News and Culture Five
What the cool parents are reading today: 
1. Does What to Expect When You’re Expecting come off as an uber chick flick? Billboards are really highlighting the dad group in the movie, The Dudes, in order to make the dads seem like cool, fun, relatable people, you know, like how women feel about Sandra Bullock and Ginnifer Goodwin. It’s the new dad image. Previously, the dads have always had a more Homer Simpson vibe to them in marketing. Bunch’s own Rebecca Brown tells the Globe and Mail why this is silly.
2. Speaking of the new dad image, one of the dads from the Rise of the Dad Wars article says there is no war, it’s just a ploy. Sure, sometimes he feels different when it’s just him and the moms at the playground, but he’s not alienated. Read more...
What to do with Art
Keep all the drawings without all the clutter with a digital gallery
GeekDad Nathan Barry wouldn’t never dream of discouraging his daughter’s creativity, but their home does seem to acquire an awful lot of her drawings and sculptures. How do you keep all these precious creations without building an addition onto your house just so you have have more wall space? Barry says digitize!
“In an effort to try to curb the art overload and also make it much easier to actually admire them, I’ve embarked upon a grand digitization of everything I can. If it’s letter/A4 sized, then on the scanner it goes – with a resolution of at least 300dpi. If it’s bigger than the scanner, then a photo will do nicely. I always use the DSLR, at it highest quality settings as you can’t get those pixels back later. Sculptures of all kinds are filmed from all angles in HD.” Read more...
Father's Day
With the help of some fancy photo-editing tools
This is a superfast way to make a homemade card, or framed work of art for Dad. There are a number of ways to go about doing this, and depending on your computer software and photo-editing abilities, but we’ve just gone with the straight-up easiest.
You’ll need:
- A photo in .jpeg form (many web-based photo editing programs can grab photos straight from your Flickr or Facebook accounts)
- A printer
- A photo-editing program (if you don’t have Photoshop on your computer, there are a number of web-based alternatives.)
- Crayons
Steps: Read more...
- If you’re working in Photoshop, please check out this excellent video, or watch the one below.
- If you’re not using Photoshop, pick a web-based program with built-in editing features like FotoFlexer.
- Upload your image in FotoFlexer
