We are restless. Always reorganizing, rethinking, and reinventing ourselves. This page pulls together elements of artistic evolution -- tutorials, tips, techniques, guides, links, and learning histories. CONTENTS:
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Photoshop
Animation: Make an animated GIFof something flying across your
background. Intermediate tutorial. Photoshop (4.30.08)
7.20.07 Black
& White Stylized Photo. Use several threshold adjustment layers,
with masking, to create a striking black and white version of a color
photo. (Intermediate Photoshop Tutorial — see all
Photoshop Tutorials below)
3.11.07 Writing Savvy. Updated and new
entries for Writing
Journals (including Top
4 Tips for Online Journal Writers), 10
Tips for Adult Writing Classes, 10
Tips for Organizing Reports, and Make
It Snappy (telling short-short
stories). See all Writing Savvy entries below.
Antique postcards: tips on dating old postcards. Useful for collectors and sellers. (guide 7.5.05; updated 3.25.06)
Antique Postcards, Part 2: A close, close, close-up look at black & white printing processes. Useful for collectors and sellers. (guide 7.11.05)
ANTIQUE POSTCARDS, PART 3: a close-up look at color printing processes. Useful for collectors and sellers. (guide 7.5.05; updated 3.25.06)
Crafts - Non-Digital Handiwork
Calligraphy - Brief Flame: a tale of beauty and frustration (learning history 2.12.00)
Stitching the World Together: Book-Binding Practice with all those National Geographic maps I saved (learning history 10.6.01)
Not a Cartoonist - struggles to learn cartooning (learning history 11.16.00)
Animation: Make an animated GIFof something flying across your background.
Intermediate tutorial. Photoshop (4.30.08)
Black
& White Stylized Photo. Use several threshold adjustment layers,
with masking, to create a striking black and white version of a color
photo. Intermediate Photoshop Tutorial. (7.20.07)
Color
CAST Correction. Create an action that takes the cast out of
scanned items when your scanner calibration doesn't do it for you. Photoshop Tutorial.
(1.20.07)
Color
Photo Restoration. Rescue the "ruined" family Kodacolors
in a couple easy steps, with some optional colorization. How sweet
it is. Photoshop Tutorial (7.19.06)
DIGITAL
Rubber STAMPS: How to create virtual stamps in
Photoshop, using custom brushes. Digital divas: compete with
your rubber stamping friends! Photoshop. (8.23.05)
Mandala
Kaleidoscope Logo. Create a cosmic mystical design from your
favorite photograph in a few quick steps. (Photoshop Tutorial 7.18.06)
Memory
Maps. Work with a satellite map, Photoshop and ImageReady to
design an interactive memory map for your own web page. (Tutorial
12.17.05)
Old
Paper Backgrounds. Use oldletters and documents to create interesting
backgrounds for your web pages in Photoshop. (Tutorial
12.17.05)
Streamlining an auction listing: create a standard process for efficiently listing auctions on Ebay, with attractive, interactive photos. Photoshop, MS Frontpage (1.28.04)
Transparent
GIFs: Solving the problem of those ugly white fringes. Photoshop. (12.3.05)
Sound & Radio Production Tutorials & Resources
Sound capture: Tutorial - getting that lovely voice of yours into the computer. Recording your voice into an audio file should be a no-brainer, but it took me a while to figure it out.
Conversion of 78s: Tutorial - one woman's way of converting 1940s homemade records into digital sound. (Stanton Turntable, Sony Soundforge) (4.4.03, with lots of revision)
Radio Ambitions - a Learning History: the story behind the radio production of "Kitty Keeps on Singing" (finished 5.13.04)
Radio Production links and resources related to radio production and presentation venues.
Sound Art links and resources (5.2.09). Resources and sound archives for the avant-garde and experimental sound artist.
Projector set-up: How to set up a projector to play DVDs or VHS tapes, including the attaching of speakers. (Click on JPG diagram to get PDF version) (6.17.04)
Transfer
Image to Cell Phone by Bluetooth. Upload your own drawings or old photos
from your computer to your cell phone, using Bluetooth connectivity
on both devices. (Bluetooth Cell Phone Tutorial). 3.1.07
Video & Animation Tutorials & Resources
Photoshop Animation:
Make an animated GIFof something flying across your background. Intermediate
tutorial. Photoshop (4.30.08)
Motion
Control:
Animating Photographs in After Effects for that "Ken Burns" effect.
Intermediate tutorial (11.14.05, revised 4.28.08)
"I'm so sexy": Print to Animation tutorial. (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) (4.7.04)
Cartoon animation how-to: not exactly a step-by-step tutorial, but an overview of all the steps involved in preparing to produce an animated cartoon -- even a very crude one like mine. (Photoshop, Streamline, Illustrator) (2.18.04)
Mad in Pursuit of Video: I learn digital video, with QT movie "Uncle Booger" (learning hisotry 2.02)
Non-fiction film production links
Moviemaking community & inspiration links
Movie-making: Technical Resources links
The Artists' Book as Inspiration - using the process of creating a printed book to inspire a "web work" (learning history, 9.01)
Web Design Resources links
Life, the Website: Writing a Public Diary (learning history 2.17.01)
Make It Snappy - How to tell a short-short story. (3.10.07)
10 Tips for Adult Writing Classes (3.10.07), including the classic Mind Chatter essay (rev. 3.9.07)
Writing: Memoirs - thoughts and favorite resources for recording your life story
Writing: Journals - thoughts and favorite resources on keeping a journal or diary including Top 4 Tips for Online Diaries (rev. 3.8.07)
Writing: Personal Essays - thoughts and favorite resources on how to write essays
WRITING: 10 TIPS FOR ORGANIZING REPORTS — when the classic "outline first" method just won't work (3.8.07)