Ken’s Shoot Notes Blog

Photo Slideshows: PulpMotion and BannerZest

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Skills, Photo, Teaching, Blogging, OSX, PhotoJava.

I use Boinx’s FotoMagico for my pro digital image shows. It has wonderfully smooth transitions and lots of features, but I just bumped into PulpMotion from Aquafadas software.

Aquafadas has a slick little Flash program that’s part of the current MacUpdate Bundle Deal (check that out too!) and I bumped into PulpMotion from that.

It uses the ‘theme’ idea that’s ruined many such products, but these guys are like Apple… their design sense rocks. And on top of that, some of the themes just seem to be simple transition and text settings.

I’ll demo it and let you know if it’s as cool as it looks. Check out their site for videos of the shows created with PulpMotion.

(BannerZest Example with a theme)

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Slooooooow!

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Blogging, Rants.

Dang… I just can’t figure this out, but the Blog is loading very slowly (even before you get to the content)… Sorry!

My main site is fine and I’m exploring reasons, if it’s something with Wordpress, or the slimeball spammers that leach stuff from the blog… we’ll see.

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Get Photos Onto Your Site Easily with Slide

Posted on April 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photo, Teaching, Internet, Blogging, OSX.

I’ve been using the service from Slide.com for a while and it continues to grow and add features.

It seems their market is the MySpace, Facebook crowd of vanity and blink slideshows, but wow, for a photographer, it’s an awesome way to easily get Flash versions of your images onto your site.

The above gallery is a ‘collage’ and below is a nice sliding effect that can scroll along in your site or blog.

Other great features:

• easy shows from your images in Flickr
• the shows can be sized and look good at smaller sizes
• for all of the kitchy, trashy stuff you can do to pimp out your shows, you can still choose classy, pro-like shows with simple fades and effects
• They have a Mac Uploader and some very interesting software you can run from your desktop

Its easy and free, so go and check them out and see more of my slide shows HERE.

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I’m Wired!

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Theatre, Funny, Internet, Blogging, Games.

I’m a geek and love reading Wired Magazine. It’s the only magazine left that I don’t just get the info online. Wired has a fun thing if you’re geeky too… you can put your photo on the cover and do headlines and stuff. Try it out HERE

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Edit Photos Online with Snipshot

Posted on March 9th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photo, Internet, Blogging, PhotoJava, Photoshop.

Have you ever wanted to just do a few tweaks to a photo online… seems like a hassle to open Photoshop up just for one shot? With Snipshot.com, you can upload a photo, resize, crop rotate, enhance it all online, then save it to your computer or Flickr.

I’ll have to see how often this is handy, and I’ll keep you posted.



Snipshot: Edit pictures online

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Mars Edit

Posted on March 6th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Blogging.

My journey to redoing the blog has led me to Mars. I’m testing out Mars Edit’s demo now with this post to see if I like it.

It seems like it’s the most ‘Mac-like’ of the ones I’ve tried so far. Ecto is OK as well.

Honestly my favorite so far has been using the Flock browser for posting. It’s wonderful to have my Flickr photos sitting up there waiting for me…

Oh, I’ve just been writing more about Flock than Mars Edit. Well, so far it’s OK. I like that it uploads images to the server, not just pulling from Flickr, which can be slower. I’m now looking for image formatting options…

So I don’t see any options beyond alignment… no sizing or borders, so I’d have to hard-code that in.

So nice HTML inserts in a pulldown.

Like h2 for instance… and the mighty blockquote.

Alright-y, let’s upload this puppy and see who salutes

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