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Processing the Photographs of Your SlidesPosted by gary_sc in Creative Pipeline: The ACP Blog on Jun 30, 2017 4:52:30 PM
In Part 1 we talked about how to take hundreds or thousands of slides and quickly turn them into digital images. This was done by photographing the slides with a good camera and a macro lens. While you will not get as good a result as a proper scanning of the slides, you will process your slides significantly faster than if you scanned. The goal here is speed and if your setup is done properly, and you understand how to work with Lightroom, you can get OK to pretty good results.
The problem with slides is that unless you can clearly see them, it's hard to see them well enough to know which images you want to keep or toss, like, or even cherish. Simply holding them up to a light is a very limited approach. By processing the images as presented below, you will quickly convert the photos of your slides into very viable digital images. However, speed is the operative word here.
I'm presenting a lot of information below, some of which may not be relevant to you depending on your Lightroom knowledge and experience. If you're already pretty good at Lightroom, there's a lot to skim. If you're new to Lightroom, there's information below that will help you process your slides as well as any image you encounter in Lightroom. Plus, it's always easier to learn an application while doing a project that uses that application. As such, this hopefully will be a functionally useful educational experience.
Also, as I stated in Part 1, I've processed over 5000 images at this point. I've tried a variety of approaches to speed up this process and the following techniques work for me. One of the advantages of Lightroom is how many ways there are to do the same thing. I find that I use many or all of some of these approaches to get the job done. That said, I'm sure there techniques that I'm not using because either I'm not aware of them or they do not work for me. As always, YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary).
Because of my approach here, this article on how to process your photographs of your slides is also a primer on how to use Lightroom. Lightroom is a wonderful application but very confusing to use because what you are looking at can change from one moment to another depending on what mode you're in or what you've clicked on recently. Because of this I will spend a few moments at appropriate times to make sure that what you are looking at on YOUR computer is what I'm showing on my screenshots.
In this article we'll discuss:
- A global view of what you're doing here
- Some tips on tethering your camera to Lightroom
- What you can and cannot correct on these images
- Tips on selecting and de-selecting images in Lightroom
- Cropping a lot of slides uniformly using Auto Sync
- Some techniques to self-review your slides
- Removing and/or Deleting images
- Using "Previous" to duplicate a slides adjustments
- Using "Copy and Paste" to duplicate a slides adjustments
- Using "Sync" to duplicate a slides adjustments
- Using "Painter" to duplicate a slides adjustments
- Fine-tuning adjustments on your slides
- Digital Dust Removal
- A variety of ways to Keyword your images
- Fixing misspelled keywords
- Face Detection
To Begin
As stated, photographing your slides is a great opportunity to not only see your images, but to play Keep & Toss with your slides. If you have photos of nondescript mountains or nondescript people, they may have meant something at the time they were taken but now maybe not so much. You may chose to delete the photos of these slides from your hard drives or at least the image from your Lightroom collection. Because of the ability to better see your slides on your screen, what you do with these images is up to you. I will guide you on how to make these images as good as possible but you do not need to do ANYTHING from what I suggest. Just getting them into Lightroom might be sufficient. However, I found that since I can now see these images I might as well make the ones I like as good looking as possible. In addition, if there's any image that you particularly like, you can always pull out the original slide and do a proper scanning of the slide.
Just about everything that we'll be doing with Lightroom in this writing can be done with just about any version of Lightroom—you do not need the latest version. There are a few techniques that can only be done with the newer releases but these are not critical to the objective: converting vast quantities of slides into a digital format.
Part of processing the images can start as early as when you are setting up the tethering your camera and computer together. This set up can let you identify where the images will be placed in your catalog as well as start out with some keywords. [If you are not using tethering, you can do bulk Keywording during import from your camera's card as described in the Keywording section.] You can set your keywords to match the images' range you are processing. That is, if you've taken all of the images in one state (e.g., Florida), than that state can be placed in the keyword field. If in a specific location (e.g., Epcot), than I suggest you place both Florida and Epcot in the keyword list. Also note that I entered the slide box (or whatever location would suffice) that contained the slides. Again, this will help you find the slides at any future date.
You'll note that I do not have much of any custom names (for the slides) at this point. I've tried various approaches to changing the name of the slides as I processed the images but l gave up as it was tortuous—too much stopping and starting. If you really wish to provide custom names to the images after they've been photographed, there is a MUCH easier way: when looking in the images in Library mode select all of the images that will share a name. Then from the Library menu select Rename Photos... Select option "Custom Name - Sequence" from the dropdown menu, provide the custom name, verify the Start Number, and tap OK and you're done. However, I honestly never found a strong advantage of customizing the names and often left the images with whatever name they received. Simply, Keywording is much more powerful and efficient than naming the images.
As stated, the goal is to process the images as efficiently as one can. If there are individual images you wish to enhance, you can always spend time with them in Lightroom one at a time. However, any time you can alter and fix more than one image at a time, the better. Lightroom helps this considerably by providing many ways to alter many images at a time.
What you can/can't correct on these images.
These images were first slides, not digital images. Therefore, there is no lens information to take advantage of Adobe's lens corrections. And part of this is you cannot expect to get any help from the new Transform Options of selecting the "Vertical," "Horizontal," or other options to remove the perspective of an building. Fortunately, if you use the "Guided" option you can fix a distorted building, but most of the time I don't bother unless the image has some real issues and I want to take the time to fix the problem.)
Even though you've taken these as raw images (hopefully), any option to change their white balance by selecting sunlight, shade, tungsten, etc. from the White Balance dropdown menu are doomed before you start. Despite that, you can get close to fixing the White Balance by clicking on something gray-ish in the image with the White Balance Tool (or press "w"). More on this later
Another critical option that's not available is any grain correction—Photoshop and Lightroom do not know how to get rid of photographic film grain, that's a film issue, not a digital issue. If you have an image with noticeable photographic grain and you wish to fix that, your best option is to use a high-end scanning software such as SilverFast by LaserSoft Imaging. I've a sample of the benefits of this feature in the beginning of Part 1.
If you've taken your images as raw images, you will have excellent success with the Highlight and Shadow sliders. Likewise, you can control the white and black regions on the histogram with either the White and Black Sliders or by going up to the histogram, mousing down in one of the five regions (as you mouse-over each region will slightly lighten up) and dragging left or right as shown below.
Fortunately, one of the tools that IS available to enhancing the slides is the "Dehaze" tool. Unfortunately this also is a fairly new tool and is not available in earlier versions of Lightroom.
Some basic info on selecting images in Lightroom
So that you know what I'm looking at (and referring to), when I'm looking at image in the Library mode, I'm seeing the following view. Note, to get this you need to tap the Loupe View (e) seen just below the left side, below the image. I tend to not use the Grid view much (press the icon to the left of the Loupe View). However, there is one area where I do use Grid view and this will be brought up at a later time while I discuss Keywording.
Also note that the tools provided in this region can change by your choices. This is done on the far right of the tool region. If an item is checked, it will show. Also be aware that if you switch to the Grid view, the various tools change and the selections below also change. Fortunately what you chose is sticky so set it once and you are done. But again, the options for Grid and Loupe are different, it's just that once set each view's options will be sticky for that view. Anyhow, if I'm showing tools that you do not see, that's why.
Lastly, if you do not see this Tool region, press the "t" key and make it show or hide as you chose. Similarly, if you do not see the image thumbnails across the bottom, if you look at the bottom you see a small "up" pointing arrowhead as shown below. [Note: the contrast is dismal but it is there.] If the thumbnails are not showing and you mouse-over this arrowhead, the thumbnails will show, if you click on the arrowhead, the thumbnails will show and remain.
The goal in this article is to process many images as fast as possible, it's important to know how to select a single image, many sequential images and/or many non-sequential images. You might already know this material but if you are weak on these details, it will bring you up to speed on processes that will be discussed later. All of the following is done on the thumbnails that line the bottom of the screen.
Tips on Selecting and De-selecting images
If you click ON the image, that image will be selected.
If you click above or below an image, you can also select an image. Let's call this "off-image clicking."
If you click on one image and then Shift click on an image many images away, all of the continuous row of images (from beginning of the selection to end) will be selected.
And if you click on one image and Control/Command-click on any other images (regardless of order) they will be selected even if discontinuous.
