Archive for the 'Creativity' Category

Photo retouching in the media

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I’ve been debating a question of photo retouching as it relates to factual reporting in the news. Clearly, “adding and removing important content” risks distorting the information conveyed by a photograph. What about retouching such as removing blemishes, correcting color, or altering the lighting / contrast / or levels ?
What brought this to the forefront […]

Those blasted motivational posters - if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em !

Friday, July 11th, 2008

A friend pointed out that he and his motorcycle rider education friends had created some of their own motivational posters. I found a website (Big Huge Labs) that let’s you do the same. Here is my first attempt …

I was going to reference “the whirly thing out front” but I didn’t have […]

My Wordle

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

I read about Wordles so I created one out of an old post I wrote. Here is the results …

Hand written post

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Electronic arts tablet on a budget

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I have struggled using a mouse or a trackpoint or a ball for editing photos and drawing logos. I’ve always lusted for something like the WACOM Cintiq. But at $1999, it was not in my “justification budget”. My rescue came from the nearly depthless eBay. A little searching and I found a number of […]