I have three sources of inspiration for my articles: waiting for my computer to break, waiting for someone else’s computer to break, and waiting for my Uncle to want something done. And the winner is – my Uncle wanted me to print up a three-foot-wide […]
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Opera has added a new option to the Speed Dials. You can now set your own pictures for the thumbnails on the Speed Dials. I wrote about this in the last article: How To Use Custom Images On Opera Speed Dials My Method To Make
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I wrote before about the “Fill Tool” not working properly in PhotoFiltre – read here: PhotoFiltre Fill Tool Not Working Properly This procedure involved creating layers but I found a simpler way to do it. You will only need to use the “Magic Wand Tool”
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PhotoFiltre Download Photofiltre is my photo editing program of choice. It has a bunch of effects built in plus you can add plugins for extra options to edit your photos. This is my top 6 list of Photofiltre plugins. Get the plugins here When you
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I recently worked on a video where I needed part of a picture to be transparent, that is, make it see-through so the image in the background shows through. Download PhotoFiltre 7 here. Here are three ways to do this in PhotoFiltre. First, the Basic
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PhotoFiltre 7 is my choice for photo editing. It’s not as advanced as PhotoShop but it suits my needs. One problem that I have occasionally is the Fill tool overdoes it when trying to change the colour of an object. Here’s what happens: To better
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I usually use PhotoFiltre for my basic photo editing needs. Especially since version 7 included more layer support. Not as sophisticated as Photoshop, but it suits my needs. But the colour palette needs a bit of improvement. One colour I noticed missing is brown. There
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PhotoFiltre 7 I usually do my basic photo editing in PhotoFiltre 7. Sometimes I need to blur sensitive data. I used the smudge tool originally (it looks like a pointing finger in the toolbar) until I realized that PhotoFiltre has a built-in blur option. (Ed
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First attempts Today is Mother’s Day (at the time I started writing this), and I decided to create and print up a custom Mother’s Day card. Normally, I create cards, whatever the occasion, in a program called Micrografx Windows Draw. I have it installed on
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