Ryan on January 7th, 2011

You can read how it was done over at crumplepop.com/blog.

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Ryan on December 26th, 2006

Just found a pretty interesting article on PhotoCritic.org on why the author prefers a 3:2 proportion for his images. The argument is that a 3:2 proportion makes for a photo that looks like, well, a photo. To me that’s a reason to stay away from 3:2 whenever possible. Digital imaging makes it easy to print [...]

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Ryan on June 5th, 2006

Ok, I’m pretty sure this template is for a TAP folio. I bought the folio a long time ago from a store that sells mostly TAP album stuff, but pretty much every company makes one similar to this. Either way, the center panel is 11.1″ wide by 13.2″ tall with a 2 image wing on [...]

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The creator of the SimpleViewer Flash applet – you’ve seen it even if you didn’t know what it was called – has created another great one called Auto Viewer. It displays images in linear series, much like a film strip. There is an example on his site.

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Ryan on February 14th, 2006

I recently upgraded from a painfully slow Athlon 600mHz that has been sitting under my desk for the past 5 years or so to an eMachines T6524. While admittedly not the fastest computer out there, it is still exponentially faster than what I was used to. The problem I had is that I’ve become used [...]

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Ryan on January 9th, 2006

Today Adobe announced a beta version of a new product called Adobe Lightroom. Aimed at professional photographers, Labs appears to be aimed squarely as competition to Aperture from Apple. Since I don’t have a Mac, I can’t try Lightroom out to write a good review. So, here is Adobe’s page, the press release at DPReview.com, [...]

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Ryan on December 20th, 2005

Just a quick tip. If you look at the bottom of the color dialog in Photoshop, the hex representation of the color is down at the bottom. Perfect for web site work.

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