Category: Cool Tools
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How To Make A Zentangle Adult Coloring Page (Part 2)
Turn A Photograph Into A Coloring Book (Part 2) This past year I had a lot of fun creating the Color Me Redlands coloring book. Learning how to create the coloring pages was a 12-month journey. I hope to save you the learning curve and show you step-by-step how to make your…
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Mind Map Your Roles and Responsibilities
One of the most helpful ways to get a grasp of all your roles and responsibilities is with a Mind Map. “A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a…
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God Is My Father and Church Is My Big Brother?
“More than two dozen churches around the world have installed a facial-recognition system that monitors which members of the flock have actually shown up for the Sunday sermon. The system is called Churchix and was developed by Israeli software company, Face-six. It continually scans the religious center’s CCTV feed…
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JFJ Easy Pro Disk Repair
There is nothing worse then a scratched DVD to ruin your video watching experience. I was asking our tech guy if he had a way to “fix it”, and he mentioned that he had a disc repair kit that he hadn’t opened yet, but that I was welcome to try…
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The Gift of .GIF
Animated GIFs (pronounced Jif…as in the peanut butter) were introduced by CompuServe back in the late 1980s and have had a recent resurgence in popularity. In the past they have been difficult to make…especially for video. Not any more. You can easily make animated GIFs from a YouTube video by going to www.gifyoutube.com. This site claims…
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Multi-Page PDF Thumbnails
One of the frustrations I have when viewing an Adobe Acrobat PDF document, is that you don’t know for sure you are viewing all the pages. On more than one occasion I received a PDF, printed the document, then later came to discover there was more than the one page that had printed. Show The Thumbnails The best way to…
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Creating Photo Mosaics
I’m sure you’ve seen them around. A photo mosaic, when you are far away, you see one picture, but as you move in, you see that the picture is actually made up of hundreds (or thousands) of smaller pictures. These can easily be overused, but I find for special occasions, anniversaries and celebrating big…
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Take A PEEK At Your Website
When a total stranger takes a look at your website, wouldn’t you like to know what is going on in their mind? For most of us, usability testing is a nice idea, but is a step that doesn’t really happen. At least not as thoroughly as it should. While usability testing has been…
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DO U QR?
You’ve seen them around, the square bar code boxes that are popping up in magazines, retail locations and packaging. These are called QR Codes (Quick Response) and they are an easy way to bridge your print pieces to the digital realm. Part of their popularity is that you can create…
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“Invisible Graffiti” Experiment
Inspired by the Graffiti In The Rain article I wrote a few weeks ago, I talked my designer into doing an experiment with me, spray painting one of our ministry logos using Rust-Oleum NeverWet on cement. I wanted to test if we could create a logo that would only be…
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Graffiti In The Rain?
We don’t get a lot of rain here in SoCal, but when it does, wouldn’t it be neat to surprise your congregation with something fun like this? “NeverWet might just fuel a new form of graffiti: street art that only shows up in the presence of torrential downpours. More>> I’m trying to…
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The Ultimate “Font Nerd” Game For iOS
Like Fonts? Like video games? Have I got a game for you… “Available on iOS and Android, Type:Rider allows players to explore a series of hauntingly designed levels, each of which focuses on a specific font, as well as a time in typographic history associated with it. For example, a player might…
Bruce Herwig - Redlands Photographer 