www.jeffgardner.ca has been updated to have a more modern look and now accomodates display on iOS devices. Since Apple is dropping support for their MobileMe photo album service, I have re-designed the photo album from scratch and host it now on my site. I also sorted out all of my images. Lots more to come for the photos over the next little while. The new site has been produced using CSS3 and HTML5 without using Flash. Lots of hard work […]
Here is a link to a 40k word document that describes the current thinking around a draft document to assess and discuss the qualities of an image. Although specific to photographs, it could probably be used for most two dimensional artwork. Download word doc
Dec 15 2011 – keep getting error message “Error Creating Profile” (as if that would help anyone). Called support, got folks that could barely talk. “Good bye” was not in their vocabulary. Asked to send a Measurement file to then which I did. Was told I would get a call by next monday. We will see. Tuesday Dec 20: Wonderful news – I received a reply from x-rite – Oh wait – its a spam Christmas card! Something I can […]
Want a fast way to paste a path name on a ‘Save As’ or Open dialogue screen? Problem: Sometimes I am viewing a directory in one Application such as Finder, but then have to manually enter that path again in another application such as word or pages in order to save to the correct directory. Solutions: Here is a method of transferring that file path using Cut and Paste: 1) In Finder, select the Directory and Command+C (copy) 2) In […]
Problem: Can’t see contents of Camera Raw images. When printing images for some Customers, they provide me with JPEGs rather than Camera Raw image files even though their cameras have camera raw capability. The reason quoted is that Windows does not display the camera raw file thumbnail when using Windows Explorer and thus the camera raw files are too hard to manage. JPEGS are used instead. Solution: For those on Windows XP or Vista, you can download a Camera Raw […]
Want a fast method of checking what each blend mode in the Layers panel looks like without having to manually select each one? Use Shift and the “+” key and the next Blend Mode in the list is applied. Shift “-” to move back though the list. Note: if the Paint tool is active, the same keys apply the blend to the Paint tool so ensure other tools are active while using the above keys. Works on a Mac as […]
May 2011 Northumberland Photographic Club presentation including Monitor Brightness test shot.
We are touring the Marlborough wine country – at the north end of the South Island. NZ’s famous for its ‘young’ Sauvignon Blanc and now we are discovering that although they are still relatively new to wine making, they are also producing some quite fine Chardonnays and older ‘oaked’ Sauvignon Blanc. One of our favorite vineyards has been Cloudy Bay, which is very large, and today we discovered Seresin – a very small organic vineyard, both have wines available in […]
Wed Feb 23 – Martinborough NZ – North Island We arrived at our hotel yesterday afternoon to discover the small town quite distressed by the earthquake in Christchurch several hundred km to our south. We are currently near the south end of the North Island. Christchurch is somewhat near the north end of the South Island, and really not that far away, however we did not feel the earthquake. Needless to say we have been affected by how much this […]
Weather in New Zealand continues to be fabulous – mid 20s with refreshing sea breezes, bright days with cloud cover off in the distance, but sunny overhead. We are ‘tramping’ (day hiking) the North island, making our way from Aukland to the ‘Northland’ (Paihia) followed by a return to Aukland and a swing around the Coromandel Peninsula and then into the central thermal area around Rotorua. Next we are off to the east coast at Napier, an art deco town, […]