August 2008

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New life for old pictures

Welcome back!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. […]

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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 […]

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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.

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