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california: Highland Park, California - 07/26/09 07:25 AM
Highland Park, California, has always been a town of contrasts.
In recent years, journalists from publications such as The New York Times and London's Financial News have visited the area, and published articles praising Highland Park's "cool restaurants and boutiques that draw young trendsetters in skinny jeans, flannel shirts and Converse high tops", or admiring Highland Park's "walkable streets and its glut of handsome old homes".
And all of that is true. And, yes, of course, as a local real estate broker, I enjoy reading it. But wait, there is another dimension to the community of Highland Park.
Highland Park is … (0 comments)
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california: Peace in the NorthEast: Stop the Violence. - 07/06/08 07:11 AM
The Churches of NorthEast LA presents Peace in the NorthEast Community March
On August 16, 2008 at 10am, lead by the Churches of NorthEast LA, the NorthEast LA community will be meeting at the Highland Park Adult Senior Citizen Center, 6152 N Figueroa St, to march down York Blvd to Eagle Rock Blvd and down Eagle Rock Blvd to a Resource Fair. Snacks will be served at both the staging area and the Resource Fair. Bottled water will also be available for marchers.
The Resource Fair will end at 5:00pm. Along with the Resource Fair there will be music and a … (1 comments)
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california: Photoshop Elements: Beyond The Lasso - 06/11/07 09:10 PM
Jonathan did a terrific job lassoing and extracting his image to create this professional picture.
But you want to know a secret: I can lasso basic shapes - like windows - pretty darn good. When it comes to lassoing complex shapes - like people - more often than not, the lasso will go skitering cattywumpus across the screen with a mind of its own.
If what you want to do is extract the image of a person, you might find its easier to use Photoshop Elements' Magic Extractor.
Open your image (I'm working in Photshop Elements 5)
Click Image -> Magic Extractor
The Magic Extractor screen … (11 comments)
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california: Unpainting A Staged Kitchen - 06/10/07 10:08 AM
A few days ago Maureen Henry posted a blog looking for Photo Editing Help. The photo she was looking to fix was an underexposed "before" shot of a kitchen. Now that the kitchen is painted and staged, she wanted to be able to show both a "before" and "after" shot. She has a great "after" shot, she just needs a properly exposed "before" shot. Only problem: She can't go back and reshoot the "before" since the kitchen doesn't look that way anymore.
Wait a minute. Maybe we can take the "after" photo, and photoshop it back to an earlier point in time. … (15 comments)
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california: Lummis Day 2007 - 06/07/07 05:28 AM
Over 3,500 people took part in events at Sycamore Grove Park and Lummis Home on Sunday, June 3 as the second annual Lummis Day easily doubled the celebration's 2006 inaugural attendance.
Sunday morning's opening Poetry Reception was standing-room-only, with hundreds turning out to hear poets reading their work at the historic Lummis Home.
At Sycamore Grove Park, a wildly eclectic line-up of performances presented a rapidly-paced smorgasbord of entertainment and cultural attractions with broad appeal. At 3:00 pm, Los Angeles Fire Department estimated peak attendance at 2,500. Many Festival-goers arrived later for late-afternoon music performances, puppet shows and Mexican, Filipino … (2 comments)
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california: A Better Before Pix? - 06/05/07 08:58 PM
Earlier today, Maureen Henry posted this request for Photo editing help . If you read the comments, you'll see I took a stab at it.
Maureen asked for baby steps, so I'll see what I can do. I'm working in Windows. I'll be using Photoshop Elements 5. Hope it's close enough....
Always save a duplicate copy first. Just in case.
I usually adjust Levels first.
In Photoshop Elements 5 -- It's under Enhance -> Adjust Lighting -> Levels
In Full Version Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS3, it's under Image -> Adjustments -> Levels
Try dragging the middle slider (midtones) towards the left. Drag the left slider (shadows) … (6 comments)
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california: Great Logic Is A Thing Of Beauty - 06/05/07 08:12 AM
A few days ago Thesa Chambers posted a question about correcting exposure differences in a group of photos switched together to create a panorama here.
In fact, Thesa talks about wrapping up the panorama project here.
I want to call everyone's attention to a comment made by Bob Carney ... Bob said, and I quote: "You might want to adjust the photos before stitching them together. Lighten the left and 3rd picture just a litte bit. Then pano them!! "
Think about that for a minute. What a great tip!
