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skymyrka: StarTrails: Quick Guide
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Earth rotates. As it does, stars visible in a night sky change position relevant to the Earth's surface. The rotation happens a great deal faster than one would expect, and even with 30 second exposure of the night sky the star tracking becomes visible. Outlined below is a basic technique that allows to capture a series of images of the night sky. Later, combined, they reveal starTrails. Best to do it on a cloudless and moonless part of the night (or new moon). Finally, processing. The shot above is ...
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skymyrka: Photoshop Tips&Tricks: Contrast Mask
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Photoshop Tips&Tricks: Contrast Mask. Very often times composition will create light/exposure challenges. For example, very bright sky and dark ground. Another common occurrence is intentionally under- or over-exposing the image in order to capture important detail. This is common when trying to retain bright colors and highlights of the sunset or details in dark object(s) near a strong light source. Convert "Contrast Mask" to monochrome image (Image - Adjust - Desaturate). Flatten layers to finalize ima...
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skymyrka: 2010.05
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Image Processing skymyrka style (:. Since bobby picked this image, let's see the unprocessed original and final result side by side:. The photo was shot at f/2.8 so, the blur is natural bokeh. No editing there. The overall style, however is achieved in two steps. First one is to generate a tonemapped image HDR style in photomatrix, and second step is to achieve final stylizing via Photoshop. PART I: Generating Tonemapped Image. Photomatrix will complain that exposure on both images has the same value.
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skymyrka: Image Processing skymyrka style (:
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Image Processing skymyrka style (:. Since bobby picked this image, let's see the unprocessed original and final result side by side:. The photo was shot at f/2.8 so, the blur is natural bokeh. No editing there. The overall style, however is achieved in two steps. First one is to generate a tonemapped image HDR style in photomatrix, and second step is to achieve final stylizing via Photoshop. PART I: Generating Tonemapped Image. Photomatrix will complain that exposure on both images has the same value.
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skymyrka: Photoshop Tips&Tricks: Focus/Shake Recovery
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Photoshop Tips&Tricks: Focus/Shake Recovery. Some images may be recovered or made better from camera shake or bad focus by a simple Photoshop sharpening technique. The results really depend on how badly the image is affected. 1 Open image and duplicate layer (Layers - Duplicate Layer. Name your layer "Sharpening Mask"). 2 Change blending mode of the "Sharpening Mask" to Luminosity (Layer - Layer Style - Blending Options. Select Blending Mode to Luminosity). 7 Flatten layers to finalize image processing.
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skymyrka: 2008.06
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DSLRs have a great advantage over 35mm cameras: film speed can be changed on demand. With 35mm cameras what ever speed of film roll you loaded, you would have to finish it before changing the speed by loading a new roll. So, what is ISO and what all those numbers mean? Settings to select and when. Can improve the quality of images dramatically. There is no free lunch, and ISO settings have trade-offs to be taken into consideration:. Using higher ISO speeds introduces noise (aka film grain), and causes yo...
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neo220: Installing Java (Sun JDK 1.6.0) on CentOS 5
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Installing Java (Sun JDK 1.6.0) on CentOS 5. This is a quick and dirty guide to installing java on CentOS5. Do not log in as root to perform this installation, but you will need credentials with su. Command. During install, substitute 'user name' with your login handle. STEP I: SYS PREP. Set up working directories (in this example it's /rpmbuild). Mkdir -p /rpmbuild/{SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,RPMS,tmp,BUILD}. Echo "% topdir /home/user name/rpmbuild" .rpmmacros. Echo "% tmppath %{ topdir}/tmp" .rpmmacros. Rpm -...
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neo220: December 2008
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Invalid Application" error for Gmail on mobile phones. Unless u've been living under a rock and don't use a smartphone or a blackberry, you already know about all the bells and whistles of Gmail 2 for mobile. Yay to google (: Yet another reason to fall in luv. Read up more here. However, with some of the mobile phones (Sony Ericsson C905 in my case), when attempting to install mobile gmail app, " Invalid Application. To work around this problem, download the jar file here. Links to this post.
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neo220: "Invalid Application" error for Gmail on mobile phones
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Invalid Application" error for Gmail on mobile phones. Unless u've been living under a rock and don't use a smartphone or a blackberry, you already know about all the bells and whistles of Gmail 2 for mobile. Yay to google (: Yet another reason to fall in luv. Read up more here. However, with some of the mobile phones (Sony Ericsson C905 in my case), when attempting to install mobile gmail app, " Invalid Application. To work around this problem, download the jar file here. View my complete profile.
