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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Flickr and WordPress Integration Primer Tutorial

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Photo sharing on the web is very popular, and Flickr is a very popular photo sharing website. Today we build on JSON and jQuery Javascript Flickr Feed Tutorial as shown below, and show a Flickr piece of Sharing functionality that … Continue reading →

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Nala Looking Up in the World

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Nala_Looking_Up, a photo by rmetimages on Flickr. In readiness for tomorrow’s blog posting about how to link Flickr to posting on your WordPress blog, this blog post was made by setting up a connection between Flickr and the WordPress blog … Continue reading →

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Gimp Old Photo Tutorial

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Gimp is great! Gimp is open source. What is Gimp? It edits image files. It has loads of filters and tools. One really good one that we show today is the Filter->Decor->Old Photo… which uses sepia toning (if you are … Continue reading →

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