(Originally posted on 2016-08-28)
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How To Fly RC Airplanes
(Original post date: 2016-08-27)
How to fly a 4 channel RC airplane:
Preflight Checklist, Launching, and Landing (webpage):
Flying your plane (webpage):
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onOne Photo Editing: Masking Trees
(Originally posted on Mar 13, 2016 as /archives/10878)
onOne has a good video on how to make complex masks.
The video exclusively uses the onOne Photo 10 suite. Instead I copy the new mask from onOne into Photoshop and use it there. I find that easier to do than using Photoshop’s masking tools, and it’s more flexible than limiting myself to onOne’s suite.
I usually only post videos that I need to use in the future. That means that you won’t see the most common photography and post processing tasks here. Those are easy enough to find via Google.
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World’s Craziest Photoshop Tutorial?
(Originally posted on 2015-02-16 as /archives/10105)
Photofocus claims that Fafa’s Photoshop Tutorial with Glove and Boots is the World’s Craziest Photoshop Tutorial. Maybe. You can see it here:
I say, “Nay. The You Suck at Photoshop series is the actual World’s Craziest Photoshop Tutorial.” Warning: it’s not as family friendly as Glove and Boots. It’s NSFW, and all-that that implies. Here’s the first video in the series:
As I get better at Photoshop, I always go back to the You Suck at Photoshop series, to get a better perspective on how I have improved.
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How Journey Gets That “Jaco Pastorius” Fretless Bass Sound
(Originally published on 2016-11-11.)
According to Bass Player Magazine‘s Facebook post:
“I found a way to emulate Jaco’s fretless sound on fretted instruments… I’d play with or without a pick, but definitely going for an enhanced attack with a thin sound playing through an Eventide Harmonizer with the pitch ratio set to 99 or 101—right below or above pitch by a cent…” – Ross Valory of Journey
Here’s exactly what he’s talking about:
Here’s a newer model of Eventide Harmonizer:
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Free Portrait Guides
(Originally posted on 2016-05-06)
(The posing and lighting guides are below.)
The “Hers” blog Facebook page has a “Posing for one” guide. I think that the negative reader comments are interesting:
The right way to make some one look better ????? In who’s eyes !!! That’s awful I’m sorry but this wrong on so many levels…so thinner arms make the shot better ??? Really come on this is hiding who you really are it’s as bad as photoshop …if you have fat arms or belly or bum so what you don’t look any less sexy ..in fact if you show your flaws and own them with confidence there is nothing more beautiful or sexy than that !!!!fact!!!!
This is silly. People, love yourselves for who you are, not for what you think is the socially acceptable version of beauty.
She looks thin whatever pose she makes cause SHE.IS.THIN
When you put a set of images in front of a subject, which ones do they want? The ones with the better poses. Plus: posing-well is easier, and more accurate, than digital editing.
Here are some posing and portrait guides from Digital Camera World:
- 54 Portrait Ideas: free downloadable posing guide
- 40 More Portrait Ideas: part 2 of our free downloadable posing guide
- Free portrait lighting cheat sheet
- Free family portrait photography cheat sheet
- Free wedding photography cheat sheet
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Loud Parties, Playing the Bass
(Originally posted on 2016-05-29)
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eprater/4380249444/
CC License: Attribution 2.0 Generic
The guy below me (at 30 Larnard St, Potsdam NY, in the early 90s), had a loud party, and played metal and classic rock records, real loud. Did he invite me? No.
Kids: if you are going to have a loud party, then you always invite the neighbors. In most cases they won’t come, but they will appreciate it, and they won’t call the police. Here endeth the lesson.
So I invited myself by plugging in my bass amp, and playing along with all of the songs. He eventually turned it down.
Did that end it? Not exactly: this started to become a regular thing, but at least he turned it down much quicker.
So one day his girlfriend stops me in the store, and says, “Hey, you’re the guy that lives above us. Every time that we have people visit, my boyfriend turns up the stereo, and then lowers the volume so that he can show everyone how you play the bass!”
All righty then…
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Outdoor Portraits Tutorial
(Originally posted on 2015-04-12 as /archives/10283)
Tony and Chelsea Northrup on outdoor portraits:
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Finite State Machines Advice and Finite State Analysis
(New posting on 2016-06-04; originally posted as /archives/4698)
How does one create a lightweight state machine, and what is finite state analysis anyway? The ACM published a paper called “The Art of the State” by John F. Cigas in 1992.
In the paper Professor Cigas describes how to do finite state analysis, and how to implement your state machines via a loop surrounding a switch statement… that’s it… its that simple.
Please read the paper. If it doesn’t make any sense, then ask me how this is used, and I will show you. Please go to this page to get the PDF: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=134541 The technique basically orders complex if-this-or-that-or-this-or-that type logic into the simplest form possible, and its really easy to do.
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Amanda & Jack Palmer: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
(Originally posted on 2016-05-05)
Amanda & Jack Palmer cover Richard Thompson‘s 1952 Vincent Black Lightning if this video. The video is quite good. The art is by David Mack of Kabuki fame. Watch it.
I was aware of the Dresden Dolls, but I didn’t start listening to Amanda Palmer until after she married Neil Gaiman, because: Neil Gaiman. I suspect that this true for many people. Most of her music is pay what you want so there’s every reason to buy it if you like it, and pay exactly what it is worth to you.
Here’s what a stock Vincent Black Shadow looks like. The image is by brett Jordan:
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