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.

Gimp Decor Border Filters Primer Tutorial

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Gimp is great! Gimp is open source. What is Gimp? It edits image files. It has loads of filters and tools. Today we hone in on Gimp’s Decor filters that deal with photograph Border functionality, adding to our previous Gimp … Continue reading →

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Gimp Animated GIF Overlay Tutorial

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We’ve come full circle with the “overlay” concept blog posts and come back to Gimp to create an animated GIF today where the animation is all bundled up into the one image resource called an “animated GIF” … so loved … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Canvas Image Drag and Drop Tutorial

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The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management. In today’s tutorial we show some image Drag and Drop functionality … Continue reading →

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Mac iPhoto and Gimp Primer Tutorial

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Computer software is good with images. Ever since the advent of digital photography it has taken off, which is no surprise. Today, images are still a major part of the web experience, especially with the camera work of mobile phones … Continue reading →

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Windows Live Movie Maker Primer Tutorial

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Are you looking to publish a video on YouTube, or just create a video for other uses, and you are using a Windows operating system? Have you tried Windows Live Movie Maker or Windows Movie Maker (recent naming), which is … Continue reading →

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iWeb Primer Tutorial

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Quite a while ago now was into iWeb and its impressively quick methods to construct a five (or so) webpage website. It attracted me with its colour and pizazz. Ended up using iWeb to construct this domain’s landing page, and … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Rhymes Game Tutorial

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Do you like word games? Today’s game takes Synonyms (same meaning), Antonyms (opposite meaning), Homonyms (same sound) and Rhymes (sounds like) as words that link to objects the user points at in a photograph … we’re going to call the … Continue reading →

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Gimp Colour Balance Primer Tutorial

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Gimp is a great graphics editor with a huge number of methods to subtlely or not so subtlely adjust your images, no matter where they have come from (today’s came from a digital camera). The image in question today was … Continue reading →

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