…compilation of tutorials
Somehow I never had the heart to sharpen photos digitally. This tutorial on how to sharpen photos digitally ‘cured’ me ;-)
It’s quite a difference between both parts of the picture, isn’t it?
Links:
At photojojo: Unsharp Mask: How Do You Actually Use That Thing?
I discovered kolams (English Wikipedia entry for ‘Kolam’)!
They are beautiful patterns and I do like to play around with knots and the like ;-)
It all begun when I found a tutorial on how to design kolams.
Then I first checked what kolams are and via the Englisch Wikipedia entry for ‘Kolam’ I found a Random Kolam Generator Random Kolam Generator and an Interactive Kolam Maker. I wasn’t able to use the latter in an appropriate way, double click on the circles always brought different results.
I suppose that I only have to work on it a little bit more.
But I think that I will stick to the previously mentioned tutorial on how to design kolams, especially after I have seen the kolam images at Google and flickr.
And I guess that I won’t need the receipe for kolam rice flour colour (it is in German, but it is mainly one table spoon rice flour mixed with a pinch of colouring from plants or minerals and then painted with moist fingers), because I mostly use graphic programs (that’s because I can’t draw a straight line ;-)).
Links:
Tutorial on how to design kolams
Random Kolam Generator
Generator moved to: Random Kolam Generator
Interactive Kolam Maker
Kolam Rice Flour Colour Receipe (Kolam aus Reismehl) (German)
Google search result for ‘kolam’
Google image search result for ‘kolam’
flickr photos tagged with ‘kolam’
Wikipedia:
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Kolam’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Kolam’
Here at unikatissima: Entries wit the tag ‘Image editing’
I always found flip books fascinating, therefore I had to present an instruction on how to make it youself from your own film.
I really must try it one day ;-)
Sometimes you need a nice background and I recommend the Tartan Maker for all those who like Tartan patterns.
On the picture I tried to make a Tartan which matches the blog.
Matches great, doesn’t it?
;-)
Links:
Tartan Maker
A lenticular image is an image that looks different depending on how you look at it.
photojojo published a tutorial on how to make such an image.
I already did the first steps:
From those images
I created this one ;-)
I just have to print the picture, to cut it, fold it, stuff it into the frame … ;-))
By the way, I ‘cut’ the pictures in stripes with the help of Splitz, a little freeware program. That was faster ;-) (Links see below)
Links:
4 Easy Steps to Making Old-Fashioned Lenticular Images from Your Photos
Wikipedia entry: Lenticular image
From time to time I like to play around with programs to create beautiful pictures.
Kali is one of those.
I can enjoy myself with it for hours ;-)
On the picture you see a pattern that I created.
I made a tile by cropping which I coloured in afterwards:
Then I re-combined the coloured tiles to get a repeating pattern.
In the end I made the whole pattern a little more 3D:
Links:
At Topology and Geometry Software: Kali
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘digital’
Entries with the tag ‘repeating pattern’
Here at unikatissima: Programs to make beautiful pictures with:
Knotsbag
Fractal Art (Fractal Explorer)
Self-made Landscapes (Terragen)
Droste Effects
I found an article where different points concerning photographing the Holidays are explained.
This way you can surely make beautiful pictures, but sometimes it pays to practice a little bit beforehand ;-)
When preparing this entry it crossed my mind that I once photographed Christmas glass ornaments so that fractal patterns resulted.
I even found back the blog entry where I got the idea from :)
Links:
At photojojo: How to Photograph the Holidays
At flickr: Christmas Chaos
At evil mad scientist: Christmas Chaos
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘fractal’
A lovely little gift could be the photo pencils with your own photo.
I really like the idea, it is similar to the paper pen decoration, but this time with your own photos and for a couple of pencils.
Furthermore it must be nice to decorate the recycled magazine rollups that I presented yesterday instead of pencils by glueing the clippings of your own photo on the paper rolls :)
Links:
Make Your Own Photo Pencils
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Pen Decoration
Recycled Magazine Rollups
An advent calendar doesn’t always have to be a lot of filled boxes, why not simply mailing a card a day?
It is more exciting for the recipient if the cards put together form a poster.
Photojojo shows how to make a poster with 24 cards from a photo. I think that you can also use a self-designed Christmas card for an advent calendar.
And on the back you can write a nice, amusing or inspiring aphorism (apart from the address ;-)).
Links:
Bei Photojojo: How to Turn a Photo into a Mailable Mosaic
Google search result for ‘aphorism’
Google search result for ‘aphorismus’
Here at unikatissima: Boxes not only for the advent calendar
I found a blog entry with a very cute idea: a really nice paper decoration for pens.
She offers an image that you can download and print, then you cut the decorations out and glue them onto your pens.
The blog is in French and these are the relevant points:
Click onto the image to download the PDF file with the right mouse button.
Print the pictures onto fine paper.
Cut out the images and glue onto ypur pens.
Hint: Cut the white picture with the cherry blossoms inside of the green frame.
When sharpening the pen cut first a piece of the paper away with a sharp knife and then sharpen the pen carefully.
Links:
Paper pen decoration (French)