Joe Farace

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Year End Wrap Up
Digital Photography
Joe Farace  |  Dec 01, 2001

According to IDC Inc., the number of digital images captured is expected to grow from 3.5 billion in 1999 to 34 billion in 2004. So it's no wonder that the computer world's mantra of "bigger, faster, cheaper" was never more obvious than in this year's crop of digital imaging...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Change Is The Name Of The Game
Joe Farace  |  Nov 01, 2001

"If we don't change
direction soon, we'll end up where we are going."--Professor
Irwin Corey

If there is one constant
theme running...

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Photo Quality Counts
A Roundup Of Ink Jet Printers
Joe Farace  |  Oct 01, 2001

Affordable photo-realistic output was the holy grail of color printers, and Epson's 1994 introduction of the Stylus Color ink jet printer changed the ball game forever. The original Stylus Color was a 720 dots per inch (more on...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Browsers And Other Useful Digital Imaging Software
Joe Farace  |  Sep 01, 2001

"The major difference
between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go
wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it
usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."--Doug...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
New Operating Systems And Products For Pixographers
Joe Farace  |  Aug 01, 2001

One of the biggest challenges facing many digital imagers is the constant introduction of new hardware and software products. Decisions about upgrading software is not much different than when your favorite camera manufacturer introduces a new...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Printing Your Digital Images
Joe Farace  |  Jul 01, 2001

One of the first things digital imagers are in a hurry to do after capturing an image is to print it. It is here in the real "digital darkroom" where pixographers have made technical advances that have freed them from some of the restrictions...

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Software Roundup Part II
New And Improved Tools For Producing Artistic Photographs
Joe Farace  |  Jul 01, 2001

Ever since the Pictorialist movement at the turn of the 20th century, photographers have always enjoyed applying what many have dubbed "painterly" effects to their images. Pixographers are no strangers to this desire to create artistic...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Software, Printers, Cameras
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2001

FlashPix Farewell
Back in the last millennium--1996 to be exact--the FlashPix file format was hailed as the next great graphics file breakthrough. Back in these olden days FlashPix was touted as the new, open standard for digital...

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Show Reports
Digital Imaging At The Begining Of The 21st Century
Joe Farace  |  May 01, 2001

"The software stopped working when I upgraded from Windows 92 to Windows 95."
"You sharpened this photograph? I didn't know you could do that."
"If we go digital, what are we gonna do with all our old film processing equipment?"
"I gotta get a...

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Digital Innovations
Digital Innovations
Cameras, Cases, Lost And Found And More
Joe Farace  |  Apr 01, 2001

It is expected that 13.9 billion amateur digital images were created during 2000 in the US alone.--InfoTrends Research Group.

One question I'm often asked by friends...

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