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Digital Photography Ycademy 1

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:18:13 +0000

Introduction to Digital Photography Ycademy

April 2010 will be all about Digital Photography and Digital Photo Editing at Ycademy.

All daily calls this months will deal with matters related to digital photography, editing and publishing. The topic fits perfectly into our image editing and processing sessions with Photoshop as well as into the Publishing work-flow with Semiomantics Frameworks.

Organization

While our calls are public and available to anyone interested, only Seminar Participants have access to recordings as well as the materials and tools.

Seminar Tickets are available later today at $65 (look out for Bianca’s mail). We can handle maximum of 12 participants only due to cost and license restrictions on some of the materials used.

Ycademy Pro Discount: The discount this month is $25.

Materials and Tools: Join tonight’s Introductory call at 8 pm London Time at YorgoTalk. We will give you the details of what you can expect; as usual it’s a top notch pack we have prepared for all participants.

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Digital Photography Ycademy

Who is this Course and Seminar for?

This new Ycademy Cycle is designed for anyone taking digital photos and who would like to improve photo shooting, editing and publishing skills.

Goal of the Digital Photography Ycademy

Improve the quality of your photographs
Improve your editing skills
Improve your publishing skills

The Means

Basic and advanced sessions about digital photography.
Workshops to develop an eye for photography and to apply the theory during practical exercises.
Editing and Post-editing using Photoshop Lightroom.
Advanced Publishing using Semiomantics Frameworks.

We will deal every day with another specific topic leading to a topic related exercise and workshop. Topics include: portraits, landscapes, macro, night shots, low light photography, people and party, composition, using flash, watermarks and copyrights, publishing, commercializing and many many more. The daily images will be uploaded to server for discussion.

I am looking forward to an exciting month and to loads of great shots from your end!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Cars for Gene

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:17:58 +0000

Mercedes SLS AMG

Still in the compilation of pictures for the Flash site, here are some car images which are great for transformation.

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Check out some slides:

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and enjoy!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Create a Favicon with Photoshop

Yorgo Nestoridis — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:19:32 +0000

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Create a Favicon with Photoshop

While you are working on your image or brand, you may want to create your custom favicon which will display in your visitors browser tabs as a small image.

Here is how to create your favicon.

Create your Favicon

Before you start, you need to add a plug-in to your Photoshop to allow saving your image in .ico format.

1. Download the plug-in from here.

2. Unzip and extract the files.

3. Load the file ICOFormat.8bi into your Photoshop plug-ins folder. (This is typically in drive C under Programm Files – Adobe – Photoshop CS4 – Plug-ins)

4. Fire up your Photoshop and create a new image with size 64×64 pixels (the icon will be saved as 16×16 pixels but it’s easier to create on a bigger format).

Favicon Design 64×64

Favicon Design 64x64

Favicon Icon 16×16

Favicon Icon 16x16

When resizing the image from 64 pixels to 16 pixels, resample the image with ‘Bicubic Sharper’.

5. ‘Save as’ and select the .ico format.

6. Place the image as ‘favicon.ico’ into the root folder of your domain and add the link to the header script of your site.

Done.

Join our call tonight at YorgoTalk for further tips.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Yorgo Nestoridis — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:18:02 +0000

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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Learn how to create Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop at this week’s Ycademy Pro calls.

Additional optional Materials: $10, free for Ycademy Pros, get the coupon from Bianca.

Advanced pack: $30, discount $10 for Ycademy Pros.

(Information about the content of the packs at Monday’s YORGOO call.)

Professional Presentation of your e-products

The presentation is of the utmost importance when you sell a product. Creating clean wrappers and marketing materials is a must. Today’s screens render images with a high resolution. For this reason you won’t get away with images from second zone. The same applies to marketing materials.

Photoshop quality is a must.

At Ycademy we will this week dig into an important application of Photoshop: create Book covers and Jewel cases with Photoshop to present your digital products.

Please find here below two examples of the quality you will be able to produce after this weeks trainings. To keep white clean is the most difficult task; the samples below demonstrate quality, even if you look at them with the magnifier.

The Ycademy Trainings

Sure, we will show you step by step how to create a book cover right from scratch using your Photoshop skills. But there is no reason inventing the wheel; we will focus on learning how to use one of the most popular plugins to create efficiently professional looking wrappers. For this reason we have prepared two packs of commercial action scripts for Photoshop which you may grab for as long as available.

