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Hi everyone,

I know I have been inactive for a while. Mostly because I have been working alot on projects and my new hobby… LOL.

I’ll try to back into writing tutorials and things.

But I wanted everyone to know that I finished the Moravian Church Project that I have been working on since January! So I am quite excited!

I’ll have a link to the flash presentation up soon and you guys can critique away!

SoftDex: http://www.softdex.net/

“The first comprehensive guide to all things Airsoft.”

This is the largest project that I have ever started/managed so this will be a long time in the making.
I really hope to create a good community and stress the points of saftey, maturity, and honor surrounding airsoft. Also its to counter the bad media and the bad connotations of airsoft.

Here is the first look at it.

I have been watching the news, movies, and listening to the news and I was inspired to do this piece.

I know I don’t usually voice my views publicly, but I was very moved to do this.

The United States is in trouble, I wish we did not rely on oil so much. If you think about it, it’s a way of life. Oil provides us with so much, and what have we really done to reduce our oil dependency? Yes we now have better mileage for our cars, but we still have not reached the mileage standards that a country such as China has. We blame China for so much, but really why don’t we look inward at our problems. And the reason our gas prices are rising is not because of China and India’s need for oil, it is because of the new way oil is being traded. Somewhat like bonds and paper cash is traded. This is what is fueling the gas price rise. Sure maybe the need for oil brought up the price to $80 a barrel but that is it the rest is because of the new way of trading.

I have been thinking about this a lot and this is what came out of it. I guess I am just frustrated, and I am hoping for change. Even though the quote is somewhat funny, the subject matter is quite serious.

stock from sxc.hu

Create the letters in illustrator.
about 3 hours in Photoshop.

This is the new re-write of the gallery viewer.

I wrote it so if your server has a particular extension installed (GD Library)
will make a thumbnail for the gallery. I also wrote it so that it’s really easy to use and install.

The new version utilizes the Lightbox and the Cycle Plugin. These extensions can be enabled in the config file.
When light box is enabled, your image description will appear under the gallery image.

If your server doesn’t the GD library extension installed or you don’t know what that is, don’t worry.
The gallery is written to operate without it.

The file: Free Gallery Viewer V2

The Demo: Free Gallery Viewer V2 Demo

The Demo Gallery: Free Gallery Viewer Gallery

Installation:

1. Unzip to a folder of your choice.
2. Edit your config.php file to your liking (Instructions included in the file).
3. Upload it to a folder on your server.
4. Have fun!

Questions or Comments feel free to comment on my blog.

Notes:
This Gallery Viewer uses JQuery so props to my friend John Resig for creating such an amazing JavaScript Library.
This also uses the Cycle plugin that Mike Alsup created to do all transitions or the Lightbox plugin by Leandro Vieira Pinho (depends on what you pick). Image class for GD Library written by me.

There is a new band in town.
For all you geeks you might want to
look out!

This is just a temporary logo, just a concept.
Don’t know where it’s going yet.

If you don’t know what Dvorak is, its an alternate layout for a keyboard (pronounced /ˈdvoɹæk/). Most computer users use the standard “QWERTY” keyboard layout. This references the first keys on the top left. Read the rest of this entry »

I was making a blog layout for the morning call and I did this for one of the header images.

It was for the TV Watchers Blog.
Ultimately they picked a different layout but
I still like this creepy picture I created.

This uses a “cross-processing” technique
in Photoshop that involves curves.
I think its this piece represents commentary about what the American culture has turned into, mindless TV watchers.
or it could be just a creepy image I wanted for a header.

Stock from stockxpert.com and sxc.hu
You decide.

The layout:

As you can see it is very similar to my Vintage Poster design.
Thats because this layout gave me the idea to make a
vintage poster tutorial.

Other News:
Now if you register for my blog you can choose to get an automated notification
of new blog posts.
Thanks to: Xavisys

This is the 2nd part of the typography tutorials. Sorry about all the bad spelling in the last tutorial. I’m not a good speller and it was late… Hopefully it will be better this time

Hopefully if you are reading this you have read my first tutorial. If you haven’t you can read it Here. Read the rest of this entry »