Website Wire Framing

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I found this nice Open Source application that is nice and simple to use with a reasonable set of features in the stand alone version that I am using

The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and open source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
Multi-page document with background page
Inter-page linkings!
On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
Exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF.
Undo/redo supports
Installing user-defined stencils and templates
Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating…
Cross-platforms
Adding external objects
Personal Collection
Clipart Browser
Object snapping
Sketchy Stencil
And much more…

Licensing and Versions:

Pencil will always be free as it is released under the GPL version 2 and is available for virtually all platforms that Firefox 4+ can run. The first version of Pencil is tested against GNU/Linux 2.6 (Fedora, Ubuntu and Arch) with GTK+, Windows XP and Windows Vista/7.

http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

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Guide to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone Video Formats

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Confused with all the different resolutions for Apple devices? I found this table which may be useful, even if it is a little old.

I have been converting some videos for YouTube and needed to get the file size down so re-saving them for iPod seems to work fine for me.

www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-ipod-video-formats-and-display-resolutions

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Fujifilm X-Pro1

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Why didn’t someone else design this years ago? Well done Fujifilm for out Leicaing Leica. With interchangeable lenses, a 16MP APS C size sensor, hybrid optical /electronic viewfinder, a 3″ screen and 3 single focus lenses of 28mm, 50mm and 90mm equiv.

Larger and heavier than many mirrorless cameras with no internal flash but with extended 25,600 ISO, movie mode with full HD at 24fps and focal plane shutter – it has got to be a winner for photojournalism.

Can’t wait to get my hands on one later this year.

Fujifilm X-Pro1

See what the Fujifilm website says about it’s new baby www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x_pro1/product_views/

Read the preview review on DP Review www.dpreview.com/previews/fujifilmxpro1/

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Edna’s 85th

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Edna’s 85th from Christopher Preece on Vimeo.

A film featuring my Mum the day after her 85th birthday, in her new flat. Mum can talk, and will talk non-stop when I take still photos of her. However when she realised that this was video she clammed up for a while.

Anyway I let her chat on and kept the camera rolling, to make what this little film that I cherish, but perhaps won’t have quite the same effect on other people.

Filmed handheld with a compact camera, a Fujifilm X10 that isn’t really designed for video where you need good sound. I’m pleasantly surprised with teh quality, although it took some editing in FCP to get it like this. Maybe next time I will use the Canon XH-A1 that I picked up on ebay a few months ago.

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NextGEN Gallery for WordPress

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I am using WordPress for lots of different website these days, I’m so impressed with the range of useful plug-ins that are available for it. However you need to understand and get to know each plug-in to get the best out of them.

The ubiquitous NextGEN plug-in is a case in point as it doesn’t look right in good old Internet Explorer unless you tweak its CSS like this:

.ngg-gallery-thumbnail {
width:100px;padding-right:10px;}

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Its beautiful and a dream to hold!

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I’ve failed. I have succumbed to all the marketing gibberish. I took advantage of a £40  discount. But it’s really is something special, something that I have been looking for, for a long time. I can’t believe that I have got one. The delivery guy had no idea what was in the box, it was just plain old cardboard and very light. Then inside was a black box, very Apple-like, it says quality.

What have I got?

A Fuji X10 camera of course! Just marvel at it ;-)

The 12 MP 2/3″ CMOS Sensor or the 28mm-112mm zoom lens don’t look anything special on paper. However a F2 maximum aperture and 12800 ISO made me look close. But this is nothing to the speed that it auto focuses and takes a shot. It is made for fast moving candid and street photography in low light. That is why I have it, a lightweight and pocketable digital compact with semi-professional pretensions. Believe me these are not just pretensions, this is a quality camera that is both complex and yet easy to work. I sussed it out without the the manual.

It just works like a camera should – well done Fujifilm!

Fuji X10

See the Fuji product website for some real marketing speak.

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Trying to make Photoshop CS5 do what CS3 does

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Trying to make Photoshop CS5 do what CS3 does well (why did I upgrade?)

Something as simple as making a document open with a grey background seems to be beyond CS5 – unless you follow these helpful but complkicated instructions:

‘You can automate this feature if you want images to open in a specific screen mode. Make a new action, select Insert Menu Item from the Actions panel menu, go to View->Screen Mode and select the screen mode you want to switch to, click OK and then stop recording. Go to File->Scripts->Script Events Manager, click on the Enable checkbox up top, set the Event dropdown to Open Document, select the Action radio button and then select the action that you just made and click on Add. If you want, you can also do this for when you make a new document, just set the Event dropdown to New Document and then click on Add again.’

Yes it works but that is a complicated way to set it up!

From http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74dea.html

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