This tutorial to Red Eye Reduction/Remove Red Eye is Photoshop specific but it should work in the GIMP too. Better yet, bounce a flash off the roof for much more natural photos! (Sucks if the roof is wood or a dark colour!)
Monthly Archives: September 2004
National Geographic Photo of the Day
With the wealth of photos available to The National Geographic, their Photo of the Day should be somewhere to visit every day alongside APOD!
PHP best practices
These guidelines are probably worth a read no matter what your favourite language is. Many are PHP specific but I’m going to digest some of the more appetizing ones. (you can tell it’s almost lunchtime can’t you?)
Lots of WordPress Hacks
Some of these WordPress Hacks may very well make it into the WPMU tarball next week! Lots of good stuff!
Bigley To Be Spared
I just heard on the news that Ken Bigley may well be spared. His brother has done a great job of showing up the UK Government and diplomats with all the publicity he generated. Fingers crossed that he’ll be home soon!
Compositing Tutorial
Andy WIlliams comes up with the goods again in this tutorial on compositing images. He merges several photos to create a great image.
And I bet you thought I was going to talk about worms and compost heaps didn’t you? 😉
WPMU Updates
Almost back to normal after the mad weekend, I said almost! 😉
On a local install of WPMU, I managed to re-direct the root of a WP install to the “main” weblog, this means that in future you’ll be able to go to http://blogs.linux.ie/ and see some content again! I need to get those changes rolled into the code running this site however so a release doesn’t look likely until the weekend or later. There’s such an awful amount of work to do before the code should be seen in public – cleaned up installation, some documentation, even download links.
Apart from the purely technical aspect, there’s a lot of emotion tied up in it too. “Did I forget anything? Is the documentation up to date? Did I increment the version counter? I’m tired, let’s just get the damn thing out the door..”
Later.. I started on a simple gallery that feeds off the meta data entered as “photoblog” custom fields. Thumbnails and other features to come later.
Dangers of SQLite Ignorance
Aaron doesn’t explicitly list the dangers but I can guess that they include overwriting db files. I haven’t looked at SQLite yet however, it’s on the TODO list! 🙂
OK, I read the comments, it’s no more dangerous than having text files lying around, although as the file has to be writeable by the webserver that guarantees certain responsibilites when using them!
CSS TEMPLATES, again!
Everyone’s doing them, but there’s always room for more templates in my book! I like the design of that page too!
Essential GIMP for Web Professionals
The GIMP delicious tag features this book heavily, in fact, that’s all the first page of it shows right now! Essential GIMP for Web Professionals looks like a worthy read, and includes source code, etc. May be the website to a book?