Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Digital recording promises to be the technology which helps us to get rid of the tiresome work of recording long conversations / interviews on tapes and to no longer burdened with boxes and boxes of 90-minute tapes. Now you can record interviews right onto your computer or your laptop. We can now process our interview recordings / conversations digitally, by adding effects, mixing, and so on, plus edit to literally dozens of "generations" without any loss of quality.

One fine morning, I had to record a telephonic conversation over tape- recorder. I feel this work to be a cumbersome and I wanted to get off this brain eating problem. When I was about to connect my tape-recorder to my phone line, I was puzzled a bit and realized that the jack on the device that connects my tape recorder to the phone looked to be a perfect fit to the slot on my computer's multimedia sound card. I started connecting the unit into my sound card and it really worked and in no time and I was able to record the whole conversation digitally.

I was over-whelmed with joy that, digital recording has certainly made my job a lot easier and freed me from the burden of lots of boxes of 90-minute tapes. I bought a digital audio recorder, which would render all my works for recording.

Effective Recording with Digital Audio Recorder:

You can work on or record a long audio file up to 2GB size (for a 16 bit file). This will allow you to work on a file of 3 hours and 20 minutes duration in CD quality Stereo. When hard disk space is limited, it alerts us in advance and allows you to clear files to continue. You can load a complete CD's content into one file and edit it directly.

Digital Audio Recording overcomes the grind of conventional tape recording such as, play-type-rewind. Digitally recorded interviews are easy to transcribe and allows in slowing down the play back. Digitally recording the interviews are particularly valuable to Web journalists and other online writers. Digital recording allows the readers to hear the source for themselves. Prior to the conduct of the interview, you should ask for permission to hit the upload button to the person who appears for the interview.

To record the interviews, all you need is telephone-recording unit, a computer (PC) equipped with a sound card and an audio-editing program, such as FlexiMusic or Goldwave.

Part 1:
You connect your phone to your computer. Plug one end of the phone line into the recording control device and the other end to the telephone. Now plug the jack into your computer's sound card on the back of the computer. Your hardware is now ready to carry out your recordings.

Part 2:
Now it is the turn of installing your software program that records and saves your digital audio recording. There is a lot of editing software available in the market which fulfils all the requirements for effective recording. You can choose any program of your choice.

After downloading and installing FlexiMusic Wave Editor you have to adjust the settings to get into your work.

To Start Up:

Once your hardware and software settings are made correct, you're ready to record the interviews. But before you start up, you'll need to create the file to save your recordings.
Run the FlexiMusic Wave Editor; Click the File menu, to choose New. On click to the New Menu, a dialog box (create new wave file) will open where you can select the sample rate, channels (stereo & mono) and the bit rate. You can choose the standard values such as sample rate (44100), channels (stereo) and bit rate (16 bit). Then click OK to set these standard values.

Now Recording:
Under the Tools menu, choose Record option or use the Record tool button (red disc), to Open the Record Audio dialogue box, this will pop up out to the FlexiMusic Wave Editor- Record Audio Window.

Recording window:
From the Recording window, select the source of your audio signal and set the volume for recording.

Windows Volume & Play Controls:
On clicking the Recording Source and Volume button, this will open up to the Windows Operating System recording control box. Here you can select the proper channel that is, the means through which you hear the audio such as Stereo mix / CD / Line in / Mixer / Aux / Microphone / Wave / or any other. Now click the Playing devices and volume button to adjust the output play volume of each channel separately.

After making sure of all settings, then back to the FlexiMusic Wave Editor- Record Audio Window, where you can find Start button to carry out recordings. 1) Now you are ready for recording, for instance, if the recording is through phone, a dial tone can be heard. Prior to an interview, it is better advisable to check the line and your recording program to make sure that everything is set right. Click the Start button on the Record Audio Window.

2) Things that are to be taken care prior to recording are,
Avoiding background noise, it's all around us . . . and it can spoil your recording from the start.

Choosing the Best Sampling Settings, when we work with sound on computers, we need to change it to a digital form. . I would suggest aiming at a sampling rate of 44100 Hz, because, the more samplings the computer records, the better the sound.

