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February 8, 2010

Edit Digital Photography - Professional Photo Editing - Easy and Free

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 9:55 pm
David M Peters asked:




We love to see people do great stuff with their photos. In our world, everything can be professional, yet free to use. Advanced and yet easy. Powerful enough to do cool things, yet simple enough to be used everyday. Move your photos in and out of this world from any other place on the net, and use flauntR to make them feel special. In our world, everyone gets to be a pro.

This new tool, flauntR can help you an endless number of ways. A new site on the scene, flauntR offers a vast number of tools to make your digital photo editing simple. If you ever needed a professional photo design with only a single click then check out all the things flauntR can do.

Ever wished professional photo designs could be affordable? How about free. Apply 1000’s of professional photo templates to your photos, in just a single click! Set that black and white photo of your parents in an antique wooden frame. Try the photo-compositions if you’re looking for digital scrap booking templates, frame your holiday pictures in a photo postcard or polariod for that well traveled look or go grunge with photo borders! Ecards to wish people on any occasion and event- simply choose from 100’s of photo greeting card designs, customize them with photos for that personal touch.

Everyone knows that one person who is a pro at programs like Photoshop. Get the same photo editing options at no cost and create the same results in less time. All the basics such as cut-crop-rotate tools, and basic photo effects like soften/sharpen, image boosting and red eye removal are offered plus more. Adjust exposure and color correct your photos. Use all of the same effects used by pro photographers. From adding photo vignettes for a classic look to more exotic effects, you can edit with the best of them.

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Celtic Symbols and the Number Three

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 11:02 am
Larry Christopher asked:




Students of Celtic culture and mythology, as well as people interested in the esoteric, mystical, sacred geometry and/or neopaganism, have often noticed that 3 is an especially important number in many traditions, the Celtic in particular. Some examples of this include the shamrock, which is a three-leafed plant, the triple aspect of ancient gods and goddesses, and the ancient triple spiral symbol, also known as the triskele.

The idea of the Triple Goddess is especially popular in Wiccan and neopagan circles. Robert Graves helped to bring this idea to the modern world in his influential book, The White Goddess. Graves, and many others to follow, illustrated the archetype of the Mother, Maiden and Crone as the triple aspects of the one Goddess.

Scholars have criticized the literal truth of Graves’ work, and while it definitely has a poetic logic to it, it probably is oversimplified as a description of ancient Celtic symbolism or cosmology. Nevertheless, the Celts have always thought in threes, and this includes their mythology. The goddess Brigit, in many tellings, is not one entity but three sisters -a poetess, a smith and a doctor.

The shamrock is often associated with St. Patrick, and this symbol is prevalent on St. Patrick’s Day. This saint supposedly used the shamrock to illustrate the principle of the Trinity when bringing Christianity to Ireland. Prior to this, the shamrock was held sacred by the druids, who may have associated it with the Triple Goddess. Thus, the sacredness of 3 was maintained from the pagan to the Christian era in Celtic lands.

The Triskele, or triple spiral is a symbol found in very ancient, even pre-Celtic sites in the British isles, such as Newgrange. With something like this, dating back to prehistory, it’s hard to say exactly what it meant –other than that people have held the number 3 as significant for a very long time.

Today, Celtic symbols are resurfacing in the form of art, jewelry and tattoos. While not all of these illustrate the “power of 3,” if you take notice you will probably find a surprising occurrence of threes in Celtic images even now.

February 2, 2010

Lucky Numbers and Numerology — What’s in that Lottery Ticket Anyway

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 11:18 am
Keith Abbott asked:




I can’t tell you if you’ll win the Lottery or not, that’s up to your own personal fate, but if you do win, I’ll bet I can tell you some of the numbers on your winning ticket.

Numerology predicts that certain numbers will show up in important combinations in your life again and again. You will literally draw them to you like a magnet. These numbers vibrate with you – are lucky for you if you will.

Your lucky numbers come from (2) sources: your date of birth, and your use name (what you go by). Your date of birth gives us your Life Path, birthday, and your Fadic birthday, while your use name gives us your Name lucky numbers.

To show you how there values are calculated, lets give an example. Actor Orlando Bloom was born on January 13th, 1977. We can calculate his lucky numbers as follows.

Life Path

Your Life Path is your luckiest number. It’s Numerology’s equivalent to your Sun sign in Astrology. You calculate your Life Path by adding together all the digits of your full date of birth, and then repeating the process until we get a single digit. This is called fadic addition. For Orlando Bloom, the process gives us (2) as shown below.

