‘lod3n’, confronted by this heinous puzzle, wrote:”2 minutes in Photoshop. All too easy. So, where do I pick up my cake?”
Increase contrast.
Select the right wall of the maze using the magic wand.
Select > Modify > Expand 4 pixels
Create new layer.
Fill with Red.
Select > Modify > Contract 2 pixels.
Delete. Now you’ve got a line tracing the [...]
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How to Make a Comic Strip
Here’s a visual tour of Scott Adam’s comic-making process. If you are not already a syndicated cartoonist, just copy these steps. I want to thank Scott for posting this on his blog, I am but passing it on.
This is me at 4:59 AM, just before my BlackBerry alarm goes [...]
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I don’t know about you but I love to see examples of how other designers work–they reveal better (or worse) ways of doing things and allow me to gauge whether my methods are mainstream or totally whacked-out. “If anyone finds out how I obsess about this stuff,” I tell myself, “they’ll stick me in a [...]
Ok, a client has his old USB printer die and decides to pick up a new machine from Epson. He follows the steps to install it, but it refuses to work. When print jobs are sent to it, it shows that its printing but then the spool throws up warnings and says it [...]
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I know just enough linux/unix shell to be dnagerous. But every once in a while I find out about a new command that makes me go Ooooo… why doesn’t Windows (I won’t say MacOSX since it may) have this?
lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a [...]
You’ve probably seen little LED lights of various kinds that cycle through red, green and blue, and then numerous psychedelic combinations of those colours. They’re popping up all over the place - in those twinkly mobile phone antennas, in novelty key-ring flashlights, as decorations for the burgeoning market sector of Random Things That Run From [...]
How to make a cool rotating steam engine using only a candle
and a thin tube. VERY easy to do and fun to watch! Runs for
hours! [via zedomax.com]
A very cool little project for me to make this weekend.
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Here is a cool Photoshop trick you may have seen before. Take a photo and make it pop out. It is something I’ve always thought looked really cool. Well after seeing one on the net again today it inspired me to make one for myself:
[The Something Awful Forums]
Well written tutorial on a cool little trick. [...]
This project was pretty time consuming, but easy overall. All you need is some magnetic paint. I used Rustoleum brand and I found it at Lowe’s. This stuff is pretty expensive ($20 per quart) and is probably more suited to smaller areas than a whole wall. I used two cans here and got four coats [...]
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eMoviX is a tiny Linux CD distribution containing all the software to boot from a CD and play automatically every video file localized in the CD root. Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX & XviD but more in general most AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, FLI and a few others.
If [...]
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