Category Archives: Photography

Photography (derived from the Greek photos- for “light” and -graphos for “drawing”) is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor ( Wikipedia ). Read more here, or at HobbyHelp’s great The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Photography article, thanks.

Mac iPhoto and Gimp Primer Tutorial

Computer software is good with images. Ever since the advent of digital photography it has taken off, which is no surprise. Today, images are still a major part of the web experience, especially with the camera work of mobile phones … Continue reading

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Windows Live Movie Maker Primer Tutorial

Are you looking to publish a video on YouTube, or just create a video for other uses, and you are using a Windows operating system? Have you tried Windows Live Movie Maker or Windows Movie Maker (recent naming), which is … Continue reading

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iWeb Primer Tutorial

Quite a while ago now was into iWeb and its impressively quick methods to construct a five (or so) webpage website. It attracted me with its colour and pizazz. Ended up using iWeb to construct this domain’s landing page, and … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Rhymes Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game takes Synonyms (same meaning), Antonyms (opposite meaning), Homonyms (same sound) and Rhymes (sounds like) as words that link to objects the user points at in a photograph … we’re going to call the … Continue reading

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Gimp Colour Balance Primer Tutorial

Gimp is a great graphics editor with a huge number of methods to subtlely or not so subtlely adjust your images, no matter where they have come from (today’s came from a digital camera). The image in question today was … Continue reading

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Mac iPhoto Slideshow to iTunes and iMovie Movie Primer Tutorial

The Mac iPhoto Primer Tutorial from yesterday explains how Mac OS X iPhoto application does a great job of storing your photographs (on the Mac laptop’s hard disk) from a variety of sources, and it shows this for the import … Continue reading

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Mac iPhoto Primer Tutorial

The Mac OS X iPhoto application does a great job of storing your photographs (on the Mac laptop’s hard disk) that are: created on your laptop importable via removable CDs/DVDs/USBs or others importable via digital cameras (with inbuilt memory card) … Continue reading

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Javascript/CSS Lightbox Primer Tutorial

The brilliant Lokesh Dhakar is the inventor of Lightbox which is a small Javascript library allowing for overlayable images on top of the current webpage … told you it was brilliant. Am sure you’ve seen Lightbox, or its incarnations, all … Continue reading

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