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:

Posted on Saturday, April 10th, 2010 under Journal, News | 5 Comments »
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!
Posted on Saturday, April 10th, 2010 under Journal, News | No Comments »
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
^___^
Now if only I could finish the other logos that I’ve promised to others…
Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 under News | No Comments »
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 Let me know if you’d like to be included or if I have an out of date link for you.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!
Posted on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 under News | Comments Off
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!
Posted on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 under News | Comments Off