Creating an animated GIF is pretty easy with Adobe Photoshop. I will show you how I created the animated eye that you see to the right, using instructions from Build Animated GIFs in Photoshop. The secret is to use Photoshop’s Animation window. Note: I found other web instructions that recommend…
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My brother-in-law gave me his huge 65 inch LCD TV. Score! But it was a dumb TV with no Internet capability or apps support. And I didn’t have cable or a digital OTA (Over the Air) tuner. Fortunately, there were many ways to turn a dumb TV into a smart…
Leave a CommentHave you ever taken a vertical portrait video using your iPhone, import it to your computer, find that Windows Media Player will play it horizontally, and gotten a neck crick from holding your head sideways? Since the beginning, vertical portrait videos (tall and skinny) have been unwanted and unsupported, living…
1 CommentHave you ever imported movies and TV show episodes into your Apple iPad and have them show up as generic videos, not movies or TV shows? Worse, these videos show up without a preview image, just a totally black square? And are the episodes nicely grouped under the TV show’s…
Leave a CommentI was asked for help to transfer a cassette tape to an audio CD. I found a great webpage, How to transfer a tape to a CD using Audacity, which provided most of the info. (Audacity is a free audio editing program.) The basic idea is to record from cassette…
1 CommentConverting OGM to DVD Run OGMDemuxer on the .ogm file. This will generate an .avi file and one or more .ogg audio files. Use SubRip to convert to .srt file if the subtitles come as a .idx and .sub file which contains more than one language. Select VOB, open IFO…
1 CommentPlug the S-Video cable from the computer to the TV. Turn on the TV before turning on the computer. Minimize all programs (or close them). Right-click on the background desktop image and select Properties. Select the Settings tab. You should see two monitors displayed with numbers 1 and 2. Monitor…
Leave a CommentThere appears to be a lot of free one stop shop for tools to convert a movie DVD into an MPEG4 file. The way I did the conversion was the following: Install Xvid which comes with encoder. (Or DivX Pro, which is not free.) Install Fhg Radium MP3 codec for…
Leave a CommentHow to get rid of red eyes in your photos: Load the photo into Adobe Photoshop. Select red eye pupils using Elliptical Marquee Tool. Hold shift to select the second pupil. Useful commands: Ctrl-H to hide selection Ctrl-1 to see red channel Ctrl-2 to see green channel Ctrl-3 to see…
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