HDR Photos – Use photoshop to create a fake HDR effect using a single JPG image
I have looked at a few different techniques for creating fake HDR in Phoshop and the following is my favourite because the effect is a little more subtle and most of the steps can be done with keyboard shortcuts.
The photos on the left are the originals with the adjusted photos on the right… click to enlarge.
- Take your original image and move it from the background to a layer called ‘Original’. Since I will need to create multiple layers with the same image I did this by selecting the image and pasting it into the new layer… this keeps the original image in the buffer to easily paste it a few more times.
Photography for Ocean Side Gifts
For anyone who might have read my blog post on ‘How to Build a Photography Light Box’, this is the project that I built it for and a cross section of the pictures. I will add a link to the website once it is completed.
Photography for ImmunoPrecise
Photography taken for the website we are building for ImmunoPrecise
How to build a photography light box on a “light” budget
I decided to build this in order to take some product shots for the rack card and website we are designing for Ocean Side Gifts.
Material needed is…
- 12 lengths of 1 inch PVC piping cut to 28 inches long
- 8 PVC couplings with three holes
- 2 sheets of card stock 28”x36”
- 1 white cotton blanket
- 1 florescent lamp
- 1 adjustable halogen lamp
- Velcro strips
- Double sided carpet tape
-1 six pack of beer – I prefer Philips Blue Buck but that has no real bearing on the outcome of the project. How many beer you drink does, however, have an impact on the outcome of the project.
Marginalization of Mental Health Patients by VIHA Slum Lords
Mental health disorders carry society’s most negative stigmata. Over the years I have heard the worst possible comments directed towards my son and other young adults fighting with bi-polar and other mental health issues. Among the most damaging comments I have heard were:
“Living on the streets and in shelters are perfectly acceptable options for kids with mental health disorders.”
“Basic standards of living should not apply to people with mental health issues.”
We are told to ignore these comments because people simply do not understand, but how do family members advocate for their loved ones when the comments, such as the ones above, come from the mental health professionals themselves.
Trip to the Okanagan Valley
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BC Ferries – From the mainland to Vancouver Island at dusk
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Horses on Mary’s Farm
Mary is a wonderful lady with a wonderful mission.
CBC’s business practices violates graphic designers’ code of ethics
One way of trying to get free, or at the very least cheap, design material is to launch a contest for a logo or other design elements. This is not surprising coming from an association as clueless as the IOC but for Canada’s ‘leading’ media supplier to take this on as a practice is ethically corrupt.
Recently the CBC has launched a contest, aimed at graphic designers, to produce a logo for their show The Dragons’ Den. Their condescension is made worst by their call for entries that claims this is a worth while venture for a designer since their efforts ‘may’ be seen by 2.2 million viewers.
WordPress – How to stop the visual editor from filtering out line breaks
The visual editor in WordPress is built around the open source TinyMCE editor. By default this editor scrubs out empty paragraph tags <p> and additional line breaks <br>.