In 2005 (when the concepts of online publishing and
non-political blogs were still new), Wayne Cosshall created the Digital ImageMaker International (DIMI) website.
The content was geared toward creative hobbyists and professionals who had
mastered image-editing tools and had begun to experiment with all that was possible
with digital imaging and printmaking. They
were hungry for ideas, education, and inspiration. The site includes news,
product reviews, and articles for photographers, artists, designers, and
others.
Wayne’s goal in producing Digital ImageMaker International
was to provide timely, deep and meaningful articles that covered the whole
gamut of digital imagemaking practice for hobbyists and professionals. Recognizing
that art, photography and graphics were converging, Wayne started writing about
photography, web and graphic design, digital art, illustration, video
production, editing and special effects, computational art and photography, and
3D graphics and animation (both 2D and 3D).
In addition to reporting on imaging trends and technology, Wayne
has also explored new concepts in independent publishing of longer-form content.
His self-published book “Photography
Wisdom” in available in five different forms:
- A print book from Amazon
- An ebook for Kindle from Amazon
- An ebook for Kindle and other ebook readers
- An ebook from Apple
- A video-enhanced version of the ebook as an app for the iPad
MagCloud can produce saddle-stitched or perfect-bound
magazines from the pages you upload as print-ready PDFs. To lay out your pages, you can use Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, Microsoft Word or Publisher, Apple,
or any other software that can output a suitable PDF.
Wayne describes his experiences with the MagCloud service in
a post on the HP Pro Photography blog. He writes that “Before I started on my own project, I bought a couple of
other photography publications from MagCloud so I could examine the image
quality and the paper. Happy with this, I moved forward.”
After previewing and approving a sample copy of the first
issue, Wayne released Digital ImageMaker magazine for sale on the MagCloud
website.
The 60-page issue of Digital ImageMaker includes five long, lavishly
illustrated articles. The contents include:
- an article about computational artist Don Relyea, whose Generative Flowers II exhibt was displayed on two 50 x 30 ft. HD outdoor screens in Victory Plaza in Dallas.
- an interview with wedding/portrait photographer Nadia Salameh
- a profile of photographer/psychotherapist David J. Bookbinder who produces mandalas from images of flowers.
- an interview with Austalian artist Jane Davenport who works on a mix of photography, drawing, and painting projects and creates products ranging from books to clothing.
- an interview with mixed-media printmaker Bonny Lhotka, whose ground-breaking work in inkjet image-transfer printing is included in the Digital Darkroom exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
- a profile of the Digital Art Guild, which is dedicated to advancing the concept of digital fine art while promoting public knowledge.
It was notably refreshing to read a magazine in which the articles weren’t interrupted by the clutter of ads needed to make print magazines financially viable.
Personally, I have always loved magazines.But Wayne’s
self-published version made me look at the format in a fresh new way.
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