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Aug 4 2010

Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

EZ Cam iPhone disconnected 318x477 Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

EZ Cam is a sneaky little app for the iPhone and iPad1 … and when I say “for the iPhone and iPad,” I mean it because you’ll need both.

MobAc Design came up with this $2.99 US app (EZ Cam Lite also available) that brings Remote Camera Sharing to the iDevices. You simply launch the app and make a wireless connection between any two devices using Bluetooth, WiFi, or 3G. From there, both devices can see a camera’s-eye-view in real time. Once your target is in sight, snap a picture using the controls on the iPad and the photo is taken on the iPhone and instantly transferred to the iPad for viewing.

EZ Cam iPad Stanford quad disconnected Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

Imagine, since this is a Bluetooth, WiFi or 3G connection being made between the devices, you can be in a totally different place than the iPhone, lying in wait with your iPad and be in full control of the camera… which is going to come in handy when you need to take that quick picture of the guy who finds your iPhone laying around all by itself and takes it for himself.

I wonder if Gary Powell was testing EZ Cam when he left that prototype iPhone 4 unattended.

  1. or iPod touch [↩]

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Apr 27 2009

Photoshop Quick Tip 8– On-target Cloning

Photoshop’s Clone tool works on a two part process. First you tell Photoshop what area you are going to use as source material for cloning. Then, when you are actually cloning, you tell Photoshop, by painting, where you want that source material cloned.

To get "down to the pixel" accuracy when cloning one area to another, choose the Clone Tool (S) and hold down the Option key. This will turn your cursor into crosshairs and afford you greater accuracy in pinpointing the exact pixel from which you would like begin cloning. Click with the Clone Tool’s crosshair cursor to specify your source point. Once you have done that, release the Option key.

Now you will notice that, when you released the Option key, you went from pinpoint accuracy to the vague area within the perimeter of chosen brush; your cursor changed into an outline of the brush you currently have selected for the Clone Tool. Not very useful for accuracy!

To fix this, we can do one of several things:

  1. Go to the Preferences (Command-K) and choose Display & Cursors from the top pulldown menu (or hit Command-3). From here you can choose "Precise" which will make all cursors that had formerly been displayed as the outline of the currently selected brush change to a crosshair by default.
  2. Adobe Photoshop CS2, you can go to the Preferences (Command-K) and choose Display & Cursors from the top pulldown menu (or hit Command-3) and leave the cursor as the brush outline, but add to that by checking the box beside Show Crosshair in Brush Tip. The best of both worlds in one cursor.
  3. To give yourself a crosshair cursor only when you need it, activate the Caps Lock key on your keyboard and deactivate it when you no longer need the crosshair.
  4. Finally, you can simply keep the Option key held down while you target where you want to lay down the cloned information and release the Option key only when the cursor is directly over that desired spot. This is the way I have accurately cloned imagery for years. The trick is to keep the mouse still between releasing the Option key and pushing down the mouse button to start Clone Stamping.

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Jun 16 2008

Switchboard controls Adobe CS apps via AIR

I’m still trying to fully grasp what this is about, but Adobe has announced SwitchBoard which they bill as a new technology for controling and automating the Creative Suite family of products using Adobe AIR. Switchboard and its SDK are available now from the Adobe Labs.

Dr. Woohoo explains,

With SwitchBoard (SB), the AIR applications we create can now establish two-way communication with applications within Adobe’s Creative Suite like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I simply can not stress enough how significant this release is: if you are like me, prior to this release you had to hack and hack away in order to get your AIR applications to communicate (in)directly with the target Adobe Creative Suite application of your choice… but now…it’s as easy as writing an ExtendScript to communicate with Photoshop, Illustrator and/or InDesign assuming you’re comfortable using Flex Builder or the FB SDK.

Personally, writing scripts and code scares the bajeezus out of me, but if that appeals to you, SwitchBoard might also.

More from the press release:

SwitchBoard brings together the power of the automation in the Creative Suite applications with the potential for third parties to extend the creative process with new applications produced using AIR. The result is an extensible, powerful, cross-platform environment that can quickly adapt to today’s rapidly changing creative workflows.

Again, SwitchBoard is available now in the Adobe Labs.

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