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One of these days I’m going to write a post about why you should use flickr. I can’t believe there’’s someone that doesn’t already know this simple fact of life, but you can never be too safe. However, until I find the inner strength to make it happen, here’s the best Flickr tools collection I’ve [...]

Finally got some time to put up a header pic here at SyncSpeed. Browsing through a bunch of old photos turned up some interesting ideas. I thew a couple together, which can be seen on the right. I needed something relativly dark because of white font of the single theme option (Chris, where are the [...]

Because time is short and I have a family, candid photography takes up a large part my photographic hobby. Candid’s happen to also be some of my favorite shots. People look real. And done correctly, they can make you feel like you’re part of that momment in time. Like you know what it feels like [...]

This happens to me all the time. I’m driving along and see something that would make a great photo. Just my luck, most of the time I don”t have my camera (there’’s a blog entry waiting to happen) and am too far away from home. So no picture for me. But, no, not Thursday night. [...]

Oh, sure, I get it. It’s all marketing. Bounce a ball and get weird pictures. It’’s red! And a ball! They”re not even going to make one until they get enough people interested in buying it. More marketing hype. I guess a bunch of people might be willing to spend the 70 bucks to take [...]

I found a handy guide to speed up the slow-as-molasses start-up time of Photoshop, as well as some other handy tips. I”m all out of creative tonight to come up with a witty description, so here’s a quote from the site.
The following article is featured in the ExtremeTech book “Hacking Photoshop CS2.” Here you will [...]

Tonight, as I stirred some melting caramel for my wife’s homemade brownies, I was trying to come up with a clever way to introduce myself and SyncSpeed. I was already feeling a little bad that out of the four blogs that are up on dpblogs.com, mine was the last without a post. No post. No [...]