Multimedia
Using a Sony A6400 as a Webcam
If you have a nice camera you might as well use it! This is what we do when we need a webcam. It's pretty easy once you do it the first time, and it really is an upgrade in quality over even a nice webcam. First download the Sony software appropriate for your Sony camera…
Affinity Photo Techniques
(Someone else's) excellent tutorial on compositing one image within another. Tutorial on selection refinement Blend Ranges and how they work Using Blend Ranges for making HDR images from exposure bracketed photo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVtnMuHsFig
How to compose an image
Image composition, like most creative things, is both a science and an art form. The interpretation of the finished shot is universal, in other words, when you see a great painting it looks great to most everyone, but the level of conscious thought behind the creation itself and its interpretation is variable. The following is…
Basic Camera Settings
Lenses, Sensitivity / ISO, Shutter speed, Aperture, ND Filters, Reflectors and added Lights These are the core physical variables in a camera. Everything else revolves around, and supports these values. Lenses Lenses take the light that comes into them and focus's it on the camera sensor, either film or digital. Moving light in a way…
Lumix Camera Settings Greyed out?
Why Panasonic chose to disable settings from even being adjusted when they are not immediately usable is a mystery. Very often one is trying to change a setting and when you finally find it, it's greyed out, with no indication as to why or what to do to enable it. Here are some 'fixes' that…
Basic Customizing of the Woocommerce Account Page with Elementor
The Account Page This page is a little bit more complicated to get right than some of the other woocommerce pages but with a small amount of copy and paste css it's manageable. Open the woocommerce 'Account' or 'My Account' page in Elementor. (If you don't have one you can make one.)Cut the shortcode that…
Web Design
Text, typefaces, and fonts. Text for the web, as in any form of communication, needs to be legible and approachable. Meaning it needs to be understandable and at the same time, the viewer/listener needs to WANT to understand it. Miss either of those and your message loses its power. While the word 'font' traditionally includes…
