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After looking out the window every five minutes this afternoon a Lego shipment finally arrived and I immediately built this sculpture.
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Adobe has added to the image-processing software pile for the iPhone. They’re branding it with the flagship Photoshop, and more importantly with photoshop.com. The website is a place to store & share your uploaded photos, similar to Flickr. I think it’s a little too late Adobe but it’s a valiant effort. Flickr has also come out with iPhone software that I haven’t tried out yet.
The controls for editing are pretty simple: cropping, exposure, saturation, tint, black & white, sketch (filter), soft focus, and a variety of sepia/duotone effects. Most of these have live preview while sliding your finger across the screen, which is nice. There’s multiple undo and of course the option to send it to photoshop.com.
Here’s some before & after samples after playing around with it:
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The first thing I do in the morning, for the past month, has been to sleepily shuffle into my den and pull up The Post’s obit page(s). It is in this too-bright light that I squint and search for Todges’ obituary. If I had time to make coffee before getting my routine in motion, believe me I would. And I would sit there and enjoy a cup while I slowly woke up. But that doesn’t happen. I digress. And then get dressed. (Sometimes I’m clever in the morning too.)
This morning as I’m checking I’m thinking that I’ve had enough of this daily checking and that I’m not going to do it anymore. But of course then today is the day. The link to the actual page is here but I’ll paste the entire entry as well:
M. Todd Hodges Creative Director
M. Todd Hodges, 40, a creative director at Gratis Internet, a Washington-based company that earns money giving away iPods and other items to consumers who sign up for corporate promotions, died Sept. 2 at George Washington University Hospital. He had lung cancer.
Mr. Hodges, a District resident, spent the last few months of his life at Gratis. He previously was a contract art director in the marketing department of washingtonpost.com from March 2007 to April 2008.
Earlier, he was a creative director at public relations firms and was co-owner of an advertising agency, Blitz Creative Partners in Washington.
Michael Todd Hodges was a native of Jacksonville, Fla., and a 1990 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. He settled in the Washington area in 1993 to work in graphic design.
He was a ceramics student at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where he won an award in 2005 for outstanding achievement in ceramics. He taught color theory in the school’s graphic design department.
Survivors include his mother, Patricia Hodges of Jacksonville; his father, retired Navy Cmdr. James Hodges of Stafford; and two brothers, Scott Hodges of Brunswick and Ryan Hodges of Jacksonville.
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Which color comes to mind when you think if the word “lonely”? What about “jubilant” or “decadent”?
Cymbolism is a site that’s set up so that you can assign the color you think of for certain words, albeit with a limited palette of colors to choose from. For example, there’s no pink. Regardless, it provides you with the word and its definition and you click in the color. It then provides you with a DNA-strand color bar that demonstrates the popularity of each color that other users have chosen for that word.
Let’s say your color for “hope” is bright red yet you find out others have mostly chosen a yellow or green. This doesn’t mean that your perception is wrong, only that it differs from others. Specific word searches will give you how the graph looks today, past 7 days, 30 days, 1 year and alltime.
Unfortunately, there is no graph for “future” but there is one for “junkie”
