James Stephens

If you use procmail to filter messages, setup vacation email response via your /home/USER/.procmailrc rather than the vacation program.
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If you have different versions of Linux served by a common compiler, you will have problems. This crops up for us from time to time with the PGI compiler suite.
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The Canon ICC Profiles Guide addresses the issue of color management when configuring Photoshop to interact with Canon printers using dedicated ICC profiles.
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An interactive script is provided to generate a vacation message under Unix.
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A script is provided to fix lines not wrapping properly when printing text files from the Common Unix Print System (CUPS).
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This post details a brief review of the ExpoDisc Digital White Balance Filter, a prismatic device designed to assist with white balance calibration.
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A bash script is provided to verify all the RPM packages installed on a system.
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Here is a simple bash script for opening a shell session in an xterm window on a remote host.
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The hyperfocal distance is often not the best choice ….
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Here is a list of ideas I’ve had for future articles, so watch this space!
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Welcome to this Digital Photography site.

Here you will find interesting technical articles in a blog-style format.

Please feel free to share your ideas, thoughts and experiences.

Under the Photography category below you will find a list of all posts.
Some of the posts I’d like to remain visible are filed into subcategories:

• Color Management
• Photographs by subject or my gallery.
• Product Review
• Technique
• Understanding
• Workflow

Many of these posts have received a tweak or two from time to time but this afternoon I gave the Digital RAW Workflow post a major overhaul.
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A recent post covered a number of useful controls in Adobe Photoshop CS2’s Camera RAW (ACR). I have to say that left a bit of a dry taste in my mouth and so I thought it might be fun to work through an example image.
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I’d like to recommend the book Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 by Bruce Fraser.
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