Photoshop Tutorial of the Day: Background Blur

Here are 3 tutorials of varying levels of difficulty and sophistication for adding blur to the background of an image.

The original image (from the author's blog - not mine):


After applying blur to the background:

DIY RPCube

Here's an interesting an informative link on how to make your own RPCube, a little device which will allow a shoe-mount flash capable of variable power to be controlled via the RadioPoppers wireless flash controllers (non-photographers are hearing blah blah blah right about now).



There are more pictures of the wiring for this on this other website as well as some other tutorials, notably one which shows how to add a potentiometer to a non-adjustable flash, allowing infinite adjustment of it's light output through the entire range. Cool, huh?!

Recipes to try!

I'm constantly browsing the web and finding fabulous recipes I want to try, but then losing the link to them and not remembering where they are! So I'm creating this post as a virtual repository of recipes that I would like to try, and I'll continue to add to it as I go.

Let start with the one, a recipe for cocktail meatballs made with Panang curry paste which also have a cool dipping sauce. Yum! Panang Cocktail Meatballs from the very cool foodie blog Blazing Hot Wok. And, WOW! These people take the most amazing food pictures!