Now, notice above how one of the photos in the image above is a lighter gray than the others? THAT image will show up in the big Loupe view above. If you click ON any of the selected images (not off-image), then that image will be displayed in the Loupe view. This means that if you have more than one image selected but wish to change the view of which specific image is showing, you can. If you click off-image (on any of the images), that image will be selected and all of the other images will be deselected.
If you press "Command/Control-a," all of the images will be selected. If you wish to deselect the images, you can either click any off-image clicking (and only that one image will be selected). Alternatively if you press Shift-Option-Command/Control-d, all images will be de-selected.
As you process your images, your ability to select and deselect the images is critical and the above tips will become 2nd nature in no time.
Processing the images: cropping off the slide's cardboard
As you recall in Part 1, I was very insistent upon making sure that each image was properly registered to a specific consistent location as you took the photos. The better you did this, the easier this next section will be.
Our first task is to crop the image so that none of the slide's cardboard is displayed. First, click on the Develop tab, or press Command/Control-Option-2 so that you are in the Develop tab (and not in Library mode).
The first bulk processing technique to demonstrate is "Auto-sync." I start here because this is one of the most powerful and consequently, one of the most dangerous adjustment tool in Lightroom. It's also a good place to start because it's a handy place to crop all of the images at once to remove the slide's cardboard. [Note: the way Lightroom works you cannot make any permanent changes to an image. Thus, if you crop an image in Lightroom and for whatever reason did a bad crop, you can always go back to the original image and nothing has been permanently damaged.]
Tap "Command/Control-a" to select all of the images. If you look at the bottom right of the screen you'll see a button called "Sync..." (More info on how to use Sync… a bit later.) On the left side of this you'll see a switch that's on the bottom. Tap that and it will flip to the top and now the button will say "Auto Sync." [Note, if you see nothing, than no images is selected and if the button says "Previous, that means you only have one photo selected.]
Now tap the "r" key (for cRop), select Crop from the Tools menu, or tap the Crop icon on the left of the tools (see below)
You'll now see crop lines on the image. The default crop lines are on the image's edges.
Now you need to start bringing the crop down to the image. Because this image has a bit of rotation, there's no need to try to get accurate yet. So grab a corner handle and bring it down to the image, and then repeat with the other handle on the opposite corner.
Now, if you mouse-over a corner, outside of the cropped region (see the bottom right in the image below), the cursor will turn into a double-arrow. Click on the arrow and drag up and down—this lets you rotate the image. To complete the cropping process, make any fine-tune adjustments for the sides of the crop to line up with the images' edges. Now click the Crop tool once again (or press "r" again) and everyone of your images will have been cropped all at once. Done!
While you still have all of the images selected and you're still in Auto Sync, it's a good idea to move the Highlight slider to the left and the Shadow slider to the right. If nothing else this is why you took the images in raw mode, NOT JPEG. Your ability to make as much of an enhancement to each image as you can at this point is due to the extra information contained in raw images. The exact setting is not really critical here, just close to the settings shown below will be fine. This is just a starting point for any subsequent adjustments.
Now, before you do ANYTHING else, press Shift-Option-Command/Control-d key to deselect all of the images (or click off-image on any one image to deselect all but that one image) and be sure that Auto Sync is turned off. It's important to get into the habit of this if you use Auto-Sync because if you start to make images adjustments with Auto-sync on, those adjustments will take place on ALL of your images, even the ones you just did a moment before. (And thereby undoing any fine-tuning you just did on any previous image(s)).
Initial Reviewing your Slides
Now that you can easily see your cropped images in full view in the Loupe view. Now is a great time to make sure that all images are properly cropped, which one's need to be rotated to Portrait view, and do a quick review of which images you want to spend time on and which images need to be tossed out.
The probable reality is, as you took photos of your slides, you inadvertently bump your setup and suddenly all subsequent images from that "whoops" point are not properly cropped as the previous images were. No fear. Select the first slide you notice this issue and then move over to the last slide and Shift-click on that last photo. Now go back to the first slide of this set, set "Sync..." to "Auto Sync," adjust the crop on that image. Next, be sure Auto Sync is off and deselect the images and continue. Every time you notice that things are off, do this semi-global adjustment and continue. Eventually you'll reach the end of the images and all alignment adjustments have been made.
As you look through your slides to make sure they are cropped, it is also a good time to quickly go through your slides to remove and/or delete photos that are just not worth saving. (If they are not worth saving, there's no need to spend any time correcting and/or enhancing the images.) As you progress through your images, you will find the occasional image that says nothing, means nothing, and/or isn't well taken in the first place. Time to play Keep & Toss.
You can either delete the images as you look though your images or you can mark your image so that you can "Find" the images with that marking (see next paragraph) and delete all at once. Whichever one appeals to you is fine.
In addition to deleting the images as you find them, you can be a bit more methodical and identify which images are either particularly good and/or particularly bad. This can be done by selecting an image and tapping the "P" or "X" key as you go through your images. If you look at the images below, in the upper left-hand corner you can see the white flag ("flagged") or black flag (rejected) icon identifying your choice.
Besides using the Flag and Reject, you can also use Ratings (*) and Labels (colors) to do the same thing, Flag and Rejecting are just two more ways to identify images.
The one advantage to flagging the good and bad images this way is that you've already identified which images deserve special attention. This might save you time later on.
To delete an image, select one image, several continuous images, or discontinuous images. Then, either tap the "Delete" key, go to the Photo menu and select "Remove Photo," or right click (as shown below on the left) and select "Remove Photo(s)" (if you select have two or more photos, this becomes plural). If you do any of these things, a new window pops up (shown below on the right) verifying if you want the images Removed from the catalog (but will still remain on your computer), or "Delete from Disk" which places the images in your computer's Trash Can where, if weak in heart, you can retrieve them again so long as you've not emptied your computer's trash can.
As stated, as you pan through your images it is a great time to find the portrait images you rotated to the landscape view to photograph. Here's something that's very cool: Lightroom remembers an images original orientation when making subsequent cropping operations. By this, let's say that the crops on the images were done in a side-to-side orientation. However, now that the slide has been rotated to a portrait position. If you select multiple images and make a side-to-side adjustment, all of the images that you rotated to portrait will automatically adjust in a top-to-bottom orientation. In other words, you do not need to do anything special to them after rotation, it all just works.
By the way, the process of rotating the slides is to either go to the Photo menu and select "Rotate CCW" (Command/Control-[ ) or "Rotate CW (Command/Control-] )." Because I always rotate the slide CCW when processing the slides, I always do Command/Control-] to right them again. This can also be done from the Tool menu from the Library view but the key-command is available in any mode so I tend to use that approach.
Next group process: Previous
Now we will begin to do actual image correction. This approach "Previous," and the next correction ("Copy and Paste"), are for speeding up corrections one at a time.
"Previous" is particularly good if you have multiple images that appear to need very similar correction. It doesn't make any difference if the images are near each other or not.
Below you see an image that has a color-cast and the image has had some color degradation.
I went ahead and adjust this image as well as I could in a fast fashion. (It's not a great image so I didn't spend much time on it.)
Now, I clicked on the next image
And simply tapped the Previous button
All Lightroom did here was to take the settings of the previous image and place them on the selected image. The advantage here is that this is real simple: you adjust one image and then click on any image that appears similar. (You can always go back and fine-tune any subsequent image as necessary.) So, as you look across the images in the thumbnail strip on the bottom, you can tap Previous as you continue processing. The disadvantages include that you cannot save multiple "Previous" settings (e.g., Previous A, Previous B, etc.), nor can you select multiple images and tap "Previous." In addition, if there were any corrections that were very specific (e.g., some rotation) on the initial image, those corrections will be transferred to any other image you tap "Previous" whether the subsequent images need that adjustment or not.
Next bulk process: "Copy" & "Paste."
Copy & Paste is similar to Previous but is best when you want to Paste "almost" every attribute you corrected. To use this set of tools, it requires an extra step before the Paste button.
You'll notice that the Copy button has an ellipse and that means that this will bring up a dialog box.
When this window comes up you can accept all of the boxes being checked or un-checked (lower left in the image above). As needed, you can check or recheck the options you want maintained. Notice, for example, that you can turn off rotational dynamics so they do not affect subsequent images.
To use this, you first select an image and make all of the adjustments you wish to make, then press Copy… Be sure that all of the attributes you wish to paste are selected. Then select an image and press the Paste button. All of the settings you copied will be pasted onto the new image. The advantage here is let's say that you had selected an image and made a bunch of corrections, including rotation. Assuming that you have other images that have the same problems but do not need rotation, by using Paste instead of Previous, you can pass on all of the adjustments but not rotation.
