Rakesh Rajan's blog : Personal

Digitally mastering my portraits

rakeshrajan — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:03:00 GMT

I used to paint portraits in oil when I was kid.

For different reasons, I had not been able to maintain them as a result of which they have aged a lot :(.

The last time I went home, I took close up snapshots of my works with my Canon PowerShot A510, and now I am repairing them with Photoshop :).

Check out the initial stages of the "repair" (extracted the subjects and set the background to 0,0,0) below:

I have moved!

rakeshrajan — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:17:00 GMT

Friends, now that I have bought my own little niche in the web world, I have decided to shift this blog to this cool new place. It runs on Community Server with LuxLegend as the skin. Please update your links.

For your convenience, I have duplicated these posts at the new blog. However note that I haven’t copied comments or trackbacks. Please refer to this for the same.

Wish you a great time out there!

Just posted a new article - Delegate and Events Internals

rakeshrajan — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:46:00 GMT

Check it out here:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DelegatesNEventsInternals.asp

Off to the Global Summit! :)

rakeshrajan — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:53:00 GMT

A few more hours, and I will be on board the first flight of my trip to Redmond for attending the Global MVP Summit.

It's quite wonderful to know that within a few hours I will be meeting people I have only “seen” at newsgroups.

Hope the journey will go on fine.

Updates after I come back on October 5th.

See ya!

It's my birthday!

rakeshrajan — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:21:00 GMT

Dear folks, it's my birthday today! You ask how old I am? Keep guessing, 'coz I won't tell ;)

Hmm...come to think of it - I haven't decided on any new 'age' resolutions...so I guess I would just continue coding.

Nothing special planned for today...being a Saturday (which is a holiday for my company), I would miss out all fun of being at office on a b'day.
In case you didn't know, it's our unofficial custom @ office that b'day guys/gals get surrounded by collegues who would first sing the b'day song, 'present' a few b'day kicks and then finally scream 'Treat'!

Just finished uploading the MVP Summit pics

rakeshrajan — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:06:00 GMT

I just completed uploading pics from the MVP Summit held @ Singapore on April 2005 (yes...it was long overdue :( ).

Here are the MSN Spaces and .Text links to the photo albums:

MSN Spaces: http://spaces.msn.com/members/rakeshrajan/
.Text: http://msmvps.com/rakeshrajan/gallery/1348.aspx

So why did I add them at both locations? MSN's photo album features are really good (like uploading, slide show etc.)...but the pics look a bit odd...they seem to be rescaled with lesser quality. With .Text however, you need to struggle with uploading, live without the slide show and other cool features of MSN; yet, the pics looks great. That's why.

Happy browsing...