippines raked in offshore service generating revenues of $2.1 billion last year, placing third behind India and China and slightly ahead of Malaysia. That’s up 62% over the $1.3 billion it gained in 2004, and a huge increase from the start of the decade when the outsourcing industry in Manila employed just 2,400 people and the industry had revenues of merely $24 million.

The Philippines has an English-proficient population with a diversified labor pool. The Philippines offers sublime call center services and customer support. Moreover, the Philippines flaunts its ample IT professionals and graphic and animation designers. Animation industry has proved to be very efficient in the Philippines; thus a lot of big firms began outsourcing all their animation and graphic design tasks to the Philippines. The Philippines have witnessed an economic boost lately and so it began building ideal infrastructures and excellent telecommunication systems. This prosperity and excellent communications tempted a lot of big firms to outsource their work to the Philippines. Moreover, the fact the Philippines was once an American colony makes it quite familiar with American culture and literature. As a result, a lot of American companies are beginning to look to the Philippines for outsourcing their business processes, especially after the remarkable development the Philippines witnessed lately. One of the things that make the Philippines so distinguished from other countries is its vast base of medical graduates. So the amalgamation between the profound knowledge of the American culture (and consequently American medical terms and practices) and the extensive medical proficiency makes the Philippines the ideal country for outsourcing medical transcription processes.

Chasing the outsourcing wave is a smart strategy for an economy such as the Philippines’. Compared with capital-intensive manufacturing, service businesses are cheap to set up, and can generate a hundred times more jobs.

Jpeg Myths

What is jpeg?
JPEG is a standard type of image file. It is a very common way to compress and store images for transfer over the Internet. Often used to compress photographic images. Acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group that describes a digital image file format standard in which the size of the file is reduced by compression. A JPEG image file name carries the extension “jpg”. …

With the explosion of new digital technologies and the world wide web, jpeg image format has quickly become the most widely used digital image format. I’m sure most of you heard the common myths about jpeg file format right? Well if you don’t here’s a list of some misconception about jpeg images.

JPEGs lose quality every time they are opened and/or saved.
False. Simply opening or displaying a JPEG image does not harm the image in any way. Even opening an image and saving it again under a new name will not introduce further compression, unless additional editing was performed on the image. Saving a JPEG repeatedly during the same editing session (without ever closing the image) will not accumulate a loss in quality.

JPEGs lose quality every time they are opened, edited and saved.
True. If a JPEG image is opened, edited, and saved again it results in additional image degradation. It is very important to minimize the number of editing sessions between the initial and final version of a JPEG image. If you must perform editing functions in several sessions or in several different programs, you should use a image format that is not lossy (TIFF, BMP, PNG) for the intermediate editing sessions before saving the final version. Repeated saving within the same editing session does not introduce additional damage. It is only when the image is closed, re-opened, edited and saved again.

JPEGs lose quality every time they are used in a page layout program.
False. Using a JPEG Image in a page layout program does not edit the source JPEG image, therefore no quality is lost. However, because each page layout software uses different types of compression on their native document files, you may find your layout documents are considerably larger than the sum of the embedded JPEG files.

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An Email Interview with Andi Toon Creffield – Logo Designer

My friend/officemate had the chance to know a bit of Andi Toon Creffield a.k.a. toon’s busy day. For those who doesn’t know him, well he is a young graphic designer for Centrereed Colour Printing. He is the man behind the Estectica Design Forum, formerly known as graphic-design-forum.com. Aside from his work in Centrereed, he also does freelance work for Tylor’s print as a graphic and logo designer. He has worked in the web and print industries since 1999 and has an extensive logo design experience. His beautiful logo works will speak for themselves. With his wit, charm and passion, he is making his mark in the interesting world of logo designing.

Below is the official email interview she had with Toon.

• What is a normal day for Toon?

My normal day usually consists of getting up at 6am and heading to the studio, as we are large print firm most of the morning can be taken up by getting all the files ready for the presses and alot of the afternoon will be alot of designing. It can be stationery and brochure designs, logo design, web design or lots of other work, the fun of working in a busy studio for a large firm is that there’s always something to do and such a variety of work also.

I don’t think I’d enjoy it as much if I were tied to doing the same tasks everyday, it’s good for creativity to be able to change the type of work you’re doing and your approach to the tasks at hand.

For more of his email interview please go to my friend’s blog (Vigouruexartiste)

3d Architectural Rendering And Walk Through Animation Services

LazyAnimation is a Scandinavian 3d studio that specializes in architectural rendering and fly-through animation. We house talented Philippine-based 3d artists that are backed by experienced Scandinavian Management dedicated to deliver quality architectural renderings and fly-through animation at a reasonable cost.

The continuous evolution of technology has provided ‘building wooden architectural models’ a convenient alternative by creating 3-dimensional photo realistic presentation of your architectural endeavor. Architects, interior designers and contractors use our architectural renderings and walk through animation solutions to advertise a far finished building structure or to visually provide clients a more immersive medium in presenting a design.

LazyAnimation has a fast turn around time for architectural rendering service and for the rest of our services as well. A close line of communication is maintained to give you the proper insight and security. Work to deliver you projects on time and on budget.

See some of LazyAnimation sample works here: 3d Architectural Work

Lazymask: Clipping Path And Photoshop Masking Services A Cost Saver For Many Businesses.

LazyMask was formed by Kirk Outsourcing, Inc. to serve companies across industries that deal with graphics. These include publishing houses, advertising and/or marketing agencies, among others. The company is also happy to serve individual graphic artists and photographers.

LazyMask’s has its offices in Cebu, Philippines, where graphic artists work round the clock masking images in photoshop. LazyMask’s commitment to quality image masking has enabled it to boast of international clients that have long standing relationships with the company.

“Now, LazyMask not only aims to offer quality graphic outsourcing services but we also aim to impart our knowledge and skills for those people who would want to learn photo editing” Kirk says.

Try LazyMask to find out what benefits you can have by outsourcing your clipping path and image masking needs. We are a leading service provider of image masking and clipping path services. These are just a few of the many good things about us:

Graphic Media is popular?

Is it true that Graphic Media is getting popular over the net? A local newspaper announces that my blog is getting more traffic everyday and that Graphic Media did help to people who needs clarification on their graphical problems. (lol) No, I’m making up stories, just kidding. You know sometimes I had my fantasy and this is one of it.

Seriously, I had a good link for you people who likes having fun on the net. People who are tired of using softwares that has too many tools and etc. This online generated program has a variety of templates to choose from, depends on your style though. I had my choice here, take a look:

Enjoy!