Nice oil rig 3D model

A nice oil rig 3d model.

The price is good too. The oil rig looks quite authentic. But it didn't come with textures and materials. But for the price, it is already very good. We can always easily texture the model.

HDR maps

HDR is one of the hottest technology at the moment for creating realistic 3D graphics.

HDRI maps are often used to provide lights from the environment. It is used by both photographers and CG artists as well.

Free software resources for the business

Do you know that there are software that are free to use for business operations.

Looking for free accounting software. Check out this free accounting software list

Looking for free office software. Check out this free office software article.

Hope that the articles are useful.

Some photography articles

Photography is closely link to graphic and image editing. I am putting some nice photography articles sourced from the internet here.

Underwater photography gear
This article talks about the demands of underwater lighting.

Mid tone photography
Learn what to do when the scene has only extreme light and dark regions with no mid tones.

Day - noon photography tip
This article talks about the sunny F/16 rule.

There are more photography related articles to come. But they will go onto a new post.

The effects of shutter speed in photography

Understanding Shutter speed is crucial. It is the speed by which the shutter of the aperture closes.

Shutter speed determines how motion and movement show up in the image.

Usually, a longer shutter speed will cause movements to show up as blurred image. A higher shutter speed will allow clearer and more detailed non-stationary elements to be captured on the image.

Blurred images from longer shutter speed is can be capitalized. We can sometime use longer shutter speed to produce surreal and ethereal special photo shots. For instance, long night exposure shot of traffic can produce very interesting and stunning neon-light streaks. These streaks are caused by the car lights' path being capture nicely.

On the other hand, very fast shutter speed can capture details not normally seen by the human eye. For instance, liquid photography of water splashing from water droplets can produce nice stationary shots.

It is always interesting and worthwhile to try out various shutter speeds for creative photography. Try it and you may be surprised by the interesting and varied results that can be generated.

PS: One good place to look for good photography idea is Mushly.com

I got much of the photography info from that website. It is not too jargon filled, making Mushly.com an ideal place for newbie photographers to learn about photography.

Great free software resources

Hello,

Free software are gaining in competence. They are become better at getting the job done.

Here are some great freeware resources that we have come across on the internet. They can be alternative solutions to commercial programs.

Convert text to speech or voice for free

Free web editing software programs

Free software for accounting

There are more programs. And we will add them as and when.

Have fun using this free goodiles

SXC.HU Free Stock Photos

www.sxc.hu This website has a huge selection of yummily good stock photographs. You must register to download them.

Inkscape- challenging commercial 2D vector graphics!

Inkscape - Inkscape is a free open source 2D vector drawing program. It is similar to Illustrator, Coreldraw and Freehand.

It saves in SVG format which is web-friendly.

It can also output graphics as bitmaps, making it compatible with GIMP.

GIMP- Replace Photoshop now

GIMP - Opensource 2D image editor comparable to the best commercial counterparts. Gimp have almost all the functionality of PhotoShop and Corel Photopaint. Gimp comes preloaded with tons of tileable textures-making capabilities making it ideal for making maps. A must have!! However, unlike PhotoShop and Corel PhotoPaint, it does not have CMYK capabilities, making it unsuitable for final output to print.


However, for general editing and producing graphics for the web, it is excellent. The compression quality for JPEG that comes with GIMP, in my opinion, is superior to Photoshop's. GIMP can produce good quality images with small file sizes.

The following site is build using GIMP graphics

http://www.dreamdatum.com

Blender 3D- Take on Commercial 3D programs!

Blender - Is the best free opensource 3D suite in the world.

It is a very powerful modeller and animation program with functionalities comparable to that of high-end commercial programs.

Features list of this amazing FREE program include:

• Advance material creation
• NURBS Modelling
• Subdivision modelling
• UV mapping
• Volumetric lighting
• Lens flare
• Environmental mapping
• Ray Tracing
• Radiosity
• Keyframe animation
• Inverse Kinetics
• Character Animation Rigging
• Particle animation
• Physic detection and collision system
• Built-in post production suite
• Python scripting
• 3D Game Creation