Check it out at the YORGOO Pro Shop.

Ycademy E-Wrappers Basic

Ycademy E-Wrappers Pro

Ycademy DVDs

Ycademy Seminar DVD

Ycademy Books

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Redding Christian Book Shop

Lalakoi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:03:20 +0000

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Redding Christian Bookshop is situated in Bayview between Hartenbos and Mossel Bay. Here you can browse through our large range of Christian Books and Bibles, in a relaxed and peaceful environment. You are welcome to have a seat in our lounge area and enjoy finding the ideal Christian Book.

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Redding Christian Bookshop offers a wide range of Christian Literature; such as Bibles in both Afrikaans, English and German as well as in Native Languages such as Xhosa, Zulu. Here you will find a number of different Bibles like Study Bibles, Old Translation Bibles, New Translation Bibles, Reference Bibles as well as Audio Bibles and a range of Children Bibles.

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

We stock a range of Daily Devotions for Men, Woman and Teenagers. Some of the authors you can expect to find here include Solly Ozrovech, Nina Smit, Joyce Meyer and Stormie Omartian to name a few. On request Redding Christian Bookshop can post your books to you.

South Africa Christian Literature

Redding Christian Bookshop boasts with a large range of Christian Literature ranging from Books on Prayer, Christian Fiction by Karen Kingsbury and Francine Rivers, Spiritual Warfare, Journals, Biographies and many more.

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Here at Redding Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, you will also find a number of Christian DVDs and Music. Redding Christian Bookshop is proud to announce that we offer DVD Rentals of Christian DVDs for the whole family.

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Bookshop houses a number of Christian Gifts like key holders, bookmarks, Bible Bags, Fridge Magnets, T-shirts, Mugs and Flasks, as well as Christian Stationary such as pens and rulers all with a Bible verse of a quote on. Come and find the ideal Gift for a Birthday, Christmas or just because you can. We also stock Shofars.

Redding Christian Book Shop

Lalakoi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:03:20 +0000

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Book Shop

Lalakoi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:03:20 +0000

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Bookshop

Garden Route Classifieds Directory » Mossel Bay — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:18:29 +0000

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Bookshop

Garden Route Classifieds Directory » Mossel Bay — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:18:29 +0000

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Daily Online Training Calls 2010

Zo Nicholas — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:20:15 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Calls 2010

A new year and the start of a new decade with 2010, MMX, and a new schedule of Daily Online Training calls that start next week on Monday 11th January 2010 in yorgotalk.com at 8p.m. London Time.

Business Education

Learning Online

In today’s fragile economy jobs are no longer secure. Developing a second income stream is a way to supplement an inome for many people these days. Make 2010 the year when you learn to market your business, profitably online. Your business needs exposure on the internet in order to flourish. Learning online entirely from the comfort of your own home is the easiest way to start learning marketing that will make your home business a success.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Edition

We start the learning curve in 2010 with a one day seminar based on the new edition of Semiomantics XO. The new edition of Semiomantics XO does not require any plug-ins. Anyone running a wordpress blog knows exactly what a pain these can be. If you have never used a wordpress blog before this is a great way to start, especially if you look for high visibilty and authority on search engines. For more information on this subject just leave a message here. Semiomantics XO 2010 Edition, what a superb script to start 2010 rolling!

Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Daily Online Training Calls

Zo Nicholas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:18:13 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Calls

I really can’t believe how quickly this year, 2009, has flown by. We have just had our last Daily Online Training Call, and what a super call it was.

If I look back to January 2009 and go through the topics, seminars and skills learnt in the proeeding months I realise how much has been achieved through out the year and yet there lies still so much more ahead for all the participating members. The online environment is forever changing, adapting, evolving. What was good yesterday is old hat and unstylish today. In a competetive marketplace every marketer knows that he needs to keep up with the latest trends.

Daily Online Training Calls 2010

Planning well ahead, the New Year Daily Online Training Calls will start on 11th January, as usual in yorgotalk.com @ 8p.m. London time. Already a superb schedule for the months ahead is on the drawing board. Here is just a hint of what lies ahead: shopping cart development, more photoshop workshops, small business development and so much, much more. We have a full 12months ahead of trainings, seminars and workshops. It’s amazing what you can learn online from the comfort of your own armchair.

