Category Archives: Software

Software for the graphic arts or photography

Accidental art with my camera

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Brian Lawler

I take a lot of photos. Most of them are carefully exposed, carefully focused, and most of them are acceptable and sharp and useful images. Once in a while I take a photo under extreme circumstances, and it doesn’t come … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software | Tagged | 1 Comment

The Bishop Peak Portrait Project ecosystem

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Brian Lawler

Over the past eight months I have been documenting my year-long “portrait” project of Bishop Peak, the 1,559 foot mountain in San Luis Obispo. That project, which began in December, 2015, is well on its way, and will soon be … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Why shoot one photo when nine will be better?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Brian Lawler

I started shooting panoramic photos way back in the 1970s. I used a rented film camera called a Hulcherama. That was quite an impressive camera. It shot on 220 film, which rolled through the camera as the camera turned. It had … Continue reading →

Posted in Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

My timely obsession with real-time clocks

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Brian Lawler

As a part of my Bishop Peak Portrait Project, I have built a couple of “printed” circuit boards. I made these on my CNC router, which I used to cut away the copper on a blank circuit board, leaving behind … Continue reading →

Posted in New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

This is turning out better than I had imagined!

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Brian Lawler

If you have been reading this blog for the last month you know that I am currently obsessed with a mountain in San Luis Obispo named Bishop Peak. I am so obsessed that I am taking 71,808 photos of it … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

An adventure in the Distiller Time Machine

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Brian Lawler

Way back in 2003 I wrote an essay for inclusion in an article in Pre magazine about using Adobe Acrobat Distiller with hot folders to get PDFs with specific settings just by dropping a source file into a watched folder … Continue reading →

Posted in Imposition and Pagination, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Calibrating the iPhone with i1 Display Pro

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I see iPhones being used for all sorts of “professional” applications including video capture, and now that the phone sports a 12Mp camera, graphic arts quality photography. No excuses professional photography. Several years ago I was made aware of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Digital video, Gadgets, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

My mission to Mars, continued

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Brian Lawler

In a blog I posted last year, I described how I developed a series of AppleScripts to control Adobe Photoshop to crop, then increase the canvas size, then draw crop marks on a series of image parts to make a … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Education, Imposition and Pagination, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

My brief visit to Mars

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I spent a couple of weeks on Mars earlier this year, on assignment to take some photos. There was no oxygen, so I had to hold my breath for two weeks. I did not run into Matt Damon. The work … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Color Management, History, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

ePubs – under the hood

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I’ve been making ePubs for several years, and I have taught courses on ePubs at GraphExpo and at Cal Poly, where I am employed as a professor. For the first few years I was very grumpy about ePubs, as they … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments