It seemed right to celebrate the retirement of long-lived so far from Microsoft as operating system with a post that reveals a curiosity. The urban legend that the photo would default on XP desktop has been taken directly from Bill Gates during a holiday in Switzerland. Actually paternity Read more…
Today's article is different from others, but I feel I have to write. I have long subscribed to the community “Canon Club Italy“, an amateur site where users have the opportunity to meet, commodity exchange, dispense advice and get information. The classic community, oriented to photography. From the opening of the site to Read more…
In the previous article we quickly mentioned the technique of”invisible watermark“, a technique that would allow us to prove paternity of a digital photograph. The operation (as already described) is simple. The principle behind it all is to have an image “x” (my original photo which I only have to keep) Read more…
Those who describe today are the most common methods that allow us to, in the event of litigation, to resolve the issue related to the copyrights of the images. International law (with the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works) affirms that the right on the artistic work deriving from the ingenuity e Read more…
Today I raised the issue of “time lapse”, a particular photographic technique that through the sequence of shots allows the creation of small animations. To get an idea of what time lapse is, I refer you to the spectacular videos easily available on youtube, or rather to those dedicated to this one Read more…
In today's tutorial we see some small functions of gPhoto2, a program command-line oriented * NIX systems which in addition to other functions, allows us to access some of the functionality “hidden” (or non-advertised) of our cameras. It should be stated at the outset that not all cameras are supported. Read more…
Resize Images, since the photo editing programs have become part of the routine of the average, is a task as simple as trivial. It is used to shrink images mainly to save bandwidth on file transfer: a smaller image will load faster and also to use Read more…
Inspired by the comments to one of my old article, I write a brief guide to the avoidance of doubt graphical interpolation. The short article today will speak only interpolation from the point of view of the graphic software, but it should still be noted that interpolation is first of all a method for identifying new points Read more…
When we speak of “photography” we are not just talking about a vile mechanical process by which light is captured by a sensor, converted into electrical impulses, saved on a memory and made available for viewing. Of course we also talk about this, but especially of “composition“, in a sense of “art“. Read more…
Today I report an interesting site from which I often take inspiration for the writing of my tutorials. The site is PhotoShopTutorials.ws, and as you can easily guess from the name of the domain is a site full of resources for PhotoShop, usable for most of the cases even with Gimp. Today we see the Read more…