A Trip to Saturn
Posted by on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 in
Not too many months ago, we were watching the news based around Mars and here we are even deeper into space. CNN says that Saturn is about 930 million miles away from Earth (depending on the time of year) so if the Cassini has spent the last seven years traveling the 2.2 billion miles to reach …
Posted by on Monday, June 28, 2004
3D Photos using Photoshop
Posted by on Saturday, June 26, 2004 in
A bit of some Photoshop fun and lots of trial and error attempts tonight to produce a 3D image using the generic red and blue lens glasses. The idea started with a tutorial by Al Ward posted this • week on Photoshop User. Unfortunately I couldn't get his instructions to work that great but I … read more »
Web Standards Solutions
Posted by on Thursday, June 24, 2004 in
I have a number of Photoshop books but very few that deals with markup and web technologies. As a nice alternative, I got a chance to read Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions this week. Dan's website is SimpleBits, a well known site with regular post about xhtml, css and the standards of web …
Web Standards Protest Day
Posted by on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 in
This was one of those long articles I bookmarked from my RSS reader to read later and then the time slipped away. Yesterday on DeltaTangoBravo, Daniel linked to this same article I probably would have forgotten about. • Although protesting may not be the answer, the points brought up in this …
JPG vs RAW vs TIFF
Posted by on Monday, June 21, 2004 in
Every digital camera that I know of saves images as .JPG files but some (usually the larger more expensive) models also support uncompressed file formats like RAW or TIF. Are they really that much better then a JPG saved at a large resolution with a good compression ratio? • World traveler Ken …
Advanced Color Correction with Levels
Posted by on Friday, June 18, 2004 in
The more I use levels on a daily basis, the more powerful levels and curves become. A simple adjustment layer can be a quick and painless method to restore color the way it was intended. • I recently wrote my own steps for using the levels command and although this is similar, it offers new …
Chinese Fortune Calendar
Posted by on Sunday, June 13, 2004 in
From a local restaurant: • "The Chinese Zodiac consists of a 12 year cycle, each year of which is named after a different animal that imparts distinct characteristics to its year. Many Chinese believe that the year of the person's birth is the primary factor in determining that person's …
frisbee golf tournament #2
Posted by on Tuesday, June 8, 2004
The Disc Golf Tournament supporting Habitat for Humanity will be back again this year on Saturday, July 10, 2004 at Strathgartney Provincial Park. • Last year was great, don't be miss out on it this year and get your free disc supplied by DGA.