Day: December 14, 2010
Places to Go: Jiao Zuo – Ying Shi Cheng
Most people know Jiao Zuo because of Yuntai Mountain or the Henan Polytechnical University. There is, however, another place right in Jiao Zuo worth checking out – Ying Shi Cheng. The Film and TV City. Erected in 1995, it is one of China’s top ten filming locations for historical tv and movie productions. The entire area facilitates two palace complexes, a small town center (including a main road, private houses, guest house, restraurant, etc.), a temple, a farm house and even a wall that could count as the Great Wall. Passing through, you really feel taken back in time when emperors still ruled the nation and romance and adventure waited just around the corner. And if you are lucky, you might even run into a film crew working on a production. Once they see it, most Chinese are familiar with the place because of the many movie scenes that have been produced here and many famous actors have sweated and enjoyed the dramas, tragedies, romance and adventures enfolding here in Yin Shi Cheng. Entrance fees …
Behind the Scenes: Making a Template Your Own
Lots of people love to use templates. Layered templates are easy to use and they help you to quickly get a page together that is guaranteed to look good (or at least as good as the template you chose). I like templates, too, though I don’t use them too often, simply because I like my pages to look different than other people’s. However, there are lots of possibilities of how you can make a template really your own! Here’s What I Did I used a template from EH Studio’s template set “Moments in the Morning” (available at OTS). Here you can see all the templates, and I used the one in the lower left corner. So, after opening the template in photoshop, the first thing I did was rotate it. Now the photo cluster ended up to the left. I clipped my photo papers to the masks, but I also added a few more papers, and then several layers of embellishments (flowers, leaves, etc. I love clustering, have you ever noticed?) Scatters always help to …