Category Archives: Photography

Photography (derived from the Greek photos- for “light” and -graphos for “drawing”) is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor ( Wikipedia ). Read more here, or at HobbyHelp’s great The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Photography article, thanks.

FFmpeg Image Optimization Primer Tutorial

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The Linux FFmpeg command is so useful, and so modest. In its “man ffmpeg” it just describes itself as a video converter, but it does (eg. scaling) images as well …. guess the modesty could be that it thinks of … Continue reading →

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Photo Album Email with Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial

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Were you surprised with our tutorial Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial as shown below, where Paintbrush ended up being a better option for an image editing job than Gimp, which we also use a lot here at … Continue reading →

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Changing the Reel Primer Tutorial

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Yesterday’s Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial as shown below, set me to thinking more about video playing and synchronization of playing (videos). Synchronization of the playing of videos is a bit of a misnomer these days because … Continue reading →

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Blurb Publish Primer Tutorial

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Are you wanting to write a book or eBook you can publish online yourself? With our first Blurb eBooks and Books Primer Tutorial as shown below, we showed an install of Blurb’s BookWright application, and a bit of Blurb usage, … Continue reading →

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Photo Booth view of Android Camera Google+ Upload Tutorial

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We spend a lot of time on our Mac laptop (to make the content for this blog), and now that we try to explain a few Android (device) matters we are finding Photo Booth more and more useful as the … Continue reading →

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Photo Booth YouTube Video Primer Tutorial

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Today, building on the knowledge of YouTube Closed Captions Primer Tutorial as shown below, we wanted to show you how the Mac application Photo Booth can create videos which can (then, additionally) be uploaded to the YouTube website for public … Continue reading →

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Gimp Vignette Primer Tutorial

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The last time we talked about the miraculous, redolent and amazing image editor called Gimp am sure there was someone in a shower … it stands to reason … and one of those showerers, surely, would have been singing The … Continue reading →

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Video on Web Browser Primer Tutorial

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The major web browsers on a Mac laptop or Windows laptop have differences in rendering and methods by which they play media files. With this in mind, today’s tutorial attempts to play video (augmenting yesterday’s Audio on Web Browser Primer … Continue reading →

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