Photoshop Like a Model
You don’t have to be a professional photographer to get magazine-cover photos of yourself. Let’s face it, most people would like to look a little slimmer; to hide blemishes; and to clear up skin blemishes. There are social and psychological self-image implications to this type of photo editing. Never mind the message that it sends to our youth. This is not a political/social/religious website. This is a technical website....
Run Windows Programs on a Mac This Weekend
Are you a recent convert from Windows to Mac, but your transition has been thwarted by one or two stubborn applications that only work on your Windows operating system? In this Weekend Series article, you are going to set up your Mac to not only run those stubborn programs, but to make them easy to use. Author’s Note: For this tutorial, consider the following scenario: A few years ago, Adobe announced that they would no longer...
Taking your MacBook Air on Vacation
Previously, in the iPad Series, we talked about Taking Your iPad on Vacation. If you’d rather take your MacBook Air, it doesn’t take up significantly more space, but provides considerably more functionality. There are some activities that are more suited to a laptop, and some that are easier on the iPad. Work If you want to get a little work done, the most important thing to do is to make sure that you’re getting...
Taking Your iPad on Vacation
This week in the iPad Series, we’ll be talking about apps (and accessories) that you can use with your iPad on vacation. We will consider some of the basic activities that you might expect to have a laptop or other device to do, and we’ll cover why you can get away with just an iPad, a good camera, and possibly your mobile phone. While your iPad can’t take the place of a laptop under normal circumstances, it can get...
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iPad Photos & Video [iPad Series #8]
The iPad is a media device and we’d be remiss if we didn’t consider its possibilities as a photo and video storage, editing, and display device. This week in the iPad Series, we’ll be looking at photos and video. As part of the iOS 7 iPad update, this article has been updated, but the screenshots might not be up-to-date. Photos Your iPad is a pretty big camera to lug around and chances are that most of your photos...
Event Cootie Catchers
I’m about to host my daughter’s high school graduation party and put together a little something fun from some pictures I saw online on Etsy and Pinterest. This is probably something more for girls than guys – Cootie Catchers! (Also known as Fortunetellers, but isn’t more fun to say Cootie Catcher?) Back in elementary school, the girls would sit around and make cootie catchers to play with in class. They would...
Resize a Batch of Photos in Photoshop
Sometimes you have a large number of photos that you want to resize. This can be particularly important when taking large digital photos (like a 12MP camera) and placing them on the web. For my particular use, I wanted to size some photos to fit a particular width in a webpage I’m developing. Note: these specific instructions apply to Photoshop CS4, but do translate well to other versions. How to Resize a Batch of Photos in...
Desktop Icons
A friend asked me to dig up and post some info on creating interesting and personalized icons for a desktop. Free Icons First, I would recommend that you look at some cool, free icons that are already made: www.brushesdownload.com/icons.asp – Note, after you select a group of icons you like, it will take you to the next page. You will need to click on the “Download Free” link at the BOTTOM of the page. Icon Tutorials...
4-9-2010 Meeting
We didn’t actually meet this week, but I was working on a few things and Daryl helped me with an Animated GIF in Photoshop. Check out the [cref photoshop-animated-gif-tutorial] Post for that information. It’s got a silly animation embedded in the page. I’ve done a lot of Blog stuff. Check out those pages: [cref blogging] [cref blog-basics-tutorial] [cref blog-install-wordpress-tutorial] [cref blog-plugins-tutorial ]...
Photoshop Animated GIF Tutorial
This tutorial will show how to take multiple images of pretty much any format and make them into an animated .gif file by using Photoshop. Tutorial Create the images We’re going to start this tutorial with a simple traffic signal. Create a new Photoshop document with the following settings: Width: 300px, Height: 900px, Res: 72px/in, Color Mode: RGB 8-bit, Background: Black Use the Ellipse tool while holding down the Shift key to...
Application Icons
How does Windows even use the icons you create? www.hhhh.org/cloister/csharp/icons/ I found some icons on the [Brushes Download] webpage. I decided to do a little reverse engineering to try to figure out how to make all the icons. I have previously installed a plugin that lets me open and save in the Icon format (.ico). Go to my [cref favicon-tutorial] Post for more info on that. So I opened the .ico file in Photoshop. The following...
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