Adjust Volume Levels to Avoid Distortion; Keep an eye on your recording levels. You can observe the recording volume going up and down in the vertical white bars that which indicates the Recording Volume level. If you see the color in the bar constantly hitting the top, it indicates to reduce the volume if not your audio will be distorted. If you see the volume levels are too low - moving only at the bottom, then you will need to increase the volume. Simultaneously, you can watch the recording time too.

3) When your recording is completed, then again back to FlexiMusic Wave Editor- Record Audio Window, click the Stop Recording button. At any moment if you need to pause your recording, you can use "Pause" button. Once the recording is completed, click the Stop Recording button. If you are sure that your recordings are perfect, click on the "Done" button to finish the recording.

Save your Recordings:

As soon as the recording is completed, do save your recordings, for this click the File menu and choose Save. This will allow you to put the recorded file in a specific folder. Type the file name in the box against File Name. Consider using a name that which is much easier for you to figure out where the file is. Next, choose a format in which you your recordings to be such as, Mp3, WMA, Snd, Raw, Au.

Using mp3 or WMA files is useful to save space on your hard drive while retaining reasonably good quality and for transmitting your work over the Internet. It also saves lot of time in loading, processing, and converting your audio files.

MP3 Instructions:
For opening, editing, and save as Mp3 file you will need to install a separate command line Mp3 encoder/decoder. You can use LameWin32 encoder.

WMA Instructions:
For exporting to a .WMA file you need to install a separate command line. You can use Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility (it is a WMA command line encoder).

Finally you have done! You can play back the file in FlexiMusic, or with any audio program, such as Windows Media Player or Winamp, and transliterate the recording.

A forewarning:
Make sure that the person who faces the interview is well informed that the conversations are being taped because it is offensive to tape the conversation without the knowledge of others.

Generally, logo is created from 3 basic elements, which are:

1. Name, referring to words or sound

2. Symbol, referring to shape or visual

3. Color, to emphasize the meaning of the symbol yet has the psychological effect

There are 7 types of logo:

1. Typographic

Logo which consist of word only

e.g.: Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba

2. Geometric Typography

Logo which consist of word (brand) and combined with geometrical shape such as square, circle, elipse.

e.g.: Dupont

3. Initial Letter

Logo which consist of one or more letters as an initial.

e.g.: Hewlett-Packard

4. Pictorial

Just like typographic logo (see no.1), but pictorial logo has stronger character since the typography was designed specially to create or design logo.

e.g.: Hard Rock Café, Coca Cola

5. Associative

Logo or symbol which has a direct associate with the product or main business core.

e.g.: Shell, 20th Century Fox

6. Allusive Logo

Logo that has indirect associate with the product or main business core.

e.g.: Mercedes Benz, Alitalia

7. Abstract

Logo that has an abstract symbol. This kind of logo is usually hard to understand, because the design comes from a very long process. In fact, it’s losing the basic form. Since the logo becomes an allusive/abstract symbol, everybody would have different perceptions about this kind of logo.

Personally, I love an allusive and abstract logo, because logo must be unique, simple and have a strong character. The basic idea could be anything as long as related to the company. It could be the product, main business core, the philosophy, the background, geographic, vision or mission, etc.

If you’re designing logo for fitness and spa center, leave the muscle and fitness equipment kind of image away. Start to think deeper about the purpose of being healthy and fit instead. What people get when they do exercise and spa (regularly)? The answer is “Their bodies will be healthy and so do their souls”. That’s the main purpose of doing fitness and spa, get healthy body and soul equally. It means that you can illustrate this with something equal or balance. The most common symbol to illustrate the balance is a “Ying-Yang” symbol. But you can not use this symbol as it is (that wouldn’t be unique, would it?!). Try to modify and make it related to the fitness/spa field. That would be another challenge for you as a designer…

I’m sure that the exploration of each business area to be exposed on logo is unlimited.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Optimalization Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), considered by many to be a subset of Search Engine marketing, is a term used to describe a process of improving the volume of traffic to a web site from Search Engines, usually in "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Those efforts may also be seen in more narrow vertical Search Engines involving areas such as local search. Many site owners and consultants engaging in SEO attempt to pursue qualified visitors to a site, and the quality of visitor traffic can be measured by how often a visitor using a specific keyword phrase leads to a desired conversion action, such as making a purchase, viewing or downloading a certain page, requesting further information, signing up for a newsletter, or taking some other specific action.

