Monday, May 24, 2010

Pixstrips in Blog Articles


My convenient-recipe blog articles show series of progressive pictures at the top, from start to finish of each recipe. Each recipe pixstrip (the assembled image) contains eight images except for one that has nine. Clicking a pixstrip opens a new window with an enlargement. Nice of Blogspot to have that easy-access feature.

This article describes the process—staging the shots, processing the individual pictures, assembling them into a pixstrip, and uploading it into the article. The settings I use (outlined with red rectangles) appear in the image above. …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/05/pixstrips-in-blog-articles.html.]

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Tooling A Round

I have run across several tools I use often, sometimes in spurts. Some are online calculators; some are downloadable tools to be installed on the computer. …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/05/tooling-round.html.]

Monday, May 3, 2010

Wanted Unholed Lotta Bagel

The first time I'd become aware of bagels was about the early 90s. Oh, I'd encountered "bagels and lox" in books occasionally, but never gave them much thought. Seems when I read about them and saw pictures, they mystified me. They looked like doughnuts. …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/05/wanted-unholed-lotta-bagel.html.]