I’m very pleased to see Blender 2.6 Essential Training available at Lynda.com as of yesterday. I consistently recommend Lynda as an excellent resource for learning a wide variety of applications, operating systems, techniques, and methodologies. My Digital Media students use Blender to create and publish a short animated movie.
Shiloh enjoying the Christmas season
This is a picture of Shiloh, taken today, with my new 18 megapixel Canon EOS 600D camera with Image Stabilization.
Thanks mom!
By M. David Stone at PCMag.com…
In the age of digital photos, photo scanners are still around largely because most of us—or our parents and grandparents—have collections of old film-based photos. Most people would like to get those photos scanned, if they could only figure out how. If that’s the boat you’re in, here are some tips that can help.
My Digital Media students did great with our limited time using Blender and would enjoy this.
by Sam Dean at Ostatic.com…
In the graphics and animation software arena, you can find plenty of expensive, proprietary applications, but few are as powerful as Blender, which is a free, powerful open source 3D modeling, graphics and animation product.
via Free Resources for Becoming an Advanced Animator with Blender.
Whetther you use Windows, Mac, or Linux, a free and open-source alternative to PhotoShop is GIMP. I love using GIMP and teaching others the basics of how to use it. You can find my GIMP page with links to resources and download at http://www.charlesaelliott.com/tutorials/gimp/.
This tutorial is from Bernhard Stockmann at GIMPusers.com…
Tutorial: Create a colored zig zag pattern!
via Create a colored zig zag pattern! — Tutorials — gimpusers.com.
Some interesting tips and tricks using GIMP.
By Whitson Gordon at Lifehacker.com…
You can do just about anything to an image with Photoshop, but if you don’t have the cash to shell out, free program the GIMP—available for Windows, Linux, and OS X—can take you pretty far. Here are our favorite Photoshop how-tos that also work in the GIMP.
via Top 10 Photoshop Tricks You Can Use Without Buying Photoshop.
Good resources here. Required if your web site is paid for with federal funds.
Resources for understanding and implementing Section 508
via Section 508.
This is not good news for higher education. It will put universities responsible for monitoring their user’s internet activities and add significant cost to every institution which will have to be passed on to the students. SOPA is a a very pro-Hollywood act and I hope it is changed or defeated.
By Eva Galperin at Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The House Judiciary Committee will meet today for a hearing on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). What could have been an opportunity for the committee to hear from a variety of stakeholders has devolved into a parade of pro-SOPA partisans. Scheduled to testify are representatives from the Register of Copyrights, Pfizer Global Security, the Motion Picture Association of America, the AFL-CIO, and Mastercard Worldwide—many of which helped to draft this legislation in the first place, and didn’t let anyone else into the room. The only scheduled witness in opposition to the bill is Katherine Oyama, policy counsel on copyright and trademark law for Google.
via Who’s Missing From Today’s SOPA Hearing? A Short List | Electronic Frontier Foundation.