Free Trip to Kuala Lumpur - SEAChange

To all my fellow Filipinos! I want you to join me and 500 youths for a free trip to Kuala Lumpur for YES2009 in November... Click here

The cofounder of Twitter, bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan, Air Asia founder and CEO Datuk Tony Fernandes, and other global icons will be there. My free trip hasn't been confirmed yet, but if you sign up both you and I stand a better chance of winning!

All winners announced by the end of this week, so hurry up, we can win this! All details here Read more...

My Classmates and their Robots

They say that what you create relfects who you are. Last time, I posted my version of my humanoid robot in my multiply site. It's really interesting to read comments from people because its my creation, and it somehow shows my personality. They said that my robot is "sosyal", "cool", "nice", and "lameg". Sometimes, i feel i am 'sosyal' and 'cool' (and cold) too. *lol*. Anyways, here are the robots of my classmates and their personalities, based on their creations.

Francis Alminar - laidback, strong, sometimes clueless.. :)

Jervin - complicated, sosyal, creative, intricate

Errl - funny but serious sometimes, gamer

Jojie - so girlie! creative, fun to be with, crazy :p

JC - deadly.lolz

Jervin R. - Big, gamer, body builder. :)

Ryann - short, calm, chill lang..

Janric - gothic kuno, dark, pessimist minsan..

IP - maputi :) hardworking, industrious

Jolas - (im not xur). Alam ko playboy.nyahaha.

Chua - short, sloth

Tennyl - aftereffects k lng tens.hehe.
funny, simple, clueless..

Edmund - big, gamer, center of attention

Borchie - small, funny, joker, kwela lang

Christoferd -expert sa maya, obvious ba?
stiff, intricate, complicated (the way he thinks)..

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Take Action: Tell the U.S. it's Time to Act on Climate Change

More than any other country, action taken by the United States to limit greenhouse gases and build a clean energy economy is needed to achieve a sustainable solution to our global climate crisis.

This December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a global response to climate change. As a world leader in greenhouse gas pollution as well as clean energy technology, the United States needs to take bold action by implementing comprehensive clean energy policies to curb emissions.

President Barack Obama has said that climate change is an urgent threat, and that he wants to restore America's responsible leadership in the world.

This is a chance for people around the world and in the United States to join together in telling President Obama that we want him to lead the United States in taking bold and significant action to reduce greenhouse gasses.

Time is running out, and our planet can't afford to wait. Read more...

HDR Effect in Photoshop

Recently, I discovered this club in deviant art for HDR photographers and digital artists. I was amused when I saw their gallery. The photos were stunning and it looks kinda surreal. It's kinda hard to explain so here's a few quote's from wiki "high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques or photographic prints. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to represent more accurately the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight." Here are some photos that I tweaked to have this HDR look that I was talking about.




I also made an action for photoshop in case you want to see how your photos would look like with the HDR effect. Click here to download the file. After downloading, open your image in photoshop. Then, go to the actions window (Windows > Action or alt+f9). In the upper right hand corner of the palette is a small arrow ( or ). Click Load Action. Locate the action in the dialog box and click OK. Now, you can see the HDR folder in the actions palette. Click the arrow to show the actions of the folder. There are three actions. First, choose the HDR Effect. Click the play button at the bottom of the pallette. Wait for a few seconds and see the results. Here is a sample of what it will look like before and after the action is applied.



Results may vary depending on your photo. It also works best in dark landscapes like the one that I used above. When I used portraits, the results are very vivid so I created the Desaturate action. If you think the colors are too saturated, use this action as many times as you want. If you want to have a retro look, you can use the Retro color action. Here's the result when I applied the action to the last photo above.

Isn't it cool? I wonder how your photos will look like if you use the actions. Contact me or a post a link of your work. For more photos, check out my multiply site here.

More on HDR:
Magic of HDRI
HDR Photoshop Effect
Wiki: HDR
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Digital Art Competition

Last August 24-29, 2009, the College of Science and Information Technology of ADZU celebrated its college week. One of the contest during the CSIT Week is the Digital Art Competition. With the theme "Responding to Global Challenges through Science and Information Technology," participants should create a digital art, may it be a photo-montage, vector art, 3d art or digital photography, that will depict the theme. Out of 21 entries, here are the top 5 that was chosen by the judges:

TOP 4 (Tie):

Mother Technology by Rica Angeline Caoile (BSIT-2)

Devastated Inspiration by Joseph San Agustin (BSIT-3)

Top 3:
Ours is a Finite Earth by Micco Jay Bugtai (BSIT-2)


Top 2:
Man in the Monitor by Ian Divan Leyte (BSIT-3)


Top 1:
Green Technology by Anna Zamora (BSIT-2)

Click here to see the other entries.

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