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ACDSee PowerPack 6.0
More Power To The Image Management Process
Joe Farace  |  Mar 01, 2004

ACDSee has always been a powerful image management tool for Microsoft Windows users, and the latest version is no exception, but sometimes you need a little more power. That's when you need to kick it up a notch and spend a few extra bucks for the PowerPack edition. ACDSee PowerPack costs...

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Adobe’s Photoshop Creative Suite 2
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2005

Call It Photoshop 9 If You Must
OK, go on and say it: Stop the madness! You haven't even upgraded from Photoshop 7 or just started on CS and along comes Adobe's Photoshop CS2 a.k.a. Space Monkey. As before, there are CS2 versions of all of Adobe's other graphic applications including InDesign, Illustrator, and GoLive. This is also the last...

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Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 4.0; It’s Back, It’s Updated, But Only For Windows
Joe Farace  |  Dec 01, 2005

Product cycles being what they are, it seemed to me that it was about time for another iteration of Adobe's Photoshop Elements a.k.a Photoshop for the less well-heeled, and so here it is. In Version 3.0, Adobe gave up on trying to make Elements look like Photoshop and that was a big step forward. In this latest version they've built upon that improved interface to make...

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Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 5.0; Almost As Good As Photoshop…Almost
Joe Farace  |  Dec 01, 2006

Each new version of Adobe's Photoshop Elements gets better than the previous one. That's the case with this inexpensive ($99) program that has evolved from Adobe's stepchild to a darn good imaging program for the money. The interface of the latest version for Microsoft Windows even contains hints of Adobe's as-yet-released Lightroom in its design...

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Adorama Monolights
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2004

Photos © 2004, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved

Light, as they say, "is light." The most important characteristic of monolights, or any kind of lighting system, is the quality and the quantity of the light they produce. Other stuff like recycling time, power...

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Web Profiles
Always In Fashion; Simply Priceless Sites
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2004

"Fashion is something that goes in one year...and out the other."--Overheard at Fall 2003 Fashion Week

So what's a henway? The Dumb & Dumber answer...

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Digital Innovations
Another Happy New Year; Start Making Your Digital Resolutions Now
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2011

“It’s just another New Year’s Eve. Let’s make it the best.”—Barry Manilow

OK, I admit it. I like Barry Manilow’s music. Heck, I even like Ray Stevens’s song “I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow” and am amazed you can’t buy it on iTunes. So what’s your New Year’s resolution? Quit smoking? (I did that 30 years ago.)...

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Web Profiles
Anything Goes On The Internet; Captivating Expected And Unexpected Sources
Joe Farace  |  Feb 01, 2009

“Good authors, too, who once knew better words, Now only use four-letter words writing prose, Anything goes.”—Cole Porter

I had been expecting this for some time and recently received an e-mail informing me that within a few days Comcast, my broadband Internet supplier, would place a limit on my monthly downloads, stating that “usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB)...

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Web Profiles
Around The Web In 31 Days: It’s National Photo Month
Joe Farace  |  Jun 29, 2012  |  First Published: May 01, 2012
National Photography Month started in 1984 as the week-long American Photography Celebration but now runs the entire month. May was also the home of “Take Your Camera to Work Day” that was funded out of my own pocket but faded after a few years because of the cost of creating a user-friendly site. If anybody’s interested in helping relaunch the website I could restart it next year, depending on whether the Mayans were wrong or not. May is also my birthday month and I’d like to thank all of Shutterbug’s readers for their support over the years.
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Web Profiles
Around The Web In 31 Days; This Month I Showcase Readers’ Sites
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2010

“Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.”—Theodore Sturgeon

In a variation of that famous computer game “Where in the World is Joe Farace,” my dream of looking out the window and seeing saguaros instead of snow banks was recently shattered by events beyond my control. So where am I as you read this today? I’m hoping...

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