Once you've copied the alterations you've made, you can then select new image and then press Copy and repeat until you've adjusted all of the images with similar issues. What you cannot do with Paste is to select a number of images and then tap the Paste button—it doesn't work. That's when you need to use the "Sync…" feature described next.
The biggest limitation of Copy & Paste is that like Previous, you can only do it one image at-a-time.
Next bulk process: Sync…
The last option for bulk processing is the "Sync…" button (last seen when we were talking about "Auto Sync").
As before, if you select one image, this button says "Previous." If you select more than one image, the button now says "Sync…" The way to use this is to select a number of images, either continuous or discontinuous. Now click ON one of the images (not off-image because that will deselect your collection), that will be your master image for this process. Make any and all of the adjustments you want. Now tap the "Sync…" button. Up pops almost the same window as shown above. However, the button above that says "Copy" now says "Synchronize." Press the Synchronize button and you are done. This is safer than Auto Sync because you actively have to press the Sync… button each time you wish to alter a bunch of images. Sync is much faster than Copy and Paste for bulk operations because you do not have to select and then Paste on each image. Rather, you can select two or hundreds of images and boom, your done!
Fine-Tuning Adjustments on your slides
After making any bulk adjustments, you'll invariably need to do some fine-tuning on those same images. This is because it's extremely unlikely that the group of images you bulk-adjusted were exactly the same. What the bulk adjustments did was to get a group of images close to being finished, now you can finish them. Making the fine-tuning adjustments on photographs of slides is not much different from making adjustments of regular digital images but with some limitations.
As stated, depending on the age of your slides, who the manufacturer was and/or the product type, and how they were stored, the amount of degradation may be nothing or significant. It's also a sad truth that the degradation is not going to be completely consistent from one image to the next (but there will likely be groups of images that are similarly, but not uniformly degraded).
Probably the most common issue/problem is white balance caused by fading of one or more of the emulsion colors. Fortunately, using Lightroom's White Balance eyedropper (and if something in the image is probably gray), you can sneak fairly close to what the correct temperature and tint should be.
At the top of the Basic panel, next to the Temperature and Tint controls for White Balance, is an eyedropper. You can either tap on that with your mouse or press the "w" key (for "White Balance").
Now, click on something in the image that you think is probably gray. As you can see on the left image below, I've chosen the sign. I have no idea if this is true gray but it's probably good enough to get close to what a balanced White Balance should be. On the right in the image below is the instant result of clicking that eye dropper on the sign.
[Note: how does the White Balance Tool work? As you probably know, gray is an equal mix of red, blue, and green but the trick is that there must be the exact same amount of red, blue, and green. When you click on something that is (or might be) gray, Lightroom will adjust the colors in the image so that if they were not the same before, they are now. (A mid-gray is a better choice than light or dark gray.) In the image above I had nothing else better to click on so I opted to use the sign.
Occasionally there's not enough information in "white" for Lightroom to make a correction as shown in the image below. Here, the white of the jonquils was too light and I could not get sufficient information for Lightroom to work with and could not use this technique to white balance the image. (Note: if you make the image temporarily darker, this approach will still will not work.) Your only recourse here is to "eyeball" it. While challenging to do when you first start trying to white balance by eye, the good news is that the more you do the faster it gets.]
To finish up this image I noticed a tad of blue in the upper left corner meaning that even if this was Great Britain, it wasn't a completely overcast day. So I dropped the Exposure a tad, bumped up the Contrast a tad, dropped the Highlights as much as I could and pushed the Clarity up a bit. Below is the "before" these adjustments and below that is the "after" these adjustments.
[Let me repeat, if this was a JPEG, the final results would not have been as good. A raw image contains significantly more information than a JPEG.]
There will be times when the emulsions have faded to such a degree that doing a simple White Balance as above will not work. If this is so you'll probably have to manually tease the Temperature and Tint controls or in extreme condition, open the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance Panel and see if you can control the problem from here.
Below is a great example where regular white balance completely failed but making adjustments in Saturation solved the problem. In Image #1, you can see the problem. I'm in a train station and the cement floor and walls appear moss-green. They probably are not this color. So in Image #2, I try to white balance the image off of the wall and this was a failure; you can see how in the distance everything is now bluish purple. The problem is probably the light source from the ceiling is giving the area a color-cast.
So in Image #3 I go to the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance Panel and select Saturation. If you look in the right hand panel, you can see that I've circled the Targeted Adjustment Tool. If you click on that and go to a region that has color in the image, you can click and drag up and down on the image and that will increase (up) or decrease (down) the saturation. Using this approach you can see that it did a good job in removing the errant green from the cement. Obviously this will not work all the time but since cement shouldn't be green in most circumstances, here it worked fine.
If the colors are really really bad due to the degradation of the film, I'll strongly consider converting the image into a Black & White image. If that fails, it's a true tosser.
However, just keep in mind that anything you do to help the image is better than the image sitting in a box continually getting worse and worse. If the image is the only known image of Aunt Maude, you do what you can and be happy that you caught the image before it was completely totally gone.
Dust Removal
Despite dusting every slide prior to taking its photo, there will be an occasional bit of dust on the slides that will show up in the photograph. Fortunately the dust is as easy to remove in Lightroom as is sensor dust from a digital image. In image #1 below you can see the small spec of dust. [Note: The big difference between dust on a slide as opposed to dust on your sensor is that the dust on your slide will probably be sharper then sensor dust which will be fuzzy and out of focus.]
To remove the dust from the image, select the "Spot Removal" tool shown in #2 (or press the "q" key) (you can vary the size of the tool's active circle by pressing the "[" or "]" keys to encompass just the speck), and click. You will see two circles with one having an arrow pointing to the original circle. This indicates where the new fill for the spot you clicked on will come from as shown in #3. [Note: if you think there's another region in the photo that would provide a better replacement to Lightroom's initial selection, just drag this second circle to that spot. For example, if the dust is on the edge of a cloud and Lightroom selected the middle of a cloud, move the second circle to the edge of a cloud somewhere else.] Image #4 shows the results of this spot removal. If you have a hair or a long thin item you wish to remove, rather than "click" with the Spot Removal tool, simply click and drag over the errant item. Otherwise the process is just the same.]
Like the many approaches to moving image enhancements from one image to others, there are many ways to apply keywords to one or many images.
Again, if you haven't been looking at these images in years and years and you want to see specific images in the future, you need to find them. So the last piece of the puzzle is to keyword the images.
Important: you must be in the Library tab to do Keywording. You can either click on the Library tab, press Option-Command/Control-1, or go to Window (menu) and select Library and then continue with your Keywording.
One of the advantages of Lightroom is that you can easily set keywords for single images as well as do global Keywording (apply keywords to a bunch of images at one time) and wherever you can do add Keywording, you should.
When I photograph a new set of slides into Lightroom, the Keywords I always automatically enter include: the box # (the metal or cardboard box containing the slides (you do number or mark them, don't you?)), the country, and the date (slides always have the date of processing pressed into the slide's cardboard). This date will invariably NOT be the day you took the images but it's close enough if you do not know the date otherwise. If all of the group of slides are from one state or one city, I'll enter that in at this time as well.
The very first image in this article shows where and how to automatically place keywords if you are tethering your camera to your computer. If you did not tether and will be importing the images from the camera's card. you can alternatively automatically enter the default keywords by setting up to import the images and before you tap the Import button, from the right hand side select the "Apply During Import" Panel. From there you can also set automatic Settings, Metadata, and Keywords.
At this point you need to refer back to any notes you have from your storage box or whatever else you have and go through your slides in groups to narrow down the slides to your keywords.
As you enter Keywords, you may have a group of photos that will all receive the same Keyword. You could enter the Keywords as a one-at-a-time process but that's a big time waster. Rather, you want to select a block of images and set any keywords at once whenever possible.
If you are at the first image of a set, you then need to find the last image of that set to make the group of them all selected. But, while searching for the last image of the set you've very likely will have misplaced that first one.
One way out of this problem is to mark the first image to make it easy to find. The way that I like to do this is to place a color label on the first image. After selecting that image, if you go up to the Photo menu, and select "Set Color Label," then select a color. You can also tap any of the 6 to 9 keys and get a color. Alternatively you can right-click on the image and find "Set Color Label" and set the color.
