Radio Free Mel http://www.radiofreemel.com cuz we can Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Handwriting Posts http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1123 http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1123#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:55:46 +0000 Mel http://www.radiofreemel.com/?p=1123 I thought I would try to write a post using my tablet. I have been having lots of problems with the drivers causing my PC to freeze up. This is a well reported problem with Windows 7 and the Wacom Intuos3 tablets. I just did a reinstall of the drivers and so far the [...]]]> http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1123/feed 0 Goofing around with Painter http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1111 http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1111#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:21:11 +0000 Mel http://www.radiofreemel.com/?p=1111 I snatched the Wacom tablet off of Kelly's computer and moved it to mine so I could play around a bit with Corel Painter.  Over a couple of hours I mostly experimented with different brushes, pens, and chalk.  This is what I ended up with. 

http://www.radiofreemel.com/?p=1082 I love the sentiment of this video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5XMFhYOJMs

]]> http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1082/feed 0 Playing with Lightroom http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1071 http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1071#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:55:30 +0000 Mel http://www.radiofreemel.com/?p=1071 Kyle has been interested in high dynamic range photography recently.  This got me playing with Lightroom presets.  This picture of Oakley is not an HDR photo, just playing around with tone curves.

]]> http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1071/feed 0 Kayak Trip to BC http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1063 http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1063#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:53:17 +0000 Mel http://www.radiofreemel.com/?p=1063 We're back from our kayaking trip to BC and boy oh boy did we ever get lucky on the weather.  The week before we arrived it was cold and raining, and since we returned the weather there has been, yes, cold and raining.  But while we were there we had beautiful days with the [...]]]> http://www.radiofreemel.com/archives/1063/feed 0