01-13-1977 = (0 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 7) = (29) = (2 + 9) = (11) = (1 + 1) = (2)

Birthday

Your Birthday is your second lucky number. It’s the day of the month you were born on. Orlando Bloom’s birthday value is (13).

Fadic Birthday

Your Fadic birthday is the result of adding together the digits in your birthday with fadic addition. If your birthday number is less than (10), then your fadic birthday is the same as your birthday number, and you have one less lucky number to work with. Orland Bloom’s fadic birthday value is (4).

13 = (1 + 3) = 4

Name Lucky Numbers

Your Name lucky numbers are calculated by converting each of the letters in a name to it’s position in the alphabet, reducing each number by fadic addition, and then summing the result. Two names will give us (2) lucky name numbers. If you use a third name, or an initial (such as George W. Bush), you will have (3) lucky name numbers. Orland Bloom’s name gives us (34) and (21) respectively.

Orlando = (15)+(18)+(12)+(1)+(14)+(4)+(15) = (6 + 9 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 4 + 6) = (34)

Bloom = (2)+(12)+(15)+(15)+(13) = (2 + 3 + 6 + 6 + 4) = (21)

Secondary Life Path Numbers

Finally, your Life Path number is so strong that we count all two-digit numbers, which match it when we use fadic addition on them as lucky numbers. This series of numbers can be found by adding multiples of 9 to your Life Path number. For Orlando Bloom this series of numbers is as follows:

11, 20, 29, 38, 47, 56, 65, 74, 83, and 92.

Conclusion

So Orlando Bloom’s lucky numbers are: 2, 13, 4, 34, 21, and the Life Path series: 11, 20, 29, 38, 47, 56, 65, 74, 83, and 92. This calculation can be done for anyone because everyone has Lucky Numbers just waiting to be discovered.

January 25, 2010

Editing Quality Wedding Photos - I Do

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 5:55 am
David M Peters asked:




Wedding photography is perhaps the most important field because these are the special moments in life we want to capture. Portraits are important and often play a major roll in wedding photography, but there are more to the wedding and finding the perfect photographer. Below are several tips to finding the right photographer for you.

Equipment is one of the most important aspects. There are new photographers who will start out not being able to afford a lot of camera equipment, lights, tripods and so on. This doesn’t make them a bad photographer, but it can mean they will miss important wedding moments when they are reloading the film on one camera.

In today’s world a wedding photographer should have at least one digital camera at the professional grade and two film cameras. A successful photographer will have enough cameras to put appropriate lenses on and be able to switch memory cards in the digital camera with ease. They should also have a video camera run by another person to capture the entire wedding.

Experience will determine the cost of the photographer. Most photographers who have been on the circuit longer will charge between $3000 and $10,000 for wedding photographs. It all depends on the type of package you will want and how many assistants they will need to cover the entire affair. Other photographers typically charge between $300- $3000 depending upon the package and their experience. A well-known wedding photographer is going to cost more, just for the name. These packages often denote their experience as well as the equipment they can use. A digital camera does not cost film, but purchasing one can be expensive so most new photographers may charge a little more to replace the cost of the equipment.

Price of a wedding photographer should only be a moderate issue. The top important aspect of a professional wedding photographer lies in their photography skills. They will instantly walk into the places your wedding and reception will take place and have ideas of the placement of equipment and lighting. They will also be able to show you a portfolio of past weddings.

Wedding photography is about the moments that pass between your family and yourselves. The moment where you are looking at your betrothed with love written on your face when you think no one else is looking will make the best photographs. A wedding photographer needs to see these moments and capture them as well as obtain the portraits.

Wedding photography is often seen around the home with the portraits. The portraits of the bride holding her flowers, the wedding party posing, and the groom and bride together. The traditional wedding photography will include the hands with the shinning wedding bands placed on a pillow or wrapped around the bride’s waist. The arrangement of the wedding couple is as important as the photograph. The wedding photographer should be able to pose you while capturing the light and background.

Photography is an intricate profession and when you have an important day such as a wedding you will want the best. You may have ideas of the photographs you want and the wedding photograph will be glad to help bring those ideas to fruition. Photography is about lighting, catching those unguarded moments, and creating memories that will last forever.

January 21, 2010

Great Free Photo Editing Programs

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 7:59 am
Robert Grazian asked:




Digital photography is a wonderful thing, but soon one ends up with hundreds of pictures which would be great except they need just a little correction or tweaking. Maybe there are problems with red eye, or the contrast or brightness was not quite right. Few people want to spend fifty to three hundred dollars on a photo editing program to deal with these problems. Luckily, there are plenty of quality free photo editing programs out there to choose from.

