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Radio Shack – You’ve got Questions. We’ve got Problems.

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

So I'm walking through the mall today (something that happens VERY rarely, let me assure you) and I notice that the Radio Shack is closed. Well it's a Saturday afternoon, so my first thought was that Radio Shack has gone out of business. This is something that would not at ...

New Photo Gallery

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

A new Photo Gallery is now available at http://smithplanet.com/gallery/ or by clicking Photo Gallery to the right of this page. Managing photos on the site was becoming a pain. Well, at least that makes a good excuse for not posting any in the last little while. The gallery includes most ...

Tilt Shift Miniatures

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

A while back, I stumbled upon a neat Photoshop technique for making normal photos look like miniatures toy sets. The process, called tilt shift, involves blurring part of the image to trick the brain into thinking that the photo has a very small depth of field. And with such a ...