Bert Monroy, one of pioneers of digital art who created many software products such as Photoshop, ImageStudio and PixelPaint, introduces another break through in computer graphics, Adobe Photoshop’s “Photorealism”.

From word itself you can define photorealism as something that is realized in photos. Imagine yourself in Atlantis, draw scene and make it look like a picture. Think it’s impossible? It can be made possible through Photorealism.

Photorealism is not a new term. It came from a movement which began in late 1960’s. The movement specializes in painting scenes or objects in a style closely resembling a photograph. The true subject of a photorealistic work is not image but interpretation of observer on image. Richard Estes, who does street scenes and Chuck Close, who is known for his enormous portraits of neutral faces are examples of leading members of photorealist movement. Another method in photorealism is oil painting. Unlike Monroy’s photorealism, it is done manually. From name of a movement, word photorealism now became a computer term.

In article A Funny Thing Happened on Way to Paperless Office - Industry Trend or Event OfficeSolutions by Carrie Rivera posted on October 2000, author said that combining small desktop scanners with high speed network scanners, your office has potential to become paperless, allowing you to pull documents up at snap of your fingers as well as electronically archive records.

An article in http://www.offshore-manual.com entitled Paperless Office caught my attention. It writes, “Now, however, we firmly believe we have reached a point where "virtually" paperless office can become reality, even for those who don't believe they have computer skills. Having put these techniques into action myself we have experienced a new-found freedom.”