About Me
In “professional life” I am a Web Developer and Team manager. In my “real life” I am a husband and dad. I enjoy photography, particularly digital photography. I am a huge fan of Picasa, Photoshop, the Gimp, and other tools for applying creativity to my photographs beyond composition and click. In the way “old school” photographers used myriad tricks to alter thier images, we digital photo geeks use our computer.
I write this blog mostly to help my friends and family learn the techniques they see me use in the photos I share with them. So you may see me repeating some of the tutorials that you see floating elsewhere on the web. I use this blog as a way of teaching, as much myself as others. I have learned that the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
So there you have it. I hope you enjoy reading the blog as much as I enjoy writing it. Please participate by leaving comments. I really like hearing from visitors.
Thanks,
Mike
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Nice blog you have here mate. Get on writing and submitting tips and tricks.
All the best.
Hello Mike,
I stumbled across your blog inadvertently, but your love of GIMP and Picasa and hex editing leads me to believe you might be able to help me out with two questions I’ve been wondering about.
1) I have a spot on the sensor of my (non-DSLR) digital camera. It shows up only on zoom spots, but it’s irritating then and it takes some time to heal it out with gimp… I was thinking that since it’s in the same spot on every camera, it might be possible to create a mask in gimp that I could apply to each affected picture — essentially to lighten the sensor mark.. What do you think? Is this possible?
2) I am continually frustrated by the keywords suggestions picasa makes. I inadvertently entered some dumb keywords early on, and now they’re always suggested first. Do you know where Picasa stores these keywords (it doesn’t appear to be in flat text in the registry and it also doesn’t appear to be in the user profile because they show up for all users) and whether I could hex-edit them out without messing up the hashes for whatever file they’re in?
Anyhow, this is a fairly out-of-the-blue request, but if you have thoughts, I’d appreciate hearing them. I’ll check back on the blog periodically but if you have thoughts, you could also drop me an email to let me know when to check.
Thanks!
Do you know which fold flatter? Blurb or Lulu? I have a lot of center bleeds in a 150 page book, and I need something that lays flatter.
I was wondering if you do special editing to your photos (put them to a specific dpi, use icc etc) when doing blurb photobooks…thanks!!
Hi!
I saw that once you posted a question on Picasa Help Forum about hidden/not-exposed filters in Picasa that are mentioned in filterdesc.xml.
I’m just wondering if you ever get any answer or clue to that thing?
Thanks
Zeljko Vranic