Oct 2008
Using Curves
24/10/08 20:16 WebPhotoshop
Something that I learnt a couple of weeks ago in digital photo magazine was how to use “curves” to adjust photos rather than using the histogram and adjustment sliders.
So for an example, go and open your image in photoshop or elements and go to:
image> adjustments> curves.
Then you can adjust the line with your cursor to experiment with tones. The good thing about curves is that you can adjust many aspects of the image such as contrast, exposure and brightness together. You can always use on off the presets available if you want to.
So thats pretty much it on curves. Most photographers and photo editors will know about and probably use curves regularly but I thought I’d put it out there for people who might enjoy experimenting with them.
Thanks.
So for an example, go and open your image in photoshop or elements and go to:
image> adjustments> curves.
Then you can adjust the line with your cursor to experiment with tones. The good thing about curves is that you can adjust many aspects of the image such as contrast, exposure and brightness together. You can always use on off the presets available if you want to.
So thats pretty much it on curves. Most photographers and photo editors will know about and probably use curves regularly but I thought I’d put it out there for people who might enjoy experimenting with them.
Thanks.
Apple Event 14th October
14/10/08 22:40 WebTech
So here are my long overdue thoughts on the october 14th apple event and the new macbooks.
The reason why this blog post is overdue is because I needed some time to align my thoughts and opinions appropriately before I published them on the internet. At first with all honesty I didn’t like the new macbook’s at all, I think this was because It was “new” and it needed some adjusting too as most people will with most occurrences. This might seem as a bit excessive to be so in depth about the style of a laptop, but the truth is that apple is ahead of the technology market in terms of style and perfection (not to say apple are perfect, no one is) but an image change could influence how people view apple as a company. I think I wasn’t an immediate die-hard fan of it because I’m used to apple being having quite a basic dress code, for a while most their products have had a glossy “plexiglass” look and thats how I find them appealing (apart from my macbook pro which is all silver aluminum) but apple have started to incorporate black into their products more; such as the 07 imac with the black bezel, all black iphones (which a majority of people thought would be white/silver), the mba with black keypads and now the entire macintohs range has formed to this new style with the new cinema displays.
I understand now I’m probably not making much sense but these are my overall thoughts on the event. Just to make it clear though I do actually like the new apple designs though it must have taken more time for steve jobs’ reality distortion field to make its way over the atlantic.
The reason why this blog post is overdue is because I needed some time to align my thoughts and opinions appropriately before I published them on the internet. At first with all honesty I didn’t like the new macbook’s at all, I think this was because It was “new” and it needed some adjusting too as most people will with most occurrences. This might seem as a bit excessive to be so in depth about the style of a laptop, but the truth is that apple is ahead of the technology market in terms of style and perfection (not to say apple are perfect, no one is) but an image change could influence how people view apple as a company. I think I wasn’t an immediate die-hard fan of it because I’m used to apple being having quite a basic dress code, for a while most their products have had a glossy “plexiglass” look and thats how I find them appealing (apart from my macbook pro which is all silver aluminum) but apple have started to incorporate black into their products more; such as the 07 imac with the black bezel, all black iphones (which a majority of people thought would be white/silver), the mba with black keypads and now the entire macintohs range has formed to this new style with the new cinema displays.
I understand now I’m probably not making much sense but these are my overall thoughts on the event. Just to make it clear though I do actually like the new apple designs though it must have taken more time for steve jobs’ reality distortion field to make its way over the atlantic.
Just a quicky
11/10/08 23:12 WebRandom
Just a little update for now about the site at the moment. I “finally” finished the new theme for the site as you can probably see I also added a Twitter badge and customised my own Flickr photo stream badge using CSS. There is also a comments system now that I added with Rapidweaver if you have any questions or such, I’m now aware thanks to Sean that the PHP contact form that I built in using rapidweaver doesn’t work, I’m not sure if this is a fault on Rapidweaver’s part; or wether its because I haven’t installed PHP on my macbook yet.
So hopefully you enjoy the new site theme and all the nice javascript badges that go with it.
Karl
So hopefully you enjoy the new site theme and all the nice javascript badges that go with it.
Karl
Update 101
Apologies for the lack of updates, I’ve had a lot of school work on my plate recently and I’ve managed to grab a quite evening to write a lengthy blog post.
Firstly before you burst with anticipation Moriarty did arrive in one peice after much jerking around and apple thinking the shipping destination was a port in holland and declared it had arrived.
It has to be the fastest computer mac and pc aside that I have ever used.. EVER! it delivers both portability and desktop performance in one which does it for me.
Macbooks aside I’ve also been able to take 2 higher I.T. courses which will gain be another GCSE alongside my core I.T. GCSE I’m currently working towards, the 2 units will be webdesign and flash animation both of which I should be able to okay. The one problem with the web design course is that I have to use tables for the layout of the page as part of the criteria in order to complete the course this is not a problem of skill since I understand how to implement tables into HTML and use them to create a website layout though I learnt to design layous using div tags whereas tables are an archaic method of creating a layout, while James found more “appropriate” words to describe this. Non the less its another GCSE and I’m not planning on dictating to my teacher about web standards and practices.
Thats probably a wrap for the mean time, I have an early entry maths GCSE exam next month so I’m having to revise after school and do maths papers on a weekly basis. All I can say is I’m hoping to switch my hosting for a service that has My SQL database support for Wordpress
As for the site currently I added a contact form and updating the sidebar.
Karl
Firstly before you burst with anticipation Moriarty did arrive in one peice after much jerking around and apple thinking the shipping destination was a port in holland and declared it had arrived.
It has to be the fastest computer mac and pc aside that I have ever used.. EVER! it delivers both portability and desktop performance in one which does it for me.
Macbooks aside I’ve also been able to take 2 higher I.T. courses which will gain be another GCSE alongside my core I.T. GCSE I’m currently working towards, the 2 units will be webdesign and flash animation both of which I should be able to okay. The one problem with the web design course is that I have to use tables for the layout of the page as part of the criteria in order to complete the course this is not a problem of skill since I understand how to implement tables into HTML and use them to create a website layout though I learnt to design layous using div tags whereas tables are an archaic method of creating a layout, while James found more “appropriate” words to describe this. Non the less its another GCSE and I’m not planning on dictating to my teacher about web standards and practices.
Thats probably a wrap for the mean time, I have an early entry maths GCSE exam next month so I’m having to revise after school and do maths papers on a weekly basis. All I can say is I’m hoping to switch my hosting for a service that has My SQL database support for Wordpress
As for the site currently I added a contact form and updating the sidebar.
Karl