For those who missed the finale, click below for the recording of the training call:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Facebook Login

Zo Nicholas — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:21:48 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Call

Tuesday 3rd November

Facebook Login

Facebook is, at least for the time being, a social media phenomenon if you look at the site statistics. Love it or hate it, its where people hang out, communicate, load photos and exchange news.

Facebook login

Once you log into Facebook you will notice there are quite a few features there, and to the unitiated these can be quite intimidating. With a little help and guidance you will soon see there is more to Facebook than at first meets the eye. If you dig deeper you will find a whole array of Facebook stuff that at first feels overhelming.

Why not login to your Facebook and join in the fun and discussions in the ‘Social YORGOO’ group and find out more.

Training Call Workshop

The Daily Online Training call live workshop covered some basic features in Facebook and how to best use them, with step by step guidance. There is yet more to come in future calls.

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Webmaster Call – MySQL databases

Zo Nicholas — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:22:41 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Call

Friday 30th October

Webmaster Call – MySQL databases

Friday nite is server nite – Webmaster call in yorgotalk.com – Understanding and learning the basics.

This Friday we covered MySQL databases: cleaning databases and understanding the features and functions. It is important to keep your tables optimised in order to keep your site running smoothly. An overcrowded database means a slow running site. House cleaning is an important part of your weekly maintenance.

It becomes so much easier when you listen to someone explains each and every function, step by step, the why and wherefore. Join our calls on a Friday nite at yorgotalk.com

Training Call Workshop

The workshop covered cleaning databases, going through certain functions and performing tasks.

Daily Online Training call recording

For recordings of the training:

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Microsoft Windows 7

Zo Nicholas — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:19:54 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Microsoft windows 7

Having installed my Microsoft Windows 7 the other day, I have been using and testing out some of the new features that are available. Windows 7 , I feel, is what Vista should have been. It is so much easier to navigate.

Windows 7 Installation

Discover Microsoft Windows7

The installiation of Windows 7 is really easy even for someone who is not comfortable with these kind of issues. Just insert the disc and follow the step by step instructions. Its all taken care of by the installation process.

Windows Live

Windows Live provides you with a whole arsenal of superb communication features to play with. Your whole computer becomes an interactive playground. Communicate with family, friends, your social networks and your blogs.

Windows 7 Media center

Tonite I will be joining the Windows 7 Media center training call to have some fun exploring the possibilities and gadgets one can play with. It’s back to being a child again!

Social Network Publishing

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:18:44 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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Build your Social Network Publishing Network

Social Network Publishing is task which aims to reach out for users of social networks by making valuable content available in social networks. In other terms, we aim to become visible on the search results inside Social Networks.

Social Networks vs. Google

In general as a web publisher we make our content available to the public and hence to search engines, such as Google. Google does not reflect however the content produced inside Social Networks. Social Networks run their own internal search engines paired with particular sets of filters, such as geo-targeting, age groups, language and more. To become visible on search results within Social Networks, content must be published and made available inside the social networks… at least that’s what most people may think.

We will show you here below that this is not the absolute truth of the story.

Google Top 10 and Facebook

During the past 12 months Facebook has opened it’s closed house to many ‘external sources’ one of them being external search engines; MySpace has had a web search function much earlier.

External Web search can now be found in Facebook and it is interesting to compare search results.

In Facebook we find Bing powered Search results (of course, since Microsoft has invested over $200 million in Facebook):

Yorgo Nestoridis on Facebook Bing Search

Interestingly the results with direct Bing search are not exactly the same:

Yorgo Nestoridis on Bing Search

A comparison with Yahoo and Google reviels further differences:

Yorgo Nestoridis on Yahoo Search

All the above search results seem to be extremely hooked to the domain name, more in any case than the Google Top 10 returns:

Google Top 10 for Yorgo Nestoridis

Google seems to be more sensitive to aggregation and backlinks.

Facebook’s internal Search Engine

The internal Facebook Search Engine returns results just from inside Facebook; interesting to get in control of those results as well …

Yorgo Nestoridis on Facebook's Internal Search

The impact of an own account to control your name returns is evident.

