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let your dough rise over night, and more tips (how to press it out by hand)

"Green manuring — growing crops especially for their organic matter and ability to improve the soil — can dramatically build up poor and exhausted soils and maintain the fertility of better ones."

Possible improvement on no-knead bread… the idea is to make a big dough, refrigerate it, and cut what you need to cook through the week.

"The Module Pattern is the use of closures to create, in essence, private functions that are only accessible by other functions created within that closure. Functions can be attached to an object and returned outside of that function call. This establishes a public API and only the functions defined within that public API will have access to those hidden functions." this makes it harder to debug

flickr photog demonstrates the setup for his pics. sweetness.

describes steps to clean a dslr sensor, including the wet method. i've been happy with my copper hill kit.

Good exposure times for this are 20-40 seconds per picture (the tripod will help you eliminate shaking of the camera - you can't hold the camera by hand.) A sample exposure time for ISO 800 film with f/2.8 would be 30 seconds.

includes algorithmic techniques applied to camera fingerprinting and analyzing specular highlights

nice, face-paced video on proper vegetable chopping techniques

good steps for mimicking catch lights in post-production

"a close look at some of the most interesting CSS coding structure and listed them below where you can probably use in every project you are developing." (good advice!)

How to bump vector art up a notch

How is it possible to become conversationally fluent in one of these languages in 2-12 months? It starts with deconstructing them, choosing wisely, and abandoning all but a few of them.

Clever!

toshop it's possible to eliminate them if you wish. Try changing the Curves adjustment layer's blending mode to Color and the image will combine the color shifts with the image's original luminosity.

Clever use of Picasa to create an Orton effect

"applying a consistent blurred perspective effect" useful for making screenshots appear more interesting with GIMP the key is Tools -> Transform Tools -> Perspective

Sharpening images with traditional methods increases the amount of noise in the image. This script implements a method to sharpen images described by Joern Loviscach. Basically it "squeezes" unsharp edges.

Delphi is a data-gathering tool to aid in the anonymous survey of expert judgments, obtained in a series of rounds, ultimately for forecasting purposes.

a GIMP plug-in which allows distortion of images specified by mathematical formulae. For each pixel in the generated image, an expression is evaluated which should return a pixel value

the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus.

Color was achieved primarily by creating a grandient map layer, adjusting the "range" slider, making the layer 50% transparent and throwing on a 100% sepia filter. I then added a "filter : distort : lense correction : vignette"

been led astray. Hugin is designed for stitching and assembling panoramas - you can't use it for the sort of fine HDR or layer overlay alignment work you want to do.

How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

Using Gradient Maps to Tint Photos

Translated version of: http://www.flickr.com/groups/psitalia/discuss/72057594105205801/#comment72057594105982873

n the very beginning, when the operator controls and regulates his time of exposure, when in the dark room the developer is mixed for detail, breath, flatness or contrast, faking has been resorted to. In fact every photograph is a fake from start to finis

Dotmocracy is an established facilitation method for collecting and prioritizing ideas among a large number of people. It is an equal opportunity & participatory group decision-making process.

Prints made from images captured on digital cameras can have extraordinary tonal quality, comparable to the finest full-toned traditional prints. But to reach their full potential they must be processed properly, which involves changing default camera set

Enblend is a tool for compositing images.

step by step instructions for hdr using layers and curves

While digital cameras utilize linear response curves, negative film incorporates a logarithmic one

Tonal Range Adjustments (levels)

an example of blending exposures using the curve tool. It works without any masking.

another good technique for haze is to use the unsharp mask with a large radius (50-70) and a small amount (.15-.25)

ayer mask 'silhouette' but eventually you should be able to get a result you're pleased with. Once you've applied the blur turn the layer mask off to see the effect. It really is that simple, the only hard part is creating the layer mask. For this shot I

Here I put the camera in "burst" mode and shot a series of photos while she looked at the camera and blinked normally. Then I selected one photo in which the eyes are fully open, and one in which they are fully closed. Improved a bit the alignment between

how to sepia tone a color or black and white image

With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they're actually of miniature models.