Islington Mosaic project is growing. New mural is in construction on the wall of one of the building.

New Mural
Islington Mosaic project is growing. New mural is in construction on the wall of one of the building.

New Mural

Faststone Screenshot
FastStone Image Viewer is windows based software for viewing, organizing and editing graphical files. It is provided for free for private, none commercial use. FastStone provides many photo viewing features in very simple and user friendly interface. It can display RAW files as well.
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Photo Exposure Correction
This is description of the photo exposure correction. If you have light or dark photos, you can find out here, how you can corrects exposure using brightness, contrast or levels adjustment tools in different photo viewing or editing software.

XNView Screenshot
XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical and video files. It is free of charge for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organizations. It is popular with users as it provides many features normally found in commercial image viewers and it supports many image file formats that other powerful image organizers do not.
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How to Take Better Photos
You need to follow these few advises to improve your skills in photography. This is generic description of all photography matters for beginner photographers who want to improve their skills. I want to use this as a foundation to develop more detailed descriptions on each photography matter described here.
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ACDSee Screenshot
This is brief review of the ACDSee photo viewer. General description of the main features of the product indicating strong and week sides.
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Picasa Screenshot
This is brief overview of the Google photo viewer Picasa. General description of the main features of the product indicating strong and week sides.
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by John Kuna, 2009

Faith of our Fathers 2
“Faith of Our Fathers, 2″ is the fifteenth mural in the Islington Mosaic, a partnership of the Village of Islington BIA, the Heritage Etobicoke Foundation and Toronto Economic Development.
By John Kuna, 2009

The Pub with no Beer
Founded by the grant from Toronto Economic Development and Village of Islington BIA’s business and property owners “The Pub with No Beer” is the fourteenth mural in the Islington Mosaic.

DPP Screenshot
This section describes photo processing workflow with Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP) RAW conversion software supplied with Canon cameras. It helps to process RAW files very fast and efficiently. You can develop your own approach, which will fit your requirements, time availability etc. Despite this description was written for Canon dSLR users, some aspects can be adopted by other camera users.
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