Monday, December 17, 2012
35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop
35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful and versatile image editing/graphics creation application that is the industry standard in its category. Though Photoshop’s interface is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to learn basic image editing tasks such as cropping and resizing, to be able to fully master and utilize all of its tools takes a considerable amount of time.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Homemade Ginger Beer and the Dark 'n' Stormy | The Paupered Chef
Homemade Ginger Beer and the Dark 'n' Stormy | The Paupered Chef: Homemade Ginger Beer
1/2 pound fresh ginger, roughly chopped
2 quarts boiling hot water
2 cups sugar
juice of two lemons
1 teaspoon champagne or other yeast
1/2 pound fresh ginger, roughly chopped
2 quarts boiling hot water
2 cups sugar
juice of two lemons
1 teaspoon champagne or other yeast
Monday, December 10, 2012
6 Habits of a Healthy Group Leader by Joel Comiskey - ChurchLeaders.com - Christian Leadership Blogs, Articles, Videos, How To's, and Free Resources
6 Habits of a Healthy Group Leader by Joel Comiskey - ChurchLeaders.com - Christian Leadership Blogs, Articles, Videos, How To's, and Free Resources: “How could this man multiply his cell group six times? He lacks the enthusiasm and bubbly excitement so necessary for small group multiplication.” Then in my interview, Carl Everett, the man they call “Mr. Multiplication,” confirmed my suspicion and told me that he was a very shy person. “How did you multiply your group so many times?” I inquired.
“Prayer, prayer, and prayer,” he asserted.
“Prayer, prayer, and prayer,” he asserted.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Convert any image to a vector image in under 3 minutes
I recently discovered VectorMagic, a website tool that will convert almost any image into vector format in under 3 minutes. Vector format images allow you to increase the size of your image to any size without pixilating it.
Most image formats like JPEG and GIF are represented as pixels. Each pixel in the image stores digital numbers representing brightness and color. As you increase the size of the image, your software has to create new pixels and it estimates the color values of the new pixels based on the surrounding pixels…thus the image becomes pixilated.
Vector image formats contain a geometric description which can be rendered smoothly at ANY desired display size. Vector images are usually created in an application called Illustrator. To convert a JPEG image to a vector based image, one has to trace the image with a Pen tool in Illustrator. This takes a long time, depending on the details of your image.
That is why when I first came across VectorMagic, I was skeptical at first and decided to test it right away.
Read more: Convert any image to a vector image in under 3 minutes:
Most image formats like JPEG and GIF are represented as pixels. Each pixel in the image stores digital numbers representing brightness and color. As you increase the size of the image, your software has to create new pixels and it estimates the color values of the new pixels based on the surrounding pixels…thus the image becomes pixilated.
Vector image formats contain a geometric description which can be rendered smoothly at ANY desired display size. Vector images are usually created in an application called Illustrator. To convert a JPEG image to a vector based image, one has to trace the image with a Pen tool in Illustrator. This takes a long time, depending on the details of your image.
That is why when I first came across VectorMagic, I was skeptical at first and decided to test it right away.
Read more: Convert any image to a vector image in under 3 minutes:
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Spreadsheet Page Excel Tips: Cell Counting Techniques
Excel provides many ways to count cells in a range that meet various criteria:
The DCOUNT function. The data must be set up in a table, and a separate criterion range is required.
The COUNT function. Simply counts the number of cells in a range that contain a number.
The COUNTA function. Counts the number of non-empty cells in a range.
The COUNTBLANK function. Counts the number of empty cells in a range.
The COUNTIF function. Very flexible, but often not quite flexible enough.
An array formula. Useful when the other techniques won't work.
Formula Examples
Listed below are some formula examples that demonstrate various counting techniques. These formula all use a range named data... See Spreadsheet Page Excel Tips: Cell Counting Techniques:
The DCOUNT function. The data must be set up in a table, and a separate criterion range is required.
The COUNT function. Simply counts the number of cells in a range that contain a number.
The COUNTA function. Counts the number of non-empty cells in a range.
The COUNTBLANK function. Counts the number of empty cells in a range.
The COUNTIF function. Very flexible, but often not quite flexible enough.
An array formula. Useful when the other techniques won't work.
Formula Examples
Listed below are some formula examples that demonstrate various counting techniques. These formula all use a range named data... See Spreadsheet Page Excel Tips: Cell Counting Techniques:
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Adobe - After Effects CS3 tutorial : Create animated characters from still images with After Effects
Adobe - After Effects CS3 tutorial : Create animated characters from still images with After Effects: The Puppet Tool, which is one of my favorite new features in Adobe� After Effects� CS3, is bound to bring out the Frankenstein (or at least Frankenberry) in most people. It’s the easiest way to create animated characters from still images, and I’m going to show you how it works using a production still from our “Aquo” shoot up in Whistler, BC.
50 Excellent Adobe After Effect Tutorials
50 Excellent Adobe After Effect Tutorials: Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. Its main purpose is for film and video post-production. With Adobe After Effects it’s possible to create so great looking visual effects as in “Hollywood style” movies. Adobe After Effects is mainly used to create visual effects for commercials and movies but you can also create image slide-shows, some small videos, transition effects for websites and stuff like that.
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