The Pixels in Pete's World

Santa brought me an Apple TV this Christmas. Until recently I didn’t even know what that device is. It’s the cheapest Apple brand device I own, not counting their keyboard and mouse. So why did I get one?

The best way to understand “layers” in photoshop is to photograph someone against a plain background, make a selection around that person, then drag them with the move tool onto a new document or a picture. The backdrop should be lit as even as possible. The color of the backdrop can be any color but [...]

Where the heck is that picture?   Exquisite image–A green turtle photographed by my old buddy Stephen Yeow off the waters of the island of Sipadan earlier this year. My first Mac laptop, a G3 Powerbook, had 6GB of hard drive storage. At that time my largest Compact Flash card had a 128 MB capacity. [...]

Every semester I try to end my photo class on a high note by having my students participate in a group show at the local coffeehouse Back to the Grind downtown. As usual, I never make it mandatory because the 2 11″ x 14″ prints and frames can be a lot of money for college [...]