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.

Mac iPhoto Primer Tutorial

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The Mac OS X iPhoto application does a great job of storing your photographs (on the Mac laptop’s hard disk) that are: created on your laptop importable via removable CDs/DVDs/USBs or others importable via digital cameras (with inbuilt memory card) … Continue reading →

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Javascript/CSS Lightbox Primer Tutorial

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The brilliant Lokesh Dhakar is the inventor of Lightbox which is a small Javascript library allowing for overlayable images on top of the current webpage … told you it was brilliant. Am sure you’ve seen Lightbox, or its incarnations, all … Continue reading →

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Flickr and WordPress Integration Primer Tutorial

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Photo sharing on the web is very popular, and Flickr is a very popular photo sharing website. Today we build on JSON and jQuery Javascript Flickr Feed Tutorial as shown below, and show a Flickr piece of Sharing functionality that … Continue reading →

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Nala Looking Up in the World

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Nala_Looking_Up, a photo by rmetimages on Flickr. In readiness for tomorrow’s blog posting about how to link Flickr to posting on your WordPress blog, this blog post was made by setting up a connection between Flickr and the WordPress blog … Continue reading →

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Gimp Old Photo 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. One really good one that we show today is the Filter->Decor->Old Photo… which uses sepia toning (if you are … Continue reading →

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Gimp Layers Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that gives you an insight into the massive possibilities of using a sophisticated image editor and use layers with various amounts of transparency, especially suited to use with png image files. Transparency (or its obverse, opacity) … Continue reading →

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After Screen Capture Primer Tutorial

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Are you looking to explain a computer procedure, and you are using a Mac OS X operating system? Well, here, today, we build a part two to the previous relevant Screen Capture Primer Tutorial (or Grab tutorial) as shown below, … Continue reading →

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Gimp Colourize Tutorial

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Gimp is a great graphics editor and its lassoo selection tool allows you to create precise adjustments to your images. In today’s tutorial you see the lasoo selection tool combined with the Colourize dialog box functionality to change the colour … Continue reading →

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