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Singapore Hawker Masters

Easeman — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:42:17 +0000

The winners of Singapore’s first Hawker Masters are out:

Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice
Maxwell Food Centre, Stall No. 10

Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee
20 Upper Pickering Street, Hong Lim Temporary Food Centre, #01-44

Roxy Laksa
East Coast Lagoon Food Village, #01-48

Xing Ji Rou Cuo Mian
Fenfshan Market & Food Centre, Bedok North St 4, Blk 85, #01-07

Haji Maksah Berkat Chahya Food (Nasi Lemak)
Boon Lay Place Market & Food Village, Blk 221B, #01-106

Singapore map and distance

Easeman — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:38:24 +0000

This is a cool site for Singapore location map. There is also a very easy to use tool to measure distance.

http://www.onemap.sg/index.html

Smoke it – Photoshop effect

Easeman — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:13:14 +0000

Created this smoke /electric current effect on our logo type.

To do this in Photoshop:
> Dodge the edges and burn the inside fill of the subject
> Filter > Distort > Wave
> Edit > Fade Wave
> Use layer mask to refine the edges to make it look more smoke like

DSL Autofocus

Easeman — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:29:18 +0000

I have come across this question often enough especially with people who are new to DSL cameras. Why can’t they select the focusing point with their camera. The camera seems to auto pick the subject which at times might not be right.

This is due to the default setting of your camera. To correct this, you need to find the Auto focus setting of your camera and set it to Single Point or other setting instead of Auto Area.

For Nikon D90, go to Menu > Custom Setting Menu (pencil icon) > AF-Area mode (a1) > Single Point

Applying Gradient to Stroke in Illustrator CS2

Easeman — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:56:32 +0000

To apply a gradient fill to a stroke in illustrator:

- Select the stroke
- Go to Object > Expand : Checked Stroke & Fill

Stock image libraries

Easeman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:26:28 +0000

Here are some of the leading stock image libraries:

- http://www.inmagine.com/

- http://www.shutterstock.com/

- http://www.istockphoto.com/

- http://www.photos.com/

- http://www.imagedj.com/

- http://www.inmagine.com/value/

Displaying Chinese in WordPress

Easeman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:58:41 +0000

如何以WordPress刊登华文.
If you are seeing just ???? displayed on your post when your content is in Chinese, you can follow these steps to rectify the problem:

- Log in to your hosting server admin panel
- Click on phpMyAdmin
- Select your WordPress Database
- Select the Structure tab that displays all the tables in your database
- Select the table “wp posts” and click on the Struture icon (2nd from left) under the Action options (see diagram below)
- Select “post content” and click on the pencil icon (see diagram below)
- Set the collation to “UTF8_unicode_ci”
- Do the same to “post title” and any other tables that you want to display chinese text

Happy blogging!

Setting up WordPress to display Chinese text

To display layer/Div above Flash movie

Easeman — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:50:18 +0000

If you have a Div/Layer overlapping a Flash object layer, the Flash object layer would take precedence and be visible. The Div/Layer which you placed above it by specifying a higher z-index value would not have helped it from being hidden by the Flash object. At least not with IE browser.

This can be frustrating especially if you have constructed a drop down menu that extends over to a flash movie. To rectify this problem, you need to add wmode tag to the Flash movie codes as such:
1)
2) … wmode=”opaque” …

This works fine for most recent browsers.

Free Vector Art

Easeman — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:31:57 +0000

Here are some good sites for Vector Art reference and download.

http://www.zcool.com.cn
http://vector4free.com/
http://www.vectorstock.com/free-vectors

Photoshop High Pass filter

Easeman — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:43:49 +0000

There are ways to sharpen images using Photoshop such as using Unsharp Mask. If you have a landscape with much fine details, perhaps a good way is by using High Pass filter.

In earlier Photoshop CS2, you can do this by:
- Open image and duplicate image unto a new layer
- Go to Filter > Other > High Pass > Set a value between 2 to 2.5 px
- Change Blend mode of High Pass layer to Hard light
(refer to diagram below)

For Photoshop CS4
- Select image layer > Filter > Convert to Smart Filters
- Click on the bottom right of your High Pass Filter layer to change the blend mode to Hard Light
- Can add layer mask to preserve soft areas
- Control amount of sharpening by varying transparency value

View the photo at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightcanvas/4449993023/

Photoshop High Pass Filter