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Google Gives Bigger Pictures to Female Celebs

Joshua Davis — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:47:14 +0000

In its efforts to compete with Bing, it looks like Google has rolled out larger pictures for female celebrities. After a couple of searches over the past week I though I saw a trend, but to confirm it I Googled the names of the winner of the best actor/best actress from the last five years and sure enough found Google was doing this.

For easy reference I have included the links below:

Female Actors
Reese Witherspoon
Helen Mirren
Marion Cotillard
Kate Winslet

Male Actors
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Forest Whitaker
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn

Photography Tip: Vertical Screen in Windows 7

Joshua Davis — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:23:34 +0000

If you’re like me most of your photos are taken in portrait orientation. Unfortunately most monitor are designed for landscape presentation, so you’re photos are never displayed in all their glory. Windows 7 now offers a feature where you can orient your monitor to display on the portrait. This is great for those with laptops, tablets, and even swivel LCDs. To change this setting in Windows 7 go to your desktop, right click somewhere on the background, and then select the option for screen resolution. A screen opens up, and next to the label that says orientation select either portrait or portrait flip.

Congratulations, you should now have oriented or flipped your screen from landscape to portrait mode. If you have any tips on better displaying your photos feel free to leave a comment.

Arielle

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:04:29 +0000

Arielle in red dress.

India

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:04:00 +0000

A photo of India from a recent meet and greet at Slyhorse Studios.

Erica

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:03:42 +0000

Erica from the recent meet and greet at Slyhorse Studios in Maryland.

Photoshop Tip: How To Remove Hotspots

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:03:25 +0000

Have you ever had hot spots (over exposed areas) on the skin that needed to be edited out in Photoshop? I’ve had this problem with hot spots many times before, and this is how I remove them.

1. Go to the clone stamp.
2. Set the blend mode to darken, set the brush opacity to around 40 percent.
3. Find a good area of skin, and then clone this onto the hot spots.

The result is pretty convincing and easy way to correct this type of lighting error in post production using Photoshop.

Jetliner

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:02:43 +0000

Africa poses underneath a jetliner in this vintage style photo.

How I Resolved a Photoshop Font Error

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:02:22 +0000

I recently installed Adobe Acrobat Professional 8, and then after I started Adobe Photoshop CS3 I would get the error “Could not complete your request because something prevented the text engine from being initialized” whenever I tried to place text on an image.

My solution was to go into the fonts folder (start > control panel > fonts) and then right click next to, but not on, any font icon. I then selected “install new fonts.” You then select “all fonts.” Then within that interface navigate to c:\Windows\Fonts. Wait several seconds for the fonts to load and then select all, then click install. You will have to verify you want to overwrite the fonts for each font you are reinstalling. Sometimes the reinstall may crash, and you’ll have to start over again. Try to keep track of which font was being reinstalled so you won’t have to restart each time it crashes.

This worked for me on system running Windows Vista Home Premium and using Adobe CS3 web premium.

I hope this works as other ideas people had such as removing the corrupted fonts, or uninstalling the offending program, did not work for me.

Prehistoric Waterfalls

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:01:47 +0000

Black and white photograph of waterfalls at Great Falls Park in Virginia. Taken shortly after sunset.

Sunrays

Joshua Davis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:01:13 +0000

Rays of sun stream through a cloud.