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Check out CafeMom.  It's a pretty neat site similar to vox, but geared for Mothers.

If you end up signing up be sure you add me as a friend so I know you're there :)

http://www.cafemom.com/home/kpishdadi

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So, I'm a few days late..... But I still wanted to wish you all a happy new year :)

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So, I'm a few days late..... But I still wanted to wish you all a happy new year :)

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Some of you may remember the homemade lightbox tutorial I've posted about a few times that Jyoseph put together.

These are just a few tips to help you get some excellant results like I did.

Shoot in RAW if your camera has the option.
I always shoot in RAW format.
Why you ask? Because you get so many more options for color when you do. Even if you use the wrong white balance setting on your camera, it can be corrected in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in.

Speaking of White Balance (WB), make sure you use that tool in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in. Just click anywhere on the photo that is white (For example...the white background of the lightbox). This will tell the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in what is white, so it can automatically set the color temperature.

Don't use flash... unless you have a speedlight and know how to use it properly.

Don't use a large aperture. If your DOF is too shallow, the photo won't be as crisp and the edge of the subject will blur into the white. After all, the whole point of this is to seperate the subject, from the white background.

After everything is done bump up the brightness a little bit until the background of the image is totally white and open the photo into Photoshop so you can save it.

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This is a little Adobe Photoshop (cs or cs2) guide on how to get a Fujifilm Velvia effect for your photos, without the Fujifilm Velvia.

For this effect we'll be working with the channel mixer in a RGB workspace.
When using the channel mixer it's important to remember that all of your channels need to equal "100%".

Example Equasion: If you set a channel to: Red: +102% Green: -1% Blue: -1%

Then your total is 100%.

Add a new adjustment layer for Channel Mixer by clicking on the little circle icon at the bottom of your Layers Panel [see image].

Alternatively you can access this by choosing "Layer" --> "New Adjustment Layer" --> "Channel Mixer"

The Channel Mixer window will pop up and you will see a new layer created called something like "Channel Mixer 1".

These are the settings you need:

Output Channel Red Red: +144% Green: -22% Blue: -22%

Output Channel Green Red: -22% Green: +144% Blue: -22%

Output Channel Blue Red: -22% Green: -22% Blue: +144%

Constant should stay at 0% Do Not Check the Monochrome Box

For ease of use you can download these channel mixer settings. Instead of entering in the values manually you can just "Load" these from the Channel Mixer dialogue box.

Saturate.zip

After you're done with the Channel Mixer you can adjust the opacity of the layer until your photo looks the way you want it to.

Examples:

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Follow instructions carefully!!!! Read all comments before posting your question, it may have been answered already. Please don't send me support messages on myspace, they will be ignored. All support is offered through this entry and the comments below

Here is the div overlay code. I finally got a chance to get it together and remove any of my info out of it for you. An example of what it looks like can be found in the picture to the left. Replace all instances of "PUT_YOUR_FRIEND_ID_HERE" with your myspace friend ID.

Any images you link in the main content area should have a class of "articleimg". I've put an example one in the profile.

I suggest you copy all images to your own server and change all apropriate links. I cannot guarantee they will stay here, if bandwidth starts getting sucked from my website like crazy, they will definately be deleted.

Don't forget to "edit in safe mode"

Throw me a bone. There is a link to my site in the profile, if you want to move it, thats fine just make sure you give me credit somewhere.

This is untested, so post any bugs below.

Covering up MySpace advertisements are against the MySpace TOS. If you modify this code to cover up MySpace banners I cannot be held responsible if your account gets deleted.

About Me Text: download

I'd Like to Meet Text: download

Because some people have been having problems with their browsers rendering txt files I've made a zip file with the txt files included available for download below:

Full Package: whitespace.zip

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I prefer not to use Extended Live Archives. Not that there is anything wrong with it. It's just my personal choice!

Here is another option for you to use with your K2 theme:

Step 1: Create a file called "page-archivesnew.php" in your K2 theme directory with the following code in it:

k2_no_js_archives.txt

Step 2: Create a new page in your Wordpress Admin called "Archives" and select the "Non Ajax Archives" page template for it.

