Pixia Tutorials

http://www.lanceradvanced.com/Furry/Art.html#anchor669191

http://www.reality9.com/main.html

http://people.freenet.de/DreamAddiction/tutorial.html

http://www.worldforge.org/project/newsletters/October2001/Coloring

http://www.rebekahlynn.com/southwind/free/tutorial/hair_tutorial.htm

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/index.html

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/realism/ursularealism.html

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsjam.pekori.to%
2Fpixia%2F&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2&wb_co=excitejapan

http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/tutorials/

http://www.figma.com/howto/

http://www.sdls.gr.jp/~min/english/pixia/tutorial/index.html

http://thebrycechronicles.com/linkstutorial.html

http://www.geocities.com/marielyshol/tutorial/tutorial1.htm

http://www.metalandmagic.com/

http://www.nethersphere.com/tips.html

http://harusame.net/ooekaki/tutorials/paintbbs01.html

http://www.pixeljunction.com/

http://www.polykarbon.com/

http://pretty.rydia.net/markers/

http://mintkiss.net/rhul/tutorial/index.php

http://mintkiss.net/rhul/tutorial/index.php

http://www.spoono.com/


http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_digitalcolor.php

http://artcorner.org/tutorials/lessons/

http://www.rebekahlynn.com/southwind/free/tutorial/tools.htm

http://www.geocities.com/marcalix_ca/ -The best for just Pixia users-

http://www.distributedintellect.com/tutorials.asp?

http://aimee.wyvernweb.com/anim/tutorial.html

http://www.neondragonart.com/dp/

http://fern.junglestudio.com/how.html

http://www.leoarts.irk.ru/tutorials.htm

http://featherdust.critter.net/tutorials/

http://www.art-of-africa.co.za/painting-demonstrations.html

http://www.renderosity.com/tutorial.ez?Form.sess_id=3190135&Form.sess_
key=994650371

http://aimee.wyvernweb.com/lhowtodraw.html

Anit-Apartheid Nelson Mandela Launches Series of Comic Books

"By telling Mandela's story with colorful pictures, the foundation hopes to help overcome the illiteracy that persists more than a decade after apartheid's end. A million copies will be distributed free at schools and in newspapers."

source:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=515&e=12&u=/ap/20051028/ap_on_re_af/south_africa_mandela

CALEA , Internet Back doors, Journalism Ethics- EFF.org

-FCC recent mandate for "backdoors" is fueled by recent Appeals Court petition by Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Seeking expansion of information access to broadband ISPs and VoIP providers, CALEA is forcing the creation of insecure backdoors into networks for easier crime tracing and thereby violating innocent party privacies.

CALEA Goes to College:
Schools are balking against the costs of wire-tapping their
students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23college.html


Committee to Protect Bloggers posts graphical link for Free Omid

src="http://www.phenaproxima.net/omid.gif" alt="Protect Freedom of
Speech - protect Omid Sheikhan" width="150" height="200" border="0"
/>
Sign the petition to keep Iranian blogger Omid Sheikhan out of
prison

"The Web is humming with discussions on politics and current affairs. memeorandum is page A1 for these conversations. Auto-updated every 5 minutes, it uncovers the most relevant items from thousands of news sites and weblogs." visit memorandum

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has released the Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents which includes a chapter on choosing a censorship circumvention/anonymity solution that works for your specific needs.

Demonic Eyes: Malicious "Photoshopping" or graphic alteration of Condi Rice at USA Today News

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003780.htm Malkin's

Malkin's blog shows the "before and after photo files" of Rice, and Graphic Design bloggers step-in to assure us that "this graphics job" at Gannett's USA Today was "intentional". Be sure to read the details and realize whether using Photoshop, Fireworks, or Pixia, the graphics functions are all pretty much the same. Here the graphics software functionality in question is the "sharpen" feature and the intentional misuse of contrast and brightening.

My directing experience in the Graphics, Web, and Marketing Department at a leading New York Gannett newspaper which published USA Today (Gannett owns USA Today) allows me to ask- where were the publishers, supervisors and editors?- all content for online and print should be reviewed before publication.

Review and editing, and reviewing again was a crucial part of my job: overseeing the work of the graphics and web producers before the news went live and making decisions on the company's content liability were foremost in my mind.

Apparently USA Today, like other companies can't "keep an eye on everything", and perhaps the simple "real" pressure of a news production envrionment let this one web graphic slip by - or not?

Once again the old "print news" industry realizes their own tender liabilities to and importance of accuracy in online publishing- (ouch!)



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Digitising Books

10/26/05- the vampire file was corrupt so I am re-uploading it to my server- please be patient- I'm stuck with dialup out here :)

in the news:Microsoft joins Yahoo in a project to digitise the world's books and other works, making them accessible online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/4377984.stm