Category: FREE Stuff
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Star Trail Photography 101
This past year I’ve been learning how to take and make star trail images. Watching the stars move across the sky has intrigued me for some time. To fan the flame, I have a friend that is heavily involved with astronomy and we’ve spent many hours looking through his telescope. With…
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Samsung ULTIMATE Test Drive
I have decided to take the Samsung ULTIMATE Test Drive…and give up my 2-year-old iPhone 5S for a brand spanking new Galaxy S6 Edge for 30 days. It’s a pretty gutsy move on Samsung’s part, and it’s got to be costing them a small fortune. With the new iPhone 6S coming out…
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OCR to Formatted Word Document SOLVED
This afternoon I was handed a three ring binder with 100 printed pages and asked if I could put it in Word so it could be edited. When I inquired about the original Word.doc , I was told that the file was a year old old, two states and three secretaries removed, and that the original file…
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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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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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Before & After
Before & After is published by designer and author John McWade. John has been training designers for decades through his magazine and books. I’m a self taught designer and I credit much of what I’ve learned to my interactions with Before & After. I think it was the subtitle “How…
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Hipster Logo Made Easy
The guys over at hipsterlogo.com made this “handy guide for creating an artisanal logo.” I didn’t know what “artisanal” was so I had to look it up. Artisanal: An artisan or artizan or craftsman is a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture,…
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GO GO for Photojojo
MARVELOUS? STUPENDOUS, OUTRAGEOUS? That’s quite the claim for a website, but Photojojo delivers. Part project DYI and part store, Photojojo combines a quirk sense of fun and practical “how to” to feed the soul of your inner photographer. They have an instructional email newsletter that they send out twice a…
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Chank Fonts
A good font is “chock full of personality” — letting you establish the mood before a single word is ever read. And Chank’s Free Font Archive is a world-class collection of fun, original fonts that fit this description. Enjoy : ) * These fonts are free for you to use for your…
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Little Things Matter
My mother has a saying “The littles add up to the bigs.” I couldn’t agree more. A 1% change doesn’t seem like much, but compounded day by day, over a period of years and you wake up to find that you’re light years ahead from where you started. Little Things Matter is a…
Bruce Herwig - Redlands Photographer 