the edge of logic and intuition

Strange isn’t it, we’re all after the latest iphone/ipad/other gadgets and yet ‘nostalgic’ or ‘retro’ photos somehow seem better than the ones created by state of the art digital cameras! I’ve given the steps below to create a nostalgic (say 70s style) photo from a normal one, using the picture ‘Michelle’ from GirlReporter used from Flickr via the Creative Commons license.

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→ view the rest of the post: A nostalgic retro image technique in GIMP (1)

In this post and a couple of subsequent ones I’m looking at how to create frames using Inkscape and GIMP in order to produce vintage / retro and other effects on photos.

Below: creating a frame in Inkscape. This deals with deciding on dimensions, creating the frame and saving it in a suitable format for transparency.

→ view the rest of the post: Creating “instant photo” vintage and other frames in Inkscape

This incident made me think about debugging more broadly.

A couple of weeks ago I was sent some knitting yarn as a gift. The person sending it mentioned that there’s instructions inside the package for making a basic scarf. As you can imagine even if you don’t knit, a scarf is one of the simplest things you can make and generally involves knitting a long strip of a uniform width until the scarf is long enough.

→ view the rest of the post: Signs I should stick to knitting rather than programming

As it’s Bank Holiday I wanted something quite quick and straightforward to work on and decided I’d finally get around to the knitted tissue box cover I’ve been intending to do for a while! Mostly the boxes are a standard size though often not very decorative so whichever brand I have it would be nice to have a proper cover for it!

→ view the rest of the post: Making: tissue box cover

I pick up quite a few of the free supermarket magazines which often contain recipes and other useful information and then once I have the magazine at home it usually ends up being recycled a few weeks or months later! Some of the recipes are actually something I would want to use later though so more recently I’ve started a ’scrapbook’ to collect up all the magazine recipes and information I find from other places such as the Recipes Wiki or ones that have been passed on to me from family members etc.

→ view the rest of the post: Making: recipe scrapbook

In which I go into one of my ‘making’ projects with photos. A light spring/summer top.

→ view the rest of the post: Making: Peach, salmon and white knitted top