Note that the color is neither profound nor in your face. As shown below, if the image is selected, there is a thin (color) border around the image and if the image is not selected there is a (color) tint to the region around the image. Not significant, but it is something to look for as you look for that first or last image to select.
If you want to set the color so it's easier to see, you can change this by going into the View menu and select "View Options…" toward the bottom of the menu (or select Command/Control-j). Then select the Grid View (the results will show up in either view). As you can see, go to "Tint grid cells with label colors" The default is 20%, I've found that for my purposes here I like 40% or 50%. This makes it much easier to see the first in a set of images I wish to mark with specific keywords.
So, you've colored the first image, gave it a color label, found the last image, select it and backtrack to find that first image. Now you can Shift-click on the first image and they are all now selected.
Syncing Keywords
Syncing keywords is a great way to tag a number of images at the same time. The screenshot below shows the right side of Lightroom's window in Library mode and shows the Keywording Panel. You can enter multiple Keywords (place a comma between each keyword). Once you have all of your words entered as you want, and you are ready to import, press the import button.
Be aware that Lightroom tries to speed things up by doing a variety of automatic entries. For example, if you just entered the keyword piano, on the next image, when you click your cursor into this field, it will have "piano" ready to go. In addition, if you type "p," Lightroom will show that word and any other previously created keywords. So, it could display a list showing "painter," "piano,"Piccadilly." If the next letter you type is "i" than it will just show "piano" and "Piccadilly." As you continue to type, fewer options will present themselves and if the word is a new keyword, Lightroom will stop guessing waiting foryou to finish. That new word will now be a new word in the Keyword list.
Also note that there is a field just below the one shown highlighted above where you can also enter keywords. (It is hard to see that it exists because the contrast for Lightroom's fields are not very good.) The advantage of this one is if you tap the Enter key after each submission, Lightroom automatically enters a comma, ready for the next word. You can also enter multiple keywords in this field as long as you place a comma between each keyword.
Assuming you have multiple images selected, after you've entered in the Keyword(s) you want, notice that there are now two buttons on the bottom available to click on on the bottom as shown below.
On the right is one called "Sync Settings" which does the same thing as when you are in Develop mode (and let's you sync the image enhancements from the primary selected image). The "Sync" on the left which provides a whole new window shown below. The very last row in this window is for keywords. This should display all of the keywords that were entered for the primary selected image. If you want, you can enter more keywords here. The good thing here is that if there are images with unique keywords (e.g., someone's name), when you Sync the unique Keyword will not be removed. Lightroom respects these unique Keywords and leaves them alone.
At this point, be sure the check box on the left is checked, and then press "Synchronize" and those keywords are now entered for all the selected images.
By the way, if you have a group of images selected and any of them have an asterisk "*" following the keyword, that means that one or more (but not all) of the images selected have that Keyword. As shown below, not all of the selected images have the "Farmer's Market" keyword, but all of the selected images have 1984 April, Box 5, and Great Britain as keywords.
Let me show you one last way to set keywords: the Painter (aka the Spray Can). To use this you must be in the Grid view in the Library mode.
Using Painter is kind of a mash-up of "Previous," "Copy & Paste," and Sync" for enhancing the images but cooler.
Using Painter is a four-part process. Below I've found a set of images (between and including the images with the red label) that were taken in Sherwood Forest and I want to add "Nottingham" to their keywords.
Notice in Tool region there's an image of a spray paint can. If you click on this you can see the word "Paint" and a dropdown menu. From here you can see the range of stuff you can "paint" with the Painter tool. Select Keywords.
Next type in the word you wish to paint, I added "Nottingham." If you want to add more than one keyword, simply place a comma after each word (e.g., "England, Nottingham, Sherwood Forest")
Now bring your cursor (shaped like the spray paint can and seen in the top-left image) up to one of the images you wish to add "Nottingham" to the Keyword list. It's important to place your cursor ON the image, not off the image.
From here you can either simply click and/or drag on/across the images you wish to add the keyword to. This will not affect any keywords that are already assigned to the images, it only adds to the images. Also, notice the image below showing a white line around all of the images where the Painter successfully sprayed. If you inadvertently clicked or dragged over an image that should not have this keyword, simply press the Option key and re-click on that image and that (those) image(s) keywords will be removed.
Fixing misspellings
If you ever misspell or mistype a keyword, not too worry. Go to the Keyword List in the right hand Panel in Library view and find the misspelled word. Than right-click on that keyword and select "Edit Keyword Tag…" This brings up a new window where you can fix the word, click the "Save" button, and every reference to that keyword will be updated. Quick and slick.
Face Detection
Especially if you have photos of friends or family, turn on Face Detection. this is done by going up to your name in the upper left corner, clicking, and dropping down to the bottom of that menu as shown below.
Please note that this will index (and look for) faces in your entire catalog, not just any specific folder. And, if you've created a large number of photos before starting this, it will take some time for all of the images to be indexed.
Face Detection is very good for identifying full face or mostly full face images in your photos. Profiles and back of heads are not good for automatic face detection (but that doesn't prevent you from identifying who these heads are).
If you want Lightroom to point out potential faces and if you've already selected Face Detection (above), in the tool region above the thumbnails you can see a face, click on this. and Lightroom will point out what Lightroom considers a face. This is shown in the image below where Lightroom says "Draw Face Region." I should point out that in the beginning Lightroom can be howelingly wrong in determining what's a face or even the sex of people, but as you teach it faces Lightroom not only gets better at determining what in an image is a face but also becomes very good at recognizing who's who.
Also note the face image to the right of Survey View (circled in green) below, this gives you "People" (or tap "o"). If you click on that, you will get a grid of all of the faces that Lightroom thinks it sees. From there you can easily run though these images and identify who's who. AS you progress though this, Lightroom will get better and better. And for the images that are clearly not faces or people you do not care to know, simply tap the Delete key and not have to deal with them again.
The difference between having a region drawn around faces (with Draw Face Region) is that you can see the whole image and can therefore see the images in context. If you select to view the People option, all you see are faces in a grid fashion and will not have the rest of the image to put the face in context.
The advantages of facial recognition is pretty obvious: let's say your parents are having their 40th anniversary and you wish to prepare a book of their anniversaries though the years. Do a search on their name(s) and bingo, after some selection, you've got your gift.
Using keywords to find images
Although this has nothing to do with setting keywords, let me point out one of the easy ways to use keywords. Just below the keyword entry region mentioned above, look for the listing "Keyword List." In this section you will see every keyword you've assigned in alphabetical order. If the list is long you can search for specific keywords in the field at the top. [Note: I truncated this list at the purple line to show a sample and the top of the list.]
If you mouse-over the keywords, you'll see an arrow pointing to the right on the right side of that keyword. If you click on that arrow, every image that has that keyword will be there immediately. In addition, you'll see a check mark on the left side letting you know that you're seeing all of the these images. You'll also note a shaded check mark just below that for California. This lets you know that for this example Calico Ghost Town are images that are also part of the images in California.
In summary
If you've read this far, you win an ice cream cone. The amount of actual process listed above is not all that much, but I've shown a considerable amount of extra attention to what's happening within Lightroom to help as much as possible. Lightroom is a fantastic program with the one annoying aspect that items you just finished observing are now gone or different because you just tapped on something in the window. It's kind of like when you put your keys down a moment ago and now your keys are gone for good (or so it seems).
I hope you enjoy obtaining access to your slides as much as I have. It's been great seeing friends, family, and places I've been but haven't seen in many a year. It's also been very interesting to see how I've developed (or not) as a photographer in the 40+ years I've been taking photos.


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These FAQs were adapted with permission from Fairfax County Public Schools: http://www.fcps.edu/is/instructionaltechnology/googleapps/.
Why is my child's Google Apps account her student ID number for Chesterfield County Public Schools? It is my understanding that student ID numbers are private information.
Chesterfield County Public Schools employs a "walled garden" approach to implement G Suite for Education. Using student ID numbers as user IDs is consistent with existing privacy regulations. While Chesterfield County Public Schools does use student ID numbers in different internal applications, the numbers are protected by a PIN (personal identification number) as in the case of lunch money or the students have no direct access to the system as in the case of the library system. When the school system's Technology Department reviewed G Suite for Education, the issue of students being able to see the ID number of other students was found to be within acceptable security guidelines because G Suite accounts are secured by a personal password. Teachers and staff members have been notified about acceptable and unacceptable uses of student ID numbers. If you have additional questions, please call the Technology Department at 804-279-1900.
