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Around The Horn
19 February 2019
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at chimney sweeps, watches, Chinatown, custom workspaces in Photoshop, Enhance Details continued, photos developed in space and graffiti.
- Pete Hawk captures The Disappearing Chimney Sweeps of Paris. The job is disappearing because "wood-burning fireplaces and stoves are losing their luster as science has caught up to their toxic consequences," Evelyn Nieves explains.
- Ming Thein is his own client in From the Workbench. This set of watch-making images was taken at the Schwarz-Etienne facility in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland.
- In Photographer Thomas Holton Has Spent 15 Years Documenting One Family Living in a Tiny Chinatown Apartment, Elizabeth Kim explores the work on one of three photographers exhibiting at the Museum of the City of New York on the same theme.
- In Creating a Custom Workspace in Photoshop CC, Julieanne Kost explains how to rearrange Photoshop's panels to fit the task at hand.
- In ACR 11.2 Enhance Details -- Effect on Details, Jim Kasson finds text rendering improved. But not sharper, suggesting the Enhanced Details should be named Fix Demosaicing Errors.
- Theresa Machemer details how Moon Photos From the 1960s Were Developed in Space. Kodak played a major role in creating the system that used spy cameras and NASA hardware.
- In Graffiti, Graffito, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, Greenberg and Reznicki suggest "avoiding using any graffiti in an image as to avoid any possibility of getting the photographer, ad agency or client involved in any potential or actual legal headache."
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