Picnik, the official online image editing software for Flickr (and others), has just added support for Pixel Bender, Adobe’s pixel shader-like platform. Users can not only use Pixel Bender files they have created or found online (say, from Adobe’s Pixel Bender Exchange), but also use an assortment of readily available filters inside Picnik. There’s a […]
Continue reading →GPU compositing and surfacing. New drawing API. New text API. Simple 3d for accurate plane rotation. Custom effects with Hydra and AIF (now called Pixel Bender). New File Reference for local file reading. Support for larger bitmaps. New context menu goodies. Something for dynamic sound generation. Yes, Astro is now in public beta. Demos here. […]
Continue reading →Adobe has just released an alpha version of AIR for Linux. It’s not feature complete but now that the framework structure is there, I guess we’ll see it reach stable status in no time. An SDK is also available. You know what’s funny? There’s a project I’m building that I’ll want to make available as […]
Continue reading →I had seen this before, but have to admit I ignored it at first (I had the impression it was just some random Adobe conference, based on the name): the Adobe, Make Some Noise initiative is a “campaign for enhancing Flash Audio”. Led by André Michelle, Joa Ebert and Kai-Philipp Schöllmann, they aim to convince […]
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