What about Google Apps for Education privacy?
Chesterfield County Public Schools is responsible for protecting and safeguarding the confidentiality of student information. Chesterfield County Public Schools has contracted with Google to provide access to G Suite for Education in a closed and secure environment for students and staff members. G Suite is governed by a detailed privacy policy and security measures. Chesterfield County Public Schools has reviewed the privacy policy and security measures and believes they appropriately protect the privacy of users. Under the school system's terms of service agreement with Google, the company is obligated to comply with FERPA regulations. Additional information about G Suite for Education security and privacy may be found here.
What assurances has Google given Chesterfield County Public Schools that it will not collect data on my student?
Chesterfield County Public Schools has a signed agreement with Google based on the terms of this agreement. Please see Section 7. CCPS G Suite for Education is compliant with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, also known as FERPA, and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Who has access to my child's account?
The G Suite agreement with Chesterfield County Public Schools contractually ensures that our students, faculty and staff members are the sole owners of their data. Google will only access content stored on Apps when a Chesterfield County Public Schools administrator grants Google explicit permission to do so. One example would be to investigate inappropriate use.
Does my child retain copyright of his creations?
The same copyright rules apply to content in G Suite for Education that apply to any other creation, provided the student is the sole owner. Staff copyright considerations are discussed in School Board Policy 7210.
What protection will Chesterfield County Public Schools provide so that my child is not accessing inappropriate content on the web?
There are no advertisements used with G Suite for Education. G Suite for Education is an online collaboration tool that is accessed using a web browser and requires a login and password. Chesterfield County Public Schools also uses a CIPA-compliant web filter that blocks inappropriate categories (as defined in Virginia Code § 22.1-70.2, § 42.1-36.1). This filter is active on Chromebooks in school and outside school.
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SAAB Engineering: A rising star
Whatever is present today in front of our eyes seems simple and easy to operate. How many of us are aware of what all effort and technologies goes into it. When we see a car moving on the road we can only see the brand and the model name, there are hundreds of spare parts which contributes in making it run on the road.
Each and every tangible thing we need in our daily life is a result of gradual and number of steps which are combined together to make it work. How many of us have given a thought to how do all this comes into being. Every question has an answer. Let's find out some of them.
SAAB Engineering is a manufacturing unit located in Bangalore Karnataka. They are one of the key customers of Ace Micromatic. SAAB has four units in Bangalore, three in Bommasandra and one is in Jigani. These four units have more than 90 turning machines from Ace Micromatic Group.
In a conversation with MrSanjivBalagopal, founder of SAAB Engineering.He shared his experience working on Ace Micromatic machines. He said "I and my brother Ajay started this business with one machine as a workshop in Frazer Town, then slowly and gradually shifted to Bommasandra. At a time when there were very less opportunities for growth we started with 20 thousand rupees of investment. In 1995 we bought our first CNC turning Machinefrom Ace Micromatic Group, the LT 16; that was the time we came across the excellent function of these machines and till date we have a preference of turning machines from same brand. We manufacture onlyautomobiles parts includes Starters, generators and pulleys".
SAABmanufacture around 1.2 million parts a month. They not only caters to the Indian market , but also export 25% of their turn over to the Bosch plants located in thecountries like South Africa, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain Etc. Their key customers are Bosch, Maruti, Hyundai,valieo, Penso, suzuki etc.
Other preferredmachines by SAAB are milling machines, grinding machines, single milling turning machines, and jobbers from Ace Micromatic Group. "To be honest we chose these machines because they are automatic and trouble free. Today the major challenge we face is the skilled man power, Ace machines help us in overcoming this problem as one man can handle multiple machines at the same time", said by MrSanjiv, Co founder of SAAB Engineering.
MrSanjiv further added that their business has grown eventually in last ten years, today SAAB gives competition to the brands which were doing well ten years ago. They have made firm position in the market and also made their mark in the industry. As per their customers demand they have started importing iron as the raw material, established cold forging sections in unit 3, and heat treatment in their plant itself. "Customers want products on a turnkey basis, so to serve them better we are providing end to end solutions including the finished product under one roof".
SAAB Engineering is very well organized and focus about their future plans they are in market for pretty long time and very well aware of the demand and supply of market, their experience in the market helps them in understanding the market patterns and accordingly the projects are designed.
"As I mentioned before man power is the biggest challenge we face today, so we are planning to convert all our units with completely automatic machines so work can be done faster with less workforce", added MrSanjiv.


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Brent crude oil edged lower on Friday, following a two-day, $3 rally, as weak economic data from the United States sounded a note of caution on growth prospects in the world's largest oil consumer.
Prices cut losses in the afternoon following a midday commodities selloff that traders said may have been prompted by fund liquidations as European markets closed for the weekend. Other commodities such as metals also sold off, and gold lost 0.3 percent.
"The markets tend to overreact. The oil market got knocked off its knees and grabbed some legs," said Dan Flynn, an analyst and trader at Price Futures Group in Chicago, Illinois.
Even though Brent looks on track for its biggest one-week gain since November 2012, it is still more than 6 percent below where it started April after a string of disappointing reports in recent weeks from the U.S., China and Germany stoked fears of global economic slowdown.
Traders said low trading volumes indicated a lack of conviction in this week's rally. Volumes for U.S. crude were 35 percent lower than the 30-day moving average.
On Friday, Commerce Department data showed that U.S. gross domestic product expanded at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first quarter. This advance read on how the economy kicked off 2013 was slightly worse than the 3.0 percent rate expected, prompting worries about a deceleration in the second quarter and sending U.S. equity markets down.
Brent crude futures touched a low of $102.56 before clawing back above $103, still 40 cents lower on the day. U.S. light, sweet crude shed about 70 cents to trade just under $93.
"The market rebounded pretty strongly in the past week. We bounced from $85 close to $94 and it looks as if what you're seeing today is a little bit of profit-taking," said Gene McGillian, an analyst with Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut.
Brent's premium to U.S. crude futures edged lower after settling at below $10 on Thursday for the first time since January 2012.
"The market has gone through a period of relatively robust North Sea production, thus weakening the Brent side of the spread, while market participants are less concerned with the overhang of crude oil in the U.S. Midwest as the ability to move oil out of the region continues to increase," Dominick Chirichella of Energy Management Institute said.
Oil has also been supported by a tightening of global inventories over the past two months, according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, as well as by ongoing tensions in the Middle East.
Members of the U.S. Congress are calling for action on Syria after a report showed the likely use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.


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An anti-discrimination ordinance, aimed at protecting the growing number of AIDS victims, is being considered by the Allentown Health Bureau.
"We are considering proposing an ordinance similar to the one enacted in Los Angeles," said bureau Director Gary Gurian.
The Los Angeles ordinance, the first in the country, prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, medical and dental services, business establishments, city facilities, city services and other public accommodations "on the basis of the fact that the person discriminated against has the medical condition Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or any condition related thereto."


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Stars Shine at Annual AmfAR Benefit
Stars at the Cannes Film Festival gave back in a big way this year at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala. The annual fundraiser and auction raised nearly $11 million, a record for the organization that funds AIDS research.
The party was even more posh this year with a fashion show featuring models like Karolina Kurkova, Kate Upton and Lily Dolandson wearing designers Alexander Wang, Roberto Cavalli, Chanel and more. The entire lot sold as a single item for more than $375,000!
Guests could also bid on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities like the chance to star in a short film by fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, which sold twice at more than $1 million per role, and a one-hour private tennis match with the No. 1 ranked men's player Novak Djokovic, which raised more than $100,000.
AmfAR started the Cinema Against AIDS gala nearly 20 years ago and has raised more than $70 million to date.


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The easiest way to introduce a child to the system we use to classify various groups of animals is to start by learning about body coverings. This post will only cover animals that have fur, feathers and scales but you can add the others (exoskeleton and skin) if and when you feel your child is ready.
Here are some simple and fun body covering activities to get your child familiar with fur, feathers and scales.
Body Covering Activities
There may be laws in your country governing the use of wildlife and their products (feathers, skins and fur) so make sure you obtain them through legal means (check with zoos and your local wildlife authority). Otherwise, I suspect it will be easier for most of you to go with the substitutes below.
