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Free Sounds
Looking for free sounds? I do not mean “Free for my parrot? – Aaargh!” I mean really free. Creative Commons free. http://ccmixter.org/ Example: Here Comes the Snow remix http://freesound.org/ Example: a Nightingale’s song Tip: Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licenses
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Changing Colours in Photoshop
Replace Color tool. To see this tool at work, select Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Color. Apply it to a duplicate of the background layer. Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/changing-color-in-photoshop Another Method: Hidden under the default Brush tool is the Colour Replacement Brush. Fiddling with this brush will allow finer control to replace a colour under the […]
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Inspect CSS Elements in Safari
I enabled the following “Advanced” Safari CSS Inspect Element trick so long ago, I forgot I had done it. Of course on my own machines, I enabled this once, and haven’t had to since. In the school MacLab though, students wanting to edit/inspect CSS will need to re-enable the Safari Develop menu each time they […]
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YouTube Space Lab
Commander Mike Fossum, from the International Space Station, invites you to come up with a science experiment for space and upload a video explaining it to YouTube. [youtube video=”No9k63Be35c”]
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Combine 2 Images PhotoShop Tutorial Vid
[youtube video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UWUB7QfeW8] An in-depth, beginner Adobe Photoshop CS4 tutorial covering how to blend two images with faces into one image. The example takes the eyes and smiles from one image and merges them into a second image. Tools used: layers, layer mask, brush, move, align layers.
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Example Photography Assignments
Inspiration needed? Try these assignments . . . from Digital Photography School from About.com from photoassignments.net from Goshen College from Eisenhower Middle School from Masters of Photography from The Photo Forum from The World of Eliot Porter from The Digital Story from Corporate Photography from Bethel High School
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Mac Lab Equipped, Software Installed, Resources Readied
Installed hardware: 25 new iMacs, Promethean Board and projector, MacPro server, MacBook Pro, 5 Canon Rebel XSI with Sigma 200 lenses, 5 Canon FS10 digital video cameras, tripods, monopods, Pelican cases, SD readers, and an m-audio keyboard. Installed Software: Adobe Master Suite CS3(CS4 arrives n November, 2008): InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, […]
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Exceptional Examples
Behind the scenes at Commoncraft The original new numa guy. Identity 2.0
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Comtech Computers are almost here
I’m excited. “Mac-cited”. In July my proposal for ComTech lab equipment was approved and purchases began, finally, for this project. I’ve been tracking orders from UPS, Purolator, FedEx like a kid listening to the radio for reports from the armed forces about Santa’s arrival on Christmas eve. I’ve been to the office to look at […]