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Monday News Update

By Scott on Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 9:36 am | updates.

Hi everybody! Here’s what’s up:

This is amazing: I found this link on PhotoDoto.com, and it’s to a short video clip from the TED conference that shows an engineer from Microsoft demoing some new imaging technology developed by a company that Microsoft recently acquired. It’s a peek at the near future, and definitely worth checking out (it pretty much blew me away). Click here to watch the clip.
My publisher contacted me this week to let me know that the Chinese translation of my book, “The Digital Photography Book” is the #1 bestselling photography book in China (the graphic above is from the Chinese publisher). I have a friend who speaks simplified Chinese, and I asked him to translate the ad, and that’s when I found out why it’s #1. Apparently they had to slightly change the title of the book for it to appeal to the vast Chinese market, so in China the book is called, “How to pick up women.” (OK, I made up that last part, but I bet it would sell better with that title).
Larry Becker turned me on to this image in a NAPP member Mike Goodwin’s online portfolio (NAPP members get a free online portfolio that’s visible to the public), and you really have to admire the retouching job he did. He shot a car on the floor of an Auto show, and then did a pretty masterful job of isolating the car and putting it on a studio background created right in Photoshop. Click here to check it out.
While I was over at PhotoDoto.com this weekend, another post caught my eye; a link to a site where you can find camera manuals for just about every make and model digital camera ever made. It’s pretty useful, especially if you’ve either misplaced your manual, or you’ve bought (or are thinking about buying) a used digital camera. It’s over at CameraTown.com.
Just a quick reminder; if you’re thinking of going to Photoshop World (Sept 6-8, 2007 in Vegas) you only have until Friday to register early and save $100. Here’s the link.

Well gang, that’s it for this Monday. Have a good one!

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Scott, thanks for recognizing my photo of the car. Without what I have learned from your books and PhotoshopTV I don’t think I would have achieved the same results. Keep up the great work!

Mike

Mike Goodwin on July 30th, 2007 at 10:31 am

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Hello Scott:

Thanks for sharing that interesting link on the new Microsoft Technology. In the video they mentioned that this technology was online, and thought you might like the direct link to that:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

Yours is the only Blog I regulary frequent. Thanks for the great photo news.

Larry on July 30th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

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Hi Scott:

So glad to see your book won No.1 in china.The book does help me a lot.
My friends are all surprised by my shots because the shots get better and better fast.I’ll always say “thanks” to you!
Yesterday I bought the second your book《the Photoshop CS2 book for digital photographers》(for Chinese language).I’m going to learn how to do with Photoshop CS2.

Bao Fanke on July 31st, 2007 at 7:59 am

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Scott,

A small error. >>>

Simplified Chinese is used in reading and writing by the Mainland Chinese while Traditional Chinese is used in reading and writing by other Chinese regions such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The only difference is in the characters. With Traditional Chinese, there are more characters in the words while in Simplified Chinese, there are less characters. This difference does not appear in all words.

Likewise, when you are talking about the spoken language, Mandarin is the major dialect used in Mainland China. There are other dialects such as Cantonese (used in Hong Kong), etc.

Wilbur on August 2nd, 2007 at 3:00 am