In a broad sense, SEO is marketing by understanding how search algorithms work and what human visitors might search for, to help match those visitors with sites offering what they are interested in finding. Creating web pages with SEO in mind does not necessarily mean creating content more favorable to to algorithms than human visitors. Some SEO efforts may involve optimizing a site's coding, presentation, and structure, without making very noticeable changes to human visitors, such as incorporating a clear hierarchical structure to a site, and avoiding or fixing problems that might keep search Engine indexing programs from fully spidering a site. Other, more noticeable efforts, involve including unique content on pages that can be easily indexed and extracted from those pages by Search Engines while also appealing to human visitors.

The term SEO can also refer to "Search Engine Optimization", a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out Optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees of site owners who may perform SEO services in-house.

Search Engine Optimization often offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a larger marketing campaign. Because effective SEO can require making changes to the source code of a site, it is often very helpful when incorporated into the initial development and design of a site, leading to the use of the term "Search Engine" Friendly" to describe designs, menus, content management systems and shopping carts that can be optimized easily and effectively.
Imagine an orchestra at a concert with the guitarist strumming a guitar with broken strings and the drummer drumming with broken drumsticks. Imagine the face of the conductor with a broken baton and all the worst fears and dreams in world coming true accompanied with a cacophony in the name of symphony. Music? Precisely the reason why your website on the Internet should be optimized.

Aditya infotech believes the term Search Engine Optimization means a continuous and ongoing process where the architecture of the website and the website itself remains updated with the objective to return a particular search term on a particular search engine with the correct search result. Here the content and structure of the website's copy and page layout, the meta-tags, and the submission process make sure the required takes place. No horror stories of searching a mole and finding a mouse.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Seven Web Design Tips to Make your Site More Attractive

In this article, you are going to learn 7 important website design tips to make your site more attractive. So not only your website will attract many people, but it will also motivate them to stay for a long time.

1. Be Aware during Selection of the colours scheme:-

If your company has a logo or preferred colours on its stationery that’s a good start. For those of you starting from scratch, choose two or three complementary colours and stick with them – don’t change colours on every page. The most common colour schemes include:

- Red, yellow and white

- Blue and white

- Red, grey and white

- Blue, orange and white

- Yellow, grey and white.

- Onion shade, Tan, white

If you’re not sure what colour scheme to choose, surf the internet and find a website that you like. You can then model your colour scheme on what already exists.

Always Select those colours which Attract the visitors, and the person revisit your site.

2. Page Backgrounds

Ensure your visitors can read the text on the background, i.e. no black writing on dark blue background or yellow on white. Means if the page background is dark always use light colour for the writhing a text or if the light colour is used for the page background the always use dark colour for writing a text, like this colour scheme for the background everything is visible to the visitor. Also be careful that your links are visible before and after being visited. The default for links in most programs is blue (before being visited) and burgundy (after being visited), so if you have a dark background, ensure your links are light.

3. (Page loading) site open within a minutes

All I’ve seen for the last 10 minutes is ‘page loading’, I think something might be wrong with my browser this is probably one of the biggest gripes a site visitor has. If your page takes more than a minute to load (on dial-up) and you have anything less than the meaning of life hidden within your content - something needs to be done. The average person does not have time they just go for another site without passed his time for these type of site those take time to open. So a good website takes less time for loading a site.

4. Appropriate page Size

Web pages are measured in pixels. Pixels are the unit of measurement for the screen. A Web page can literally be any size. Standard Web pages usually fit into a few sizes:

* W × H * 600 × 800 * 640 × 480 (Dream weaver default) * 1024 × 768 * 550 × 400 (Flash default)

The default Web page sizes provided in Web friendly applications and listed earlier are a great place to start. You will probably use a smaller, custom size for pop-up windows. The Web page size you choose is up to you. Remember to use actual space for the Web page effectively so that the content is in the proper proximity to the user's navigation patterns. Web page size affects the way users move around the Web pages and the Web portfolio site. One rule: Pick a size for all main screens and stick to it.

5. Logo

Create a simple logo to identity your website. Have a captivating tag line somewhere with the header, and write an About Us page which describes the uniqueness of your website. These will leave an impression for your visitors to remember your website.

