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Photographing old documents
3/16/2010 4:14:59 PM, Ludwig J.
At times there is a need to photograph old documents. These notes may help on those occasions. This is not for the museum professionals – they have the equipment and experience to get perfect results. I want to discuss two situations, large documents, and ...
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Image Composite Editor (ICE) ver 1.3.3 from Microsoft Research does amazing things
3/10/2010 10:16:04 PM, Vasudev
For the TechFest 2010, Microsoft Research is releasing a new version of ICE (please note it links to the MSR ICE site , which at present is having the older ver. of ICE) . The new ver is not yet made public, but soon it will be. EDIT 190310 – The new ...
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Uploading folders to SkyDrive
2/20/2010 10:02:00 AM, Ludwig J.
There are times when I want to upload not just a few pictures but a whole collection to my SkyDrive. Turns out that this is not as simple as I first imagined. Here is the procedure I attempted. You may have run into this yourself. I logged in to my Live ...
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Spaces – Your “mansion in the sky”
2/16/2010 1:47:58 PM, Ludwig J.
With your Hotmail or Windows Live e-mail account you get more than just a mail box. You get a cornucopia of services – a veritable “mansion in the sky”. This mansion can be a very private place or you can have elaborate public spaces, with rooms for just ...
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Fun with Windows Live Writer and Photo Gallery
1/5/2010 8:10:50 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Writer offers some fun options and so does Windows Live Photo Gallery. Here I will start in Photo Gallery and select some photos. Clicking the Make command offers several options. What I want to demonstrate is Make a blog post. Now if you ...
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Adjust detail – Windows Live Photo Gallery
12/17/2009 2:15:41 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Photo Gallery has a collection of tool sets for “fixing” – enhancing – your photos. One of these is “Adjust detail”. There are two controls, Sharpen and Reduce Noise, to help you make the best of your pictures. Pictures, or parts of ...
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Fix in Photo Gallery
11/27/2009 6:42:43 AM, Seika
Photo Gallery had Fix feature, which is basically a light photo editing program, somewhere under Adobe Photoshop Elements and definitely way under the famous Adobe Photoshop. But hey, like they said about cloud application, you wouldn’t always need all ...
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Take Your Digital Gift The Extra Mile
11/26/2009 6:25:48 AM, Auri Rahimzadeh
Over the years, consumer electronics have plunged in price yet increased in value. 10 megapixel digital cameras can be had for less than a Franklin, and 1080p high definition camcorders less than $250, sometimes less than $149. With “Black Friday” coming, ...
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Black and White Effects – Windows Live Photo Gallery
11/9/2009 3:20:30 PM, Ludwig J.
Windows Live Photo Gallery has a selection of tools for “fixing” – enhancing, correcting – photos. Included is a group of six tools for black and white effects. Maybe I should say more correctly “monochrome” effects, because two of them are “Cyan tone” ...
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Get more from Windows 7 – top things to do after you upgrade
11/4/2009 12:26:35 PM, Windows Live Dev Team
The Windows 7 launch is a proud moment for us at Windows Live. Windows Live delivers the software and services that make your new, or upgraded, Windows 7 PC lots of fun. So, we want to remind you to get the latest and greatest of Windows Live for your new ...
