Built for speed: new accelerator boards, already available for Photoshop, promise to add zip to your pokiest applications

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A variety of specialized graphics accelerator boards are available for Apple Macintosh and Quadra microcomputers that speed the execution of Adobe Photoshop image processing operations. The Photoshop software package has become the standard for color image processing, but many of its frequently used functions can tie up a computer for minutes or even hours. This is irritating at the minimum and totally unacceptable for computer artists and commercial graphics production environments. Photoshop's plug-in architecture, though, allows the combination of application-specific graphics accelerator boards with plug-in software filter modules to speed up the numerical processing by 5 to 20 times over the host processor. In the new version 2.5 of Photoshop nearly every function can be accelerated. A few features of several of the Photoshop accelerator boards are briefly described. Acceleration modules are emerging for other graphics applications.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Equipment and supplies, ADBE, Image processing software, Display adapters, Compatibility (Computers), Compatible Hardware, Graphics Accelerator/Display Board, Software packages, Adobe Photoshop 2.5 (Image processing software)

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Jump shots: designers at Thrasher magazine capture the moves of today's hottest skateboarders in realistic photomontages created with Adobe Photoshop

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Graphic designers at Thrasher skateboard magazine are using Adobe Photoshop to show readers details on how skateboarding tricks are accomplished. Skateboarding stunts have become much more sophisticated and highly dependent on dexterity and the limits of physics. To show the complex actions Managing Editor Brad Dosland and Photo Editor Bryce Kanights are creating montages of six or more stock-action photographs that capture each move of the stunt. Photoshop speeds and simplifies the assembly of the montage by overlapping and blending the background of the scanned photographs. The whole process takes less than an hour on an accelerated Macintosh IIfx computer. Details of the process are described.

Periodicals, Publishing industry, Methods, Usage, Case studies, Product development, Design, Graphic arts, Magazine design, Case Study, Magazines, Adobe Photoshop (Image processing software), Thrasher Magazine (Periodical)

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