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Graphic Design 11 Feb 2023

Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Prompts

So this is an article for me to store prompts for the MidJourney AI text-2-image discord tool.

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Graphic Design 17 Jan 2019

Calculate Aspect Ratio

So this is a quick article on how to maintain an aspect ratio when resizing an image. How? These are the calculations to work out the new height given the width or the new width given the height: (original height / original width) x new width = new height (original width / original height) x new height = new width

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Graphic Design 26 Sep 2010

The Sandpit

I saw this on BBC News Click and was really impressed. It's an effect called "time-lapse tilt shift photography" where everything is made to look smaller than it actually is. As an update Mar 2011, I just watched Gulliver's Travels (2010) a...

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Graphic Design 30 Sep 2009

Splatter Logo

I saw this article and rather than bookmark it I thought I could just have it here for easy reference. It was written for Photoshop but I use Paint Shop Pro and felt I could do the same. It's just so complicated in Photoshop when web-developers need to be able to run several programs at the same time and simplicity is...

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