Essential Software
Recently I was over a friend’s house, and we were discussing how to put media on PC’s and portable devices. I told him my method for ripping and converting media to the iPod/iPhone, and I noticed a puzzled look on his face. He had never heard of Handbrake, the free open source video conversion software I use to convert movies over to an iPod friendly format. I was shocked that he had never heard of this software, as I thought it...
Photoshop User TV Notes Episode 75
Scott (3:50) Using a stock photo of silver wear Scott shows how to create an interesting dark background by creating a black background, using the elliptical marquee tool to create a large oval, filling the oval with white, blurring the heck of of it and then duplicating it to make it really jump out. He then adds some noise to it to remove the banding from the blur and blends it with the black background to soften it up a bit. He...
Open Office FREE Office Software
There are two sides to my sentiments about Microsoft. One side genuinely knows that the entire technology revolution never would have reached the point it has with dozens of different platforms or operating systems to contend with. In this way the element of Microsoft I detest (killing competition rather than innovating) actually worked to the benefit of the consumer. So with this singular benefit fixed fast in our minds let me offer...
Featured Images In WordPress
Most new WordPress themes make use of the predictability of “Featured Images”. Featured images are used to represent the article or post. This is similar to what you see on most news sites where you will see a small thumbnail of the image next to an overview of the article. It makes for a much better and presentation and more exciting website overall. Here is the process to make a new post with a new featured image in you...
Understanding Exposure
Ok so here is the first real tidbit for this series, you know a little about me and hopefully you have scrolled though my website to see my work. In order to gain creative control and get that image YOU want there are a few basics you need to understand and grasp. Lets get into the most important EXPOSURE. Too much and it is a bright picture of well, a lot of white space, too little and it resembles your room at night with some light...
New Tech Talk – looking in the past to explore the future
Welcome my fellow tech enthusiasts to the New Tech Talk blog on The Site Company! My name is Mark Prestash, and I’m the lucky guy who gets to write the general tech column for this website. Why am I so lucky you ask? It’s because technology is a passion of mine, and writing the general tech beat blog on The Site Company’s website will allow me to write about all of the different things in the technology space that interest me....