Is Sony’s admin password the Konami Code?
After this massive data breach of the Playstation Network, Sony are really going to have to offer gamers something special to get them back on side:
hmm… maybe that won’t cut it…
(And seriously why has it taken Sony 6 days to mention people’s data might have been stolen? Did the hackers take the only copy of their customers contact info?)
Selection from Saturation.
Someone asked on Reddit if there was a way to make a selection based on saturation values inside Photoshop. I didn’t know of one, but the idea sounded interesting so I had a bit of a play.
Several trial and error events later and I’ve found a method that seems to work pretty well. You can use the ‘Difference’ blending mode on a desaturated copy of the layer to find the least saturated pixels, which can be used as a alpha channel. To save me explaining all the steps right now here’s a handy action to play with;
The action should run through its steps and leave you with a new selection of the highest saturated pixels in the image. It’ll also save this selection as a new channel called “Saturation”. You can select the lowest saturated pixels by inverting the selection (or channel) and sorta tweak the ‘range’ by using levels on the saturation channel before selecting.
I’ll admit I haven’t yet found all that many uses for this selection; although if you open a photograph, select the most (or least) saturated colours then bring up the Hue/Sat control, you can make a more evenly saturated picture which can look pretty cool. Boosting the saturation of only the lowest saturated pixels means you can raise them a lot higher before it starts to produce artifacts.
Have fun, and if you find any more uses please leave a note in the comments.
Nokia & Microsoft
Nokia and Microsoft have apparently formed a mobile alliance to try to take on Apple and Google.
I have no idea what the Nokia WM7 phones will be like, but I want to get one solely to set this as my ring tone:
Nothing to see here…
One could say Mubarak’s in de’ nile….
Silvio Bennysconi
Haven’t been good at writing here again…
Still here’s a picture of ‘Silvio Bennysconi’ to keep you going:
Another Quick Animation: Empty Square
Made this little project today; wanted to do something a bit more ‘frame by frame’ then the massive 3D/particle styled stuff I’ve been playing with recently. There isn’t really a point to it, but it’s designed like the ‘logo cards’ you get at the end of TV shows and films.
(Lesson learnt today: things have to fall faster then you’d think to look realistic.)
It’s (not) Christmas!
This “Christmas comes early” news story found on the BBC just reminded me of a sketch I wrote for the South West scriptwriters Christmas show 2008. Just added the script to my writing page, but you can download it directly here. (PDF)
Long Awaited Update
So I haven’t been very successful in keeping this current. What with searching, applying and getting work, the time I had for writing I spent on more interesting (read potentially paid) projects.
Still with no radio jobs on the go, and a regular IT job now, hopefully I shall get into posting again.
First off I’ve updated my animations page with this new five second project I made a couple of weeks ago.
More Writing
I’ve yet to put much writing up here, but you can listen to some of my writing via this weeks Newsjack. (Click here and hit listen now for the iPlayer link.) It’s a topical show, so although it’s up until the end of Jan, it probably makes more sense listening sooner rather then later.
I’ll also take the time to mention there’s also a podcast option here which you can add to your itunes (or other better podcast software) so you never miss the show again.