There is drifting culture in Korea. Some Korean (maybe rich people) imported Japanese S15 Silvia and enjoy drifting at the closed race track in Korea. There is Korean Option magazine in Korean. I don't know Japanese Option Magazine help Korean Option magazine or not. D1 or Formula D will go to Korea for future? Drifting is very famous in the world now. I am thinking Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazda or Hyundai will sell under $20,000 USD FR sport car in the world (Japan, US, China, Korea, Euro, etc) and someone will organize drift world grand prix is very interesting. But may be difficulty because of bad world economic (sigh). I am not sure how do Japanese car companies think about new Hyundai Genesis with starting price is $22,000 USD. Toyota's new Hachiroku (FT-86) will be $22,000 USD? Can you ignore Korean low price FR car, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Suzuki?
Ford Is First To Enable Itunes Tagging
Though you're going to need a Ford (duh) that's equipped with a factory-installed HD radio (uh, duh) to do this, you can be proud to say that you'll be among the first in the world to be able to tag music that you hear on the radio through the SYNC system by pressing 'tag' (duh x 3), which then stores in your radio's memory. Sync your iPod with your SYNC playlist and you'll be given the option to purchase those songs directly from iTunes. It'll save you the trouble of being forgetful or having to find a piece of scratch paper just to write down information on those songs you've been looking for or grooving to in traffic.
Just The Tip
(Photo Tip That Is)
Sean Klingelhoefer
Photoshop
Basics
- Three adjustments that will instantly improve your images.
Curves - Curves is an adjustment in Photoshop that you can't live without. I use it at least twice on every image I shoot for this magazine. While it may seem confusing at first, you should be able to get the hang of it quickly. On RGB mode (native color mode for a computer monitor) Photoshop will present RGB all on one histogram to be adjusted. When you add an anchor point and move it down on the histogram that area will become darker and more heavily-saturated, thus moving it up will make it lighter and less saturated. When adjusting curves in RGB mode you must remember you are affecting the colors along with the brightness - practice makes perfect.
Levels - Levels is an adjustment that deals only with luminosity or the brightness of the image. There are three sliders displayed over a histogram. The slider on the left is your black clipping point and the right slider is your white clipping point. Moving these sliders adjusts what portions of the image will fade into total black or total white. The slider in the middle will likely be the one you will begin using as it adjusts central portion of the histogram. Image too dark - slide the middle slider left. Too bright - slide it right.
Shadows And Highlights - Shadows and highlights adjust exactly what they suggest they would adjust. You can quickly bring back blown-out highlights or bump up darker shadow areas - just don't over-do it or the image will quickly look fake. You'll also want to be careful not to bring the shadow areas up too much or you might be left with a lot of noise in the shadows.