Artist's Canadian Mosaic Project focuses on 35,000 portraits of a nation

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

When photographer Tim Van Horn packed his belongings, camera gear and two dogs into a trailer, he set off for an epic art project. Called the Canadian Mosaic Project, Van Horn was inspired by the Canadian Flag and decided to create both the largest tapestry and the biggest portrait of a nation.

Tim Van Horn was in Toronto recently to continue his mission towards 35,000 Canadian portraits for Canada's 150th birthday in 2017. This number represents a seemingly miniscule .1% of the population of Canada but it will be the most comprehensive portrait ever created on the Canadian people.

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Adobe shifts focus to HTML5, Javascript and CSS as viable substitutes for Flash

Adobe Fellow Mark Anders:"Flash is still critical for making games for the web as well as high quality video."Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Toronto: A day after Adobe announced its updated Creative Suite 6 (CS6) and its new Creative Cloud initiave in San Francisco, some of Adobe's key fellows were in Toronto for FITC  (Future. Innovation. Technology. Creativity) 2012 to discuss the new features and business direction that Adobe is taking with its new products. 

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta now available for download

Adobe just announced Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta, a preview of what’s to come in the next release of the industry standard in digital imaging, is available as a free download from Adobe Labs.

“Photoshop CS6 will be a milestone release that pushes the boundaries of imaging innovation with incredible speed and performance,” Winston Hendrickson, vice president products in the Creative Media Solutions group at Adobe, said in a statement. “We couldn’t wait to share this beta of Photoshop CS6 with our customers and are looking forward to hearing from them and seeing the ways they are incorporating the beta into their daily creative workflows.”

Photoshop CS6 beta improves on the application's Content-Aware tools: adding the Content-Aware Patch allows greater control by letting users select and duplicate an area of an image to fill in or “patch” another, and Content-Aware Move lets users select and magically move an object to a new place in the image, Adobe said.

Customers can download the beta, try out the experience and provide feedback to the product team. Packed with groundbreaking new innovations, features and incredible performance enhancements, Photoshop CS6 beta is available for the Mac OS and Microsoft® Windows platforms. The final release is expected in the first half of 2012. The beta can be downloaded here.

Adobe Acquires Auditude to Capitalize on Exploding Video Advertising Opportunity

Adobe today announced that it has acquired privately held Auditude Inc., a leader in video ad management and monetization technologies for premium publishers and media companies. Through the acquisition of Auditude, Adobe® is now uniquely positioned to provide an end-to-end video offering, seamlessly connecting authoring, publishing, monetization and optimization with the goal of helping customers build long-term businesses through the delivery of quality video content and superior viewing experience across all IP-enabled devices.

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