FxFoto

FxFoto’s standard edition is one of many photo editing programs that does most things that the casual photographer would like to correct in their pictures. Included in the standard edition for FxFoto are tools like lighting and image adjustment, red eye correction, blemish correction, smoothing, cropping, photo frames, and text enhancement. Of course, it goes without saying this application will save and rename standard image files. FxFoto has one of the higher user ratings from unaffiliated websites such as downloads.com hosted by CNET. The deluxe version of this software does much more including slide shows, scrapbook layouts, and collages to name a few.

Photozig Albums Express

Another great pick in editing programs would be Photozig Albums Express. This application is a great solution for managing digital photos and slide shows on your computer. This program makes it easy to transfer pictures from your computer to your camera and organize them in any way you see fit. Tools such as red eye correction and their own “quick fix” allow you to automatically adjust brightness and contrast intensity to the optimum level. The Photozig application also saves the original so it is easy to go back to your original photo if you don’t like the correction. It’s easy to use interface makes this program wonderful for all levels of users from advance to beginner. This program works with both the Windows XP and Vista operating system.

Pixresizer 2.0.3

Pixresizer is an easy to use photo file resize application. Have you ever tried to send your pictures to friends and relatives only to find that they have a hard time viewing them because the resolution or size of the photo is just too big? This nifty little program will have you quickly resizing one or ten selected photos for easier use within email applications and on the web. The smaller sized pictures are saved to a separate file so that the original photo is unchanged. It also converts photos between various different formats. As far as free photo editing programs go, this one should be included with every digital camera sold.

These are just a few choices of the numerous free photo programs and tools out there for the general public to use. Whether you desire to create digital photo albums, online scrapbooks, or slide shows, there is certain to be a quality product out there for your use. Just be sure when you are downloading an application that you are doing it from a reputable website so you can be sure you won’t get any unwanted viruses.

January 19, 2010

Edit Digital Photography - The Photoshop Digital Imaging Editing Software

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 10:47 am
David M Peters asked:




It is easy to see why Photoshop is considered to be the premier image-editing software available today. The Photoshop program contains exceptionally sophisticated effects that in the past would have taken a great deal of time and effort to achieve and condenses the steps to reach these effects to only a few simple clicks.

Photoshop does come with a price tag that some may consider high, especially when there are freeware editors available, but with the wide expanse of features it offers, it is considered a vital program for anyone working with any graphics medium from print to the web and even to movies and television.

This has resulted in the vast number of less expensive competitors (although none are really considered to be contenders), plus the piracy of the Photoshop software itself. In measures to counter this, a simplified version of Photoshop known as Photoshop Elements was introduced which has proven to be a perfect tool for beginners.

How did Photoshop get into this dominant position? Well, development started in 1987, with the first release in 1990. Since then, Adobe has been improving the software continuously, constantly taking advantage of advances in hardware power. Even now, to get the best performance out of Photoshop, you should buy as much RAM as you can afford.

It is not just Adobe’s efforts that have got Photoshop where it is today, however. The program’s plugin architecture has allowed there to be are all sorts of plugins available for more advanced work, including some plugins that actually cost more and do more than the program itself.

In this manner, Photoshop is frequently used in the same aspect as Windows as a springboard. It would be a tremendous endeavor to get these plugins to run with any other software, making competitors essentially ineffective to those using a plugin.

Photoshop for Windows and Mac OS (both OS 9 and OS X) are available today. For those wanting to use it on Linux, you will have to use Crossover Office, Codeweavers’ program that permits some Windows software to operate on Linux, but it will be quite slow.

January 18, 2010

Numerology House Numbers

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 3:04 am
Laraine Turner asked:




Understanding numerology house numbers can help you discover what vibrations your humble home is giving out. This is because numerology works on vibrations.

Before language, the only form of communication was by symbols and numbers.

Numbers had meanings then, because of each one’s unique vibration or frequency. As time went by and the scientists became the modern day Gods, the meanings of numbers became forgotten and they were just used for mathematics, a means to an end and nothing more.

What a shame!

The beautiful philosophy and psychology of numerology still allows us these ancient insights and we can relate meaning once again to all that is numerical in our lives.

For years; as a numerologist, I used to just consider the number of a house for an address analysis but often found the resulting reading incorrect. It wasn’t until I used the whole first line of an address that things fell into place and rang true.

When you think of it that does make better sense, as when someone asks you for your address, you don’t just give your number do you?

