September 19th, 2007

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Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge

Photoshop is all about the selection. You select something, and then you do something with the selection. Nothing more, nothing less and you'll never go wrong using this application.

As in just about every version of Photoshop that has ever been released, CS3 has made even greater strides in the area of making selections. The new Quick Selection Tool used in combination with the Refine Edge palette is about the most helpful and clean way of selecting the edges of an object in your image that I have ever seen. This new revised Quick Selection tool is so smooth. You basically set the parameters of your Quick Selection tool - as if it were a brush - and paint the general area of your image edges and Photoshop is watching what you do, interpreting what you consider to be the general edges of what you are wanting to select and it figures out selecting just what you want it to. It's VERY fast and clean. Then, you can invoke the Refine Edge palette, and you have seemingly infinite control over exactly how the edges of that selection behave. Check out the palette to the right to get an idea of what you could do to "refine" that edge. With radius, feathering, smoothing, and various display settings, I believe this new combo will cut down on my masking and selecting time in a quantifiable way.

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09/19/07: Sale on refurbished Epson projectors…

Epson’s clearance e-store is having a sale on refurbished projectors. For instance you can get a 1200 ANSI lumens projector under for $399. Awesome!

Click here for details. If you like the look of projecting your digital images / digital projects onto large screens…you can do it quite affordably with refurbished projectors for not a lot of money.

There are also great deals on point and shoot cameras, printers and scanners. (About the only thing I wish they had a little lower prices on is their storage devices…but, hey, we can’t get always get what we want all the time, eh?)

EDIT: I stand corrected! \o/ I just bought an Epson P-2000 40GB portable storage device (refurbished) for $254.95 after instant rebate. Very niiiiiiiiiiiiice…I’ve been wanting one of those doo-hickeys…makes life easier when I’m shooting weddings with a 2nd shooter…I won’t have to wait to get the files! Thanks Epson…you all ROCK!!

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Park for the Dogs

Black and White Lab blurred
Originally uploaded by sakjosep

East Lansing used to have a really nice dog park right by the Commuter Lot. For some reason they decided to close it down and make it into a disc golf course. Thankfully for us dog lovers, Lansing has opened a brand spankin' new dog park, located off Aurelius Road adjacent to Hawk Island Park.

The park is named Soldan Park, after its benefactors Howard and Erma Soldan. It's a large well-groomed grass park, with an all-dogs-welcome policy. I went to the old East Lansing dog park and it was a great place to take photos as dogs chase and play. It's good practice for those of us dSLR shooters who want to learn how to do sports and action style photography. Take your pooch and camera, and have some fun. See you there!

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Freeware: EvJO Photo-Image Resizer

Name: EvJO Photo-Image Resizer 1.3
Description: The EvJO Photo-Image Resizer enables you to quickly resize one file or a selection of image files for use in Web and E-mail. The converted files are saved in a different folders, so your original images are not altered at all. EvJO Photo-Image Resizeroffers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit.
License: Free
File Size: 1.48 MB
Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

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