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Deke’s Techniques 013: Simulating Subpixel Rendering

Submitted by deke on 29 March 2011 - 12:15am.
Deke’s Techniques 013: Simulating Subpixel Rendering

This week's technique covers a topic so arcane, you'll either lose interest seconds into the movie, or be sucked into the topic as surely as you might draw an unfamiliar but addictive soda flavor into a straw.

The idea is this: Regardless of the rendering intent---Sharp, Crisp, Strong, or Smooth---Photoshop has a habit of rendering very small type like Garbage. Whereas that same very small type looks nice and legible when rendered by your operating system or as editable type by a browser. Read more » 

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lynda.com Does for Video Training What Spinal Tap Did for Rock 'n' Roll

Submitted by deke on 26 January 2009 - 12:00am.

If you're of a certain age (and I really don't know what age that is), you may recall the movie This Is Spinal Tap. I love the 1984 movie, especially in its rare appearance as a low-resolution (and now out-of-print) Voyager 1994 CD-ROM. Because the CD-ROM was searchable. You could enter a string, such as "stonehenge" or "puppet show" or "Nigel Tufnel" and get not only the movie file where that reference occurred but the exact timecode as well. It was like some kind of wonderful movie index.

In walks lynda.com, the most amazing video training site on the planet. When LDC elected to close-caption most of its movies in 2008 and all of 'em in 2009, the company's intention was to make its content accessible to all. But in doing so, they also made it searchable to all. Which was when lynda.com suddenly became the awesomest 21-century heavy metal band on the planet, as I have diagrammed below.

Trust me, this is good. Read more » 

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