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Continue reading →: Unsharp Mask
Understanding USM. OK, now that I’ve colors about right, now its time to futz with the actual images in Photoshop. Some of the things are understandable. Changing the Brightness (e.g., the Black Level), so if a picture is very bright (has a high black level), you turn it down, this…
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Continue reading →: Canon i9900 ICC Profile Guide
Well, now that I’ve got our Canon SD500 working and also calibrated all our monitors with the Spyder2 Pro, things are looking way better on the various monitors around here. The photos are way more natural and I for one can now really tell the difference between my LCDs. The…
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Continue reading →: Lame switches
Hydrogenaudio Forums -V n (in Lame 3.95.1). They keep changing the switches in Lame. First in the early versions, you used -r3mix and got the best. Then it was to use –alt-preset standard and then –alt-preset extreme Then it was just –preset standard and –preset extreme. Now they have converted…
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Continue reading →: Holland America Gifts
Cruise Gifts – Holland America Line Inc.. These guys at Holland America are smart. They even let you buy gifts for passenger son board.
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Continue reading →: NTFS Resizing
NTFS Resize Frequently Asked Questions. I installed my dad’s computer incorrectly. Got the system drive too big and then threw Windows on the wrong partitiion. To fix, I need to resize partitions. There’s now a freeware program that does this. You boot from a CD version of Linux and then…
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Continue reading →: Flight Simulators
I’m getting back to flight simulators after a long hiatus. Here’s a list of things to try: * FlightGear Flight Simulator. This is an open source project with realistic flight models and an open way to get everything. It doesn’t have the latest graphics, but is supposed to be very…
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Continue reading →: Turtle Beach Riviera
Turtle Beach – Riviera 5.1 Sound Card. This is a $30 card that has a digital S/PDIF output perfect for plugging into a home theater. Ironically, the new Creative X-Fi won’t work but the older “Audigy2 ZS”:http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=204&product=4915 does because it has an SPDIF output in the rear. It lists for…
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Continue reading →: Creative Labs X-Fi
Tom’s Hardware Guide Peripherals & Consumer Electronics: Creative X-Fi: A New World of Sound – Introduction Now that I’ve got Zoom Player working, things are pretty good with my home theater PC. Just two problems remain. First is getting digital audio out. The onboard audio gives me five channels out,…
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