Adobe messes with users, customers and its shareholders When Adobe announced the exclusive creative cloud subscription model, yours truly felt like shouting against it during the daily call. In fact, Adobe’s arrogance will cost a heck of a lot of money: to the company, the shareholders, and to users who will get less for more money....
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Adobe messes with users, customers and its shareholders When Adobe announced the exclusive creative cloud subscription model, yours truly felt like shouting against it during the daily call. In fact, Adobe’s arrogance will cost a heck of a lot of money: to the company, the shareholders, and to users who will get less for more money....
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Ycademy Online Seminar April 20/21, 2013… Read more ?
XR – New Responsive Universal WordPress Theme Semiomantics is releasing its new flagship theme, the XR for WordPress. The time is right to move on and to take advantage of the most recent WordPress and browser developments. Influenced by the broad acceptance of HTML5 and CSS3, boilerplate developments and bootstrap as well as easy...
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Mobile Apps Apps will be the big topic of 2013, mainly because there is a major shift of web traffic towards the mobile web and consequently traffic harvesting will be more efficient through apps than through browser based websites. The Ycademy January Seminar will focus on Apps Basics and different ways to convert WordPress...
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Application and Applications For the year end, we have a special idea summing up our work; 2012 has been a busy and intensive year indeed. Having learned to use important Applications, such as Illustrator and InDesign and having evolved in Photography and photo editing for web and print, we will look into some practical...
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Ycademy Net goes on Maintenance Tomorrow Subsequent to the Ycademy Seminar which took place this week-end we will perform a major maintenance session on Ycademy Net as from Tonight. Here are the sheduled tasks: 1. We will delete all user accounts belonging to inactive users The reason is, that inactive accounts and sites are...
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WordPress and Blurb Semiomantics is ready with an XO release candidate for WordPress 3.5. We will therefore look into the latest WP developments and the theme updates. Also Blurb has released the integration software for InDesign, which provides smashing professional editing features for off and on line book publishers. Here is the Schedule for...
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Vouliagmeni by Night with Full Moon Early this morning. The full moon was announced for 6:18 a.m. and the moon set for about an hour later, just before sun rise. What a good reason to get up early and to get into position on the roof terrasse of the house. A shot at the...
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Photography, Photoshop and Publishing This month’s Ycademy Online Seminar is divided into 3 sections: Digital Photography Photo Editing with Photoshop Publishing Photos Digital Photography This time the focus is not on the camera and the technicalities but the composition, framing and style of your photos. A great picture depends less on the technical means...
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Overheated iPhone Greece is a hot place, namely in summer. Leaving the iPhone out in the sun earlier today, the device stopped working at over 50 Degrees Celsius. OK, let’s cool it down I thought putting it into the freezer …where I forgot it promptly. 3 Hours later at -25 Degrees, the iPhone did...
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Point and Shoot Photography How far can you push your point and shoot photo cam in low light? I have been wondering about this for a while. Anna Antonicheva and Vladimir Neporozhniy Here are some surprising settings for a surprisingly good picture: This picture was shot with a low end Leica point and shoot...
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Photo Theme based on Color
In view of this month’s Ycademy Seminar, we will prepare a series of photos for multiple use. In fact, you may choose a topic or theme for a series of 20 Pictures.
How to choose a topic?
The topic can be style related, ...
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