WHAT IS 'VANNA WHITE'S MAILBOX"?
Would anyone care to buy a vowel?
Sunday, May 29, 2011
If I could do it all over again
I would wade more I would gather sea shells and listen
I would build BIG sand castles
I would speak of cabbages and Kings
Friday, May 27, 2011
Photoshop Makes Something Out of Nothing - NYTimes.com:
Photoshop Makes Something Out of Nothing - NYTimes.com:
By ROY FURCHGOTT
"The newest version of Adobe Photoshop, CS5, has some pretty tricky tools, and at least one that the developers at Adobe didn’t know about. But it’s a surprise that can come in handy.
The new tool is called content aware fill. What it does is to allow you to remove an unwanted element from a photo and to automatically fill the spot with a background that matches the rest of the photo..."
"...The tool won’t work on just any image and repeating patterns are best. “It doesn’t work well on a street for instance, where there is no pattern,” Mr. Hughes said, especially when the area you are trying to fix is vast. “Let’s say you gave it a large area to fill, say 30 percent, and you’ve got a flagpole here and a car there, it’s really hard for it.”
An attempt to use it on a missing corner of a vintage photo didn’t work, but it might have been a problem of trying to repair too large an area, said Mr. Hughes. “The trick is to carve it up in small pieces.” So just repair smaller pieces at time rather than an entire missing section all at once.
While it’s fine for removing a piece of trash from a lawn, or a lens flare, be careful about overusing content aware fill and calling the result a photo. You can sail past the point of fixing a photo and straight to pure illustration."
By ROY FURCHGOTT
"The newest version of Adobe Photoshop, CS5, has some pretty tricky tools, and at least one that the developers at Adobe didn’t know about. But it’s a surprise that can come in handy.
The new tool is called content aware fill. What it does is to allow you to remove an unwanted element from a photo and to automatically fill the spot with a background that matches the rest of the photo..."
"...The tool won’t work on just any image and repeating patterns are best. “It doesn’t work well on a street for instance, where there is no pattern,” Mr. Hughes said, especially when the area you are trying to fix is vast. “Let’s say you gave it a large area to fill, say 30 percent, and you’ve got a flagpole here and a car there, it’s really hard for it.”
An attempt to use it on a missing corner of a vintage photo didn’t work, but it might have been a problem of trying to repair too large an area, said Mr. Hughes. “The trick is to carve it up in small pieces.” So just repair smaller pieces at time rather than an entire missing section all at once.
While it’s fine for removing a piece of trash from a lawn, or a lens flare, be careful about overusing content aware fill and calling the result a photo. You can sail past the point of fixing a photo and straight to pure illustration."
Thursday, May 26, 2011
To Market, To Market - what a difference a day makes
Tuesday, May 17
Thursday, May 26
And, what is your definition of "right", if I may be so bold...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Recent Adventures
Juanita Bay Park; Kirkland, WA
Vietnam War Memorial; Olympia, WA
Snoqualmie Falls; Snoqualmie, WA
Just for the fun of it! :)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Space Shuttle Twitpic Woman Gets Paid, Credited & Snubbed By Media
Space Shuttle Twitpic Woman Gets Paid, Credited & Snubbed By Media
Since snapping photos and a short video of space shuttle Endeavour’s last takeoff from her Delta flight Monday, Stefanie Gordon has appeared on MSNBC, CBS in Palm Beach and ABC in Miami. Her Twitpic photos got significant media exposure — popping up everywhere from Anderson Cooper 360 to The Washington Post.
“I told every news organization that contacted me, ‘as long as you credit me and spell my name right, you can use it,’” Gordon tells Mashable.
But when she sat down to watch the ABC News coverage of the launch, Gordon saw her video appear without credit. CBS News also used the video footage without crediting Gordon.
No organization was legally obligated to credit her. Twitpic, the Twitter-posting service Gordon used to broadcast her photos and video, recently clarified its terms of service in order to quell the news media’s habits of hijacking newsworthy images without asking permission. The company said media outlets need to ask permission to use images or videos — but did not say they need to credit the person who took them. Yet NBC and CNN both chose to heed Gordon’s request for credit.
“It angers me,” says Gordon. “You take the time, it’s your photo, it’s sitting on your phone … it’s frustrating to see your picture without your name on it.”
Other news organizations treated her like a journalist who would expect to be compensated after capturing a newsworthy event. Gordon says The Washington Post and The St. Petersburg Times each paid $100 for the rights to print each photo. The Associated Press paid $500 plus royalties for each photo, she says.
The range of news organization responses to Gordon highlights an emerging problem: As smartphones and sharing services like Twitpic create an army of citizen journalists, the rules for how traditional media uses the information they collect are still being created. Platforms like YouTube and Flickr Commons operate under a creative commons license; what’s posted there is up for grabs by news media — but what rules, if any, should be applied to other valuable media bouncing around the social media universe?
Since snapping photos and a short video of space shuttle Endeavour’s last takeoff from her Delta flight Monday, Stefanie Gordon has appeared on MSNBC, CBS in Palm Beach and ABC in Miami. Her Twitpic photos got significant media exposure — popping up everywhere from Anderson Cooper 360 to The Washington Post.
“I told every news organization that contacted me, ‘as long as you credit me and spell my name right, you can use it,’” Gordon tells Mashable.
But when she sat down to watch the ABC News coverage of the launch, Gordon saw her video appear without credit. CBS News also used the video footage without crediting Gordon.
No organization was legally obligated to credit her. Twitpic, the Twitter-posting service Gordon used to broadcast her photos and video, recently clarified its terms of service in order to quell the news media’s habits of hijacking newsworthy images without asking permission. The company said media outlets need to ask permission to use images or videos — but did not say they need to credit the person who took them. Yet NBC and CNN both chose to heed Gordon’s request for credit.
“It angers me,” says Gordon. “You take the time, it’s your photo, it’s sitting on your phone … it’s frustrating to see your picture without your name on it.”
Other news organizations treated her like a journalist who would expect to be compensated after capturing a newsworthy event. Gordon says The Washington Post and The St. Petersburg Times each paid $100 for the rights to print each photo. The Associated Press paid $500 plus royalties for each photo, she says.
The range of news organization responses to Gordon highlights an emerging problem: As smartphones and sharing services like Twitpic create an army of citizen journalists, the rules for how traditional media uses the information they collect are still being created. Platforms like YouTube and Flickr Commons operate under a creative commons license; what’s posted there is up for grabs by news media — but what rules, if any, should be applied to other valuable media bouncing around the social media universe?
Saturday, May 14, 2011
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