Jamie Caliri’s artistry flies to top spot

Source: Digital Animators
Written by Ko Maruyama

There were few outstanding commercials during this year’s Superbowl broadcast, but no one would contest that United Airline’s “Dragon” soars above them all.

Photographer illustrates the art of family living.

Source: Springfiled News-Leader
Written by Sony Hocklander

Springfield photographer Julie Blackmon’s whimsical, somewhat surreal series, “Domestic Vacations,” captures the messy, charming chaos of family life.

MultimediaPhoto has released Photomatix Tone Mapping Plug-In 1.0 for Mac and Windows. The plug-in for Photoshop CS2 and compatible applications, is designed to improve the output of HDR images (for example, from digital SLR cameras) when they are downconverted for use in other creative applications.

Source: ZDNet Australia
Written by Renal LeMay

Microsoft has temporarily halted development work on some aspects of its upcoming professional graphics application as it tries to bring companion tools and its next-generation Windows Vista operating system to market.

The desktop software market is getting more competitive as companies invade one another’s turf.

Source: Yahoo News
Written by Patrick Seitz

Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT – News) is going head to head with Adobe Systems (NasdaqNM:ADBE – News) in document sharing and interactive Web design software. Apple Computer (NasdaqNM:AAPL – News) is taking on Adobe as well, but in photo editing software.

Complex Design and Publishing Workflows Made More Efficient Through Use of Metadata Technology Across Diverse Applications and Systems

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 13, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the public beta of Adobe® XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) Toolkit Version 4.0, a pre-release of the company’s industry-standard file labeling technology. Based on open source technology, the new beta toolkit contains Adobe XMP libraries that provide third party software developers and industry partners with standards-based building blocks to develop optimized workflow products, taking the heavy lifting out of metadata integration in a new generation of design and publishing applications and systems.