Amateur photographers using the image sharing website Flickr are being urged to submit a ‘portfolio’ to Getty Images for the chance to sell their pictures through the agency.
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Amateur photographers: Getty wants your images
Amateur photographers: Getty wants your images
Amateur photographers using the image sharing website Flickr are being urged to submit a ‘portfolio’ to Getty Images for the chance to sell their pictures through the agency.
YouTube with all of the sizzle but none of the Flash
Shared by Joen
Ouch. Without YouTube, what is Flash?
Filed under: Multimedia
[Our regular Sunday night Talkcast is cancelled due to a sick host. Sorry, and we’ll see you next week….
“ zhush (ĵ as in the French je + “oosh”) is a word whose usage dates as far back as 1968 in Britain. Its spelling, much like its origin, is elusive. It has been defined by the American Dialect Society (who placed it on their 2003 Word of the Year List) as a verb to mean “primp or fluff up”. ”
What the hell just happend?!
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Intense stuff. Gotta change my shorts.
I remember seeing this a few years ago, but I don’t remember it being quite this stunning 
The OpenOffice Mouse
It supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems, will retail for $74.99, and is not a joke. [OpenOfficeMouse]
Getty’s Flickr Collection calls for submissions
Call for Artists allows any Flickr user to submit images for use by Getty
A year since Getty Images partnered with Flickr to launch the Flickr Collection – a service which chose images uploaded to…
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
bell:
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color BalanceThings to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
'The new crybaby theists' by Michael Brull - the age.com.au - RichardDawkins.net
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Points for coining “crybaby theists”.
Icons of the screen icon - Wired UK
Icons of the screen icon - Wired UK: 
I got a wee mention in Decembers’ UK Edition of WIRED magazine, in a section called ‘Icons of the Screen Icon’. Nice!
Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth
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