Create a poster
February 18, 2008
You have a large picture or a large document from which you want to create a poster. Unfortunately, like most people you only have a printer capable of printing pages in A4 format. The solution? Cut your image into several A4 pages that you can print and you will then be assembled with an adhesive tape stuck on the back.
The joins will be almost invisible, and your friends will really have the impression of being in front of a large poster in one piece.
To cut your image (to make a banner for example) into several pieces, you could do it manually or you could join the digital age and use the free software Posteriza. You can download the software from here. After you finish with software installation simply follow steps below.
Choose the text
1. You can run Posteriza by double clicking on the desktop icon.
2. Then click on the File menu and then click New.
3. Open the tab 1. Texts.
4. If you do not want to insert text on your poster, uncheck the box with text. Otherwise, use the four fields for entering your text. You can choose the size and the text font.
5. Click the plus button to display new options and, for example, change the color of text.
6. Finally, click on the Apply button.
7. You see the result, for the time being on a page.
Add a photo
1. Then open the tab 2. Photo.
2. If you want to use an image in your poster, check the box with Photo.
3. Then click the Open image button.
4. Select the image you want to use on your hard drive and click the Open button.
5. Then click on the More button.
6. You can then modify if necessary orientation of your image.
7. You can also crop your image on an item to put forward on your poster. Resize and move it to the rectangle.
8. Finally, click on the Apply button.
Add a frame
1. Open the tab 3. Contour.
2. To add a frame around your poster, check the box With framework.
3. Set the thickness of the frame.
4. Then choose the style of context in the list.
5. Change the colors from the different lists and lines Fund.
6. Then tick Show features cutting. Dividing your poster will be simplified.
7. Finally, click on the Apply button.
Crop Image
1. Open the tab 4. Size
2. Specify when the number of page width that you want to use for your poster.
3. Auto Check the box for automatically adjusts the number of pages in height necessary to preserve the proportions of your poster.
4. Click on the Apply button to see the result. Adjust the number of page if necessary.
5. Note the number of pages necessary to accomplish your poster, as well as its shape.
6. Then click on the Printer Setup.
7. Choose your printer, select the print quality, and click OK.
8. Finally, click on the Print button to print your poster.
Assembling your poster
1. Once all your pages are printed, cut them using the features of cuts on the pages.
2. The only thing you have left to assemble them carefully with a tape pasted on their back.
3. After all that work, your poster is ready!
Use Flickr? Get Piclens
February 1, 2008
Actually the title should read “Use Google Images, Flickr, Facebook or Friendster and want to make your viewing experience more enjoyable and altogether cooler? Then go and get a free copy of Piclens”.
But that was too big to fit in the title bar.
It’s actually kind of hard to explain what Piclens does. It simply transforms your browsing experience of most popular picture websites. Instead of seeing the pictures on the site you just see the pictures.
Here’s a snap of my screen when I’m browsing my photostream at Flickr.
Mouse over any picture and it enlarges just like that one of the boat. Double click it and your screen fills with the picture and a little running strip at the bottom showing thumbnails of the other pictures on the page. It’s just like one of those gorgeously designed Flash website - but without the website. It just sits on top of the website you are browsing.
Truly beautiful and totally awesome.
Go to Cooliris right now and install a copy in your browser. Currently only Firefox has the picture wall function but most popular browsers have the full screen slideshow effect.
Once it has installed, pop over to Flickr and hover over any of the pictures. When you see one you like, click the little “play” button…and prepare to be dazzled.
HDR for beginners
January 23, 2008
High Dynamic Range.
What is it?
Well if we look at low dynamic range (LDR) first, we can then determine what is HDR.
LDR is the typical range that is recorded by most digital sensor and film. It is generally accepted to be between 6 and 9 stops.
The human eye is capable of seeing something like 10-14stops. So often what happens when we take a photograph and look at the resulting image – it’s not what we remember. The foreground is darker than we thought, and the sky is not blue. The camera has recorded the information it can see.
High Dynamic Range, or HDR has become a term for a photographic technique to expand the range of tonal values in an image.
