Reuters - Freddie Mac won approval
from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome
mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage
finance company may seek $10 billion.
Ford to retool U.S. plants for European cars: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Car maker Ford Motor Co is
drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small,
fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in
Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Reuters - The government is considering bringing
further criminal charges in the case involving two former Bear
Stearns executives indicted last month related to the collapse
of two hedge funds they oversaw, a federal prosecutor said on
Friday.
EU wants co-operation with SEC on rating agencies: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - The European Commission wants to
cooperate closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) on the planned regulation of credit rating
agencies, the German financial weekly Euro am Sonntag reported.
AFP - US President George W. Bush assured Americans Saturday that the battered US economy will "pull through" despite continuing housing woes and a spike in inflation.
DxO FilmPack is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and DxO Optics Pro. It is also available as a stand-alone application.
DxO FilmPack gives digital images the style of the most celebrated conventional films: the colors and the grain! of over 20 film types including Kodachrome, Tri-X, Velvia have been precisely calibrated in order to be applied to all your images with just one click.
DxO FilmPack digitally simulates the vibrant colors of Kodachrome 64, the soft grain of Tri-X, or the gentle fleshtones of Astia. DxO FilmPack also offers access to tonings, to transform any digital image into an elegant toned print with ochre, bluish, or verdigris tints...
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Features:
DxO FilmPack lets you apply the colorimetric characteristics and grain of a traditional silver-based film to any digital image, wherever it originates from.
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And it lets you experiment by combining the color rendering of one film with the grain of another!
Just like the image correction performed in DxO Optics Pro v4.1 on the basis of individual defect calibration for each body/lens combination, the color rendering profiles for each film have been obtained by calibration of each type of material. This analysis has made it possible to model the colorimetric response of each film.
Even using JPEG images, the fidelity of these “looks” is very good, but it’s even better working from Raw images: knowing the body used (information available in the EXIF header file), DxO FilmPack can calibrate the original image precisely.
A similar process was used to deal with grain: each type of grain is defined by deriving a “grain matrix” directly from the reference film, which is the applied to the digital images. So it’s a lot more than just simple, empirical modeling of the grain.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
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InfoWorld - It's been an educational week. We learned what happens when everyone tries try to activate their iPhones at the same time, what people will pay for free software, and what can go wrong when you tick off your IT folks.
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase in the number of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 units sold,
market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.
AP - With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape.