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I took this photo on a rainy day in San Francisco of Lombard St. last weekend. I took the liberty to take full advantage of the Photoshop CS5 beta to clean it up and remove the majority of the distracting bits (power lines, signs, a few people, etc.). It took a little while and I had to combine different approaches, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.

Before:

After:

I can’t wait for the announcement on Monday. I can legally say now that I was/am a CS5 Photoshop beta tester. I joined late in the program and didn’t have nearly as much time as I would have liked to dedicate to testing, but I’ve been very impressed with the new features.

Here’s a quick example of some possibilities of what you can do. It’s nothing too elaborate, but should be impressive if you know what to look for.

Click on the image for a closer look of the before/during/after. Enjoy!

A friend was creating a new blog and deciding on a theme and header image. He had come up with a doodle that he liked but it wasn’t translating quite right when he recreated it digitally.

Needing a break from technical work, I decided to pull out my drawing tablet and give it a go just for fun. He liked it so much that I cleaned up the lines and he’s using it as his header now!

Go check it out. It’s so cute that I want to giggle every time I stop by his site.
www.WaxWombat.com

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Now if only I could finish the other logos that I’ve promised to others…

The majority of my updates lately have been under this “News” category because I’ve been posting updates as I’m making progress on my redesign. I predominantly use Twitter for my regular journal/blog-like quick updates – but anything longer than that goes under the “Journal” category. What about everything else?

I have a couple of other categories that I use for writing up technical How-Tos and reviewing concerts, computer hardware/software, etc. Check the top navigation for a quick direct link to that page. Otherwise, browse each category via the Archvies page.

As I have time I will also be adding a “Links” page. Let me know if you’d like to be included or if I have an out of date link for you.

Thanks!

Captcha has been fixed and is required for new user registrations and commenting without an account. I figured that not everyone’s going to want to register for yet another account somewhere if they want to just post a single comment, so I allowed unregistered users to add comments. If the spam gets too much (which it shouldn’t with the captcha) I will disable that again.

Enjoy!