News, Thoughts, Ideas and Info
Catch up on the latest from GTP Designs, featuring news, tips, tutorials, and design related information. Feel free to join in the discussion. Your comments are welcome.
EC Music and Guitar website recently launched
GTP Designs recently launched a new website for a business offering guitar lessons in Blacksburg, VA. EC Music and Guitars, LLC offers guitar lessons to students of all abilities and experience levels.
Wacom Inkling lets you transfer from paper to vector
Wacom's Inkling device looks like it could potentially remove the step of having to scan in sketches to then be traced or re-dawn with a tablet, for those who practice this method.
Lytro announces Light Field camera
Lytro™ recently unveiled a new online campaign for its Light Field camera, which uses a "light field sensor" to record vector direction of light rays. Traditional camera sensors don't record the vector direction of light rays. So, what's the advantage of capturing the direction of the light rays? Well, according to Lytro™, this technology allows for focusing to take place AFTER a photo is captured.
Google introduces Search by Image feature
Google recently introduced a new feature to Google Images that allows users to do a search based on an actual image rather than a string of keywords. The new feature allows searches based on images to be done either by drag-and-dropping online images or by select images on your local machine. Results from the Search by Image feature include:
- Page results based on Google's "best guess" of the content contained in the image
- A list of visually similar images
- Pages that include matching images
Some good advice from Mike Monteiro for designers
WARNING: Video contains profanity.
Just a heads-up (in case you missed the video's title), this presentation does include some profanity, but the overall message of the lecture is very worthwhile for any designers who have ever run into problems with being properly compensated for work.
Internet Explorer 6.0 err, I mean Internet Explorer 9 released to public
I'm not really sure why, but after having recently installed Internet Explorer 9 (64-Bit) on my PC, whenever I visit any sites using Microsoft's brand-spanking new browser, the title tag of a visited site is followed by "IE 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180) (Microsoft Internet Explorer)." Interestingly enough, version 6.00.2900.2180 is Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 (I'm running Win7 Pro 64-Bit, for the record).
