I have written up this short tutorial to show how to achieve classical cross-processed look on a JPEG photo, using Adobe Photoshop. The main objective is to turn a normal daily life photo into vintage-feel in a few steps, without the need to work with RAW files.

For your information, cross-processing is the name given to the practice of developing films in the wrong type of chemistry, resulting in strange color casts but at the same time adding impact onto photo. This can be easily done on digital photographs, especially when you get to see the result immediately.

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Finally, I spared some time on upgrading adorr.net from WordPress 2.6 to 2.8, skipping the 2.7 Coltrane that was a big leap from 2.6, mainly on the back-end changes for user interface and some core architectures.

Some notable features and upgrades on WordPress 2.8 (The Baker) after 2.7 are:

• - Faster and smoother back-end admin panel;
• - New (easier to use) theme install capabilities;
• - Syntax highlighting in the code editor;
• - Improved Widget user interface and support for using more than one widget of the same type;
• - New screen options in every page to better organize the items on the screen.

Although upgrading WordPress is known to be simple and straightforward, I still followed through the WordPress Official Upgrade Guide as I couldn’t afford to lose anything on my site. As usual (bet they haven’t change much on their upgrade guide for some time), it takes only three simple steps. Particularly, the following was what I did to get WordPress 2.8, mainly detailed elaborations on the three simple steps…
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