Substitute animal products
- Feathers – Can be easily bought from your local craft shop these days
- Hair/fur – Use your own hair or the fur of your dog after they've had a haircut (that's what we did!). You could even use one of your child's stuffed toys!
- Scales – Buy imitation snake skin from your local fabric shop, or use your handbag. You could also just use a snake toy that has imitation scales for the rubbing activity too.
Animal Crayon Rubbings
Using the naturally cast off body covering of animals can make a great rubbing activity. Miss Possum had fun seeing the different types of patterns that were created when placing paper over them and colouring with crayons. She liked this so much that I designed a printable for it. You can download it by clicking the link below.
Fur, Feather and Scales Printable
Fur, feathers and scales what's in the box?
Using three tissue boxes, we created a sensory activity. Using touch, Miss Possum had to guess the body covering and an animal the body covering may belong to.
Fur, feathers and scales cover up collage
We used the same printable to match the body covering to the animal and pasted the body covering onto the printable.
Touching live animals
It's important to take every opportunity to develop a child's understanding of the basic body coverings using real animals too. You can do this by talking about the different body coverings on live animals you may see with your child.
Look closer
Inspect each body covering and notice differences between each.
While doing these activities talk about:
- The different types of body coverings
- How they feel? Are they rough or smooth, soft or hard?
- What's unique about each type of body covering?
- Some animals that have each body covering
Children can amuse themselves with these fun activities and they probably don't even realise they are building their knowledge of basic animal classification. If they really enjoy them, know quite a few different types of animals and now recognise scales, fur and feathers, then they may be ready to move on to the next learning activities. The next post will give you some activities that will build your child's understanding that animal body coverings help us put animals into groups.
We've learnt more about animal classification. Here's some fun activities to help you extend on these activities.
More fun with Fur, Feathers and Scale
- Furry art activity
- Science Sunday: Birds of a Feather
- O for Owl – Cute little handprint activity with feathers too!
- Slithery Snake


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My lunch buddy isn't here today. At first I was worried, maybe he's sick or been in a car accident? Then I realized that it's Yom Kippur, the most sacred of the Jewish holidays.
This is the Day of Atonement, for Jews. It's a day characterized by fasting, prayer, and seeking forgiveness. This is the one day of the year when attending synagogue is practically mandatory—even for secular Jews.
Who are "secular" Jews, you might ask? They're people who belong to the culture of Judaism but who don't believe in God. That can be a substantial percentage of Jews in some countries. Even in Israel, about 30% of the citizens are atheists (adherents.com).
I'm pretty sure this phenomenon (secular "religion") is quite common. I know lots of secular Roman Catholics and secular Anglicans.
Happy Yom Kippur1 to all Jews, secular and otherwise.
1. It seems a bit strange to be wishing happy Yom Kippur on a day devoted to atonement but I'm told this is appropriate for an atheist or other goya.


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By Lim Say Heng and David Lee
THE worst on-field incident in the history of the S-League.
That is how some football officials are describing the events of Tuesday night when a violent free-for-all broke out in the match between the Young Lions and Chinese side Beijing Guoan Talent.
The match was abandoned by referee Zaid Hussein in the 89th minute after the mass brawl - the second time it happened in the match - got out of control, resulting in two players being taken to hospital.
Said Geylang United head coach Mike Wong, who witnessed the events at the Jalan Besar Stadium: "I was disgusted with what I saw. It is disappointing for a professional league to have come to this level."
His sentiments were echoed by Balestier Khalsa vice-chairman S Thavaneson.
Said the veteran football man: "This is a terrible indictment for local football, especially since this is not the first time Beijing Guoan have got into trouble this season.
"There was a free-for-all when we (Balestier) faced Beijing in March this year, when their substitutes came from the bench to join in.
"The match wasn't abandoned. There was a disciplinary hearing after that, but I don't think there was any action taken against these players."
Thavaneson added: "Here we are, having dwindling crowd support for the league. We don't need to have all this happen."
But the strongest condemnation came from a man who witnessed, first-hand, the last and only time an S-League match was abandoned - former Woodlands Wellington and Tampines Rovers official R Vengadasalam.
That incident took place in 2007, when Woodlands walked off the pitch while playing against his Tampines side, angered by the referee's decision to award a red card against one of their players.
Said Venga, currently a football pundit: "The 2007 incident was caused by the (former) Woodlands chairman instigating his team to walk off the field.
"On Tuesday night, two teams fought until the referee had to stop the game. There have been free-for-all fights in matches before. We've all seen them, but they usually are dispersed and the errant players sent off.
"But here, everybody got involved and it went so out of control, the match had to be abandoned. This is a stain on the S-League. Serious action has to be taken or we will be a laughing stock."
2007: Points docked, club fined
For their part in the 2007 walk-out, Woodlands were fined $30,000 and docked six points.
Francis Gomez, then the club's chairman, was fined $10,000 and barred from all games until the end of that year.
Under S-League rules, Woodlands could have been fined $50,000 and expelled from the league.
Venga believes that the book should be thrown at the guilty parties in the latest fracas.
"In fact, I think this incident is bad enough to warrant a police investigation. These players were rioting on the pitch, in my view," said Venga, who was an S-League official for 14 years.
Yesterday, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) issued a statement, saying that it is investigating the incident and has received reports from the match commissioner and match officials.
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Jen and Jake were intentional with every aspect of their day. Choosing to get married at the beautiful and unique Mt. Woodson Castle offered for an all in one, inspiring experience, not only for them, but everyone involved. There were so many locations and amazing options to get such fantastic artwork for a energetic and loving couple. Hands down, the team that was hired, from Eric at Muzzii Events to the florist Sugar Rose Flowers, and not to mention the awesome Photobooth provided by Take-A-Pic, was so helpful and good at what they did!
A special thanks goes out to Jen and Jake for being so passionate about having amazing photography and being willing to have me lead them through the adventure of their wedding. Creating for clients that understand what it takes to capture images like this last one are special in my heart. So, in a way, that is every client I shoot. 😉 If you would like to see their engagement shoot in Santa Barbara, click here.
Cheers Y'all!
Venue: Mt. Woodson Castle
DJ: Muzzii Events
Photographer: Me =)
Florist: Sugar Rose Flowers
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It is a mere matter of hours before another Summer Games Done Quick begins in earnest, so that can only mean it's also time to come back to the Screenshot Survey and get it out for this week. I've been away for a little bit here, but nothing changed in my absence and it was as easy as ever to find new games and catch up with old favorites while scouring the most social of media. Let's look at some tweets!
#screenshotsaturday because it's saturday somewhere i think? pic.twitter.com/dmtZNYEGPJ
— 🅱en Porter (@eigenbom) July 26, 2015
Longtime TechRaptor readers will remember MoonMan, which we published an offbeat interview about early this year. For those not already in the know, MoonMan is a procedural adventure where you have to explore an alien world as a rather happy green chap. Influenced by both Terraria and 16-bit platformers, the game has been quietly doing it's thing for close to four years, and will be released later this year after a successful Kickstarter run. I've played several of these types of games in the past, but nothing has really nailed the sense of exploration that Minecraft has while also giving you a tangible goal. Here's hoping that MoonMan cracks the code.
It is also worth mentioning that the creator promised in out interview that there will be plentiful spiders in the game. That is always a good thing.
With the new Grappler item you can grapple walls or pull enemies to you. Lots of fun! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev pic.twitter.com/CLgEUlnUOQ
— Siege Games (@SiegeGames) July 26, 2015
Here is a game that more strictly sticks to Terraria's concepts. Crea is a 2D sandbox, but it has more technical flare. It also has a few cool concepts for tools, like the grapple gun shown off in the tweet and magic spells. Unlike most of the games today, Crea is already out on Early Access and looks to be putting out regular updates over the past two months. I'm still a little burnt out on the genre myself, but if I were to dig into a sandbox game at this point, Crea sure does look neat.
Skimming grass with a fireball makes it sway #screenshotsaturday #ormaybesunday #gamedev #GameMaker pic.twitter.com/lWB1ysVk7A
— Dan Hindes (@dhindes) July 26, 2015
I have very fond memories of the prime years for the Xbox 360. I remember what a crazy innovation Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was, and I was of the right age that I was ready to grab whatever Activision could throw at me next. Of course, that next game was World at War, which was serviceable, but definitely not at memorable. It did have its main selling point though, which was Treyarch's trademark fire effects.
