Melva's Charm Quilt

Photo: Mr. Dickie (Melva's Charm Quilt - professionally quilted, blocks exchanged with class members)

• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not addressing the real problem. (Stephen R. Covey, Daily Reflections For Highly Effective People, 4 August)
• Space Out! Live your own life and allow others their rightful space to live theirs. (after Body, Mind, and Spirit, 3 August)
• You cannont see God, but you can see the results of faith in human lives, changing them from defeat to victory. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 30 July)

Last night I learned more about some of the capability of my digital camera. There's a function called the Design Gallery that has features to to enchance the images using the camera itself. There are five categories: apply artistic effects, modify color, add borders, rotate images, and crop images. There are four artistic effects: posterize, soft glow, slimming, and kaleidoscope. There are seven kinds of border: soft edge, inset border, oval, circle, rectangle, rounded rectangle and square. Modified images are saved as new photographs.

The Design Gallery provides a very easy way to change the appearance of the photographs. It's even possible to combine more than one of the effects. I'm impressed that all of this capability came as part of the what the camera can do. I'm looking forward to putting some of the modified photographs on the the Internet.

Mr. Dickie