Learn some advanced tips and techniques for working with Adaptive Wide Angle inside of Adobe Photoshop CS6. This tutorial will give you a detailed look at the built-in correction tools that help you adjust the lens distortion in your own images. If you are ready to move to the next level in Adaptive Wide Angle then this video is for you.
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Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play – with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t).
Tim Brown is the CEO of innovation and design firm IDEO, taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface. Having taken over from founder David E Kelley, Tim Brown carries forward the firm’s mission of fusing design, business and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas – they call it “design thinking.”
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Be more green!
You can make a difference today!
Make many small changes to make one big change!
And you’ll save a lot!
Take action now!
Here’s one idea.
Limit Light Pollution
Did you know that we could save electricity,live healthier and save wildlife by just flicking a switch?
New studies have suggested that light pollution has started changing the behavior of many nocturnal animals. Many birds not only navigate by the magnetic north but they also find their way by following the night stars during their nocturnal migrations. Unfortunately with so much outdoor lighting in any of the worlds countries – these bird groups are becoming increasingly confused and flying into tall buildings and towers. in In 1981,the light drenched smokestacks at the Hydrox Generating plant in Ontario, Canada. caused the deaths of 10,000.00 birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that 4 million to 5 million birds die this way every year.
This environmental danger is not just restricted to wildlife. It has been discovered that many people suffering with sleep disorders, depression, insomnia, cardiovascular disease, and cancers stem developed their diseases from the alteration of the circadian clock caused by night-time lighting. Other studies including two that were done in Israel have concluded that there is a correlation between breast cancer and outdoor lighting. these showed that women living in highly lite areas had a 73% higher risk of developing cancer then women from living in less outdoor artificial lighting areas.
So what happens when we start limiting our outdoor lighting? Starting this July the French Government will become the world leader in preventing light pollution. With the hope of saving approximately two terawatt/hours of electricity per year the country will be mandating all commercial interior lighting to be turned off one hour after the last worker leaves. This, in conjunction with the turning off of all storefront and window lighting by 1am should save enough of electricity to light 750,000 homes.
Read more about the health effects of light Pollution here.
Read more about the wildlife toll of light pollution here.
Find more resources that will help you take action now here.
Find environmental organizations to support here.
My free March desktop calendar features an image from Iceland.
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Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on dreams.
“People need dreams; there’s as much nourishment in ’em as food.” – Dorothy Gilman
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” – Jack Kerouac
“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” – Abdul Kalam
“If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.” – Anonymous
“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” – Robert Kennedy
“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” – Akira Kurosawa
“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.” – Zadok Rabinowitz
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.” – Victor Hugo
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Dream and give yourself permission to envision a you that you choose to be.” – Joy Page
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
“The world needs dreamers, and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
“When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
“I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.” – Brian Schweitzer
My daily log of my most recent voyage to Antarctica is now live.
Feb 10 – 20 Seth Resnick and I lead an intimate workshop aboard the Sea Spirit to cross the Antarctic circle with many highlights along the way including sites we’ve visited many times before Deception Island, Half Moon Island, La Mer Channel, Plenneau Bay, Cierva Cove, Neko Harbor, Paradise Bay and others we’d never seen like Torengsen and Cuverville Islands. The locations never look the same twice, changing dramatically with season, weather, and light. On this voyage, at first calm and sunny, the weather turned windy offering many moody images.
You can see many more images and read the stories behind them here.
Plus, you can compare them with images and stories from 2011 and 2009 too.
Find out about our next voyage Fly To Antarctica / Cross The Circle 2014 here.
My free screensaver features beautiful images and fascinating facts on Antarctica.
Download it here.
Antarctica is stunningly beautiful! Explorer Roald Amundsen said, “The land looks like a fairytale.” The coldest, windiest, driest, highest, most isolated continent contains 90% of earth’s ice and 70% of its fresh water, regulating global climate and sea levels.
Learn more about Antarctica here.
Preview my book Antarctica here.
View my Antarctica alumni’s work here.
Find out about my 2014 Fly To Antarctica Sail Across The Circle workshop.
“Discover some creative new ways to use the new features found in the Contend Aware Move Tool. Russell Brown goes beyond the basics and introduces you to some very creative ways to move and extend your images.”
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“Filmmaker Andrew Stanton (“Toy Story,” “WALL-E”) shares what he knows about storytelling – starting at the end and working back to the beginning.”
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Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on motivation.
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz
“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.” – Beecher, Henry Ward
“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” – Lee Iacocca
“Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightning.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“There is only one way … to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.” – Dale Carnegie
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“No one does anything from a single motive.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” – Donald Trump
“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
“There are two levers for moving men – interest and fear.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Why did I want to win? because I didn’t want to lose!” – Max Schmelling
“The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.” – Mike Ditka
“A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” – Pat Riley
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” – Harriet Braiker
“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.” – Nolan Bushnell
“Am I motivated by what I really want out of life – or am I mass-motivated?” – Earl Nightingale
“If it doesn’t come from within, it doesn’t come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.” – Herman Cain
“Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else …’ – Archibald Alexander
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” ― Zig Ziglar
“Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.” – Peter Davies, Peter
“The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.” – Francie Larrieu Smith
“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown
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