That whole preamble is a long way of saying that fire that isn't just a static fireplace in games is really neat. Wildfire takes that concept and runs with it, combing stealth with pyromancy to create an innovative playground to work with. Checking in again from out interview in April, I am already a fan of the burning I see on display here, and I hope that in the final game I can play through as stealthily as I normally play games. It's stealthy to shoot machine guns into the air in victory right?
Introducing a new board layout with Shop, Quests, Townhouse, and more! #screenshotsaturday @BoardGameGeek #boardgames pic.twitter.com/HqoxY4tGMN
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We briefly covered co-op board game DICETINY's Kickstarter campaign late last year. Since then, they gained alternative funding through investments and have worked to get the game out the door on Steam and mobile platforms. There are two things that drew me to the game this week. First is the wonderful stylized Conan the Barbarian character, which is one of those things that goes a long way for me personally. The other is their other Screenshot Saturday photo, which is included below.
I mean, I could talk about the cool way that the game is combining trading cards and a board game, how the whole thing reminds me of Hearthstone for those of us who never ventured into the World of Warcraft, or how Mimics are always cool and that one has a really big mouth. But that image says it all. DICETINY has style.
OMG! ZOMBIES! #CursesNChaos #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/NzdPPsmcom
— Tribute Games (@TributeGames) July 18, 2015
This tweet was from last week, but I didn't want to let the opportunity to talk about Curses N Chaos pass me by. Tribute Games are the makers of Wizorb and Mercenary Kings, which were both quite complex in their mechanics. Their next project looks to be a bit simpler, as it is a single screen 2D brawler. It's One Finger Death Punch, but with divekicking knights. There is a lot of character in all the tiny sprites on display, and I have faith that this team can pull off the tight controls that this game requires alongside the excellent pixels.
But seriously. Look at that knight. That is awesome.
Have you seen a game in development posting new images on Twitter? How strong is that knight that he can divekick in a full suit of armor? Wouldn't burning people alive be a very unstealthy way to infiltrate a location? Answer these questions and more in the comments below!


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Recently, the United States government suspended its Peace Corps volunteer program in El Salvador — which was established in 1962 — citing security concerns.
"There is no evidence that Americans or American interests are being targeted in El Salvador, and the rate of crimes against Peace Corps volunteers in El Salvador is among the lowest in the region," according to a Peace Corps statement. "However, this decision is based on the safety and security environment in the country as a whole."
Months before pulling out the Peace Corps volunteers, the U.S. State Department even warned Americans against traveling to the Central American nation, citing high levels of violence and crime.
With a population of nearly 6.4 million people, El Salvador has long been plagued by gang and drug-related violence. In 2015, a total of 6,657 people were murdered in the small Central American nation. The homicide rate for El Salvador is 104 people per 100,000, making it the deadliest country in the world outside of a warzone.
"Keep in mind, you're talking about the national average," Adriana Beltrán of the Washington Office on Latin America was quoted as saying by USA Today. "If you start looking at where the pockets of violence are, it's shocking."
No wonder, then, that El Salvador is known as the "murder capital of the world."
But that hasn't stopped the Obama administration from sending back undocumented families, including many women and children, to the violence-wracked country — and possibly to their deaths.
Last year, a Guardian investigation found Salvadorans were being murdered "just days or months after their return," confirming deaths of three Honduran men who were fatally shot after being deported by the U.S. government.
Under Obama's deportation policies, thousands more could suffer the same fate.
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The Council Road Orchestra has served over the past several decades in ministry. This fine group of musicians plays each week in the Classic Worship service and is the fundamental "sound" of that worship experience. They are an auditioned group of players who commit to a Sunday morning 30-minute rehearsal and a monthly Sunday afternoon extended rehearsal with a fellowship that follows.
The orchestra has played at conventions, productions, conferences and believes that God has gifted them with their talent to share with others.
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As of 2017 we have been to 37 states and 18 countries.
(19 if you count the time I was stranded alone in Guangzhou, China for over 24 hours).
We have only blogged about a few of the countries we've been to, but don't intend to stop traveling or documenting our experiences any time soon.
Our latest big trip took us to Egypt, Israel, and Morroco. You can read our adventure diaries by clicking here!
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In what sounds like a very funny and surreal moment in Hollywood history, production on NBC's Medium was disrupted by none other than Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen. EW.com's Michael Ausiello reported the story, explaining that Cohen was in disguise as his character Bruno.
Cohen has been working on a Bruno film for quite some time. Similar to Borat, Cohen is filming Bruno amongst unsuspecting people, who are unaware that they are interacting with a fictional character, when Cohen speaks to them as the flamboyant, gay Austrian.
According to Ausiello's report, a tense courtroom scene was being shot with Medium star Patricia Arquette, when an extra, hired to play one of the jury, kept interrupting and began causing a scene. That extra was Cohen as Bruno, and eventually, production was temporarily shot down, as security forcibly removed Cohen from the jury box. A Medium insider tells Ausiello, "No one had a clue it was Sacha playing Bruno. It's amazing he was able to infiltrate the set and pull this off." Only after security grabbed him did someone realize what was going on.
Cohen has been filming Bruno for months, and has so far infiltrated and disrupted everything from fashion shows in Milan and Paris to a "Yes on Prop 8" rally in Los Angeles. In those cases, Cohen was able to have cameramen with him, but what's unclear is how this particular incident on Medium could be part of the film. Ausiello speculates that either Cohen or an accomplice might have snuck in a camera, or that they are counting on getting cooperation from Paramount (who produce Medium) to supply the footage they were shooting that day to use in the Bruno movie. Certainly it would be a nice bit of publicity for Medium… if those who work on the show don't think they came off too badly.


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A new opening has become available in the Kentucky Derby. Although this is a great opportunity for another horse to get a chance a glory, for Old Fashioned it was a lost chance at greatness.
Unfortunately for this potential legend, his dreams were cut short after his last race in the Arkansas Derby this past Saturday. After the race was called, the connections of Old Fashioned realized there was something wrong. The colt had suffered a fracture in his right knee. Although this is not a life threatening injury, it is usually a career ending one. Later that week the horse was shipped to a farm in Lexington, Kentucky to receive surgery on his knee.
"It's not life-threatening, it should be okay," Jones said. "Career-ending is a possibility just because of the type of horse he is. But we'll see. We'll let them make that call," Old Fashioned's trainer said in an ESPN article on the subject. I was not sure what to make of this statement. I hoped it was not the stereotypical call that a well bred horse automatically makes a great stud, even when untested. I am hoping that they were referring to horses usually being unable to reach the same level of greatness they had obtained when injured. Sadly we will probably never know.
Following the surgery it was decided that it was better if Old Fashioned was retired. Although he would never have recovered in time for the Derby, it is still unfortunate that he will never be able to race again. The colt was well on his way to being considered the favorite for the first Triple Crown race, but now that honor will be passed on to another horse.
Before his career could really start, it was ended. Now this young boy will never again feel the track under his hooves. He will wait in pasture until he is old enough to breed, forever passing down his untested, yet potentially amazing, abilities.
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Date:Tue, 17 Aug 2010 - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Planning on moving your department's website to Drupal? In this lecture learn the step-by-step process to install Drupal by using the Stanford Collaboration Tools installer.
This is a hands-on workshop -- bring a laptop and follow along! We will go step-by-step through:
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THE HERD AT HICALIBERWhether the horses are passing through the ranch on their way to a new forever home, with us for an extended period as they undergo training or rehabilitation, or are permanent rescue-residents, each one is unique and we're blessed to be a part of their lives!
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Our Adoptables range from horses with potential in show, ranch, endurance, trail and many more! Please visit the Adoptables page to see their profiles. We are rescuing new horses and always training, so check back often!
Residents In Rehab & Training
Many of our residents come to us needing some TLC before they're ready to find their forever home. Sometimes it's physical, sometimes it's emotional... sometimes they just need a lesson in manners!
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Some Adoptable horses may not be rideable or they can hang with a light rider (some are kid safe!) on favorable footing, but they all need a home and love, just like you! Come meet our little love biscuits!


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Buzz! Brain Bender is a fun game to play on the PSP. Everything is done perfectly and Buzz all too often comes around to make a stupid joke which you can skip when you get tired of him. The puzzles go from calculating to remembering cards but few will find them too easy. Not all are equally fun though but that probably goes with training your brain. Thanks to the unlockable parts and the brain battle you'll play a bit longer but an online mode should not have been left out.
