Special Effects

I stand corrected

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In my last post, I mentioned that I edited a picture which I posted here about a month ago. Well, I got myself wondering exactly what date it was, so I went to check. I discovered that what I posted […]

Fake tilt-shift miniatures

I really like The Gimp… I just wish it had a different name. In my somewhat limited experience, it appears to be able to duplicate any effect that Photoshop can do - either directly or with user-contributed plug-ins - but it has the distinct advantage of being distributed under an Open Source license, meaning it’s […]

New life for old pictures

I was looking around the other night at tutorials for The GIMP (my graphics editor of choice) and happened upon a tutorial at Gimpology.com called “Fake HDR Look in Gimp” posted by jneurock.
To answer the question that a lot of readers (including my over-the-shoulder-reading daughter) are probably asking, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. Wikipedia […]

POTD 8/7/08

Give me a camera and tripod, a chess board, a willing subject, and a decent image editor and this is how I entertain myself.

Technorati Tags: potd, pic+of+the+day, pictures, photo, photoshop, chess, twins, clone
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How to create a Star Trek style transporter effect using freeware

While working on a video my wife needed recently, I got wondering how one would go about making a realistic Star Trek style transporter effect. After working out in my own mind what the basic steps were, I found a set of instructions at mediacollege.com that detailed exactly how to do it if you happen […]