January 14, 2009

Wednesday Illustrations: Presidencies to video games

• Infographics:
  • Good Magazine features The First 100 Days, chronicling the early terms of various US presidents.
  • The NYT shows what people spend, and on what, around the world. [Via]
• Maps:
  • Milky Way Transit Authority: Samuel Arbesman has mapped our galaxy in the style of a subway map. [Via]
  • Korean designers Zero Per Zero have created a beautiful heart-shaped map of the NYC subway system. They’ve likewise done Seoul as Yin-Yang, Tokyo, and more. [Via]
  • Also check out the NY subway map in ASCII! [Via]
• 2D gone 3D:
  • Disney gets deconstructed with the Cartoon Particles project.
  • Dotter Dotter features Lego-like 3D renderings of 2D video games like Donkey Kong & Excitebike. [Via]

What, exactly, does CS4 offer photographers & others?

• Scott Kelby writes, "We were kind of surprised, but again on my blog last week, people are still asking the same questions, ‘What’s in CS4? Should I upgrade? Is it worth the upgrade? etc.,’ so we went into the studio to put together a comprehensive discussion on all of CS4’s new features."  Check out the crew’s video discussions on the subject.
• Do you know about (and use) Bird’s-Eye View in Photoshop, or the Targeted Adjustment Tool in Camera Raw?  If not, give Derrick Story’s Five Adobe CS4 goodies for photographers a quick review.
• Anita Dennis has pulled together an excellent list of Bridge CS4 tutorials.