Archive for June, 2005

Sensor dust

Monday, June 27th, 2005

I’ve read on sites like Luminous Landscape about how much of a problem sensor dust is on digital SLRs. Periodically, I’ll shoot something suitably smooth textured and look for dust. I still haven’t found any.
I haven’t decided yet if this is because I’m very careful (and lucky) about when I [...]

What?

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

A Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago I was doodling in Painter and decided to show people. Every day since then I’ve drawn a little cartoon and written a caption. Today I decided to put whatcartoon.com up with these cartoons.
It launches with 14 cartoons in the archive, [...]

Yahoo Media Engine and media keyboards

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

I’ve been playing with Yahoo Music. It’s nice enough but it is really irritating that it doesn’t pick up the Play/Next Track/Previous Track/etc buttons on my keyboard when YME does not have focus. WMP does and I’ve gotten used to using those buttons to control music playback while using other apps (such [...]

image processing tools

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

Two image processing tools I recently added to my Photoshop CS plugins folder:

FocalBlade — fancy image sharpening tool.
PTLens — free Photoshop plug-in that automates correction lens pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, and white balance

I’ve been eyeing PhotoKit and PhotoKit Sharpener too. I decided to go with FocalBlade because it seems easier to use and is cheaper [...]