Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The Great Photoshop Cook-Off
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Dear Reader,
The O'Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off is simmering away on our Digital Media
site. But what the heck is O'Reilly doing sponsoring a Photoshop contest?
A few years ago, I too would have echoed that thought. But things have
changed.
What was once solely the kingdom of geeks, O'Reilly Media has expanded
into a publishing company that wants to bring that same fire and curiosity
to digital photography, music, HDTV, and video. Our assumption for years
was that if we found something interesting, we'd publish a book or post
an article online. Now we ask the question: Is this a book or a PDF?
Should we write an article or produce a podcast? What would our audience
want to see?
The Photoshop Cook-Off is designed to apply that same O'Reilly spirit to
Adobe's venerable image editor. If you'd like to hack a photo the same
way you do your operating system, then please, go see what this cook-off
is about.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/contest/>
Until next week,
-Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com
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Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a
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XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
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