Category: Photo & Graphics

  • Planetary pictures and wallpapers

    Planetary pictures and wallpapers

    I consider that the most useful and often the most interesting wallpapers for your computer desktop are images that are relatively feature-less. A picture full of little details continuously grabbing your attention is a major nuisance. It’s much better to have either a very smooth image or a photo containing a lot of continuous tones.…

  • JPEG compression abuse

    You know it: JPEG image format allows to compress a photo picture without too much loss. But there is some loss. For real. You want an evidence? Open an image, save it in JPEG; Start over 600 times. The image deterioration will cumulate: Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.

  • Billion years, million years

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  • New printers at R.net

    2009 starts with some new equipment in Roumazeilles.net home: An HP LaserJet 1005. The lowest B&W laser I could find at HP (I am faithful to this brand even if the last LaserJet 1022 failed suddenly far before the end of its normal useful life). It’s a Windows-based printer used on the local network, but…

  • Peter Nowacki

    Peter Nowacki

    Peter’s web site.

  • Stacey Whaley, fractals

    Stacey Whaley, fractals

    Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals (those graphical figures that tend to repeat themselves at different scales when you zoom in or zoom out). In most cases, when people follow this path, the result is quite predictable and there are a…

  • Find your PC weaknesses

    Find your PC weaknesses

    Isn’t it somewhat difficult to continuously check the status of security updates for the many software programs we have installed on our PCs, sometimes not even knowing it? Here comes Secunia PSI to help in this daunting task. It permanently observes the version of the programs on your PC and verifies if there is an…

  • Collection of tutorials for Photoshop and GIMP

    I collected a long list of tutorials (mostly in English) on my other photo website: Tutorials for Photoshop and The GIMP.

  • Multicolor image search

    Multicolor image search

    I am quite found of any tool that allow to search inside the contents of images on the web. One such tool is Multicolr Search Lab Flickr set. I really like it because it is able to look for images based on their colors. But not only that. Today they include a lot more images…