Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

For about six months I have been debating on whether to upgrade my “everyday” camera, the Canon G2. I love the Canon series cameras; they’re easy to use and take wonderful photos. I also have a Canon 10D, but in all honesty, it’s very cumbersome. I love to use the 10D for weddings, portraits, my pets, and day outings, but [...]

Today is the last day of another 9 week session. I have had the pleasure of working with a great group of people over the last 27 weeks and I am deeply saddened by your departure. I wish you much success in the future with your careers and personal lives. Please keep in touch with me. Here are a few [...]

A few hints on using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop to remove objects from photos. Open the image that you want to work with. You can practice with this image of a church with a telephone pole and lots of other objects: removeobjectsmall.jpg Rotate the Image by 90 degrees counter clockwise. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW. Set [...]

Here are some of the galleries from out photographic adventure on May 17. Lillian – http://llee.f2o.org/photogallery/ Rebecca – http://rebecca.f2o.org/farmer Georgia – http://gwill.f2o.org/psslideshow/index.html Yvonne – http://yvonne.f2o.org/samplegallery/index.htm Yoko – http://aimawaru.f2o.org/paint/index.htm If you didn’t send me your gallery address, please add it to the comments below. We want to see your results!

To continue our Photoshop theme I thought it would be fun to create a Web Photo Gallery in Photoshop. For our practice session you can use the photos that we worked with yesterday during the “Heal Thy Self” lecture or I have a folder of cute doggie images you can use at J:\webclass\galleryoriginals. Here are sample two sample galleries Gallery [...]

I mentioned a few of programs today during our workshop. Gimp is a free image editor Irfanview is a free image viewer that can be used to convert and optimize images The Adobe Studio Exchange has all kinds of free Photoshop actions, filters, brushes, and other goodies. Photofiltre is also a free image editor I personally use BreezeBrowser to view [...]

On Friday we will use my basic photo editing in Photoshop as an outline for our workshop. You may want to print the tutorial and download and save the images associated with the tutorial before Friday. I also have some basic scanning directions for HP and Epson scanners for today’s lecture. Special Note: In order to use the scanner in [...]

Well, I can’t say that I was very happy with my photos from yesterday’s field trip. I guess it wasn’t my day with the camera and I don’t know that the overcast weather helped. I do hope that you all were able to get some good shots! But wasn’t Jill and her band awesome?! I have a whole new appreciation [...]

Transparent custom corners and borders – This technique, displayed at 456 Berea, for creating flexible and transparent boxes looks wonderful; I can’t wait to try it. So much to learn, so little time! While you’re there, read and bookmark Usability testing without a budget. When you start creating “live” sites you will need to conduct usability testing and if you’re [...]

FotoSharp makes consise guides for photographers. There are a variety of topics available: Exposure, fill flash, photographing water, sunrise/sunset photography, photographing fireworks, flower photography, effective flash range, light, sports, etc. These cards includes composition tips, shutter and aperture settings, and lighting information. These are small (3.5″x5.5″) laminated cards that you can carry in your camera bag. They also have a [...]