It’s Photoshop specific but useful nonetheless.
Using Levels and Curves to Adjust Tonal Range, Contrast, and Brightness are concepts that transfer easily to the GIMP. (via Mark)
The size of dot files and directories
Have you ever tried du -csh .* to find the size of all the hidden files in your home directory? It never works properly for me as I think it only counts the size of the .* files in each of the named directories.
Anyway, the following solves that problem and shows you where all those thumbnails have been generataed by gthumb or nautilaus.. 🙂
for i in `ls -A`; do du -sh $i; done
38.113.198.9? Are you there? eh what?
Oy! Whoever’s at 38.113.198.9 is causing a bit of a stir here …. he hit this server yesterday with 34K hits. I wouldn’t mind if it was a sensible bot that was archiving stuff, but no, he has to visit some pages over 100 times just to make sure he has the correct content!
Anyway, he won’t see this post as all he’ll see if he comes here is the following:
go away and stop hitting this server – email donncha_@_linux.ie if you want access again.
Rushing Water
Rushing water over the wier at the Regional Park, Ballincollig, Cork.
Three Years On
Leaf in Water
Holding on against the tide..
PictPress – WordPress Gallery Plugin
Oooh, PictPress looks nice but I’ll have to put some restrictions on usage here as convert is such a dog on any system! Hmm, it’ll need some sort of upload facility in the backend too as it’s impossible to create directories in the images folder right now.
Yes, this is showing off..
Yes, this desktop screenshot is just showing off! Who wants a transparent movie? 🙂
Loose F717 Lens Barrel – How to fix!
I noticed for a while that the lens on my Sony F717 was getting just a little loose. It didn’t have the same firm feel to it that it had when I bought it a year ago. I didn’t think much of it except to presume that it was normal wear-and-tear.
Then 2 weeks ago I dropped my camera bag from my hand and it hit the floor lens first. It survived but the lens was even looser! That’d be fine with loose wemen around but not for taking photos which is how I stumbled across instructions for ripping a F717 apart! Thankfully it wasn’t necessary as all I had to do was tighten up a few small screws in the camera body and it’s back to it’s old self!
Hopefully this’ll fix it’s habit of shooting photos just a little off the horizontal. No matter how hard I tried there was always a pronounced off-horizontal lean in my photos. Yeah, it could be me too. heh.
Removing Haze from Photos
The Gimp Guru continues his series of tutorials with an excellent one on removing haze from photographs. (He copied the technique from Luminous Landscape but the more GIMP material out there the better!)
I really like his explanation of Unsharp Mask, it’s the first one I’ve understood!