Here is the css to achieve the column look like I have on my page. Keep in mind the code might need to be altered a little bit for your specific K2 scheme:

.it-categories ul {
width: 500px;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; }

.it-categories ul li {
display: block;
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px 2px 0px 15px !important;
float: left;
width: 142px; }

.it-categories ul li:hover {
background: #ededed !important; }

.it-latest a, .it-popular a, .it-categories ul li a {
color: #94BA65; }

.it-categories ul li a:hover {
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none; }

This template is also set up to use the "Popular Post" plugin by Alex King. For some reason his site seems to be down right now but if you download & activate the plugin after his site is back up, it should work seamlessly with this template.

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This is a quicky on how I created my little ajax shelf with K2.

The functionality is already there, since K2 uses a lot of script.aculo.us goodies already, all you have to do is add in the functionality.

Adding the JS for the Effect: For my shelf I chose to use the "Phase" effect that combines the BlindUp/Down and Fade/Appear effects.

Navigate to the js/ directory which is a sub-directory of your K2 theme.

Open up the file: effects.js.php and paste the following code at the very bottom of the file:

Download: js_effect.txt

Adding the Shelf to your theme: Now that all of the functionality for it is there, all you need to do is add it to your theme.

Wherever you want your shelf to open and close, you'll need to add a div for it. We don't want it to be open by default, so we'll hide the display:

<div id="theshelf" style="display:none;"> The content for your shelf will go in here </div>

Finally, create the link to open and close your shelf. <a href="#" onclick="Effect.Combo('theshelf', {duration: .5}); return false" title="open ajax shelf">

Now that you're finished, you can style #theshelf { } in your K2 scheme.

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I've completely stripped javascript from my site so that they stop conflicting. As I add it back a piece at a time I'll let you know how I did it. The Dillema: K2 uses prototype.js Many wordpress plugins... especially the ones that use Ajax also use prototype.js. When you activate the plugin, the line for prototype.js goes into wp_head(); in your theme header.

The Solution: You can either, edit the plugin manually... or you can just do it the way I did... and add it into the K2 header.

If you download Lightbox JS v2.0 and unzip it you will see that there are 4 javascript files in the js directory:

• effects.js


• lightbox.js


• prototype.js


• scriptaculous.js

It's quite obvious that lightbox uses scriptalicious after looking at the filenames. Assuming you already use the live search that is built into K2, the only javascript file you need to include in K2 is lightbox.js. If you do use live search, skip down the page to Step 1 below.

Find the code:

 <?php if ( get_option('k2livesearch') == 0 or get_option('k2livecommenting') == 0 and is_single() or !is_user_logged_in() && $comment_author != $_COOKIE['comment_author_'.COOKIEHASH] ) { ?>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/prototype.js.php"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/effects.js.php"></script> <?php } ?> 

Replace it with:

        <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/prototype.js.php"></script>

        <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/effects.js.php"></script> 

Step 1. Upload lightbox.js to your js/ directory in your K2 theme folder. Step 2. Upload the css and images folder included in the Lightbox v2.0 package to your k2 theme folder. Step 3. Add these lines to your header.php:

 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/css/lightbox.css" /> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/lightbox.js"></script> 

Taking it another step On my site I only use the lightbox on my About page to display screenshots of my site history. Because of this I don't need to have the lightbox css or javascript on every page of the site. This only makes everyone who visits the page load more javascript and css that isn't needed.

To get around this I added a php conditional into the header to make it display only on the About page:

 <?php if (is_page(About)) { ?> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/css/lightbox.css" /> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/lightbox.js"></script> <?php > ?> 

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I got about 4 emails now asking how I added coComment into K2 on my about page so Here is a quick how-to-do-it.

Step 1. Run over to chait for the cg power pack.

Step 2. Upload the pack & activate the feedread plugin, making sure that your cache_feedread directory is writable.

Step 3. Add this to your sidebar.php for K2

<div class="sb-cocomment"> <h2>CoComment</h2> <span class="metalink"> <a class="feedlink" href="http://www.cocomment.com/comments/username"> <img src="http://www.cocomment.com/favicon.ico" /></a></span> <?php $feedUrl = "http://www.cocomment.com/myrss2/username.rss"; 

// replace username.rss to your cocomment username $feedOut = getSomeFeed($feedUrl, 10, false, "feed-cocomment", '', 27, -1, false);

        if ($feedOut)

           echo $feedOut;

  ?> </div> 

If you want to take it a step more you can use Pauls php conditionals tutorial to decide which pages it should show up on.