Top 20 Photoshop Tutorials of All Time – not quite top 20, but still very good!
Here’s a few more tips and tutorials and several more photography tutorials.
BDE – basic daylight exposure guide, and more!
Author Archives: Donncha
GIMP: Layer Styles, Panoramas, and transparency
An email to the GIMP User List has a link to a Python layer style plugin. I haven’t tried it yet but an earlier plugin doesn’t work in GIMP 2.x anymore so I’ll try the “proof of concept” Python one.
Stitch Panorama 0.9.2 was announced on the list too. Replies were all positive, and Owen posted manual and automatic examples. I have a vertical panorama of Marshall Fields’ department store to fix up. I may use this to help me!
Ever wonder why you can’t write to a transparent layer? It is possible, you only have to enable it.
Oh, and finally.. if you’re annoyed by the way GIMP uses (or not) windows, then the next revision has much better control.
Ed Halley's GIMP Tutorial on Using Multiple Exposures
Several great tutorials here!
eBay Account Investigation
I’m amazed at the very sharp increase in phishing attempts these days. Despite greylisting and Spam Assassin at least one gets through each day. Out of curiousity I decided to click on one. eBay Account Investigation looks rather good doesn’t it?
The Netcraft Toolbar does a very nice job defending against this sort of thing! 🙂
malevole – Text Generator
Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation – good look at the future of our digital past. (via dangerousmeta)
Towards Open Source Flash Development
How to Become an Early Riser
How to Become an Early Riser – *yawn* must get to bed earlier!
How to Use Design Patterns
Among developers, design patterns are a popular way to think about design, but what is the proper way to think about design patterns? In this interview, Erich Gamma, co-author of the landmark book, Design Patterns, talks with Bill Venners about the right way to think about and use design patterns.
Where are my socks?
When you’re rushing around in the morning, wouldn’t it be handy if you could ask Google, “Where are my socks?“