6. Application of graphic designs

you must be careful in choosing for the appropriate design that will best represent your projects, and tell about your business. Create a design which coveys in a stylish way what it has to

7. Be aware about grammar and spell

Grammar is overrated [and the spill-checker too] Most web authoring and word processing software comes with a spell/grammar check utility - don’t let your hard earned money go to waste, use it. Some of the more common grammatical mistakes are misusing its, it’s, there, their, they’re, your, you’re, and noone (correct=no one). Proof reading your final product is also helpful. No one is infallible, that’s why pencils have erasers and computer programs have [ctrl+z].

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Managing files and folders in the Windows XP

Windows XP supports both the FAT as well as the advanced NTFS file systems. NTFS-formatted volumes support several features that facilitate users in managing files and folders. These features are described as follows:

Compression

Compression is an NTFS attribute of files and folders. It increases the amount of available hard disk space by reducing the size of the files or folders. Compressing files and folders on a computer allows users to store more data on the computer's hard disk. NTFS supports compression on volumes, folders, as well as on the files that are compressed on an NTFS volume. A user can read a compressed file located on an NTFS volume without decompressing it. The file is decompressed automatically as soon as the file read process starts. On a volume that is running low on the available disk space, the compression proves to be a very effective means of increasing the empty space on the hard disk, thereby managing the disk space. A user can control the compression attributes on the files or folders individually.

In order to enable compression on a file, folder, or a complete NTFS volume, a user has to follow the steps given below:

Right-click the volume, file, or the folder, and select Properties.

On the General tab page of the Properties dialog box for the file, folder, or volume, click the Advanced button.
In the Advanced Attributes dialog box, select the Compress Contents To Save Disk Space check box in the Compress or Encrypt attributes section, and click the OK button.
Moving and copying compressed files and folders: When a user moves or copies compressed files and folders in Windows, these files and folders are affected in the following manner:

When the files and folders are moved within the NTFS volume, the compression attribute remains the same in the new location irrespective of the status of the destination folder (i.e., whether it is compressed or uncompressed).

When the files and folders are copied within the same volume from one location to another, the original compression attribute is lost and the files inherit the attributes of the new parent folder (destination).

When the files and folders are copied or moved to a different volume, the compression attribute is lost and the files or folders inherit the attributes of the destination folder.

Copying or moving compressed files and folders from an NTFS volume to a FAT or FAT32 volume does not sustain the compression because FAT or FAT32 does not support compression of files or folders.
Windows XP supports a new feature called compressed (zipped) folder. This feature can be used on volumes with either the FAT or NTFS file system, or both. The compressed (zipped) folder can be easily shared with other users even if they are not running Windows XP Professional or using a drive formatted with the NTFS file system.

Supporting File Encryption

File encryption is a file attribute that allows a user to protect files and folders. It is a way of making data illegible to protect it from unauthorized users, especially during network transmission. Windows XP Professional allows a user to protect the files and folders by using the Encrypting File System (EFS). EFS encodes a file in a manner so that a user cannot read the file's data even if he gets access to the file. Only an authorized user can read the file. When an unauthorized user attempts to access an EFS-encrypted resource, the user receives the Access Denied message. EFS implementation consists of two restrictions. First, an EFS-encryption can be used only on volumes formatted as NTFS, and secondly, a user cannot use EFS to encrypt a file that has been compressed by using NTFS compression. By default, Windows XP displays the names of encrypted files with a green color. A user can also change the color as per his requirement.

Managing Disk Quotas

Disk quota is a very efficient disk management feature of Windows XP Professional. The administrators on NTFS-formatted volumes can use this feature. It allows administrators to limit or fix the amount of disk space for multiple users on an NTFS volume. Disk quotas provide system administrators with a powerful tool for managing storage growth. Administrators can set both soft and hard limits, i.e., when a user exceeds a warning level (soft limit), an event is logged; when a user exceeds the hard limit, they receive an Out of Disk error. Disk quotas apply to the entire volume. It cannot be configured on a folder-by-folder basis. When a user reaches or exceeds the assigned quota limit, he will have to delete files to create empty space, transfer the ownership of some of his files to other users, or ask the administrator to provide more disk space. Compression does not work when the limit is exceeded. Merely by compressing some of the folders, a user cannot increase the available disk space in his assigned quota.

