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Whither Gamut?
June 15, 2010 | posted under: Tech Notes · Nerdiness
Monitor Gamut (wireframe) vs. Epson 3880 (left) and generic CMYK (right),

Have you ever wondered why monitors have limited gamuts in the first place? Why can't they be made to simply reproduce all colors.

Casual Print Hanging
February 22, 2010 | posted under: Tech Notes · Nerdiness
Steel bars and magnets for temporary print hanging, Home

If you make your own prints then you've probably been in my position. I make a few prints, I'm not really sure if I like them, put them in a box between tissue paper and forget about them.

Some Notes on Color
January 22, 2010 | posted under: Photography Techniques · Tech Notes · Nerdiness
Meadow near the Johnson River, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

Some notes regarding color categories, perception and language.

The abyss of uncertainty
April 13, 2009 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Musings · Nerdiness
Fraser Spiral and Müller-Lyer illusions,

While reading the confidently self-assured comments surrounding stories like that of Klavs Bo Christensen and his images, which were recently disqualified from the Danish Press Photography Union Press Photo Awards for excessive photoshop manipulation, I have to remind myself that ...

Photoshop and Illustrator: Fancy Caps
February 13, 2009 | posted under: Nerdiness
Ornamental Caps, Photoshop and Illustrator

I'll be out of town for a week, so things will probably slow down here for the next few days. I'll leave you with a little weekend Adobe Creative Suite fun. This isn't meant to be a tutorial—I'm not going ...

Obama's hapaxes
January 23, 2009 | posted under: Nerdiness

In his editorial on January 21, Nicholas Kristof points out that President Obama used the word "Muslim" for the first time in an inaugural address. The term for a word that occurs only once in a literature or a particular ...

Analyzing Photoshop Vibrance and Saturation
January 19, 2009 | posted under: Tech Notes · Nerdiness

One of the new features in photoshop CS4 is a Vibrance adjustment, a feature borrowed from lightroom's development module. It's fairly intuitive to use, but have you ever wondered what exactly this handy little adjustment does? Unlike saturation or hue, ...

Weekend Nerd Diversions
December 20, 2008 | posted under: Nerdiness
Möbius Transformations, Nodebox

Math and visual representations of mathematical ideas is something of a hobby for me. One of my favorite tools for this is Nodebox, which is a Mac OS X application that gives you a basic canvas and some simple python ...