Therefore instead of thinking about numerology house numbers we should really be considering numerology addresses.

If you’re used to how numerology works then you’ll know that all the letters of the alphabet are equivalent to a number.

For example; A=1, B=2 etc, all the way up to Z which equals 26.

When this numerological code is related to the first complete line of your address (including the addition of the actual number of your house), then you will come up with the number that resonates with your home.

Always remember to reduce the final number to a single digit though.
I.E. 34 = 3 +4=7.

Unless, of course, the number is either 11 or 22 as these are master numbers in numerology and should never be reduced any further.

As for numerology house numbers, on their own, I think that they do still have some relevance but no where near as much as the whole first line of your address.

January 8, 2010

Edit Your Digital Photos - Learn About Editing Digital Photography With Photoshop

Filed under: Arts And Entertainment — Tags: , — kuru @ 10:46 am
David M Peters asked:




Color Correction: You can change the color of your image and balance the overall exposure of your images in a number of ways. The most common is by using the levels function or the curves. Here you can gently touch up your photo making the dark areas darker and the lighter areas lighter to achieve greater or lesser contrast. There are countless other methods and techniques you can use with Photoshop to better your images without having them look like they have been altered. Selective blurring can give the impression of movement, you can change certain areas of a photo such as the color of a specific object, red eye effects can be removed, skin blemishes and spots can be hidden and even with a little more skill and knowledge, complete makeovers can be achieved. We have an ever increasing collection of video tutorials on our Photography Book web site which show you step by step how to achieve some of these process.

With Picture Manager you can work with multiple pictures at once or edit pictures one at a time. You edit pictures in the Edit Pictures task pane. The quickest and easiest way to clean up all your pictures at once is to simply select them all in the Edit Pictures task pane, and then, on the Picture menu, click AutoCorrect.

Lightning Effect: You can use various types of lightning effects and of different colors, applying them to an image using Adobe Photoshop. This will enhance your photo tremendously. How to do it:- We’ll follow a stepwise manner in doing this: 1 Open your editor or Adobe Photoshop program. 2 Now open the desired image (make sure you open it in RGB format). 3 Now from the filter menu choose Renderer and then select your desired lighting effects. 4 You will see the lighting effect dialogue box opens up. 5 Choose the desired lighting style from the topmost selection menu; you will notice the options style of lights. 6 Choose the light type and move the sliders to set the intensity and focus. 7 You can also change the properties by toggling the sliders for glass, material, exposure, and ambience. 8 You can also change the color of light. To change the color of light just click on the boxes to the right of the light type and properties. This will open the color, picker dialogue box. Choose a color and press ok. 9 To change the direction or placement of light just drag any of the points on the outside ellipse or center point. Click ok after you have adjusted the direction and placement of light.

A common misconception is that Gimp lacks many more features that Photoshop has. In fact, with the exception of features that depend on patented algorithms, Gimp is 99% on par with Photoshop in capabilities. It’s just that Photoshop users try Gimp, are immediately lost in the baroque interface, and leave in terror. Having the features doesn’t do you much good if you can’t find them! The real hanger is the user interface.

The coolest thing about Photoshop is that even as powerful as it is out of the box, there are many different plug-ins to make Photoshop even more powerful. The Photoshop plug-ins can be grouped into a few major categories which include 3D, color management, digital asset management, photographic, retouching, and special effects. The retouching plug-ins can intelligently change the contrast, color, sharpness, and many other common filters to make a picture look as crisp as possible. The special effects plug-ins are my favorite, because they can make a rather plain image into something fantastic. If you use Photoshop on a regular basis, then you need to look at some of the plug-ins that are available, because they can make your life much easier, and your graphics look much better.

The basic idea is to either copy the Background Layer and make any adjustment directly to it (color adjustments, sharpening, bluring, contrast, exposure, etc.) or make that alteration in an adjustment layer. Once you’ve made the adjusted layer (either using a duplicated layer or a true adjustment layer) then Go Overboard!! I mean it, allow yourself to go way sharp, way blurry, way magenta, way saturated, whatever you’re doing, do it more than needed.

Photoshop can help you to create an entire web site without coding much HTML by hand. You can draw a complete web site in Photoshop, and then transfer your image into Image Ready so that you can slice up the image into smaller elements, and then save the images and the corresponding HTML to render the page very easily. Then all you have to do is use you’re newly created web site and entire content into the blank spaces that you have left in the template. After you have added the content to your pages, you will be ready to post your new web site to the web.

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