Month: January 2012

Behind the Scenes: Creating Shapes With Fixed Sizes

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I have a very quick little tutorial for you today. Time and again, I’ve wondered how, in Photoshop, I can create a shape, say a rectangle, with a fixed size. Sometimes, esp. when I do hybrid projects, I really need to have something of a specific size to meet my needs. Other times, I like to work quite precisely on a layout (I’m a perfectionist to some degree, you’re right!), and then being able to know how to create a shape of an exact size can come in handy. So, the answer to this little question is actually really simple. Take a look at this little image, and this is all there is you need to know. For real! Ok, ok. I’ll give some explanation, too.   STEP 1 | Select the Shape Tool Start by hitting the key U, or clicking on the icon for the Shape Tool in your toolbox of your Photoshop screen (it’s on the left side of my screen) to open the Shape Tool. At the top towards the left …

Bad Showering Moments

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Bad showering moments are those moments in which you stand in the shower, and while you’re scrubbing away, doing whatever needs to be done, slowly but steadily the water ceases to flow. Of course, even worse than that is it when you’re fully covered with soap, and the water stops coming entirely. I’ve had my fair share of such moments happening to me – and not only once. So I speak from experience. Which is why I feel that I’m quite qualified to write about it. And it is also why I feel like I’m aptly suited to define such instants as “bad” showering moments. I’m an expert, you see. And a  man of experience, they say, is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. A statement that I have find to be quite true – except for one part, of course: I’m not a man! But I do have experience. At least when it comes to bad showering moments!

Journaling Café: Looking Forward

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The year of 2012 is still quite young, it still being January and all, so today, in our journaling corner, we will take a look at what is to come this year. What hopes do you have? What expectations? What wishes for change? What wishes for constancy? Here are some prompts to inspire your journaling: And here’s my (somewhat messy) page listing some of my resolutions for this year:

Happy New Year!

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… at least in these parts of the world. It’s Spring Festival! Which means, little sleep, lots of fire crackers, and of course everything shuts down around here for basically two weeks (though I’m glad the big supermarkets will only be closed for about 2 days!). At any rate, I got myself prepared again, for the big fireworks display right in front of my building. And lo and behold, I wasn’t disappointed. Shortly before midnight, the guards began to set up their boxes with all the fireworks, which was my cue, too. This year, I was a little better prepared – all bundled up warmly, I seated myself on a stool on my balcony all ready to shoot away myself (shooting pictures, that is). The only disappointment: I didn’t expect the grand display to be over so soon. (Last year, it took them at least half an hour to fire up all that they had set up down there.) But this year, I was just getting warmed up with my photo shooting when it was …

Treasure Sunday: January 22nd

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I’ve been roaming the galleries again. The internet is painstakingly slow these days, so I’m going to keep things short today, but look what I found: Winter Solstice by Svetlanka Love those photos!   Paintmylove77 by dida1357 Great depth, and the photo is beautiful!   Me & My Boy by Caits Fun composition and great clustering!   I am blessed by Therese Great use of white space, and fun pops of color!   Winter Melody by tipou2067 Beautiful clustering with such an adorable photo!   Delicious Life by zwyck Amazing composition with all the white space, the blended photo and the word art.   Txt U L8R by Angie4b1g Fun page, fun photo, fun clusters! Love that banner peaking out, too!   See? I can be really short, if I want to. Anyways, I had fun finding these gems and I’m glad to be able to share them with you!

P2D: Autumn At Its Best

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Back to some paper to digi inspiration. I found this traditional page in one of the galleries:   … and immediately it inspired me to try and turn it into a digital page. What I loved about this page is how it so beautifully showcased the papers, some of them – as you see – quite boldly patterned, and yet, overall this page has such a clean and simple look and design. So, I went through my digistash to find something suitable, and here’s my take on this page …