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IN THIS ISSUE Publisher’s Notes by Dan Brill Please…step into my lab. Let me show you our latest experiments with live pages—perhaps you’ll want to take a part. Night of the Living Page by Gene Gable The future of page layout will take more than just design skills—metadata, multipurposing and pre-design will become necessities. But don’t be afraid—new tools and technologies to guide designers are on the way. Sounds like Motion by Bob Kim The art of live performances takes on a new dimension when visual effects feed the sound. Leading the way is Canada’s Derivative with its development of Touch—software that lets artists draw music in moving graphic form. So you want to be a professional digital photographer? by Bob Connolly Get out your digital camera, team up with models online, rent a studio, master a few Photoshop plug-ins, make an interactive PDF portfolio—and presto! You’re in business. Taking Stock by Mike Grandmaison Success as a stock photographer is more than just shooting good images. A well-known Canadian photographer covers the finer points of standing out in a crowd. Laying out the Groundwork by Dan Brill and Lidka Schuch The migration from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign is happening now. Switching may sound traumatic, but the payoff is faster workflows, smoother color management, and fewer incompatibilities. Gallery Three sumptuous images to tickle the visual palette—a remarkable royal wedding image by Hans Nyberg (in QTVR), the whimsy of Karie Leboe’s self-portrait, and the full glory of a Canadian autumn, courtesy Winnipeg’s Mike Grandmaison. Digital Photography Report by Ron Giddings Photokina: New digital "beasts" separate the hunters from the gatherers Prepress Report by Lerrick Starr TGLC PerfX color software applies artificial intelligence to generate ICC profiles Macworld Boston Report by Bob Connolly Macworld without Macs? The Shadow Knows From urinals that talk to mousing by nose Online Music Report by Diane Erlich No iTunes in Canada? Think again... Resources A selection of favorite links to events, contests, offbeat shopping, and just plain WeirdShit Special Feature: Real-time depth-mapping may provide the "key" to 3D HDTV Live action and computer generated imagery merge in real time through Axi-Vision HDTV camera technology.