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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. She takes in horses that otherwise would very likely be euthanized. My son and I were invited to her farm on Easter for an Easter egg hunt and I fell in … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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>. This is useful for encouraging clean code but frustrating should anyone actually … Continue reading