How To Create Your Own Font
Although I personally have no use for this service (i.e. I have chicken scratch handwriting/little artistic skills) I know plenty of people who would really appreciate it. My roommate does graphic design and has been recently doing some freelance work creating invitations for NYC events/parties. She always complains about having to purchase fonts online (she already has a mac and some kind of font package) but from what I understand, the price tag on purchasing new fonts is quite hefty. She recently purchased a package of fonts for a little over $200. I don't know the details of what exactly come with this package but was appalled that she had to pay that much money - INSANE.
The create your own font (she found) particularly useful because she is also interested in studio art so she has the artistic capability to actually utilize something like this and have a final product that's aesthetically pleasing. Did I mention it's free??
Check it out here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/09/17/chris.pirillo.handwriting.fonts.cnn
to see a CNN Video
To access the site:
http://www.fontcapture.com
Photosketch: Internet Image Montage
This, on the other hand, is something that I think had very little value. Do I appreciate all the time, technology and effort that was put into this? Yes. I understand that it's based on a complex algorithm system and obviously was exceptionally difficult to create. Is it neat? I guess so but I just don't know what anyone would DO with it. Personally, I would not go out of my way to try out this service. I think the kind of computing that went into this, is probably utilitarian some way or another but I'm not quite sure how. Does anyone see any value in this? I know we often have this debate or not (the idea of practicality) and obviously not all things have to be for us to enjoy them but I feel like this has very little use or even entertainment. Opening up the floor for thoughts....
Gizmodo: (Gawker Tech) http://gizmodo.com/5374890/this-is-a-photoshop-and-it-blew-my-mind
YouTube demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW1Epl2LdFM
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Photsketch is particularly valuable for me--not for it's ability to composite pictures, but for it's ability to pick out the desired images from something like google images. If you do any type of google image search, you're going to get back some wacky hits--and for a computer to be able to filter those out is insane. It's a really advanced technology. For instance i'm using it an program I'm building to help people learn more as they read and pictures are an important component of that.
ReplyDeleteI had similar opinions about photosketch. It's not something I would go out of my way to use. But then again, create your own font is an application that seems far more pointless, and it's something that I would love to use.
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