When you are creating a panorama of different photos stitched together, adjust the brightness/contrast … (9 comments)
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california: I Frame, You Frame, We All Frame - 06/04/07 06:21 AM
Yesterday I posted this blog All Aboard The Framing XPress showing the Active Rain Home Page embedded in a blog post.
The html function I used is called an INLINE FRAME ... And it's purpose is to embed one HTML document within another. There is no FRAMESET involved, so your meta tags and keywords are all still available.
Want to embed something in an Active Rain blog post, right now? Here's how:
Write up a test blog. Select Visibility: Draft Click "Post Blog Entry" After the screen refreshes, click "Edit" Switch to the HTML viewCopy and paste this code into your blog post:
<p align="center"><iframe src="http://www.activerain.com" height="450" width="450" … (17 comments)
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california: Mother Gets A Banner - Part I - 06/03/07 06:39 AM
I took a short recreational break yesterday to create a blog banner for DaBlogMother
Member might find a few of the Photoshop techniques useful, so I'll share:
Start with a new, blank file, 800 pixels in with, by 200 pixels in height ( File -> New -> Blank File )BE sure you are viewing Actual Pixel size ( View -> Actual Pixels ) And I usually tug one of the corners of the image window out on a diagional to expand the canvas for plenty of elbow room....
At the Foreground/Background tool, click the top (foreground) box.
Clicking the box will bring up the Color … (2 comments)
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california: Taking A Screen Shot - 06/01/07 06:06 AM
There are a couple ways to take a screen shot.
I think the easiest way is to download FastStone Capture ... you can test drive it for free, and paying the $19.95 license probably won't break the bank.
Once you've installed FastStone, you'll have a little toolbar handy, you can position it anywhere on your desktop.
If you want to select just a particular area of your screen, you click the third tool over, the rectangular marqee. First you'll see red crosshairs, click to position the crosshairs at your starting point.
After you set the starting point, just drag over the section of your screen you want to … (10 comments)
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california: TypePad Custom CSS - A Hairline For A Copy Cat Blog - 05/28/07 11:52 AM
The Fake Weenie takes another turn in the spotlight. If you need a refresher on the original construction of the Fake Weenie, check here: TypePad: Deconstructing A Weenie
You know, I'm sorta fond of hairline borders, and I think I'd like a hairline border separating the two columns of the Fake Weenie (http://www.fakeweenie.com/)
Here's a screen shot of the borderless weenie:
To create a hairline border separating the two column using custom CSS, do this:
Sign in to your TypePad account
Click Weblogs, select your blog. Hit Design -> Click Edit Custom CSS
Add this line of code to the Custom CSS text box:
.layout-two-column-right #alpha-inner {border-right: 1px … (3 comments)
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california: TypePad-GoDaddy: Conversion of the Masked - 05/28/07 06:50 AM
Maybe you've had a TypePad blog for a while. Maybe you already set up forwarding and masking in GoDaddy. Well, you can easily change from MASKING to MAPPING. (And back again, if you are so inclined).
Here are the steps to change an existing blog from MASKED to MAPPED:
1. Sign in to GoDaddy first. Hit Domains -> Domain Management & Renewals -> My Domain Names
2. Place a checkmark to the left of the domain name, click "Forward"
3. Mark the radio button titled "Diasabled", click OK . Any previous masking is automatically disabled when forwarding is disabled.
4. Leave GoDaddy running. Open a new … (2 comments)
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california: TypePad and GoDaddy: Don't MASK it, MAP it! - 05/27/07 07:51 PM
Mapping will avoid some of the pitfalls of masking, such as hidden link URLs. Here's how to MAP using GoDaddy and TypePad:
First register the Domain Name at GoDaddy. Leave GoDaddy running in one Browser window or tab.
Go to TypePad in a different browser window or tab
Hit Typepad Control Panel -> Site Access -> Domain Mapping
Click "Begin Here: Map a Domain Name"
Type in the new domain name, click Get DNS Settings. Typepad will display the CNAME Record, you can drag your curser across the CNAME and hit Edit -> Copy, so you don't have to type it when you get to that step.... … (11 comments)
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california: TypePad: Deconstructing A Blog - 05/26/07 09:36 AM
Teresa's comment here got me thinking. Let's see if Hands On Hacking can duplicate the simple, clean, minimalist design of the realestate weenie.