Managing Security

Windows XP provides an excellent way of securing the shared files and folders across a network by properly assigning the standard NTFS permissions. There are six basic NTFS folder permissions and five basic NTFS file permissions. In addition to these standard permissions, an NTFS-formatted volume also provides advanced files and folders permissions that an administrator can assign in a more specific manner. The system or network administrators on both files as well as folders can apply all of these permissions. The entire assigned standard as well as the advanced permissions can be viewed on the Security tab page of the File's or Folder's Properties dialog box.

Another way of managing security is to control the permission inheritance. When an administrator assigns some NTFS permissions on a folder, all the files and subfolders within the parent folder automatically inherit the parent folder's permissions. This is called permission inheritance. An administrator can stop such inheritance either at the parent level or child level by configuring the Security tab page of the Parent folder's dialog box. Therefore, Windows XP with the NTFS-formatted volume provides a very effective and efficient way of managing the files and folders both locally as well as in a networked environment.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Environmentally Friendly Print Design

The printing industry is notoriously bad for the environment, right? Noxious chemicals dripping into rivers, forests cut down to produce monumental amounts of useless direct mail, not to mention wasteful graphic designers twatting about in their 4x4's and SUVs, there is however an alternative...

Think about pdfs or html e-mails instead of Junkmail
The next time somebody suggests carpet bombing a town with a deluge of trifold a4 brochures, think about the money you would save getting a web designer or family friend with some design skill to put together a targeted html e-mail campaign or a visual pdf that can be sent out to people by e-mail. At the end of the day its all destined for the wastebin so you might as well try and save a tree along the way

Repair, Reuse, Recycle those designs
In the esteemed words of Bob the Builder, why chuck away something when it can be reused or recycled? The same dictum applies to graphic design. Instead of carelessly discarding a logo design you submitted for a client a couple of years ago, simply add a little blend in adobe photoshop or illustrator and re submit it for another customer.

How big are your design carbon footprints?
Within a short few years, the government will be insisting all companies and businesses track their individual carbon footprints in a token effort to reach out to green voters. What this means is essentially every time you flush the toilet, chuck away a scrap of paper or set fire to a mattress in your back garden, you are going to have to be accountable for your actions and plant a tree for your sins. Why not get ahead of the game now and buy up a large swath of prime rain forest in brazil and sell carbon credits to less responsible businesses?

Sustainable print materials
These days there is no reason to use pulped rain forest paper to produce your brochure designs and elegant business folders. Most printers will be able to source FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) approved paper for printing. Also vegetable based inks are now common place and not as bad as that might sound providing you are only looking for brown and green based design. Although yellow peppers and tomatoes could be used for more warmer colours

So there you have it, you could carry on throwing litter on the floor, burning your used car tyres and pouring poisonous printing chemicals into local ponds but think of the children, won't somebody think of the children. Wouldn't the world be that litter bit better if you didn't?

Friday, April 06, 2007

How to Check Hard Drive Health?

As told by every one that, we never know that when would our hard drive fail! However this is not true, we actually do not know this because we don’t want to know it! We have taken our hard drive as taken for granted. Today there are many tools present in the market which can easily act as shield for your drive and provide early information about the hidden problem of your hard drive.

Let me ask you some basic question:
- Which processor you are using?
- Which is the speed of the processor?
- What is the size of the RAM?

I am sure most of you would have answered them, lets me ask some other question.
- What is your hard Drive Version?
- What is the ideal temperature of your hard drive?
- How many Bad Sectors are there in your hard drive?

So, how many questions are answered? You must be thinking that there is no need to know all these, I would say that you are right, till your hard drive doesn’t crash. It’s better to start taking care of our Hard Drive Health. From my past experience I would suggest Stellar Smart is a very good Hard Drive Monitor Tool.

Stellar Smart gives you the basic information about your hard drive, like
• Hard Drive Version
• SMART Feature (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
• Model Number
• Serial Number
• Firmware Revision

Other Advanced Information about your hard drive:
• Total Sectors
• Number of Cylinders
• Number of heads
• Total Sector per Track
• Disk Size
• Physical Buffer Size

These information are basic information of your hard drive which you normally do not require it however, sometimes knowing this information can help you in solving other issues related to your hard drive.

Bad Sectors in your hard Drive
Knowing the bad sector in your hard drive is very important is really important, by checking the amount of Bad sector you can conclude how much vulnerable your drive is..

Stellar Smart: Scan Hard disk
This feature helps you to know the number of bad sectors in your hard drive, if you find lots of Bad sector, then better take the backup and change your hard drive.

