Today on Facebook people were sharing their “I Voted” selfies, which sparked me thinking. I don’t think I’d ever share an “I Voted” selfie, and really am not too keen on the whole sticker thing in general, but I wanted to affirm that I was with all the folks who had voted.
Tag: Photoshop
The Meme Meme
I’ve deleted Facebook from my iPad and iPhone again. I find the site ugly. Not aesthetically but culturally. It’s no longer a stream of people lives, which was creepy but cool. Instead, it’s become a stagnant pool of our culture’s fear, bitterness, and paranoia. “Facts,” often without even the least amount of verification, are spread…
Looking up at the cresting wave
This week I posted an image of two books I had laid out for ABCNJ. One is our 2015 Regional Directory, the other is a devotional based on various testimonies from the region. Both represent my first attempts at using InDesign for large-scale page layout work, and I do have to say I’m impressed with…
Some Photoshop “Just for Fun”
I’ve had some fun in Photoshop the last couple of days. First, on Monday I created an image for “Star Wars Day” 1. My son had taken down the Millennium Falcon from a shelf in my office so he could examine it more closely 2. When I spied it on Saturday I realized I’d never…
Having fun with displacement
I’ve been playing with displacement maps in photoshop, and having a lot of fun. Below are two images which spring from my experiments. In the first I wanted to see if I could make the ABCNJ 2015 Annual Session logo appear as though it were printed on a a piece of fabric flapping in the…
A fun trick with Photoshop
I have to say I’m having a great deal of fun with Photoshop. As some one who used The GIMP for years, and then moved over to Pixelmator, I never thought I’d say that. These two applications did what I wanted them to do, and they did it well 1. So well, in fact that…
