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Author :: Gary Wilkinson  |
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| Article Title :: Help! My Old Colour Photo has turned Pink - 5 Minute Digital Fix |
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Almost all of us will have seen this particular photographic
problem, namely, your old colour photographs appear to have
taken on an overall pink or blue tint.
This is primarily due to the chemicals within the various layers
of the photographic paper starting to breakdown, often due to
age, and the way that the photographs have been stored.
In many cases it is due to reactants in the environment
(remember acid rain?) causing a chemical reaction which
results in the fading of certain colour pigments in the photo.
Pink and blue colour shifts are commonplace.
Luckily, these colour shifts can be easily corrected, using your
favourite image manipulation software, in suc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Gary Wilkinson |
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| Article Title :: Crooked Horizons in your Photos? - 5 Minute Digital Fix |
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Remember the good old photography days?
Film camera in hand, you would see that perfect landscape,
seascape or sunset and shoot off several shots.
Perhaps a couple of weeks later, once you had returned home and
finally finished that 24 or 36 exposure film, it was off
to the photo-lab to get the film processed.
You eagerly open the packet of photographs, looking for that
superb seascape you took, knowing that it would almost certainly
be taken up by National Geographic for their monthly
magazine spread.
What do you find?
A not too bad photo, but the seascape horizon is crooked, here’s
your excuse, I hear you say.. “Well when I took the shot I was
standing on the side (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Justin Koh |
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| Article Title :: Best Home Theater - How To Choose The Best Home Theater System
For Yourself |
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At first it seems like much fun having the cash to indulge and
immerse yourself in high-definition video and surround sound,
and then you realise there's more decision to be made than just
placing a sleek TV panel and a bunch of speakers in the living
room. Investing in a home theater system practically takes some
planning in order to get the aesthetics right and make yourself
comfortable with all the equipment around.
1. Most readers won't expect this, but first of all, you do need
to get your immediate family's agreement to have a home theater
right in their midst. Decide whether it's OK to install the
system in the living room, or have a separate room dedicated for
a most complete TV wa (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Duane Shinn |
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| Article Title :: How To Play Piano Using Chord Symbols |
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Chord symbols (for example, Cmaj7 or G6) are a type of notation
used frequently in jazz and other areas of modern music to
notate chord progressions and changes. This type of notation
differs from that of classical music in that chord symbols don't
show the function of a chord the way the Roman numeral notation
does. Chord symbols, for modern music with lots of changes, are
much easier to read. They function as a sort of shorthand for
change-heavy music and are written with four chord parts in
mind: the root, the quality, the extension, and the alterations.
The first part in chord symbols, the root, tells the musician
which note is the root of the chord. In an E6 chord, for
instance, the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Nick Johnson |
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| Article Title :: Samurai Swords - Choosing a Sword to Buy |
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It’s undeniable that a well placed and mounted samurai sword or
samurai sword set looks fantastic and an ads character to any
room of the home, but is it worth spending upwards of $650 on
such a sword or sword set? This all depends on your reasons for
buying a samurai sword.
If you are merely purchasing a samurai sword for display
purposes and positioning it as a focal point in a room then you
certainly don’t need to spend anything like the amount suggested
above, you can just go for a relatively cheap manufactured
replica with the necessary sword stand. Sword stands come in a
variety of applications – table standing, wall mounted or single
standing sword stands. How you display you (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Rose Russel |
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| Article Title :: A Free Roulette System that Works |
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Many roulette systems have been tried out over the years, most
failing miserably - a classic example would be the 'Martingale'
system, which expects you to continue 'doubling up' on losing
bets with the only certainty being that at some point it will
clean you out.
The 'Supabets' (TM) method though, relies on 2 things for its
success. First, the existance of online casinos, where there are
no pit staff to notice what you are doing and throw you out, and
second, the fact that the standard roulette table has an inbuilt
flaw that is easy to exploit.
Groundwork - aside from the 0 or 00, each roulette number is
either black or red, and if you bet on black or red, you win
evens. The house edge (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Gary Wilkinson |
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| Article Title :: Removing spot scratches in your treasured photos - 5 Minute
Digital Fix |
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Probably one of the most common problems you will be faced with
in doing any type of digital photo restoration work will be to
do with spot scratches on your old photos.
When we first look at those old black and white or early colour
photos they often have small scratch marks and spots on
them from being stored incorrectly.
These small spot scratches are easily perceived by your
eye when you are looking at the photo, detracting from the
overall subject matter.
Here is a very easy quick fix using Adobe Photoshop’s History
Brush tool.
Our example "before" image on our web-site has numerous
small spot scratches on the old sepia toned photograph.
The b (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Rick Chapo |
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| Article Title :: Bird Watching Journals - Preserve Your Bird Watching Experiences |
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Bird Watching is a great way to escape the rat race and be one
with nature. Alas, your bird watching experiences can fade with
time. The best way to prevent this is to keep a bird watching
journal for your sightings and trips.
Bird Watching Journals
Take a minute to give some consideration to your most recent
bird watching experience. What sticks out in your mind? Now
think about the first time you ever went bird watching.
Undoubtedly, you remember few things about the geography, people
you went with, every bird sighted and so on. The experiences
you’ve forgotten are lost to time. If you had kept a bird
watching journal, this wouldn’t be the case.
There are famous instances of peo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Jake Berlin |
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| Article Title :: Preparing For a Leather Craft Project |
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Preparing For a Leather Craft Project
Once you've decided on your leather craft project, you'll need
the right tools and room to do the work. Being prepared ahead of
time will make your task more enjoyable and give you a sense of
satisfation when you're done. If you're like most of us you'll
probably be working on more leather craft projects over time, so
creating a designated area is probably a good idea.
What to Cut On
Regardless of the project, you’ll need to cut your piece of
leather. Choose a flat surface protected with a rubber mat. The
latter will help protect your tools and prevent them from
becoming blunt. Alternatively, you can purchase a self-healing
cutting board that comes (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Peter Lenkefi |
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| Article Title :: Buy New Kayaks |
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Kayaking is an increasingly popular sport, and one that has been
popular for quite some time now. Kayaks come in many different
guises and are made of many different materials in numerous
colours for all sorts of activities. When you want to buy new
kayaks either for yourself or someone else the best idea is to
try them out; not necessarily in the water but go to a shop and
see what type suits you best. You don’t necessarily need to buy
new kayaks there and then, just window shop.
There are essentially to types to consider when you want to buy
new kayaks: sit on and sit in kayaks. The type you choose will
depend on what you want to do, but here are a couple of reviews
to consider when yo (read full article) |
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