As a curator and exhibition administrator, I often (constantly!) see poor images that detract from the impression of the applicant’s artwork. As I reported in my post The Living Colour Selection Process: Approximately 30% of entries were let down by their presentation including: poor lighting; excessive cropping so I could not see the edges of […]
Technology
Emerging from the Fog
Yesterday, Copacabana was shrouded in sea mist. Very reminiscent of San Francisco, only the air and water temperatures were much warmer. This photo shows it starting to burn off. And for the past few days, the Serendipity Studio, has been covered by a technological fog – the kind that hovers around setting up a new […]
Technology Talk: Sydney 8 November
My presentation Technology & Your Creative Practice was well-received at the Ozquilt Network forum last weekend. If you couldn’t get to Adelaide, I will be giving another presentation to the Quilt Study Group of NSW at the Glover Cottages in the Rocks in Sydney at 2pm, Saturday 8 November. All welcome. (Guild members $5 and […]
Technology and YOUR Creative Practice
I am finalising my presentation on Technology and Your Creative Practice for the Ozquilt Network Threads of Change Forum (Adelaide, 25 October) and the Quilt Study Group of NSW (Sydney, 8 November). My goal is to share tools, skills and resources that I find useful in the creation of my artwork and the administration of […]
Seven Easy Ways to Resize Images
This tutorial sets out seven five easy ways to resize images. It concentrates on my go-to photo-editing tools – Photoshop Elements and the Photogene iPad app – but also covers free photo software GIMP, Irfanview, and Picasa 3 and some built-in features of Microsoft software and Macs. As this is a long post, here is […]
Ten Benefits of Online Entry Forms
Background I was the exhibition secretary for the Quilters’ Guild of NSW for three years. The not-so-fun part of this assignment was the gruelling hours/days/weeks! of data entry, transcribing and processing hundreds of handwritten entry forms, each with 30+ fields of unique information. At the time, I thought there has got to be a better […]