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Something to get me from Autumn to Winter. This is done in Photoshop, using one of my photos, a gradient layer, and a creative brush layer.
Handheld mobile devices come with different platforms and operating systems, with new editions adding to the equation all the time. Here is a quick guide to the most used ones on today's handhelds.
Blackberry:
These devices were originally designed for push email support, but today they can do almost everything.
Symbian, UIQ 3:
These devices come with Symbian Operating System and touch screen support.
Symbian, S60 3rd Ed:
Updated version of Symbian S60, 2nd Ed specially for security and performance.
Symbian, S60 2nd Ed:
Smartphone with non-touch screen display.
Symbian, Series 80:
Operating System for Smartphone for widescreen devices.
WM5 SP:
Windows Mobile 5 for SmartPhone.
WM2003 SE SP:
Windwos Mobile 2003 Second Editions for Smartphones.
WM5 Phone Ed:
Wondowa Mobile 5 for phone-based devices.
WM5:
Windows Mobile 5
WM6:
Windows Mobile 6
New Version of WM5 which reduces the gap between Pocket PCs and Smartphones.
Palm OS Garnet 5.4:
Newest version of Plam OS.
We all sometimes use our mobile phone cameras to take that unplanned shoot. When doing so, depending to the lighting condition and the quality setting of the camera, we may end up with a very grainy picture.
Do not despair. There is an easy way to get rid of those grains, without having to own a photo editing software.
There is a tool called Neat Image, with the Standard Version available to download free. This tool is downloadable via www.neatimage.com.
Just open your photographs there and under "Device Noise Profile" tab, use the "Auto Profile with Regular Image. Then go to "Noise Filter Setting" tab an select Preview to see a sample of filtered image. You can play with the settings and once happy go to "Output Image" tab and save your filtered image.
I will be posting more about taking pictures with mobile phone cameras. Visit back or set a RSS link via Meta section of site right hand side navigation bar.
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It is amazing how shooting in raw can give the photographer the opportunity to create something that could not be achieved otherwise using the jpg picture processed by the camera.
I took a picture with my Canon Powershot G9 camera, both in RAW and JPG. Then I opened the RAW formatted file in Photoshop Camera RAW and played with it to get the desired picture obtained on the left above. (I have added the little hippo later via Photoshop)
I easily did get a chance to change the white balance, temperature, tint, exposure, brightness, contrast and other options, all from one single screen in seconds.
Shooting colour pictures in RAW also gives the photographer the opportunity to use the Gray Scale Converter in Camera RAW to obtain amazing Black and White photos.
Don't miss this feature if your camera comes with shooting in RAW option.
Have you ever wondered what colour mode to use in Photoshop? The answer is on what you want to do with the final product? Do you want to save it as a jpg or gif and use in on the web, or do you want to save it as a EPS for printing with higher quality?
Depending in your answer you can select your colour mode, via Image > Mode on the menu. For web use and presentations, use RGB mode, however if your plan is to print the final graphics, use CMYK mode.
RGB colour mode: This mode uses three colours, Red, Green and Blue to compose all other colours, which is capable of displaying nearly seventeen million colours on computer monitors via desktop or browser. RGB colours added together make up white, i.e. they act like light being added together, which is the complete opposite for CMYK colours.
CMYK colour mode: This mode uses four colours, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Each colour is created by specifying the transparency level of each of these four colours. CMYK colures when added together become darker, and together with black, they support the attribute of ink being absorbed on the paper.
- Open a 12 cm by 8 cm new file with 72px resolution in Photoshop
- Create a new layer
- Add a layer mask
- Select a hard brush and change the spacing to 140% with a brush tip of 20 px
- Make sure the foreground colour is black and background colour is white
- Select the rectangle tool making sue it is in Paths mode
- Click on the mask layer thumbnail and then select Windows, Paths
- Select Stroke Path and select Brush
- Select Load Paths as a selection from the Paths window
- Go back to Layers window
- Fill the selection with white and then select it, inverse and delete
- Hide background
- Add a picture of a oak tree leaf to a new layer and stroke it with grey
- Create a text layer, 5P
- From the shape layer, in nature selection select wave and drop it as a fill layer
- Duplicate it and bring the duplicate down a bit to make 4 lines in the wave
- Merge the duplicate with the original
- Double click on this layer and reduce the opacity
- Select Free transform and rotate it a bit.
- Merge all layers
- Save as a stamp and enjoy over a postcard background
Here we go, another browser added to the world of internet browsing, but this time, i anticipate something of the "Take Over the World" nature, something of a great power waiting to happen and watch us all, everything we look at, all we desire to read about, all we love to watch, or see, all of our habits, such as shopping, reading, sports, arts and so much that I can say, even all our feelings and desires.
Google Chrome logo speaks to us, looks at us, and says in a very dark voice, "you are mine!". As we see in our dark rooms behind our cold desks, with the world going downward in a crazy spin, we tab into the internet for news, for friendship, for communication and for love! And "Google" gives it all to us for free: browser, email, chat, maps, applications made of many mash ups, films, pictures, games, shopping on line, calendar, documents, presentations, databases, video conferencing, ....
And we sit at our desks with the eye of our web cams connecting us to whoever is watching. There will be no privacy, no freedom in the future, We will be all prisoners of technology and brains who control them.
Happy Chrome folks. I love it as you do. We will all do, because it gives us what we want. It deserves to be the one and the only, and we deserve to be its slaves.
And by the way, read more about Google Chrome, technical advantages in my next post.