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Humanæ project, a look at flesh tones

A few weeks ago I made shout-out to the Humanæ Project (http://humanae.tumblr.com) on our podcast. In the artist Angelica Dass’ own words: “The project development is based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed
with the exact Pantone® tone extracted from a sample of 11×11 pixels of the portrayed’s face. The project’s objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones.”

I decided to dig into these images in ScopeBox… and was surprised by what I found.

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ScopeBox 3.0.2 Update

Today we released ScopeBox 3.0.2. In addition to support for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and the new retina Macbook Pro, we’ve rolled in some major performance increases and tweaks across the board. We’ve got many more exciting updates in the pipeline, so stay tuned!

If you’ve already got ScopeBox on your system, select “check for updates” under the ScopeBox menu. Or just download a fresh copy.

Features

  • Signed for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
  • Retina graphics
  • Substantial performance improvements
  • Log scaling in RGB and Luma histograms
  • Displays alerts in realtime, as they’re triggered
  • Adds Avid marker format for alerts
  • Grat text color can be set in preferences
  • Configurable peak hold
  • Miscellaneous fixes to save/recall of layouts
  • Relocates test pattern menu
  • Support for PAL RP188 on BlackMagic cards
  • Cleaner source deck controls

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ClipWrap 2.5.3 Update

We’ve just release ClipWrap 2.5.3. The full release notes are available below.

ClipWrap 2.5.3 only runs on Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8. We’ve made made this switch in order to support the Gatekeeper function within Mac OS X 10.8 (“Mountain Lion”). Without making this change, users on the newest release of Mac OS X would be unable to run ClipWrap with the default security policy.

In spite of this change, we still fully support our PowerPC and Mac OS X 10.5 users. The previous release of ClipWrap, 2.5.2, remains available for download from our trial page and support will be more than happy to assist with any questions.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

ClipWrap v2.5.3 is a maintenance release, primarily intended to provide support for Mac OS X 10.8 (“Mountain Lion”)

Changes:

  • Support for Mac OS X 10.8 (“Mountain Lion”)
  • Signed binary
  • ClipWrap now remembers the last five locations selected

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Media Assistant Job Posting

Divergent Media is hiring a media assistant to help out with various projects as we grow. We’re busy working on the day to day tasks of shipping great software and supporting our customers. We need your help to experiment with side projects we haven’t had the time to explore. You’ll help us create new web content, videos, tutorials, as well as picking up some slack in the more mundane day to day office tasks.

Check our post to see a job description.

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