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Back in May, I had been approached by one of the admins from Berryberryeasy.com to do an interview as one of their role models. Surprisingly, back in the days when I was studying hard for the upcoming SPM examinations, Berry Berry Easy was one of my favorite sites to get some tips and notes to study mainly for my Chemistry, Biology and Physics papers. As stated in their header, Berry Berry Easy is your one-stop resource centre for SPM and STPM – for students and for teachers. (did I mention for free? No need to pay hundreds for tips and notes)

Their site isn’t even a year old and it has grew tremendously since it first started thanks to the dedicating Berry Berry teacher and contributors. I’d recommend anyone who is taking SPM and STPM examinations to check out their site occasionally since they have rich and resourceful content which I’m sure would be helpful for all.

I’ll keep this post short. If you’re interested in reading this interview I had, do check it out HERE.

On a side note: I now have an internet connection setup in my new home. So I’ll try to blog on more relevant information on my new life here in Singapore. I’m adapting well and have met great friends as of date so I’m enjoying life here though it’s too early to say since classes have not begun (Monday!).

Posted on: 16 Jul 2010
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Creating your mini-magazine

I have been receiving quite a few messages and emails asking me for tips on how to create a mini-magazine for this year’s Star NiE Mag Inc. 2010 competition. For the reason that I cannot answer every single person, I have promised to write a blog entry specially on this to give some tips from my experience last year. Hopefully, this would help those who are interested in creating your NiE magazine.

Magazine template

Designs printed on A3 paper.

Firstly, by now, every group should have their NiE template(s). By what I saw last year, you can design your magazine layout on computer (like how out team did with Adobe photoshop), printed on A3 paper and glued onto the template, draw by hand. Any method is fine as long as you do it within the borders provided and submit the whole template at the end of the day.

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Posted on: 30 Apr 2010
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PS: Batch resize & watermark tutorial

Another photoshop tutorial today to show a quick way to batch resize and add a watermark to your photos This tutorial applies when you are batch editing photos of the same size, which means you can only record an action to batch edit a set of horizontal photos and another action for vertical photos for example.

Here, I will show you how I quickly batch resize and add watermarks on a set of the recent Buntal sunrise post photos (horizontal shots).

01 PS: Batch resize & watermark tutorial

1. Firstly, open one of your photos which you would like to resize and add a watermark to it. To show your action windows, press the keys “Alt + F9″ or go to “Window >> Actions”

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Posted on: 13 Apr 2010
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Photoshop Tutorial : coloring/ enhancing

This is my first (and I do hope many to come) photoshop tutorial. Today, I would like to show a coloring tutorial to create and transform a normal/ dull looking photo into one with much attractive colors. (depending on your taste actually)

Different people have different ways of coloring their photos. Below are 10 easy steps I recorded on how I edited a random photo from www.sxc.hu :

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into this:

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I apologize if the final product looks very similar to the original but when you are used to it, steps can be omitted or changed depending on the colors of the photo you are using to suit your style and likings as the steps in coloring photos are pretty much the same.

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Posted on: 09 Apr 2010
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10 WordPress plugins worth using!

I can’t remember how long I have been using wordpress but it is one awesome blogging platform. Firstly, I want to talk about the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org which I find many are confused about. Though they may seem synonymous, a huge difference exists between these two blogging solutions.

Firstly, the one with the dot com actually is a blogging solution where anyone can create their blogs on their servers for free, getting a URL like cherylchu.wordpress.com. (Yeah, it’s empty because I created it so no one could use my name lol!). You do not have to pay for hosting or manage a web server.

The one with the dot org on the other hand is what I like to call a blogging software. Anyone can get it for free but one needs to have his/ her site hosted on a server before installing it up on the web. The benefit of wordpress.org over wordpress.com? Well, you get to control your site the way you want it through FTP. You get to customize, install themes/ layouts, plugins and so much more. It’s a powerful tool used by many around the world.

What makes wordpress stand out so much to me would be it being an open source project, and therefore offers free plugins at the plugin directory.

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In the directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer.

So today, I’d like to share with you 10 wordpress plugins (in no particular order) that I have been using since I opened this blog last week.

1. WP-PageNavi
10 Wordpress plugins worth using!
This plugin is great to have a better paging navigation for your site. Settings enable you to customize how you want your readers to navigate through you site posts. You can style the colors with CSS knowledge too.

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Posted on: 01 Apr 2010
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