Category: PHOTOS

This new Steemit photo geek thing

FROT September 24, 2016

This new Steemit photo geek thing The hot new trend on Steemit seems to be to post a single photo with nothing else with it but some photo geek tech specs. Typically this will be something along the lines of Canon SX666, ISO 666, 66mm, 6 ev, f/6.6, 1/66. Clearly, for some people, this information […]

HOW’S YOUR ARSE?

FROT September 13, 2016

HOW’S YOUR ARSE? Americans say ass when they mean arse. An ass is actually a donkey like animal that makes braying noises (much like our New Zealand Prime Minister, but that’s another story) and is popular among people who either can’t afford a horse, or don’t have living space for one. Getting back to the […]

CYCLE SERVICES PHOTOS

FROT July 13, 2016

Cycle Services was our awesome purple bike shop at 174 Cuba Street Wellington New Zealand,  from 1991 to 2000 The original website is all still online here, but it’s just an archive these days. Our camera gear was not as flash as our bikes back then, and some of these photos are pretty low res, […]

DEB IN VEGAS

FROT May 7, 2016

EDITING VEGAS PHOTOS LIKE A CROPPING MACHINE  Deb let me loose on her photos from her trip to Vegas – Here’s a few of my favourites:

How to make a low res jpeg look sharper with photoshop

FROT March 14, 2016

Make crap pictures look OK 1. Image > Image Size > Resolution – change to 300dpi (Resample Bicubic Smoother) 2. Filter > Noise > Despeckle 3. Filter > Stylize > Defuse (Anisotropic) 4. Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask ( 200%) 5. Filter > Noise > Add Noise… ( 2%) 6. Duplicate the layer; Select […]

IMAGE SIZES ON WORDPRESS

FROT January 4, 2016

BEST SIZES FOR IMAGES ON WORDPRESS This is something I found confusing to begin with, so this post is a bunch of notes to myself. A big part of why I found this confusing is that coming from an old school background in Dreamweaver, I was used to thinking in terms of choosing my image […]