Monthly Archives: November 2002

Don't Get Fired Day 1 …

Don’t Get Fired Day 1

You may be required to produce a pay stub from your last job. Would you rather not (maybe because you fudged your salary history)? That might be grounds for automatic termination.

You may be required to sign a very restrictive non-compete agreement. Rather not? Empty your desk.

Your employment may be subject to a urinalysis. Rather not “give”? You must be hiding something. Bye.

The employee manual, which lots of companies won’t give you until your first day, may require you to turn over all sales accounts (that you brought with you) to another sales rep. No? See ya later.

Plug-In: User Filter – use Pho …

Plug-In: User Filter – use Photoshop filters in the GIMP. Here’s some filters that worked.
If you try to compile the User Filter on Red Hat 8.0 (and maybe other modern distributions of Linux) you’ll probably get an error message in the file uf_file.c
Change line 44 from
fpos_t ofs;
to
long ofs;
The program should compile now if you run make.

The Anglers Rest, River Lee. …

The Anglers Rest, River Lee. I spent a lot of time working on this. A power line stretched across the original photo which had to be cloned out. I also cloned out a pole in the field near the cows, and there were 2 houses on the tree line that didn’t fit in with the scene.
I had to adjust the blue of the sky seperately from the land and used a layer mask to do that.

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