This is not about the basics of Digital Photography, this to me is about the Holidays, time, talent character and what you do with it to benefit your fellow human beings here and now. So bear with me and read on to discover what a team of thousands are doing on December 4th this year to benefit their fellow man. Last year I heard about this movement, Help Portrait, so I investigated it and was surprised to discover the simplicity of its...

Some time ago I discovered WAMP but didn’t use it because the habit of doing everything on my actual webservers was so much a part of my daily activity that it seemed like a step backwards. As my applications have become more involved I have taken to the habit of messing with them late at night when the load would be less. But this is a horrible way to go about doing things and so I took another look at WAMP as even moderate changes...

White what? you say. Yes this is a concept that if you have never had your camera off of Auto you are not familiar with, thats OK you will be soon. White Balance refers to the temperature and therefore the color of the light you are attempting to capture.  To the human eye a white sign looks white regardless of where it is, in the shade, under Fluorescent lights, in full sun etc… The camera, no matter how much you paid for it, cannot...

I was not alive during the heyday of radio, but I’ve heard the stories from my grandparents about how amazing they all thought it was. Back then families would sit around the radio and listen to news, sports, music, and audio dramas. Even though I did not experience theses things myself, I understand what an impact radio had on the populace. It was able to transport listeners to far and distant places – some real, others not. ...

Setting watermarks is a feature of the popular word press plugin NextGen Gallery available for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ . The instructions that follow explain how to quickly set up a watermark for specific galleries or all galleries should you choose. The first thing you need to do is decide what you want your watermark to be. You have two choices you can either have a plain text waterwark or you can...

I often find myself creating interesting edge and border effects with masks that I reuse.  Since the subject of this quick tip post is simply How to create Brushes from a Layer Mask, I am going to tell exactly how to do that before I dive into a simple tutorial on the practical use of it. The quick steps to creating a brush from a layer mask follow. Alt + click on the the layer mask  to see it in an editing window. Ctrl + A to select the...