Techniques

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. [...]

POTD 8/13/08

I was very pleased with the way this turned out. A few small steps really improved a picture that, in my opinion, wasn’t bad to start with. First, I fixed the baby’s red-eye problem. Next, I selected both eyes and used a little “unsharp mask” on them. While I had the eyes selected, I lightened [...]

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 [...]

Photographing Snow

It can be tricky trying to take a picture of a snow-covered landscape. All that bright white snow fools your camera into thinking there’s more light than there really is. To Illustrate my point, here’s a picture I took this morning (as usual, click the thumbnail to view the full-size picture): That looks kind of [...]