Friday, November 25, 2011
The Daring Librarian has a lot of material about QR codes on Flickr and her CC license allows for use with attribution. Check it out.
Monday, November 14, 2011
As I mentioned, I want to give the new WordPress Image Gallery a try. I gathered up some photos from the 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference to use as an experiment. The results? Easy to set up, easy to edit, easy to add titles and alt text. I don’t like that the thumbnails open in a [...]
Photography has undergone many changes in its relatively short history. For the first 150 years it was a purely analog art form in which latent images were exposed on to film. The technology advanced but the general principle remained the same. During the 1990’s the digital camera started to take shape. Although this has made [...]
product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
CSS3 Image Styles is a terrific tutorial explaining how to use CSS3 and background images to do some very cool things. You can now read HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith online. This is an excellent book, go read it. The site is built in HTML5. Look under the covers. I’d like to examine [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
What does Hue, Saturation, Luminosity Mean in Your Image Editor is a video that will help you grok what HSL is all about. HTML5: Briefing notes for journalists and analysts from HTML5 Doctor might include ‘instructors who haven’t had time to keep up with HTML5′ in the title.
What are Mac users doing about photos since Google+? My current status is to use iPhoto and upload what I want to share to Flickr. Whether Flickr is going to fade away due to neglect on Yahoo’s part, or whether Google+ is going to take over the world – it looks to me like it [...]
Google is promoting a new image format called WebP – pronounced weppy. They announced it last September. At that time, they said, Some engineers at Google decided to figure out if there was a way to further compress lossy images like JPEG to make them load faster, while still preserving quality and resolution. As part [...]
You Can Rent Photoshop and other Adobe Software gives you some useful and potentially helpful information. The New RFP says RFP and procurement process for software should start with finding software that doesn’t suck. Speaking of Adobe, because of an open SDK, developers are now creating Photoshop apps for tablet devices. Adobe Turns the Tablet [...]
This is a good introduction to how you use multiple CSS3 backgrounds. It’s from the Think Vitamin series. There are many good videos in the series.
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