Topics Covered:

• {play 3:32}Category5 Technology TV is coming to the Roku Channel Store on April 8, 2014. Buy your Roku device from cat5.tv/roku.
• {play 6:33}Feature: Touching up photographs with Photoshop and GNU Image Manipulation Program.
  • What Hillary's up to, helping an event coordinator put together a blog with enhanced photos which were taken with a variety of cameras.
  • What a graphic designer thinks when they're presented with an assortment of photos of varying quality.
  • Photoshop CS5 as compared to GIMP 2.8.
  • Fixing a photo that photo that was taken in a dark space with flash.
  • Destructive vs. non-destructive photo editing.
  • Using the Curves tool to enhance lighting and fix white balance on dark photographs.
  • Fixing the colors (reducing reds) using Photoshop's "Selective Color" tool or GIMP's Hue / Saturation tool.
  • Correcting color levels on a selective area (for example, removing red from a person's face).
  • Cropping a photograph.
  • Editing a JPG over and over will result in a very poor quality product. Keep in mind it is a lossy medium.
  • Using the Levels tool to improve the lightness and darkness of a photograph.
  • Creating a marquee using the Lasso tool.
  • Using Photoshop's Sponge tool to make eyes really stand out in a photo.
  • Removing wrinkles using the Clone tool.
  • Using GIMP's Healing tool to remove blemishes seamlessly.
  • One of the effects a wedding photographer does is a soft focus filter, which we could emulate using software and will evalutate on a later show.
• {play 46:31}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom
  • Won’t it be annoying when your car starts telling you to "calm down"?
  • Do you like the convenience of direct deposit pay cheques? What would happen if someone stole your banking information from your employer?
  • A hoax email has scared thousands of people into thinking they may have cancer.
  • A Netflix-like service for watching movies illegally shared via BitTorrent was to shut down, but now it looks like it cannot be stopped.
  • Despite the continued warnings about security threats following its pending end-of-life, nearly all bank ATM’s are still running Windows XP.
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