![]() ![]() Time was, you watched CBS or NBC or ABC you read Time or Newsweek (or maybe US News and World Report). Opinion: That is most certainly a good thing.įact: To a great extent, media loyalty is disappearing, too. I'd really like some facts.įact and opinion intermingled: But the good news is that the Internet makes it possible for anyone to provide news, analysis, commentary, and opinion from anywhere in the world to anyone on the planet.įact: What you'll find, if you visit the BBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, TV Novosti's Russian Times, the CBC, NewsRoom Finland, Brazil News, or China Daily is that people there have about the same fears, goals, and desires as the people here. Opinion: Belief-based religion is fine belief-based news is not. Radio, cable television, and probably the majority of Internet-based "news" sources are more opinion-based than fact-based. The more outrageous and shocking the reports are, the higher the ratings are and the more money the station makes from the cash cow that used to be a money-losing public service.įact: The national media at least have fact checkers and employees who are trained journalists. ![]() "If it bleeds, it leads," is the long-time motto of local news. Opinion: That's bad, in my view, because local television doesn't do news. Radio provided a headline service, as it still does (except for PBS), and magazines provided long-form serious analysis (as a few still do if you can pick it out from the fluff).įact: Internet-based news sources now rank second to television as the main source of news. Because I feel strongly about journalism and honesty, it seems reasonable to point out which is which in this section even though most people will be able to differentiate between fact and opinion.įact: Long ago, Americans read newspapers and just about everybody watched one of the 3 network newscasts every evening: CBS, NBC, or ABC. This section is part news and part commentary. You might ask if this is good or bad and I would have to say, Yes, it is. Less than 40% of us depend only on off-line sources for news. More than 90% of us use multiple sources: Maybe some NPR while in the car, a newspaper at the office (or maybe you still have home delivery), perhaps some television (if you can call what the television spews "news"), and a variety of stops on the Internet. Ware Do U Get Yr Nwz?Ī report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says that most Americans get their news the way you're reading this: Via the Internet. And that's where this article will continue next week. It's the exported image, ready for use on a website. ![]() This image hasn't quite yet burst into flames, but it's smoldering. Related to the fire filter, Eye Candy 6 has a smoke filter. All new effects are applied to a copy of the original artwork on a new layer. After all, you might need the image later without the effect. Once you select an overall look, you can adjust the components to get exactly what you want.Īlien Skin is always careful not to modify your existing artwork. The flames in the second image aren't at hot and they're quite sooty. The flames in the top fire are hot at clean. With the exception of one image, you're seeing a screen capture of the work inside Photoshop.Įach of the filter types has a variety of presets that you can use to select the overall look. In other words, when the image is placed on a Web page or in a publication, the background of the page will be visible where you see a checkerboard here. In the illustrations below, the gray checkerboard area represents transparency. Text ManipulationsĮye Candy 6 offers two kinds of text manipulations, ones that work best when applied individually and those that can be stacked. ![]() But the real fun comes from manipulating photographic images. The earlier applications will all be updated over the next year or so the later applications already work on the newer hardware.Įye Candy 6 is a champion when it comes to text manipulation, which is what I'll show you first. All Alien Skin applications will run on a 64-bit computer, but some of the earlier applications will run properly only when they're running in a 32-bit implementation of Photoshop. When I say the application works natively in Windows 7 64-bit, I mean that you install the application, Photoshop sees it, and everything works as expected. Let me get the technical mumbo-jumbo out of the way first. I was even happier when I saw what it could do. To twist that marketing phrase just a bit: "With a name like Alien Skin, it's got to be great." I've been looking at Eye Candy 6 and I was happy to find out that it's one of the Alien Skin products that works natively in a 64-bit operating system. Remember "With a name like Smucker's, it's got to be good" as spoken by Mason Adams? If you do, you're older than you look, but then so am I. ![]()
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