Archive for November 26th, 2007

Tips and Tricks - Whitening Eyes and Teeth with Photoshop

Monday, November 26th, 2007

You would feel sometimes shy when you come to see your photos in which your teeth and eyes are not white or clean. So how would you forward these photos to your friends? Not to worry here are some Photoshop tips through which you can make them looking great!!!

Here is a sample image. Look at the teeth of the shark. Come lets make them whiter.

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Step 1: Select the Dodge tool, then go to the Tool Options bar and set the Range to Midtones. The default Exposure setting would be 50%, just leave it as it is.

Step 2: Using the Lasso Tool select the teeth as shown in the below screenshot.

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Step 3: Now run the Dodge tool over the teeth until they look whiter.

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Step4: Now follow this step for all the other teeth and you would have the image look like the one below,

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Note: The Dodge tool is very powerful, so more than three brush strokes could leave the teeth looking overdone. If that’s the case, use Undo (Ctrl/Cmd +Z) to step back.

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Sim Card Backup Gadget - Replicate contacts in another SIM card

Monday, November 26th, 2007

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This gadget allows you to replicate your contacts onto another SIM card. Backing up the contact list of your sim card would be helpful when you lose your phone.

The device has 16KB of storage, which would be able to store 500 telephone entries. We might think when we have our computers and Bluetooth enabled phones that allow us to transfer all contact details. This gadget is not for backing up your sim contacts alone, it lets you replicate your contacts onto another sim card.

Copy your SIM card contacts to the backup tool’s internal memory, and in seconds, you can dupe them back down to another SIM card.

It has got a Password lock, Phone book viewer and a Calendar display. It is device independent so you don?t require any computer or PDA. The device is accordance with ISO / IEC 7816-3, GSM11.11 and GSM11.12 standard. It can support 3V SIM card and R-UIM card.

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Amazon’s Kindle Wireless e-book reader on fire sale

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Amazon Wireless Kindle e-book reader

 Kindle is a wireless e-book reader, which allows you to read books online and also purchase electronic books and magazines directly. Kindle has over 200 titles and more than 95,000 books are available. New York Times best sellers cost only $9.99.

CEO of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos said, “We have sold out of our initial inventory in five and half hours and kindle electronic reader is a success.”

Kindle does not use wifi, but EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized) like cell phones. Using EVDO you can access the Amazon ebook store from anywhere. The best part is that EVDO network is free and kindle has no monthly charges for wireless, service plans or commitments.

Access to Wikipedia.org is free and you can email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle.

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