Portrait Photography in Linux - An Extensive Guide

Right now Windows and Mac dominate the professional photography world. That does not mean though that Linux does not have the tools availabl...

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How to Add Watermarks in batch to Your Photos in Linux - DigiKam

If you are a photographer who uses watermarks on your photos, you know that adding a watermark by hand on every image is a laborious and tim...

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How to Create A Watermark for Your Photos Using Inkscape

If you want to be a photographer to make a living, or perhaps as just a side job, chances are you will want to start watermarking your image...

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How to Edit RAW Photos in Linux Using RawTherapee

After having tried many different RAW editors in Linux, I came to the conclusion that RawTherapee is my favorite. RawTherapee has many great...

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Best Software for Editing RAW photos in Linux

If you are a photographer who shoots in RAW, then chances are you have heard of and probably used Adobe Lightroom . If you use Linux however...

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Organizing your photos in Linux

If you do any sort of photography or photo editing, you will need a photo manager to handle all your photos. Linux offers quite a few differ...

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10 Tips for Portrait Photography

Portrait photography can be a lot of fun. There tends to be some higher expectations when you do portrait photography though. With landscape...

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Tip of The Day - Backing up files using external media

I recently did a post on different options for backing up and storing files online . Even though online storage and backup is wonderful, the...

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Tip of The Day - Use Your Email Client To Send and Receive Facebook Messages

Something happened this morning that made me super happy. I replied to a message from Facebook using Gmail and it worked! This must be a new...

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Tip of The Day - Your Best Options for File Sharing, Backup and Online Storage

Today I just signed up for another online file storage website.  http://uploadingit.com . I tend to sign up for as many different file stora...

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Getting Familiar with Chrome OS - Google's CR-48

Chrome OS running on CR-48 Here is an in depth review of Chrome OS on the Google CR-48 computer. The Chrome OS is a new concept for the comp...

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Happy Valentines's Day!

OK. So Valentine's Day is usually not the funnest holiday. Spending many miserable valentine days getting hopes dashed I decided to do s...

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Why I switched from Firefox to Google Chrome (And why I think you should give it a try)

VS About a month ago I made the switch official. I now use Google chrome as my default browser. I remember it as being a bitter sweet day fo...

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Create a Celebrity Wallpaper using Inkscape - Jimmer Fredette

With all the hype BYU's Jimmer Fredette has been receiving, I decided to do a celebrity wallpaper tutorial featuring him using the Gimp ...

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Create a Celebrity Wallpaper using the Gimp - Jimmer Fredette

Jimmer Fredette has been a Utah celebrity for a while now, but has slowly worked his way into the national spotlight. I thought it would be ...

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Jimmer Fredette/BYU Basketball Wallpapers - Free, High Quality

The Jimmer - You Got Jimmered! BYU Cougars - Jimmer Fredette #32 The Jimmer BYU Basketball - You Got Jimmered. Done in Inkscape If you l...

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The Best Way to Download Free Textures for your Designs

Anyone getting into graphic design will eventually start using different textures. I want to feature a few of my favorite places to find som...

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Bacon Candle; Fact of Fiction? How to Make a bacon candle.

Recently on Lifehacker.com I read this article on making an oil lamp using bacon grease. I did a bit more Googleing found a site where som...

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Fake Depth of Field in Gimp - DOF Explained

Before Fake DOF After Fake DOF This tutorial will be discussing depth of field and how to create this effect in the Gimp. Read article »

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How to make a DIY Phone Charger Stand using Tennis Balls

This is a pretty simple project for making a phone charger stand out of tennis balls. It can be used for just about any type of phone with a...

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Geeky News - Bing copies Google. Just one more reason why I use Google

If you want to do a search for something online, you google it. You don't bing it. That just sounds bad (and perhaps inappropriate). Goo...

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Make your Designs Better by having better fonts

One of the simplest ways to improve any design is by having a well designed font. Fontsquirrel.com is perhaps the best place I have seen to...

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