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Lilly
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Lilly
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery
From our front garden
Experiments in Photoshop
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Been playing with this tutorial in Photoshop, using Dragan and David Hill Effects
Here is the before
and the after
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Video Tutorial of the dodge and burn tools
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Video tutorial of the dodge and burn tools
Result is a bit over the top but he explains the use of the tools well.
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LED Light Ring Blur
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Messing about shooting an LED light ring in the dark.

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Long Marston Moor
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Life with an HTC Desire part 3
Create Fractals on the Move on Android phones
Found this neat Android application which lets you generate factals on the move.
It is called Fractoid and is available on the Android market place.
The multi-touch zooming works well on my HTC Desire.
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Approaching 9000
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Noticed that I’m approaching the 9000th Tweet mark on my Twitter account, this is scary so I decided to map my Tweeting habits again using http://tweetstats.com/
Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery
Puppy Linux 5
So far it seems as quick as previous version running on a VM, need to try it with older hardware at home.
Rusty Pipes
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A couple of shots of some rusty pipes at York University Science Park
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