MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Check out this week’s highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool!
Photography & Video
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
The CRAFT Flickr Pool was bursting with crafty goodness this week! Here are some things we spotted: Pam Yellow Butter Flower, by Harriette Estelle Berman A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, by weggart Roses and tiny daisies pin cushions, by woolly fabulous
Silhouette Dog Portrait Using Illustrator
My adoration for my canine companions rivals the deepest love affairs in history, and I am always looking for new ways to celebrate how amazing they are. In keeping with this month’s Design & Photography theme, in today’s video I show you how to create your own custom silhouette piece using Adobe Illustrator and a […]
3D Models from Photographs
Photogrammetry has been with us for as long as we’ve had cameras. Autodesk has taken it to its logical next step with Project Photofly. Using a standard point and shoot camera you can take a series of photos of an object, upload them to the cloud, and get a detailed 3D model back that can be manipulated with standard design software.
In the Make, with Alison Kendall
Get a behind-the-scenes peek into the studio lives of Bay Area artists and designers! In the Make is a collaboration between photographer Klea McKenna and writer Nikki Grattan who — you guessed it! — pair photo essays with interviews to bring you a down-to-earth look at some serious talent. I’m especially excited to share their […]
Flatbed Slide, Negative Scanning Using Cut and Fold Adapter
Really cool low-cost trick from our very own Andrew Lewis over on CRAFT. Cut the adapter from silver card stock and position it over the slide or negative to be scanned on the bed of a regular flat-bed scanner. The scan is taken with the lid open (obviously), and negatives can then be inverted and touched-up at the software level.
How-To: Turn Slides and Negatives Into Digital Photos
By Andrew Lewis Preserving 35mm photos on a computer is a great way to keep them safe, and chances are that either you or someone you know has an old box of irreplaceable memories waiting to be scanned. The problem is that an ordinary scanner doesn’t really scan slides or negatives properly. The reason is […]
