Just had my first BSOD with vista – happened while using iTunes..!

I’m starting to wonder why I upgraded – its slow, clunky and unreliable – rah! Although it does look cool…

EDIT: happened twice now – starting to think it has something to do with using iTunes to browse the iTunes store.

2ND EDIT: Seems to have stopped happening after the latest iTunes update, but it still doesn’t work problem free, it occasionally freezes up for short periods.. ?

I used this technique to produce this image.

HUE – SATURATION ADJUSTMENT LAYER (taken from Cambridge in Colour)

This technique is particularly elegant because it allows you to apply any of the entire spectrum of color filters just by dragging the hue slider. This allows one to quickly assess which of the many combinations of color filters work best, without necessarily having one in mind when starting. It takes a little longer to setup than the channel mixer, but is actually faster to use once in place.

Open the image in Photoshop and create two separate “Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers” by following the menus: Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation…
Each window will be named “Hue/Saturation 1 or 2,” however I have given these custom names for this tutorial.

On the top adjustment layer (Saturation), set the blending mode to “Color” and set the saturation to its minimum of “-100,” shown below.

On the bottom adjustment layer, change the “Hue” slider to apply any of the entire spectrum of color filters. This is the main control for adjusting the look from this technique.
The saturation slider can also be adjusted in this layer, but this time it fine-tunes the magnitude of the filter effect for a given hue.

Once all adjustments have been made, merge/flatten the layers to make these final.

An alternative technique which may be a bit easier is to only add one Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and change the hue of the image itself. On the other hand, this does not allow one to go back and change the color filter hue if it is no longer in Photoshop’s undo history (at least not without unnecessarily destroying bit depth).

I can’t believe how much time I have spent using dreamweaver when I could have been using this! Its just so easy to use its not funny! Loving it… expect a new site within about a month!!!

Contemplating creating my first data driven site..!

Not entirely sure how I’m going to dothis at the moment, so this post is a list of references for future use..

Visual Web Developer

SQL Server Express

Visual Web Developer

SQL Express Learning Resources

Getting Started — ASP.NET Data Access using Visual Studio