Gabriola Graphics Blog

Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

Welcome! Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

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Light and Fluffy Perfect Rice

Light and Fluffy Perfect Rice

We’ve come to that point in time my friends that I’m posting a food tip on my site.  A completely odd topic and non-tech related, though the blog sidebar does say “the odd life pro tip”—and this perfect rice recipe is a game changer! First off,...

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Photoshop: Quit Adding “Copy” To My Exported JPGs

Photoshop: Quit Adding “Copy” To My Exported JPGs

I was recently creating an action in Photoshop that would alter my original JPGs and then at determined steps throughout the altering process save a JPG to certain folders on my hard drive; kind of a “save large version JPG, alter further, save medium version,...

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keepass-main

FREE Open Source Password Manager: KeePass

Unless I’m mistaken and you don’t use the Internet much at all, YOU NEED a password manager. Here’s the gist. KeePass is free, open-source, cross-platform, light-weight password management program for Windows. If you aren’t using Windows but...

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crashplan

Crashplan Automatic Cloud Data Backup

I pay for my data to be backed up nightly to the cloud. At the end of each day the Crashplan software compares all the folders and drives I’ve selected and looks for new, or updated files, and then uploads them to the cloud. Whew. What a load off my mind. I used...

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kuku klok

Kuku Klok: Online Alarm Clock

I can only imagine that there are many online alarm clocks. That may be. But I wanted to share with you one that I have been using for a very very long time. So handy. Made even more handy when I work at the computer for many hours a day. Need a reminder to pick up...

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Been There Before? Type In Your Address Bar

I take it for granted that everyone knows how to use a web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) But almost certainly we all don't use them the same way. Of course we open our web browser, visit a search engine (or maybe that's your home page) and go...

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What Is Bleed?

What Is Bleed?

I find myself regularly communicating to clients why they need a print-ready file that has “bleed” surrounding their design. Here’s the scoop! What Is Bleed? Bleed can be defined as “extra area” outside of your final design dimensions. As...

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