Lightroom3 beta
from this as was photographed:

to this with a little filter selenium tone

Just a filter, but looks good I think. Need to check out more tuts. More later
Add comment February 5th, 2010
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Well today I went to see this film, expectations high, although I must admit I still haven’t watched Titanic, so disregard any director faith input.
Friends love the film. Amazing.. Fantastic etc.
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I did enjoy the 3d aspect, very nice, particularly the cognac ad that preceded the feature.
And all is going well into the first half hour, Character introductions, building the premise, allowing the mind to soar with wild and unimaginable expectations..
But what the hell.
The Matrix meets Dances with wolves, chuck in a little Brave heart spirit and we are done.
There are no twists, or unexpected eventualities, the plot proceeded into the full hour disregarding any humour that engaged you initially, You like a child, a baby… ‘I paraphrase’, but for FFS, Gaia, James Lovelock eat out your neural connections and root your arse to the ground and shimmy.
The idea was delightful, too many explosions for my taste, and the moral implications apparent and obvious.
I did, squinting eyes exit the cinematic arena feeling slightly sad that I could not live among the trees and connectivity of their planet, and couldn’t help but bring a smile to my face for the inhabitants of Pandora.
Add comment January 31st, 2010
Photoshop tutorial
Light Burst.

The tutorial can be found here: photoshop essentials
Not too bad for a first attempt, and very nice to follow instructions.. Cheers
Note to self: Align text in photoshop: Control plus a then v…
Some more text tuts you might want to try.
Add comment January 26th, 2010
Photoshop tutorials
Hay, so I’m doing another tutorial, but this time I’m going to post my progress rather than hide it away on the old hard drive:

So the night has drawn to an end, brew followed swiftly by bed.. Maybe I’ll get around to finishing this one.
20-plus more stages to go, I’ve done the easy bit. See ya soon.
Full tutorial here: PSDTUTS
1 comment January 14th, 2010
Bokeh
The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means “blur” or “haze”,
and anyway I haven’t been in town for a while and this beast needs updating.
So without further ado:

You know what, I think it was in Veerle’s blog, but I can’t find it,
And in a basic attempt to upgrade my photoshop and illustrator skills I am doing the odd tutorial.
In photography the concept is easier, in that your prime subject is in sharp focus, while the background dissolves into a “haze.”

Like I said, just a quicky.. See ya soon..
Add comment January 13th, 2010
Geminids:the year 2009
Geminid meteor shower 09
Excellent pic by Wally Pacholka at http://www.astropics.com/
Add comment December 16th, 2009
Video conversion to meta injection
Hidden complexities
So on and off over the last couple of days, I have been over at the flowplayer forum, getting help and information from a couple of the members there as to why my particular video wasn’t working properly.
To begin I started with windows movie maker just for a bit of fun and to check out the quality of the software, ending up with a really dodgy 36 second film.
So as you can see I added a couple of effects a transition or two and threw in a tune, Now at this point I wanted to add my video, or at least gain the ability to put this video into a web page.
And not just put it there to run in a continuous loop, but have a player to play pause rewind etc.
Enter Flowplayer:
Check out the finished product, (for sake of testing only).
Here:
If you decide to follow the link to the video, you can find there a link to the thread describing how I overcame difficulties with meta data.
The hidden info that describes the quality of your film.
Add comment September 1st, 2009
Javascript libraries working together
Mootools and Jquery
I Started freshfreelance site a while ago and used the mootools Kwix script for the sites main menu.
Took me a while to sort it, and was to be honest never as good as the example, but hey..
All was fine, until I used lightbox on one of the sub pages, they worked fine independently, but when together the lightbox wouldn’t work.
I googled for a while, but found no solution I could get my head round at the time, so I took the cop out and disabled the javascript on the menu, (Just for that one page) allowing the lightbox script to work.
Time passed
and I learned to live with it.
Today however I came across the problem again, wanting to implement the JQuery cycle script to cycle some pics, wouldn’t work, and I knew instantly it was the libraries cinfkict.
Googling more successful this time.
Enter:
jQuery’s no-conflict mode,
I have rambled enough:
the solution as I see it.
This is what I had and it worked solo,
<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('#slideshow11').cycle(); }); </script>
I added
var J = jQuery.noConflict();
and changed the $ for J in the function, and Presto.
<script type="text/javascript"> var J = jQuery.noConflict(); J(document).ready(function() { J('#slideshow11').cycle(); }); </script>
There are more elegant solutions out there, Check: JQuery, and I found help here. Michael Shadle
Add comment August 21st, 2009
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