Paint Your DSLR!
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Let’s face it. Aren’t we all tired of seeing black DSLRs? These fine folks over at DigitalRev sure are. They decided to paint their Nikon D90 a nice pink/magenta.
Check it out.
Archive for the ‘How To’ Category
How To: Hide Zi8 Record Light
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Nothing is more aggravating than recording a video and then finding out later that your video is ruined due to an overly bright recording light. With the Kodak Zi8 pocket HD camera, this problem seems to happen quite often. You cannot record in low light or record any glossy type surfaces due to the record light being so bright. All of the videos have a red tint or a red dot right in the center of them.
Fed up with the red cast and red dots in my videos, I decided to do something about it. I was going to put tape over the light but then I realized, tape would eventually come off and then it’d leave a sticky residue on the camera. So the next best thing to do was to paint the darn thing! I didn’t want to paint the outside because I figured it’d be more work than what it is and it’d also take away from the over all appearance of the device. I found out you can remove the lens cover and gain access to the light post from within the lens cover.
Video after the jump. (more…)
Mobilelinked IM Update Released.
Friday, February 6th, 2009The latest version if MobileLinked IM for the iPhone was released in the App Store today. VirtueSoft added some new features to the latest release of the application. Here is a look at the new features of the application since the update.
New Features
- Google Talk support. You can now use your google talk and gmail account to chat with your contacts in Google Talk.
- Added Jabber support. The Jabber network is now supported.
- Added new message alerts.
- Added new message appearance settings.
- Added auto saving of chat-logs.
This all ads on top of what is currently offered in this application. (taken from their site)
Supported services:
- MSN (Windows Live Messenger)
- Yahoo IM
- Gtalk
- Jabber
Services to be supported soon:
- AIM
- ICQ
- QQ (OICQ)
Features:
- Multi accounts support
- Chat with friends (multi conversations)
- Changing status (online, away, busy, hidden)
- Persisting Conversations history
- Multi languages support
I really enjoy the new interface tweaks and the ability to style your messages. I will be thrilled when they add AIM support. Some features I would like to see would have to be horizontal typing and possibly the ability to add custom colors to the message styles via color picker, there are some decent colors to choose from. I’d rather have the ability to choose custom colors via the color picker.
I would also like to be able to hear he message sounds when you’re in the active IM window. The sounds only emit when you receive a message from someone in the background. Other than that, this application is very simple, fast, and it works well.
Images after the break.
Get Rid of Marker Felt in Notes
Monday, December 8th, 2008Let me be quite frank here. The Marker Felt font is an eyesore, just like its cousin Comic Sans. Apple has chosen to use Marker Felt for the Notes application, both in OS X and on the iPhone / Touch. While I understand the initial intent of using the font for the Notes application, they would like to make it appear more hand written like an actual note. Whilst this is a nice gesture, I often times find it rather annoying. I would like to be able to change the fonts to fit my liking. I am sure there are other people out there that feel the same way. I don’t feel like jailbreaking my device either. So what’s a guy to do?
Simple, turn on the international keyboard. I found this little feature that could possibly be a little bug in the Notes application. What does this all mean? Let me walk you through it.
This is what Marker Felt looks like in the Notes application.
Fading Pixel tutorial
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Difficulty : 
• Step 1: Create a new image (something like 500 X 200 is good here, you can crop the result later). Make sure the RGB mode is selected, now click ok!• Step 2: Go to Filter>> Render>> Clouds. Then go to Filter>> Render>> Difference Clouds.
Press Ctrl + F (Command + F for Mac users) about 5 or 6 times.
Press Ctrl + F (Command + F for Mac users) about 5 or 6 times.
• Step 3: Go to Filter>> Blur>> Radial Blur and use these settings:
Amount: 51, Blur Method: Zoom, Quality: Best or Good.
• Step 4: Go to Filter>> Texture>> Patchwork. Set the Square Size to 1 and the Relief to 2. Then go to Filter>> Sharpen>> Sharpen.
• Step 5: Duplicate the layer (Layer>> Duplicate) and just use the default settings. Next, go to Filter>> Stylise>> Extrude. Use the following settings:
Type: Blocks, Size: 5, Depth: 30, Random. Keep the boxes below that unchecked.
• Step 6: Go to Filter>> Blur>> Gaussian Blur and set the radius at 0.7. Now change the layers opacity to 50% and merge the layers (Crtl+E is merge).
• Step 7: Now it’s time to add some color. Press Ctrl + U, check the ‘Colorize’ box and simply move the sliders around until you get a nice color. Also, hit Ctrl+L to change things until you get the lighting how you want it.
That’s it! I hope this helps. Remember to keep coming back.
Here are two I did while doing this tutorial:
Final
Blood Tutorial
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple blood effect.
Difficulty :
First you’ll need to open a new document in Photoshop. I chose to use 400 X 400 pixels, with a white background.
• Next go up to, Filter >> Render >> Difference Clouds. You will want to repeat this step 5 times, you can press Command + F on the mac, or Control + F on the PC, five times. This will Redo the last used filter. In this case, it was the difference clouds filter that was last used.
• Now go to, Filter >> Artistic >> Plastic Wrap. I left all of the settings at the default settings, so just hit OK.
•Now hit Command + U on the mac, Control + U on the PC. This will open the Hue & Saturation dialog. You’ll want to click the check box that says “Colorize”, then slide the saturation slider to 54 and hit OK.
•Now you’ll want to go to your tool pallet and click on the Burn tool.
•Now you’ll just need to “burn” highlighted areas all over, you can choose to burn the areas you’d like, I usually burn the really bright highlights. There is no specific way to burn, or any certain pattern you should follow, you just need to burn it to your liking. Your final result should resemble the image at the top of this tutorial.
(4.75 out of 5)
