After overhearing a store clerk talking about her husband's recent visit to the hospital to treat carbon monoxide poisoning, and with the current temperatures being only 19 degrees, adding in the wind chill factor, it is a whooping 4 degrees here today in Genesee County...Those living in the south rarely see these blizzard like temperatures, and few know how bad times are here for some folks in Genesee County, Michigan. The fact that many are trying to conserve energy....which could be at the expense of thier life or the life of a loved one, I thought this post was long overdue.
Four simple tips that could save your life:
Never use a charcoal grill to heat your home.
Never use a gasoline powered generator indoors.
Never use your portable kerosene heaters indoors.
Never use the oven or the top stove burners to heat your home.
Basically, any heating system that burns fuel, and does not have
a chimney, will give off dangerous gases that could be deadly or make you or your loved ones very ill.
If you have fallen behind on your heating bills or simply need help with short-term emergency expenses... Visit this website: http://www.modestneeds.org/ to apply today. Or, if you would like to donate, please visit the Modest Needs Website...it is an awesome contribution, that could save someone from falling into poverty.
ok...So my husband didn't like the first Turkey pic...I spent minutes working on optimizing the photo, and it just wasn't good enough; It had something to do with the beard of the turkey? Tell me why...I am still trying to understand the bearded creatures that wobble into our yard...but I guess the beard and the male species have something in common. Size matters!!!
The first thing you must do if you have taken this shot, with a 12 pixel camera, is reduce it to a size that is ACCEPTABLE to the web. For easier loading I would suggest 600 x 570.
Then it will become very small on your screen...but don't fear...just crop it...using the cropping tool...the one highlighted in the next photo.
Next select the filters menu...in most cases you can select adjust color, > auto levels, select filters again and sharpen and sharpen; just once in most cases...but experiment if you want.
This photo is not quite ready for the web..because it will take 18 seconds to load in most instances.
Fireworks has a built in tool to help you with optimizing for the web, and you can select either 2 up or 4 up...
I selected 2 up in this instance. and pronto it portraits the original and the image to the right will give you stats on the amount of time it will take to load on your website.
To the right of this picture you will see an optimize menu...click on it once.
In this instance I selected a quality of 38...you can also play around with this if you wish to experiment...
but as you can see..."Presto"..a perfect picture for the web.
Next...Do you want action and animation...Leave me comments...or just leave...J/K...but please let me know what you like...I'm just overtaxed on the same ole real estate gobble...((hugs))
There is one tool I find really fun to use and necessary in doing more complex photography and animation; Since purchasing it I just can't live without it. Adobe Fireworks is well worth the money and the effort it took to learn the advanced features of this photo editor.
Here was the boring shot I took of the Turkey a couple of days ago.
After working with it in Fireworks, it now looks very close to what I was seeing in our woods.
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