A Detailed Explanation of How Photoshop Blend Modes Work - Photoshop Blend Modes Explained | Photo Blog Stop Working with blend modes is almost always an experimental process. Because it’s nearly impossible to predict the results, you always seem to end up experimenting with different modes and Fill Opacities until you get the results you’re looking for. In this article I’m going to give you a high-level view of what the various blend modes do, and then I’ll dig deeper into the nuts and bolts of the blend modes by explaining some of the math involved, and their interrelationships with each other. I’m not going to “show” you how the blend modes work—I’m going to “explain” how they work. By the time you finish reading this article, you should have a better idea of how to use blend modes and where to begin your “experimentation,” which in turn should reduce the time it takes to achieve the results you’re looking for. How Blend Modes Work Blend Mode Groups While the blend mode names don’t make all that much sense, Adobe did group the blend modes into logical groups. Keyboard Shortcuts Blend Mode Math
Technology Helps Autistic Children with Social Skills By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on October 24, 2011 A new research project suggests virtual worlds can help autistic children develop social skills beyond their anticipated levels. In the study, called the Echoes Project, scientists developed an interactive environment that uses multi-touch screen technology to project scenarios to children. The technology allows researchers to study a child’s actions to new situations in real time. During sessions in the virtual environment, primary school children experiment with different social scenarios, allowing the researchers to compare their reactions with those they display in real-world situations. “Discussions of the data with teachers suggest a fascinating possibility,” said project leader Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Ph.D. “Learning environments such as Echoes may allow some children to exceed their potential, behaving and achieving in ways that even teachers who knew them well could not have anticipated.”
Promote Control - an advanced remote control for Canon and Nikon digital SLR cameras COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND AUTISM LINK autism-europe English Edition Nr. 15 Quarterly - 4 th quarter 1994 "The computer is just a glorified pencil" Karl Popper Some technology fascinates certain people to such an extent that they end up by forgetting its finality. Computers and computer technology can be counted among this group. I do not wish to consider the myths of the "electronic brain" or"the fear of Big Brother", but more simply the fascination for computer technology by somebody who has just begun to master it. Thus, an economist, a chemist, a doctor can end up by becoming a computer scientist, entirely forgetting the reasons which had originally pushed him/her to becoming interested in the first place... The subject which concerns us here: The use of computer technology with the mentally handicapped and particularly those suffering from autism ought to be tackled by not succumbing to this fascination. Diagnosis Assessment Computer aided teaching Assistance in communication The research models
The Tao of Crowdfunding: Three Ps for a Successful Indie Film Campaign | Hat & Soul UPDATED: 2/18/13 –– Same three Ps. Even more recent examples! Long before I worked at Indiegogo, I was given the opportunity to step in for the company’s co-founder Slava Rubin for a presentation on crowdfunding sponsored by New York Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT). If a Buddhist, a Confucianist, and a Taoist each tried to crowdfund, which would be successful? Although crowdfunding has been around for years now, it’s still the big buzz word amongst the indie community. That said, there are three aspects of crowdfunding that should be thoroughly sketched out before your campaign goes live: pitch, perks, and promotion, or what I call my Three Ps of Crowdfunding.) Pitch: Because First Impressions are Everything Your pitch is the single most important part of your campaign because it’s the one and only chance you have to sell yourself and not necessarily your project. A mistake that many crowdfunders make is not appearing in their pitch video. But Brendon didn’t stop there. Like this:
Assistive Technology for Children with Autism by Susan Stokes Autism Consultant If you reprint or use this article, or parts of it, please include the following citation:"Written by Susan Stokes under a contract with CESA 7 and funded by a discretionary grant from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. " For years, different modes of technology have been used to improve the quality of life of people who have various developmental disabilities . However, the varied use of technology for children with autism continues to receive limited attention, despite the fact that technology tends to be a high interest area for many of these children. This article will discuss how various modes of technology (including technology designed as augmentative communication systems), can be used for children with autism to increase or improve their: What is Assistive Technology? Typically, children with autism process visual information easier than auditory information. Visual Representation Systems
Jonathan Grubbs » How to Get Pro Quicktime Codecs without Final Cut Like a ton of pro editors out there, I’ve pretty much given up on Final Cut for editing. I still use it occasionally when I cut in a post house that still uses it, or if I have to dig out an old project to make updates. I’ve made the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro, and use AVID when I can on longer projects. My muscle memory is still geared to Final Cut, and I’ll admit I’m still way faster at organizing and cutting on Final Cut 7 than I have been yet on Adobe. Rather than learning the new keystrokes I’ve just mapped keys to be as close to my Final Cut editing strokes as I can. I have a MacPro tower and keep Final Cut 7 on that for when I need it, but I’m setting up a new MacBook Pro for my mobile editing work, and I’ve decided just to install the Adobe Suite on it and skip Final Cut altogether. How do you skip the FCP install but get the codecs? Simple!
Tom’s hopes that design will help all - Local Headlines - Forfar Dispatch A KIRRIEMUIR student has designed an innovative concept looking at how autistic children can interact and connect with their parents through play. Tom Kirkman, who will soon graduate from a Digital Interaction Design course at Dundee University, designed ‘Passive Play’ with parents in mind. Parents with a child affected by autism can often feel isolated from them, leading to a breakdown in the physical and emotional connection they would normally experience from the relationship. Passive Play is a vision that explores the complexities of the developmental disability. Passive play is a conceptual platform that consists of an interactive toy cube for the child, and a iOS application for the parent. Tom, a father himself, feels that Autism in children is definitely something that parents worry about as their child grows up.
Tour: Video « Ubuntu Studio Openshot is a simple video editor for Linux. Add videos, photos and music to create DVD’s, youtube clips and a range of other formats. Simple and clean UIIntuitive useFormat support based on ffmpeg “FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. Use DVDStyler to create custom, professional looking DVD’s. User-friendly interface with support of drag & dropMultiple subtitles and audio tracksDesign your own DVD menu or select a templateCreate a photo slide showsupport of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formatssupport of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats
L'app di uno studente per "dialogare" con l'autismo ~ The Apple for you Passive Play è un cubo interattivo con un software che ne memorizza le attività. L'autore, un universitario britannico, lo ha testato sulla figlia L'autismo è una sindrome dolorosamente misteriosa, e sarebbe folle attendere una soluzione definitiva al problema da un'applicazione software. E tuttavia, è una buona notizia che la tecnologia faccia tesoro delle scoperte nel settore per sintetizzare un prodotto che tenti di aprire una via alla comunicazione con soggetti autistici. Via lastampa Smithsonian X 3D All non-commercial, educational and personal uses of this data are permitted, in accordance with the following terms of use, The National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (hereafter Museum) agrees to provide the Requestor reproductions of 3D scans, drawings and/or other documents containing design data of air and spacecraft described below: 1903 Wright Flyer These reproductions from the Museum's archival collections will be furnished to Requestor subject to the following terms and conditions: The reproductions are made available by the Museum in accordance with the Smithsonian’s standard terms of use, and may be used solely for personal, non-commercial uses such as historical research, exhibition, model making, or non-profit restoration purposes. Permission for such uses is granted only to the extent of the Smithsonian Institution's ownership of the rights related to the request.