Friday, August 24, 2012

Content-Aware tools in Photoshop CS6 Extended : Amazing Tool

Amazing feature in Photoshop CS6 using which you can easily move or remove unwanted content from a photo and replace it with an automatically created patch from a preselected part of your image.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Making a Mosquito Trap

Making a Mosquito TrapI googled for ideas that used CO2 as the bait for the mosquito trap, Because mosquitoes are attracted to the CO2 we breathe out. I did think of dry ice but it does dissipate fairly quickly.
I found a cached link on Google here. It seems to be active again now. I've rewritten the instructions some and hopefully it will work as well.

I've used some of their photos for illustration.


Supplies:

    1 or 2 liter Coke / Pepsi bottle
    a sharp knife
    black paper
    tape
    candy thermometer

Take a 2 liter Coke / Pepsi bottle. Cut off the top right below where it starts to narrow for the top, invert and place inside the lower half.

Make a simple sugar syrup
Ingredients:

    1 cup sugar
    1 cup water
    2 cups cool water
    1 tsp. active dry yeast

Directions:

    Making a Mosquito Trap
  • Bring 1 cup of the water to a boil.
  • Dissolve the sugar into the boiling water.
  • Once the sugar is dissolved completely, remove the pan from the heat. Stir in 2 cups cool water, stir well.
  • Check the temperature of the syrup to make sure it is no hotter than 90 degrees F, if its hotter than 90 degrees F, let cool to 90 degrees F, add 1 tsp. active dry yeast, no need to mix. Put syrup in the bottom part of the bottle, using the cut off neck piece, leave in place.
  • Be sure to seal the two parts of the bottle with the tape. The fermenting yeast will release carbon dioxide. Put black paper around the bottle since mosquitoes like dark places and carbon dioxide. This mosquito trap will then start working.

TIPS: Put the trap in a dark and humid place for 2 weeks, you'll see the effect. You'll have to replace the sugar water + yeast solution every 2 weeks.

Monday, November 21, 2011

My Photograph Published in "Asian Photography"

I am very elated to inform you all that this photo photographed by me was published in the November issue of Asian Photography magazine under the 'Photoscape' segment. This is the first time ever that my photo was published anywhere. The feeling that i got when i first saw this is very hard to describe in words!

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