Yes, I've had versions of Illustrator since it was Illustrator 6, and up until now the most I've gotten out of it was getting text to follow interesting lines. Having gotten Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection CS4 as my Christmas present to myself (it will probably be another decade, at least, before I update again, but that's fine, it was still ( Read more... )

If you'd like to get a card from me either go and do the survey linked here (which is easier on my poor, sore hands, has the potential for giving me other, useful info and has better security but may be a bit more of a hassle) or leave a comment in this post (don't worry, they're screened).

So, I realized last week that when my computer died at the end of last year my most recent address list was also lost. While I have a lot of info for folks, a lot was lost and I have no idea if what I still have is current. Also, I know several of you have moved and/or changed phone numbers since I last had anything and there are enough folks I ( Read more... )

Wishing you the best today and in the year to come!

I know that there are a least a couple of folks on my friends list who'll find this interesting. Today giveawayoftheday.com is giving away Inpaint which may provide a solution for windows users. It will be available for about another ten hours ( Read more... )

Well I wasn't feeling up to committing to doing a vid on the timelines required but I figured it would be fun to do some graphics. Bellow is what I have on offer:

I will do one large graphic (header - to specific size if wanted, wallpaper -in assorted sizes, bookcover or similar) and no fewer than three lj icons or other avatars for either a given ( Read more... )

Digital Photos: Photosynth Opens for User-Created 3D Panoramas - this one looks like it has some really fun potential, especially if you are like me and take tons of photos in the same place when you remember to get out your camera at all.

color is relative some interesting stuff showing how our perception of color varies

Realistic special ( Read more... )

I had the great pleasure of making art for pesha's big bang story Godplay (I'll post a link once she has it up).  I have a long time love of space opera and of stories dealing with created humans so this was just up my alley.

Here's the summary that drew me to it initially:

The only days people remember now can be dictated by their relation to the war ( Read more... )

epeeblade has posted her nearly 70,000 word J2 (which is to say real person slash fiction) opus "Of Dice and Jensen" which I betaed (and did research for and tried to remember things from when I was in college and did the art for the soundtrack - it was a slow day at work today).

Summary: In 1999, Jensen is a senior at college, his biggest concerns are ( Read more... )

Wow, I actually have something fannish to post!  (I'll eventually get to real life stuff. Honest.)

I have done art for two stories for the spn_j2_bigbang fest and betaed one of those and another and the one I did both for is being posted today. It's krazykipper's "You're My Family"Here's the summary that snagged my attention ( Read more... )