Photoshop Lightroom has proven to be a great asset to digital photographers. From the beginning Lightroom has been aimed at the digital photographer, offering up simple tools to aid the most repeated of Photoshop’s tools while keeping the interface simple and workflow logical.
Archive for August, 2008
It’s a holiday weekend in the United States. Many people are enjoying the last taste of summer before the school year begins. Things will be quiet around here until Tuesday as I take some time off to work around the house and relax with my family.
Meanwhile, here are some of the best stories from Get Rich Slowly in August:
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales died.
Time for another ProBlogger poll – looking forward to hearing what you’ve got to say on this question:
Do you Make Money Online from non Blogging Sources?
If your answer is yes – tell us what the source is in comments below.
Today was good…fairly strong traffic…many good conversations…several strong leads and follow-up opportunities and the like. Tonight was outstanding. John Wronoski of Lame Duck Books fame came to town and invited us to join us him (and two others) for dinner at SALT. As he had picked the restaurant on my suggestion (see, eg, this), I could not very well say no (“please, don’t throw me into the brier patch”).
I’ve been behind checking my email this week and it could have cost you a great deal….
Apparently the fantastic Thesis WordPress theme (see my first impressions of Thesis here) is running a special this weekend. They’ve just updated the theme with some great new features (see below) but if you buy it before the end of 31 August you get another theme from DIYthemes ‘Cosmo’ (a magazine style theme) for free.
newVideoPlayer(“/unrealmode_gizmodo.flv”, 520, 410,”"); One more IFA, one more gallery of absolutely crazy PC mods by nutty Europeans. The best of the lot was, without a doubt, this menacing Unreal…
On average how many frames do you do in one week, and what is required weekly for feature film, TV production, TV commercial and anything else you know? I have heard TV requires 500 frames a week.
This is a tough question, as every studio handles expectations and quotas differently. Generally speaking, the bigger the budget, the higher the expected quality, which means you get more time to create the animation.
This is the fourth of five finalist recipes for the Dairy Contest, the winner of which will be announced this Monday (Labor Day!) This recipe, submitted by Dani, appealed to me on many levels, not the least of which was that it resembles a similar recipe I’ve made before, which I love and gobble up unabashedly. This particular recipe had a couple of twists, of course, and used plain yogurt in the
This weeks choice is again a hard choice. This week my decision is between “Ice Road Truckers on & off the ice, Futurama beast with a million backs, and Chris Angels’s Mind Freak” Best of Season 1 & 2. This weeks choice in my opinion is “Ice Road Truckers”. This show is amazing, and still going unlike another show thanks to FOX. Season 2 of Ice Road Truckers is already airing, but you can still pick up season 1, and the new DVD.
Weekly Assignment
And The Eyes Have It in this week’s assignment. You got up close and personal and showed us what eyes can do for a picture. And there were a lot of really great entries to choose from this week! As a matter of fact, we wound up with a 4 way tie among the runners up! Our winner was Drax for the picture of the monster’s eye. We all figured we wouldn’t want this guy staring us down! Now, as for our 4 runners up, let’s start with private for her picture of the masked man. Next was liliann for her fun wide-eyed picture taken with a wide angle lens.
If you find a surprisingly cheap Mazda Miata on Craigs list the next couple of days you might want to take a rain check on that one (hehe). Check out what happened to Kim Taylors Mazda Miata.
For Sale: Clean Mazda Miata, Slight Water Damage [jalopnik.com]
I had a busy week, y’all, and I’m tired. It was my first week of classes, and of work; on top of that, there was cleaning up from Fay, taking care of new kittens, trying to figure out who to draft in fantasy football, and staying up for the DNC. Yes, I am a dork. But I am a sports dork, and as I paged through my planner this morning – determined to be organized for the first time in my life – my thoughts turned, as they often do, to basketball. Specifically, the NBA. And, as I actually noted the dates on my planner pages, my heart sank. The NBA’s season doesn’t start until October 31st. With a quadruple-header, no less! How am I going to deal that long?
During 2008, my wife and I are tracking how much time and money we spend growing food. This is the report for August.
The berry harvest continued this month at Rosings Park, our happy half acre south of Portland. Blackberry time is my favorite time of the year. And though August is often too hot for me, I’m willing to suffer the heat because I know it means the start of canning season. Sure enough, Kris has been putting up salsa and applesauce and all sorts of pickles and jams. Yum.
I got an email from Media Temple (my hosting provider for CSS-Tricks) telling me that I was going to exceed my “GPU” limit for the month. Wha? Turns out a GPU is a “Grid Performance Unit” and is a Media Temple specific way to calculate how much server resources you are using. I think everything but database stuff is included in this. They provide a “GPU Tool” as part of their interface to show you what parts of your website are causing the most usage. I figured I’d better check it out to make sure everything was normal.
