Ultimate Shoe Shine at Burlington Arcade. How to Make a Shoe Shine Box. Here at the Art of Manliness, we’ve talked a few times about the manly ritual of a good shoe shine over the years. For awhile now, I’ve kept my own shoe shine supplies in a box I got for Christmas a few years back. It’s a pretty nice box, but I’ve always had an itch to make one with my own two hands. Then a few months ago I was looking through some old Popular Mechanics magazines, and a nifty shoe shine box design in an issue from 1950 caught my eye. It’s a simple design. You’ve got a place to hold your brushes and polish cans and a place to rest your foot when shining your shoes. This is an incredibly easy and inexpensive project. The Design Here’s the modified Popular Mechanics design that I used to make my shoe shine box: Click here for larger image. Thanks to AoM reader Robert Heffern for providing this SolidWorks image.
Materials & Tools Needed Materials (1) 3/4″ x 8″ x 8′ board (I used a cedar board I bought at Home Depot for $11. Tools Saw (I used my table saw. Measure and Cut Wood Sand. How to burn MP3s to a CD with folders on iTunes. Hello, if you liked this post, please consider subscribing my RSS news feed. Thanks. Whenever I needed to make a mix CD with some of my MP3s, I would always get pissed off because iTunes always puts the files directly on the root folder of the CD and ignores the folder structure that exists in the original music folder. This is very annoying especially because some MP3 players (like the ones built-in on car stereos) need that folder structure to organize the musics by artists or albums. But now I discovered a small trick on iTunes that allows you to burn an MP3 CD maintaining all the original folder structure. All you have to do is to build a playlist with the songs you want to burn (as you would normally do on iTunes) and then in the top bar in the musics list, click the "Album" tab until this one turns into "Album by Artist".
And that's it. You can also use a year-based folder structure on the MP3 CD. Tip from Internet Duct Tape. How To Change a Watch Band. Photoshop HDR tutorial. hdri, High Dynamic Range Photography. | Merging HDR in Photoshop CS3, CS4 Tutorial. 0 (Intro) I originally wrote this tutorial for Photoshop CS3, in the years since then, Photoshop has gotten a couple of big upgrades in the HDR area, and we are now at Photoshop CS6. I have also learned a great deal more about the subject, so I decided it was time for an update. What is HDR and why do we need it? I n this tutorial we will take a look at HDR photography. A camera is capable of capturing a limited amount of tones in a single photo (we call this dynamic Range, the range of tones that can hold detail between pure black and pure white). The solution is to take more than one photograph and bracket the photos. This tutorial will show you how to complete this process with the minimum fuss. Tips for photographing HDR First we need to capture our source images with our camera.
Sometimes you need to capture more than 3 exposures. Note: For real HDR, you shouldn't use a single raw image and exposure it several times as some people suggest. HDR in Photoshop tutorial Start with 3 images. Understanding Digital Camera Sensors. A digital camera uses an array of millions of tiny light cavities or "photosites" to record an image. When you press your camera's shutter button and the exposure begins, each of these is uncovered to collect and store photons. Once the exposure finishes, the camera closes each of these photosites, and then tries to assess how many photons fell into each. The relative quantity of photons in each cavity are then sorted into various intensity levels, whose precision is determined by bit depth (0 - 255 for an 8-bit image).
Cavity Array Light Cavities However, the above illustration would only create grayscale images, since these cavities are unable to distinguish how much they have of each color. Color Filter Array Photosites with Color Filters A Bayer array consists of alternating rows of red-green and green-blue filters. Original Scene(shown at 200%) What Your Camera Sees(through a Bayer array) Note: Not all digital cameras use a Bayer array, however this is by far the most common setup.