Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!


Glitterfy.com - Glitter Graphics


Or Happy November 27th if Thanksgiving isn't your style. :) The holidays remind me of the cool site Glitterfy since that's where I usually go to get fun, festive graphics to embed on my friends pages online. Glitterfy offers prepared graphics and also lets you upload photos and create your own glitterfy-ed greatness. Graphics, photos, text--Glitterfy does it all. :)

http://www.glitterfy.com/

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Elf Yourself

Send your own ElfYourself eCards


It's that time of year again: Elf Yourself is back! It's the classic and free way to upload photos and turn friends and family into dancing elves once and for all. Elf Yourself, brought to you by Office Max and powered by Jib Jab, is better than ever so enjoy! :)

http://www.elfyourself.com/

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Since We're Reminiscing Anyway... :)

I'll go ahead and post my first real attempts with Adobe Photoshop. At the time I took these photographs, I discovered that some of our campus computers had the program and I decided to play around with it. Knowing nothing about Photoshop made things kind of tricky at first. :)

Details: Who knows what I did to these photographs--it was so long ago. :) But yes, the pictures were edited in Adobe Photoshop using various tools and effects.

Oldies

I was looking through my desktop and came across some old photographs that I had previously edited. It's funny how some pictures look much cooler after not seeing them for a year and some pictures look way lamer. :)

The pictures were edited using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Adobe Photoshop. I had yet to learn of GIMP at this point in time. :)

Friday, November 7, 2008

Jib Jab

JibJab.com is another fun, interactive site. Among other things, you can upload a photo and insert it into a prepared background.

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Learning GIMP

At first when I started playing around with GIMP, I found the editing program extremely complicated. I talked with a friend of mine and she gave me some basic tips which went a long way. Once I internalized the whole concept of layers, everything went much smoother from then on. After that, trial and error is how I picked up most of what I've learned. I don't know much, but I would be happy to try to help answer any questions.

Formal reading has never been my forte, but those of you so inclined can find GIMP Tutorials online at http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/. They might be really helpful for all I know. :) And just a reminder: GIMP--the free, public domain version of Adobe Photoshop--can be downloaded at http://www.gimp.org/.

I'd love to hear everyone's own experiences too. Happy GIMP-ing! :)