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How to change plain photos to awesome banner images for Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus

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You may have seen my Twitter profile and wonder how I get visual effects like that for a banner image.

I use nothing but free tools on the web. Yeah, I have image editors, but I find the online way of doing it is faster and easier.

Here's how it's done.

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Weird Al "Tacky" review

I've been a Weird Al listener for a long time, and something a lot of people don't take into consideration is just how damned good of a musician he is.

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My "smash compression" post-production audio mastering technique

The way that I master audio files today for my songs is by using what I call a "smash compression" technique. Audio pros would probably consider this a really bad way to master an audio file, but I like the way it sounds and it works for me.

This is how I smash-compress a master audio WAV brought out of the Zoom R8 and into Audacity.

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