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. [...]

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

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 [...]