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Dec15 Introducing: Bri’s Quick Tips

Posted by Brian Tetrault • December 15th, 2011 at 2:34 pm • permalink

Ladies and gentleman, I bring you: Bri’s Quick Tips! I’ve been working hush hush on this little gem for some time now and am excited to announce the public beta launch! Bri’s Quick Tips is a new video training portal where I’ll be regularly posting topic-driven short tutorials based in Adobe’s two most popular photography tools: Lightroom and Photoshop.

I find that many online training websites are either too confusing, too in-depth and detailed, or just aren’t being taught by true working professionals in the field who use these tools every day. I have started with a small library but will continue to build it over time. Not only can you search keywords of topics you’re looking for and download bonus material for select videos, but you can rate the videos and even share them with your friends–as every video is on YouTube. Most importantly, this free service has a suggestion box (pops out from the right) where you can suggest topics you’d like to see covered in upcoming videos–even with a file uploader if the suggestion is image specific.

I’ll be making some minor improvements to the system in the very near future to hopefully remove the ‘beta’ tag. In the meantime, I’m always open to feedback and please, share with anyone you know who you think might benefit from this: www.briantetrault.com/quicktips.

Introducing: Bris Quick Tips

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Nov15 LensProToGo Viewfinders

Posted by Brian Tetrault • November 15th, 2011 at 4:11 pm • permalink

My great friends over at LensProToGo have just launched an amazing new partnership called Viewfinders. It’s an opportunity for anyone and everyone to interact and learn about some of the greatest talents in our industry. To learn more about the whole thing, check out their recent blog post. Click here to check out the Viewfinders site (oh, and by the way, I built the site for them!).

LensProToGo Viewfinders

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Sep30 Photo Dough – Groupon for photogs

Posted by Brian Tetrault • September 30th, 2011 at 2:27 pm • permalink

Photo Dough is exactly like Groupon, Living Social, BuyWithMe, etc. But it’s just for us photographers! How fun–sign up now!

Photo Dough Groupon for photogs

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Sep28 Adobe discount software

Posted by Brian Tetrault • September 28th, 2011 at 2:37 pm • permalink

Looking for some discounted Adobe software? Check this site out. It seems like they may update this on a somewhat regular basis too as deals expire.

Adobe discount software

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Sep27 My new and improved website is here!

Posted by Brian Tetrault • September 27th, 2011 at 2:08 pm • permalink

Well, it’s finally here–my new and improved website! You’ll find that branding and such has not changed but the layout is a bit different, you can find me easier on the social networks and you can even join my email list by clicking the link on the right side in the blog. Please feel free to peruse and let me know what you think! Special thanks to Liz at Someone Creative and Jim at Snacksize.

Stay tuned for some even BIGGER changes that I will soon be launching–a new section of my website that I am so incredibly excited to share with you all! Keep checking back and make sure you ‘Like’ my Facebook page and follow me on Twitter.

My new and improved website is here!

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Aug09 Yummly – The ‘Google’ of recipe searching

Posted by Brian Tetrault • August 9th, 2011 at 9:06 am • permalink

When it comes to searching for recipes on the web, it doesn’t get much slicker than this. Yes, I’ve done some work for these guys (see here), but I also use them on quite a regular basis. Recipe searches online tend to be very overwhelming–even with Google’s recipe search feature. Yummly is set up for anyone, anywhere–even my not-so-techy mother!

Pros:

  • Ability to search ALL of the top recipe sites out there–including Epicurious and AllRecipes.
  • You can completely hone in on recipes by using the easy filters–use the taste sliders to find something a little more spicy for tonight’s dinner, or filter out any allergies your guests have, even filter for how much the meal costs!
  • Save recipes for later, share them with friends, and you can even make tweaks to them–say if you add a little extra something. All of the recipes are editable (not edible–HA!).
  • Nutrition facts on almost every recipe
  • There’s a scaling feature–say it says servings is for 4, you can change it to 8 if you’re having a big dinner party and Yummly will convert all the ingredients for you! Big WIN there!
  • Setting up your ‘Tastebud’ profile is a great way to include favorite ingredients or leave out stuff you don’t like–like beets…yuck!
  • Oh yeah, it’s FREE!
Semi-Cons:
  • Not a ton of pictures–because Yummly is pulling from other websites into it’s own, it can’t take pictures. So it’s up to you and your ‘tastebuds’ (friends, get it??) to upload a photo or 2 of things you cook from Yummly so others can see what it looks like.
  • There’s no ‘what’s in my pantry’ feature. It would be pretty cool to punch in everything you have in your kitchen and have the option for Yummly to only search for recipes including things you already have–much like SuperCook. But this is a luxury that I do not mind foregoing for the time being.
  • No way to save filter criteria–let’s say I do a whole bunch of different stuff for filtering purposes, currently there’s no way to save that search to use again later–I feel like that will be a somewhat easy thing for them to add in later though.
  • No iOS app….yet?? <—-Just me being a HUGE nerd!
Check Yummly out, you won’t be sorry! Don’t forget to add me as a ‘TasteBud’, my handle is ‘briantetrault’!
Yummly The Google of recipe searching
Yummly The Google of recipe searching
Yummly The Google of recipe searching
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Feb22 Been Published

Posted by Brian Tetrault • February 22nd, 2011 at 12:25 pm • permalink

If you haven’t heard yet, I have officially started a business with my good friend Jim Hooper at Hooper Tetrault Studios. Our new website is up and running we’re really excited to announce that we got our first bit of work published! The publication was for Great Backyards magazine and they actually originally gave the incorrect photo credit but we got them to fix it :). The landscape work was done by our friend Clara Batchelor of CBA Lanscape Architects–who also submitted the work to the magazine. The original job was shot for Vicki Baker at Su Casa Designs.

Here is the tear sheet. Hooray for our first publishing!

Been Published

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Jan31 Sweet sweet music

Posted by Brian Tetrault • January 31st, 2011 at 12:16 pm • permalink

This website definitely made me smile. It’s www.mta.me where you can ‘play’ your own NYC subway map instrument. Here’s a movie example, try it!

(Thanks Giz)

Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.

Sweet sweet music

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Jan28 Nerd Thing of the Day

Posted by Brian Tetrault • January 28th, 2011 at 12:09 pm • permalink

In my humble opinion, Google Chrome is one of the best things that has happened to web browsing since…..well since tabbed browsing! If you’re still living in the dinosaur ages surfing with something like Safari or god forbid Internet Explorer (I think I just threw up in my mouth a little), perhaps you should check out Chrome! Among many other things Chrome has an app store–so every time you make a new tab and all your recently visited sites come up, so will your apps! There are many companies out there who are even making apps specifically for the Chrome browser like Tweet Deck and even the New York Times. Check it out here: chrome.google.com/webstore

Nerd Thing of the Day

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