Adobe Photoshop is a terrific tool for enhancing images. Whether you’re editing an old, sun-bleached photo from the 70’s or making snow day pictures look less blue, Photoshop has a few simple and easy tools to help. Unfortunately some photos are too low of quality to begin with and can’t be helped as much as we’d like. For example, some images are either too dark or too light, and there isn’t any detail to be enhanced; this tutorial might not help with these types of photos. Here are a few basic tools and tricks, though, to help you make your pictures all that they can be! Photoshop: Basic Editing
Adobe Photoshop is a terrific tool for enhancing images. Whether you’re editing an old, sun-bleached photo from the 70’s or making snow day pictures look less blue, Photoshop has a few simple and easy tools to help. Unfortunately some photos are too low of quality to begin with and can’t be helped as much as we’d like. For example, some images are either too dark or too light, and there isn’t any detail to be enhanced; this tutorial might not help with these types of photos. Here are a few basic tools and tricks, though, to help you make your pictures all that they can be! 
The 2012 Tech Fair summer faculty institute is close at hand. The fair will be held Wednesday September 12 in the Computer Center, which we will close down for the entire day so the whole facility can be dedicated to this event. The plan is for there to be four categories of concurrent activities from […] 
Patents are something that the majority of Americans aren’t too familiar with. While they run our daily lives, and we interact with the fruits of their labor on an almost constant basis, the average person hasn’t been exposed to what it means to protect “intellectual property,” and how that affects the world’s market. 
What is it? XBMC is a home theater software system. XBMC is open source, free, and constantly expanding. XBMC, it must be said, and this is not a minority opinion, is amazing. Attach a second monitor to your Windows, Linux, or Mac machine, preferably an HDTV and you now have a media library that is not only organized and streamlined, … 
James Gutholm, Associate Director of C&C, Network Services has done a recent review of our mail systems and has shared some of the recent trends. Specifically looking at the amount of spam and malware that are filtered through the Evergreen mail servers he says "At the height of spam, ~2 years ago, we were getting about 1.3 million messages per day. I think the worst day we saw was ~1.7 million with 99.7% being spam." Take a look at the graphs to see how hard the spam filters are working and how much is getting bounced on a regular basis. This is a strong improvement from where we were 5 years ago. 
I'm pleased to announce that we are going live with Sophos Anti-Virus! This post will provide information on how you can upgrade to Sophos and what you can expect from the process depending on the type of computer you have. If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact our Help Desk (support@evergreen.edu, 360.867.6627).
Ok, so I thought this was pretty cool. It’s week 7, thursday afternoon and the Computer Center is packed, buzzing. A student walks away and leaves behind her sweet, new MacBook Air at one of the computer stations. Another student finds it, brings it to the desk. Staff email the student after finding out the […] 
As promised, I am providing another update on our work with the Hurricane file server. The Network Services Team successfully brought life back to Hurricane around noon on Saturday, March 31st. Work is continuing to remove residual artifacts and to fully restore system redundancy and failsafes. Some of these operations will require maintenance down time which will be conducted off-hours. We will provide advance notice of planned outages. 
Chances are Google is your go-to internet search engine. Just getting started on research? Google it. Need a few ideas? Google it. Thought of something cool? Google it. But Google, growing gregariously day by day, guiltlessly grosses gains as well as gallimaufry. So here are five convenient tips to get the results you need. When Google goes out into the …