Tips and Tricks - Photoshop: Enlarging Photos
It is not recommended to enlarge photos beyond their original size due to pixelation issues. If it is a small image less than 800 × 600 px, your results will be boxy no matter what you do. However working with a higher resolution image can produce a more successful result. When you resize an image in the Image>Image Size menu, Photoshop uses interpolation to create the modified pixels. Th…
Tips and Tricks – Photoshop: Align & Distribute Layers
In Photoshop it sometimes can be cumbersome to align multiple graphic elements that reside on different layers. Luckily the Move Tool has some great options to alleviate this issue and save lots of time.
For this tutorial we will learn how to easily and automatically align and distribute layers in a Photoshop document using the Move Tool and some handy features in the Options Bar. This tutorial w…
Augmented Reality App For Librarians
Researchers at Miami University have built an augmented reality app called ShelvAR that allows books on library shelves to be easier organized. The app quickly analyzes an entire shelf of books and identifies any out of order books; showing the librarian the fastest way to put the books back in order.
ShelvAR is an Android app that uses a set of coded tags on the spines of the books that repres…
New 3D Holographic Display Technology on the Forefront
Recently the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA ) completed a five-year program called the Urban Photonic Sandtable Display (UPSD). This Display creates a real-time, interactive, 360-degree, color 3D holographic view to assist military battle planners without the aid of 3D goggles or glasses.
The large-format interactive 3D display platform is scalable, allowing for expansion from…
Flash-to-HTML5 Converter on its Way
Just this week Adobe has released a new Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby . It is however still an experimental AIR app that lets developers convert Flash Professional files to HTML5 . It is touted as being “very easy” to use (drag and drop) and is intended to allow developers to get their content onto iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. Adobe is looking for develop…
Augmented Reality System for Learning Games
Recently students from the Terrassa School of Engineering have adapted a chess learning system to utilize augmented realities for teaching chess. It combines AR, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to utilize a high-definition home webcam, the AR Chess software, a standard board and pieces, and a set of cardboard markers the same size as the squares on the board (each marked with the…
The Google Art Project
In case you missed the article in Bubblewrap earlier this month, this posting is a bit of a re-cap with my comments added. The Google Art Project is a collaboration with some of the world’s top art museums. This site enables people to see many artworks online in very high detail. No longer do viewers have to wait in line to see some of the most popular pieces. The Google Art Project offers an a…
Adobe Learning Summit
The 2011 Adobe Learning Summit will be held on March 21st in Orlando Florida. The summit is for Learning professionals who want to be informed about the latest e-learning initiatives from Adobe and other industry leaders. The opening keynote speaker is Steven Berlin Johnson , Author of Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation . The summit is a one-day event that will be occur…
Tips and Tricks - Photoshop: Using Layer Styles
Layer Styles are a very powerful feature in Photoshop that beginners can easily learn to harness for great image effects. A Layer Style is a special effect that can be applied to an entire layer in Photoshop. Layer Styles include a multitude of textures, overlays, and lighting effects that modify how a layer relates to others layers and the background in a Photoshop document.
For this tutorial we…
Teaching and Learning with Digital Storytelling
According to the The Digital Storytelling Association, "Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many different forms. Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged, from the circle of the campfire to the silver screen, and…