Got yourself (or a friend) one of those shiny new digital, wireless-capable picture frames? Windows Live FrameIt combines multiple RSS feeds, along with the pictures from any web site, into a single, frame-friendly feed. As the Digital Inspiration blog points out, however, the resulting output also lets you check to see when images on a [...]
Preserve Your MemoriesWith the proliferation of digital cameras, more people are taking more pictures. People are snapping pictures of children, nature scenes, sports and special events at an ever increasing rate. Cell phone cameras are improving quicky. These digital images can be used to create personalized artwork that will help preserve your memories.In Search of the Perfect PictureThe perfect
DIGITAL IMAGES & PIXELS A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image as a finite set of digital values, called picture elements or pixels. The digital image contains a fixed number of rows and columns of pixels. Pixels are the smallest individual element in an image, holding quantized values that represent the brightness of a given colour at any specific point.EXAMPLE :IMAGE TYPES1.)BINARY (BI-LEVEL) IMAGEA binary image is a digital image that has only two possible values for each pixel. Binary images often arise in digital image processing as masks or as the result of certain operations such as segmentation, thresholding, and dithering. Some input/output devices, such as laser printers, fax machines, and bilevel computer displays, can only handle bilevel images.The inter
Ravelled Sleaves: artists book copyright Vivien BlackburnThere isn't any painting going on at the moment. I have to get on and finish Sam's Christmas present book and I've been busy present buying as I've been totally disorganised this year .... ok ... disorganised as usual. I'm nearly there :) thanks in part to Amazon and Ebay!I thought I'd show you some old digital work - an artists book I made during my degree . I'd chosen a module called Integrated Imaging, which was about photography, video (I gave that a miss) and digital imagery - not that the tutors had a clue about digital imagery or photoshop! they were a painter/photographer and a film maker. I had already started using photoshop and playing with digital imagery and saw it as an ideal opportunity to explore it further. The rest of the group worked in photography or video.I was working part time, doing the degree part time and my daughters were at senior school so life was really hectic. The family were fairly underst
watercolour sketchI'm thinking around the canvasses I want to do and how I want to develop them. These first 2 are quick watercolour studies followed by a couple of digital simplifications - I'd like to do some more abstract variations on this view and these are a start on sorting out essential elements.watercolour sketchdigital manipulationdigital manipulationThis last one does really catch the essence of the light without any detail - I rather like it and though it's simplified there are some nice bleeds of colour going on.what do you think?.
We've been busy with my husband's family over from Ireland which means no painting, so I thought I'd show some digital images done using photographs and scans.I like to use the computer to work through ideas for paintings and to create images that exist in their own right.These images are part of a series I did on my daughter. all images copyright Vivien BlackburnThe first one is about a time in her life when she had to decide whether to give up a hated psychology degree half way through and change direction in her life - a younger, more carefree Her looks on. She did leave and went on to complete a law degree.In the next image she was working, doing a law degree and was constantly having to watch the time, timetable activities, meet deadlines in time .....In the following one I combined a picture of her with part of a painting by Dante Gabriel Rosetti - integrating them and providing modern equivalents for the accessories shown. I'd taken a photo of her running her fingers
There’s an article at the Digital Photography School called Ways To Protect Your Digital Images Online, and I’m a little disappointed — for more than one reason. I try not to rant about too many things, but I can’t help myself in this case. The first reason I’m disappointed is because the information is incomplete and (in my mind) it’s not the best advice I’ve seen on this topic. The second reason I’m disappointed is because of the way the comments seem to be getting handled — but I’ll get into that in a moment.
The article aims to give you options for protecting your photos online. The first suggested method is watermarking your photo, and I’m in complete and total disagreement with this notion. Watermarks can look pretty bad, and they annoy a lot of people. If you’re trying to sell or promote a photo and you place a watermark on it, you’re going to drive away more than just the people looking
A lot of files go through our pre-press department on a daily basis and we have a lot of experience and stories to share in order to assist you to get your images prepared correctly to maximize the print quality. Here is an example of a recent customer. With their consent, we share some before and after shots of their files, and how a few tips helped their designer prepare files that resulted in a top quality mailing piece.
The Anonymous Showroom is a multi-line fashion showroom in New York. As their business grows so does their need for top quality images that reflect the fashion lines they represent. The showroom receives daily shipments and sends our direct mail pieces to their clients around the country on a weekly basis. Digital photography is their only choice when it comes to a fast paced environment like Fashion. (more…)
I've been feeling really yuk with this virus and my asthma making it last :( so I haven't been getting on with the big paintings. I also had to cover for a sick colleague and ended up working extra hours.I did play with some photographs of trees and skies though and created these images by combining, layering, manipulating and generally playing with them :)They may trigger ideas for paintings - watercolour? mixed media? I think I fancy using those and experimenting - a change from oils.
I've been playing with digital variations on the paintings in the series so far. I find this often gives me ideas on ways forward in paint. The paintings won't be the same as the digital images but serve as ways of thinking ideas through and providing a new starting point.With the abstracted paintings I have no definite idea of the finished result - it's a matter of putting down marks and aiming to create a feeling/mood/colour vibration/sense of movement etc Once the first marks are down then others relate to them - constant changes are made, colours and areas can change dramatically and the works take much longer to evolve than an observational study.With a painting from direct observation so many things are 'given'. With an abstract there are so many decisions to make on the wing. I think it's like the difference between classical music and jazz.Layers may be almost totally covered, leaving just scratches and fragments flickering through overpainting of shining through thin gl
