Archive for August, 2007

Izzy Video 61 – Light Modifiers

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Light modifiers, just like they sound, are tools you can use to modify your light source. For example, you might use them to change the color or shape of your light. In this installment of Izzy Video, I briefly discuss barn doors, color gels, and a snoot. You can click on the flash version of [...]

Izzy Video 60 – Spinning an Image

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

This weekend I’m responding to viewer requests. Previously in Izzy Video 58, I included a shot where my website was spinning against a graphical background. Many of you asked how I made that shot, so this week I’m showing you how. Once again, this tutorial is inside Apple’s Motion, but I’m sure you can create [...]

Izzy Video 59 – Cam Twist

Monday, August 13th, 2007

This weekend I’m getting extremely informal by doing a quick demo of a free application called “Cam Twist.” It allows you to add special effects in real time using your webcam. As you’ll see from the video, you can also use it to capture your computer screen as if it were a video source. It’s [...]

Automatic Feed Photo Scanners

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

If your like most people you probably have boxes or albums with photos laying around that you have been meaning to scan into your computer someday. You quickly realize that it is a major pain in the ass and push off the project for some other time. I did a little research and found that [...]

Canon PowerShot SD1000 Video Capabilities

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The Canon PowerShot SD1000 in one of the most popular digital cameras right now. The SD1000 looks and feels like a piece of art, takes 7MP pictures and is priced just over $200. Although the SD1000 may not be the best digital camera to take videos with it has some compelling modes not usually found [...]

Sanyo VPC-CG65 Camcorder

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

There is a new breed of device gather steam. Devices that can take decent photos and videos. There are two ways of making a hybrid device. Camcorders that that still photos Cameras that can take videos The Sanyo CG65 Camcorder is the former, and reports are that it does it quite well. As it stands [...]