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Review of Wacom Intuos and Graphire Pen Tablets

January 30th, 2008 · 15 Comments

First things first: it’s pronounce Whack-um, not Way-com. Weird, I know.
I began using a Graphire3 4x5 (I think that’s the equivalent of the A6 in Europe) tablet a few years ago when I was learning Photoshop. It was recommended to me by my professor and at $99, I thought I’d try it.
I really loved the feel of […]

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Thanksgiving Link Love

November 23rd, 2007 · 9 Comments

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d show some appreciation for some of my favorite posts over the past couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy these as well! Creative Curio will be back to the regular posting schedule (M, W, F) next week.
We all love being more efficient and whether you’re on a PC […]

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Vector Magic

November 21st, 2007 · 12 Comments

Have you seen Vector Magic yet?
There has been a bit of buzz around this new online program that takes a raster (pixel-based) image and converts it to vector shapes. I thought I’d test it out to see how it held up.
Results on Photography
I took the following flower image and tested it at both medium and high photo settings.

I think […]

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