From the above we can draw a certain number of conclusions we will discuss at Tuesday’s Ycademy call.

Building and implementing a Social Network Publishing Strategy is not an easy but an interesting task. At Ycademy we work with you to get around technical difficulties to achieve extraordinary results.

To join Ycademy Trainings, Seminars and Coaching contact Bianca Gubalke.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Microsoft Updates

Zo Nicholas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:20:47 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Microsoft Updates

Daily Online Training Call

Thursday 22nd October

Microsoft Updates

Superb information call focusing on the latest Microsoft release, Windows 7 and other relevant updates. Lots of information on the practical application of various releases to make your computer life a pleasurable experience.

Images

Any blogger knows that images talk and how important it is to have good graphics easily visible online. Benefit from your daily posts and images using readily available free software 0nline.

Training Call Workshop

The workshop was a step by step practical application of certain programs to gain visibility online.

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Daily Online Training Call

Zo Nicholas — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:20:21 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Call

Tuesday 20th October

Security Issues

One of the main problems of being online is the security issues. With so many bugs and viruses around that can bring about total choas on a computer or even worse, everyone is very careful to f ind and install a good anti-virus program.

Tonites call covered these kind of security issues and the latest updates from Microsoft relating to viruses.

Training Call Workshop

This evenings workshop covered working with images, Picasa and uploading to work to a blog.

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Daily Online Training Call

Zo Nicholas — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:18:42 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Call

Tuesday 20th October

Security Issues

Tonites call covered these kind of security issues and the latest updates from Microsoft relating to viruses.

Training Call Workshop

This evenings workshop covered working with images, Picasa and uploading to work to a blog.

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Good Morning from Noordhoek

Bianca Gubalke — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:26:08 +0000

Good Morning from Noordhoek

Good Morning from Noordhoek… with the first rays of a glorious sun gently touching Chapman’s Peak and gliding down the slopes of the majestic mountain… my garden still enveloped in shadows and awakening! May this be the promise of yet another day filled with joy and laughter for you!

Good Morning from Noordhoek

This very early “Good Morning from Noordhoek” greeting was taken when I did some sound recordings in my garden capturing the spectacular concerto of birds, hadidas, Egyptian geese, a crow, guinea fowel, jubilant roosters, even a wild peacock and more… besides a very loud surf reverberating all the way up the mountain from the Atlantic Ocean.

Yet the sea was calm… and it still is as I write these lines.

Here’s to a splendid Saturday … and wishing our Canadian friends “Happy Thanksgiving”! In a way, my daily little cheer message is jsut that: a daily Thanksgiving!

Editing photos with filters

Zo Nicholas — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:18:16 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

Daily Online Training Call

Wednesday 7th October

Editing photos with filters

Grab a photo, any good quality photo, and apply some filters. Its surprising what kind of effects can be achieved. You can check out some great examples on Yorgo’s author blog.

Training Call Workshop

Todays Daily Online Training call took you through the basics steps how apply filters using a simple freely available online tool.

Here are some examples created during the training call on the Web Design blog using that tool. There are many more filters available. A useful tool when attempting to create something a little different from the norm.

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

The Garden Route » Daily

Digital Photography Ycademy 1

Contents

Introduction to Digital Photography Ycademy

Organization

Who is this Course and Seminar for?

Goal of the Digital Photography Ycademy

The Means

Cars for Gene

Mercedes SLS AMG

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Create a Favicon with Photoshop

Contents

Create your Favicon

Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Contents

Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop

Professional Presentation of your e-products

The Ycademy Trainings

Ycademy DVDs

Ycademy Books

Redding Christian Book Shop

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Book Shop

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Book Shop

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Bookshop

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Bookshop

Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

South Africa Christian Literature

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Daily Online Training Calls 2010

Daily Online Training Calls 2010

Learning Online

Semiomantics XO 2010 Edition

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Daily Online Training Calls

Daily Online Training Calls

Daily Online Training Calls 2010

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Facebook Login

Daily Online Training Call

Facebook Login

Facebook login

Training Call Workshop

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Webmaster Call – MySQL databases

Daily Online Training Call

Webmaster Call – MySQL databases

Training Call Workshop

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Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft windows 7

Windows 7 Installation

Windows Live