Create a test blog -- illustrated instructions are here: TypePad: Initial Steps Illustrated
Click on the Design Tab, Click "Change Theme"
Mark the radio button to the left of "Custom Theme"
Under "General Page Settings" click "Edit This Element"
At the next pop-up screen, under "General Settings" choose white as the "Background", leave "Border" as none.Under "Main Content Column", set the "Center Column" at 500 pixels. Set the "Right Column" at 300 pixels. Set the Scroll to the bottom of the pop-up screen … (4 comments)
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california: TypePad: Initial Steps Illustrated - 05/26/07 05:45 AM
When I first starting using TypePad, I spent a lot of time looking for things. For me, at any rate, the layout of menus and commands took some getting-used-to. Now I know where things are. But just in case any new TypePad user is stumbling around, looking for things hidden in plain sight, here is an illustrated version of the initial steps in setting up a new blog:
Sign in to your TypePad account
Click the "Weblogs" tab
Click "Create a new Weblog
Name your new Weblog, then click "Create New Weblog" Hint: If this is just a test blog, you probably do not want … (7 comments)
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california: TypePad: Hands On Hacking #1 - 05/25/07 07:55 PM
TypePad offers several predefined, ready-to-use blog templates. Many very successful blogs are built with predefined templates. Brian Brady's excellent blog, America's Most Opinionated Mortgage Broker uses TypePad's predefined Stevenson template.
OK. Suppose you also really like the look of the Stevenson theme, but that Georgia font just doesn't do anything for you. I'm going to walk you through changing just one element of the Stevenson theme, using Custom CSS, so you can see how easy it is to customize predefined templates.
The element we've going to change is the banner font. Here's how to keep the theme and change just that one element, … (13 comments)
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california: Just Skewing Around - 05/19/07 07:11 PM
OK - you took a photo and the room is leaning or tilting. What do you do? Skew it!
Before starting, I find it is easier if I enlarge the "canvas" to gain some working room. Grab one of the edges or corners of the window holding the image, and drag outward.
Next:
In Photoshop Elements 5 hit Select -> All. Then hit Image -> Transform -> Skew
In Photoshop Full Version hit Select -> All. Then hit Edit -> Transform -> Skew
Grab the lower right of left corner of the selection box and drag outward. Grab the opposite corner and drag outward. Keep … (7 comments)
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california: Photoshop: The Clone Stamp = Digital White-Out - 05/18/07 07:07 AM
If you know how to use White-Out, you already understand the concept behind Photoshop's Clone Stamp.
How do you use White-Out? You see an error on a typed page. You daub the little brush around in the bottle, then you use the brush to daub the white stuff on top on the error to cover it up.
The only difference in Photoshop is that instead of daubing the little brush around inside the bottle, you first daub it at some part of your image - usually called the "source". Whatever color/shade/part-of-the-image you've chosen as your "source" is the color/shade/part-of-the-image that will be used … (2 comments)
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california: TypePad Introduces TypePad PAGES - 05/17/07 08:10 AM
TypePad Users: Check this out!
http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/go_beyond_blogg.html
The new Pages features lets you create any number of additional, detailed, static pages to compliment your blog, that you can then link to from the main page of your blog.
Easiest route to this new feature: From the TypePad Welcome (Home) screen, hit Begin New Post, and you'll notice the Compose tab now gives you the choice of composing a New Post or a New Page.
Hmm. This brings us a baby step closer to the convergence of a "static website" with a blog......
… (4 comments)
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california: To Mask Or Not To Mask, That Is The Question - 05/16/07 09:13 PM
To mask or not to mask, that is the question. And keep in mind, just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should.
The issues are easier grasped by example so, to illustrate, I have created two test blogs: http://www.clutteredshelf.com and http://www.frayedcuffs.com . For the purpose of this example, http://www.frayedcuffs.com will be the good guy, http://www.clutteredshelf.com will be the evil twin.
Take a look at http://www.frayedcuffs.com The domain name frayedcuffs.com was parked on the Typepad blog using PairNIC. Do you see the short blogroll in the left colum? Click on any of those blogs, then look at the address bar … (8 comments)
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Cheryl Johnson
Highland Park,
CA
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Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Address: 5526 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90042
Office Phone: (323) 257-1080
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Including random thoughts on life, art, business, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate.
According to Seth Godin: "Cat blogs are for, by, and about the person blogging. A cat blog is about your cat and your dating travails and your boss and whatever else you feel like sharing in your public diary."
Well, I am the boss, my dating years are behind me, but I do love my cats.
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