22nd
July
2005
“When designer Jason Santa Maria put his portfolio online he wasn’t expecting to get a Cease and Desist letter from a former employer citing clauses from his contract and demanding that he remove any references to them, including all images, from his site. Jason had fallen foul of his old Work for Hire contract which transferred ownership of all rights in his designs to the company he worked for. It meant that the only legal way he could use his designs in his portfolio was to obtain express permission from the rights owner, his former employer, or challenge the restriction in court.”
posted in Business of design | Permalink |
22nd
July
2005
A list of things that can’t be photographed/designed as stock photography: “The DNA List (That’s Do Not Accept) is the place to contribute your knowledge of copyright issues. Know of a trademarked building or product? Post it here, and help everyone stay current. Our experts will make sure everything is correct.”
posted in Copyright/TM | Permalink |
22nd
July
2005
“Photoshop Plug-in That Automatically Corrects Skin Color: If you are a fashion, portrait, or wedding photographer, you know first-hand how difficult it is to correct skin color. You tweak, adjust, and experiment with Curves, but the slightest alteration can cause an unwanted color shift.”
posted in Photography | Permalink |
22nd
July
2005
“One ‘Gasoline Alley’ Sunday page from 1930 offers a typically bittersweet moment. As father and son take a walk in the fall, Skeezix asks Uncle Walt why the leaves change color. (King was the first cartoonist to forgo the convention of comic strip time and let his characters age.) The answers that Walt provides are less important than the tone and texture of the scene, a leisurely communion between parent and child marked by an undercurrent of sadness, the feeling that even when the idealized world of comics brings fathers and sons together, they will not be together forever.”
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