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Freeing Energy from the Grid
As one of the fastest growing free-market democracies in the world, India's growth rate of 8.2% is likely to continue. With this growth, the gap between energy demand and supply is also widening. While the liberalization and privatization of the 1990s has transformed the Indian economy, its lack of focus on rural electrification is posing to be a huge challenge to India's development process today. Various studies have shown that access to electricity has direct human and economic benefits. Not only is it a basic human need for quality of life, but it also fuels productivity and employment generation activities in rural areas. Today, more than 40% of the Indian population has little or no access to commercial electricity to carry out their daily routines. Globally, of the 1.4 billion people who do not have access to electricity, 612 million or 42% live in South Asia. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh constitute more than 90% of those lacking access to electricity. It is apparent from the Government's efforts that the provision of secure, sustainable and affordable energy is a critical economic and human development challenge for the country. The role of renewable energy in India is no longer that of 'alternate' energy, but has become a mainstream solution, driven not just by the Government but by local enterprise as well.
In this context, off-grid energy solutions have taken on a larger role in addressing the energy challenge. Rural and remote areas in India are not connected to the national grid. These communities take to manufacturing their own power using a range of local generators including fossil fuels and renewable technologies such as wind, hydro, solar PV. Off-grid electricity often serves a dual purpose of providing affordable renewable power solutions to disconnected areas, as well as generating employment for the local community. In the past, market incentives for profit-seeking companies in rural electrification profits were extremely limited. Dispersed customers, higher cost of supply, geographical remoteness, low consumption and low ability to pay are some of the other barriers that have restricted the entry of private players in this space. However, led by a generation of young entrepreneurs, India is pioneering off-grid energy solutions today. These success stories pave the way for rural development and environment preservation. The uniqueness of these solutions is not just the innovative technology, but also the distribution, ownership and revenue models on which they are based. These stories are freeing energy from the grid, and lighting up the lives of millions of rural poor in India and in other parts of the developing world.
Husk Power Systems has changed the lives of 150,000 people in rural India, impacting 25,000 households and reaching out to 250 villages by installing 60 mini power plants that use discarded rice husks to generate electricity. Further, they have trained and employed more than 300 people to run and manage these power plants. By 2014, Husk Power Systems plans to impact 6,500 villages, save 750,000 tons of CO2, create 7000 local jobs and save over $50MN in cash for over 5MN people by replacing kerosene and diesel with its renewable energy technology. HPS is creating a paradigm shift in social enterprise where it pays the community in cash twice the amount it receives from them. To support HPS in achieving its ambitious targets, Acumen invested $125000 and IFC invested $375000 in them over the past year. [Husk Power Systems is a 2010 Sankalp Alum]
Promethean Power Solution's prototype of a chilling center is helping farmers in rural India to boost supply by reducing spoilage. The technology is a solar- powered refrigeration system for cold-storage in areas that do not have access to the energy grid. Having won numerous awards, the founders of Promethean started off in a village in Goa and are now looking to expand their services across India. They received $10,000 funding initially, followed by a $1 MN investment. [Promethean Power Solutions is a 2011 Sankalp Alum]
Onergy provides complete renewable energy solutions to BoP customers in rural India by focusing on quality products and servicing and innovative distribution and pricing. Onergy's main focus is on off-grid solutions through LED lighting, cooking and electrification with the aim of impacting 1 million lives by 2016. Project Zero Kerosene replaces kerosene lighting with off-grid solar LED lamps, Solar home lighting and Solar home electrification. Project Smokeless Village replaces traditional wood-cooking with efficient, affordable and renewable ways of cooking. Finally, the Project Decentralized Generation sets up Biomass Gasifiers of 10 – 100 KWe catering to local energy demands. Onergy is currently looking for investment to scale up operations. [Onergy is a 2011 Sankalp Alum]
D.Light Design is a story founded in inspiration derived from extreme hardship. The experience of using a kerosene lamp for light, inspired the founder to look for an alternative solution. D.Light provides a solar powered LED lantern that's safe, affordable and bright. Today D.Light has 3 products priced between INR 500 to INR 1600, and sells its products in 30 countries including India. Education on renewable technology and last-mile delivery are the key challenges the company faces. Their long-term ambition is to impact the lives of 100 MN people by 2020. D.light has raised an investment of $5.5 MN from Omidyar. [D.light is a 2010 Sankalp applicant]
Selco enhances the quality of life of underserved households through the provision of sustainable energy solutions. Selco's success has proved that poor people can afford and maintain sustainable energy technologies and that profitable social enterprise is a viable business model. Since 1995, Selco has serviced and financed 115,000 solar systems increasing human productivity, creating pivotal financial schemes for the poor to access solar technology, generating awareness about solar power, and improving the quality of life of millions. Selco not only customizes its technology to suit customer requirements, but provides high-quality service, as well as secures access to finance for customers. In 2011, the founder of Selco won the Ramon Magsaysay award.


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Private Group Scavenger Hunts
Birthday Parties? School Trips?
Fun with Friends?
We Have a Scavenger Hunt for You!
Looking for a new way to bring a group together and share an adventure? Watson Adventures scavenger hunts take you on a whirlwind tour of your favorite locations. You won't be collecting objects (drop that pigeon!), you'll be collecting answers to tricky and humorous questions about the amazing places and unusual objects you discover. A hunt is like a walking tour spiked with caffeine! No previous knowledge is required—you just need a sharp mind and comfy shoes.
Who goes on the hunts? Who doesn't! We've staged games for people ages 7 to 70, for all sorts of occasions—social group outings, birthday parties, family reunions, bachelorette parties, charity fundraisers, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, summer camp outings, sweet 16 parties, you name it.
Our Scavenger Hunts for Kids get kids and adults working together and having fun in surprising and delightful ways, including on school and youth group field trips and summer camp outings. Teachers and other educators in particular have raved about the benefits of taking students on our School Trip Scavenger Hunts.
We provide a staff to run the event, hand out and explain the materials, interact with the hunters during the game, and at the end score and announce the results. For a bit more, we can also add Team Photo Challenges (as the team in the photo above demonstrates). We can also customize the hunt for the occasion, with questions featuring anyone or anything you want to celebrate.
Don't see your favorite location on our site? Check out the Grab 'n' Go Scavenger Hunt, which can be staged just about anywhere! If you need an indoor game but aren't near a museum, the Trivia Slam Game and the Killer Trivia Game can be staged at just about any indoor location (available in select cities).
Ready to leave the worry to Watson? Use the form below to contact us or call 877-946-4868, extension 11 for private hunts. We'll help you find more fun!
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Explore amazing places in and around Denver, Colorado, on team building scavenger hunts that are like walking tours spiked with caffeine. Through tricky, humorous questions you'll see the best of such locations as the 16th Street Mall, LoDo, Larimer Square, Union Station, the Civic Center, Five Points, the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the Denver Zoo, the History Colorado Center…and well just about anywhere you want to hunt, indoors or out.
No previous knowledge is needed for any of our games: you just need good teamwork, sharp eyes, and comfy shoes. Our Hunt Host will get going at the start, meet you along the way for a bonus challenge, and congratulate you at the finish line. The game is not a race, though: quick wits count more than fast feet.
We're adding new hunts all the time, so contact us to tell us about your favorite place…and find more fun in Denver!
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In seven cities we offer weekend public hunts and, for groups of ten or less, special-rate small-group hunts.
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Garage Floor
Garage Floor was a science fiction fanzine by Larry Stark and Jean Young.
Garage Floor was published in the 1950s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. The first issue appeared April 1957, and was distributed by the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. At least three issues were released.
Larry Stark and Jean Young were among the fans at NyCon II, the 1956 Worldcon, who became known as the "Balcony Insurgents", refusing to overpay for bad food and sneaking into the balcony to hear the dinner speech. Other Insurgents included Boyd Raeburn, Ron Ellik, Dick Eney, Bob Tucker, Ted White, and Andy Young, Jean's husband.
Larry Stark and Jean Young also did the fanzine Cambridge Scene.
Jean Young also published the fanzines A Fanzine for Susan Margaret, Gasconade, Lost in the Stars, and Roubidoux.
In the early 1950s, Larry Stark had co-edited the fanzine Potrzebie with Bhob Stewart and publisher Ted White, dedicated to EC Comics, and then Stellar, with Ted White from 1956 to 1957. In 1958 Stark released A David English Sketchbook, dedicated to the illustrations of David English, editor of Fantasias.