What I have been up to lately

Written on 03 Jun 2008, 5 comments, 2307 hits

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First of all, I’m sorry I haven’t updated anything on my blog, but I’ve been very busy with a lot of stuff.

So what have I done lately?

We launched a big project, a real estate website ( www.euroest.ro ),
We’re working on another interesting one ,
We moved to new headquarters,
I got a new iMac at work that replaced the slow but powerful Mac Mini.
I was busy as hell working on my graduation paper. I still am.

Update: Oh, and best of all, I was promoted as an associate at the agency where I work as a Creative Director

Photoshop CS4 news: GPU Acceleration

Written on 24 May 2008, 4 comments, 3379 hits

TGDaily reports that the next version of Adobe’s Photoshop application will take advantage of video card graphics processing units (GPUs) to provide a dramatic improvement in performance.

So, what can you do with general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) acceleration in Photoshop? We saw the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly. Another impressive feature was the import of a 3D model into Photoshop, adding text and paint on a 3D surface and having that surface directly rendered with the 3D models’ reflection map.

These features are expected to be introduced in Adobe’s next version of Creative Suite (CS4) which is expected in October of this year. GPU acceleration has been used in many aspects of Mac OS X’s Core Animation and Core Image.