Paint Shop Pro, formerly from JASC and more recently from Corel, has a nifty One Step Photo Fix command for automatically adjusting color balance, contrast, clarity, saturation, smooth edges, and sharpening an image. It command works pretty well as it is but I found that by tweaking the script behind it, I could more often get images that I liked better than the default output.

One of my not-so-secret obsessions is game programming. Maneesh Sethi’s book, Game Programming for Teens, is straight forward, a fun read, and gives you lots of fun examples for programming in Blitz Basic.

Early season striped bass on the Saco river from Camp Ellis up to Saco, Maine.