Namaskaram - salutations

Namaskaram - salutations I dedicate my blog to the enormous art lovers across the globe I love knitting so much that I have started a blog for knitting.Knitting is a job that I will like to go on.Through knitting I breathe life into many people's life. It is knitting time. When I want to relax I do it with knitting. I am a knitting buff.I love to do knitting on various topics. There is no way that you can stop me doing knitting.I am born with a flare for knitting.My face brightens once I touch the knitting needs.The electronic media has helped knitting to travel across the world.Every stitch made will talk about how knitting has influenced people.I have done some and would like to share it with you. Some patterns have been taken from free knitting sites. Some designs have been created by me. Many a times I have modified the patterns to suite my requirements. Finally I can say that I breathe knitting, I talk knitting, I walk knitting - a total knitaholic

Thank You

Thanks for visiting my blog. Your appreciations are most welcome

My sweet buddies

Monday, May 30, 2011

How to create a watermark in Picasa3

How to create a watermark in Picassa 3

1. Down the free software Picassa3 from the net on your desktop. It is a free software and can be downloaded easyily. Just follow instructions The following is the link http://picasa.google.com/ 


2. Create a new folder for the photos you want to add the watermark

3. First Method

Select a picture from your file


4. Right click on the picture and select the tab ‘open with’ and you will get a drop down for you to select. Then click on view with Picassa viewer.

5.  Your picture will open in a new file and you have the Picassa editor tools

6. There are two options to use the edit button. Go to the edit button on the tool tabs or right click on the picture and edit through Picassa  edit . Now you will have a new page of Picasa and all its tools in the left panel of the picture

7. You have a various menus for you to use
1. Basic Fixes
2. Tuning
3. Effects.
I normally use the Basic Fixes to create the water mark. You can try all other features to fine tune your pictures according to your requirements

8. Create a watermark
a. Select the ABC text button
b. You will get a check box – “Type anywhere to add a text
Now add your choice of words or your blog details or your name.
Then you will notice a circle like indicator
This indicator arrow will help us to do the following options
1. Font Type – Arial
2. Font size - 12
3. Style - B [bold], I [itilized], or U [underline]
4. Alignment – here you can choose the area or location where you want to place the watermark
5. Color selection: There are 3 option Choose both the ‘T’ and if you want in multi color effect then you can chose the middle one where the color will not be filled
6. Transparency - You can select the way your color want to be keep it to the maximum
7. Then tick mark the Apply button [here you have the option of clearing all changes or canceling]
8 After all required changes have been done then go to file menu and click on “SAVE AS” and give a new name to your picture. This is very important because your original picture will remain in tact.

Second Method
Another way to create a watermark without any alterations is
Go to the Export tab on the file menu
As soon you click on the export tab you will get a window export to folder
It will have the following options
1. Export location Where the picture is located
2. Name of the exported folder – the name of the new folder created by you
3. Image size – adjust as per your requirements to ….. Pixels
4. Image quality - change as per your requirement . – I choose automatic –this will preserves original quality of the picture
5. Watermark – click on this box [add watermark] There is a space provided below this and here you can give your http details, your name as desired by you.
6. Then click on the export tab and you have successfully added your watermark. Sine this is an inbuilt one it will appear at right hand corner of the picture

Now your watermark will appear on the picture

Hope this tutorial was beneficial to one and all.
Please do get back if you have any doubts and I shall explain to you.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Fish Oils

If you do not like eating fish try supplementing your diet with fish oil, which may provide the same heart-protective benefits. Studies of cardiac patients that supplemented their diets with 1 gram of fish oil a day were 45% less likely to die of unexpected, heart-related problems. Ask your doctor, if you would like to find out which fish oil is right for you.


By Lili Yakimoto from Tokyo Japan


Saturday, May 28, 2011

Stratospheric Flight Day.

It is to be noted that on 27 th May in 1931, Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer flew a balloon from Augsburg,Germany, to a glacier near Innsbruck, Austria. Reaching a height of 51,793 feet during their 17-hour flight, they were the first humans to reach the stratosphere.

Wonder Girl of the Air Day

On 28 th of May in 1930, English aviator Amy Johnson completed the first solo airplane flight from England to Australia. She had started the trip 23 days earlier on May 5th. With this feat she became to be as the wonder girl of the air. She has also many other feats to her credit.

Submarine

Presenting a submarine ship made by Hrishi - This was created using the Aquamech kits from Peacock Toys and games . This was brought from the TOYS Shop in Nugumbakkam High Road Chennai.

1. Aerial view of the submarine



2. Side view of the submarine


3. The lateral view of the submarine. He created this so that the ship can carry anything from planes, weapons, soldiers/marines and during emergency carry people, medicines and food stuffs.


Hope you all did enjoy

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Air plane

Here is a version of a plane created by Hrishi - This was created using the Aeromech kits from Peacock Toys and games . This was also brought from the TOYS Shop in Nugumbakkam High Road Chennai.
Side view

Aerial view

Health benefits of Jackfruit - Queen of fruits

This is an article I found in TOI - Chennai edition dt May 26,2011- written by KAShaji -TNN - which will be usefull to all . It talks about the the fruit Jacfruit which is a must for people of Kerala. It is rightly called as QUEEN of fruits

The benefits are

1. With simple sugars including fructose and sucrose.It replenishes energy and revitalizes the body instantly.

2.Rich in dietry fibre,which helps protect the colon mucous membrane and prevents cancer

3. An excellant source for Vitamin A which is a poweful anti-oxidant,essential for vision.Vitamin A is essential to maintain the integrity of mucus membrane and skin. It also boosts immunity.

4.Rich in antioxidant flavonoids including B cartene and lutein - which have been found to be protective against colon,prostate,breast, endometrial, lung and pancreatic cancers.

5.Contains the important B-complex group of vitamins.Has high amounts of B-6 [pyridoxine], niacin, riboflavin and folic acid.

6.A good source for Vitamin C also an antioxidant.This vitamin helps body develop resistance against infectious agents.

7. A good source of potassium, magnesium, manganese and iron. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that help control heart rate and blood pleasure.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Trucks

Hi Friends - I have started a new space for Hrishikesh - so that his creations can be show cased. Presenting his new creation Truck that helps clearing the garbage from the roads.This was created from the Mechanix Plastic Engineering Construction  set- Grand Prix - Cars 3 .This was brought by his mother Pallavi [my sister] from Toys Store on Nugumbakkam High Road in Chennai

1. Arieal view


2. Front view


3. Lateral view

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