Monitor your hard drive temperature
High temperature can harm your hard drive so you should always monitor your hard drive temperature, or you can set some temperature such that you’re your hard temp goes above it, you receive an alarm for that. Some times dust enters the hard drive motor and hinders the motor to run smoothly and the temperature rises and this can lead to hard drive failure. However if you are using some temperature alert then you can save yourself from losing data.

Stellar Smart provide an option to monitor the hard drive temperature.
You can set the warning temperature & shut down temperature. If the temperature of your hard drive reaches the preset warning temperature value then the software will give you the alert messages. And if it attains the shut down temperature then system will automatically shut down.

According to me this is very important tool, because you come to know about the temperature of your drive. Usually temperature doesn’t go above a limit, however if it goes that means that there is some problem with your drive and you better start taking backups of your important file Or get you drive properly diagnosis.

Some common hard disk attributes which Stellar Smart makes you aware with are:

Raw Read Error Rate
Indicates the rate at which read retries is requested. Lower values indicate that there is a problem with either the disk surface or the read/write heads.

Spin Up Time
Describes the amount of time it takes to spin the disk platters up to their rated rotation speed (usually 5400 or 7200 Revolutions per minute). Values above 80 should be considered good. Values between 70 and 80 are acceptable.

Start/Stop Count
Indicates the total number of drive start/stop cycles (including both power on/off switching and suspend/wakeup switching).

Reallocated Sectors Count:
Indicates the amount of the spare sector pool that is available. Spare sectors are used to replace sectors that become bad for some reason. A value of 100 means that no sectors have been replaced so far and a value of 1 means that spare sectors have been exhausted due to many replacements.

Power On Hours Count:
Indicates how long the disk was working (powered on).

Spin Retry Count:
Indicates the number of times the disk was unable to spin its platters up on the first attempt (lower values mean more retries).

Temperature:
Indicates the temperature of disks equipped with thermal sensors.

Ultra ATA CRC Error Count:
The UDMA controller performs error checking on the data it receives from the Hard Disk, ensuring that the data was not damaged while being transmitted over the cable. Each time an error is detected, the controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of 'Ultra ATA CRC Error Count' correspond to a higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem

Write Error Count:
Indicates the rate at which write retries are requested. Lower values indicate that there is a problem with either the disk surface or the read/write heads.

Recalibration Retries:
Indicates the number of times recalibration was requested. A low value (multiple recalibration) usually indicates some head positioning problem.

I am sure all these information about you hard drive will help you to identify the basic problem with your drive and you can save your self from losing your important data. However if you loose your critical data you can try some data recovery software or data recovery service.

Monday, April 02, 2007

Understanding Digital Photography White Balance

In digital photography terms, and traditional, you will most likely hear the term “white balance” quite a lot. It’s an important meaning because many digital photography enthusiasts concentrate on the lenses and digital camera without first learning about how light works.

In a nutshell, “white balance” in digital photography relates to the ‘temperature’ of light. If you notice when doing your digital photography indoors, the photo will have a bluish colour through out the digital photo. Then if you take your digital photography outside you will notice the photo then has a warmer tone to it. This is your white balance feature on your digital camera working to adjust the image.
To give you a direct example of how white balance works in your digital photography think of this; have you ever noticed how your colour pictures come out a more bluish tone in the shade? The problem is that because light has temperature, the camera has to analyze this change in its own limited way compared to the human eye.

You can help reduce the blue by altering the setting on the camera or adding a warmer color filter such as yellow. Some colour filters have different shades or hues of the same colour. Each warmer colour filter moves towards a warmer feel and increases in density.

Your white balance in digital photography also works when you walk into an office building. The fluorescent light might be different from that of the doctor’s or a drug store? Well, you’re not imagining things! The reason is there are over 40 different ranges of fluorescent lights and the problem for us digital photographers is that each one has its own colour temperature. It’s not to be avoided, please no! It just means you need to be aware that all florescent lighting is not the same and that you’ll have to consider this when shooting under this type of light.

You can work well with white balance by switching indoor shots to an “outdoor” setting to eliminate the bluish tone in indoor shots. And alternatively you can set the white balance mode to “indoor” when you are outside to reduce some golden/yellow saturation in your outside digital photography shots.