Month: January 2013

The Pancake Mystery

Published by Sula H.

We solved a mystery the other day! The quest was: Why, after probably a year of not serving pancakes for breakfast at all, has our kitchen staff started to serve them again recently? As a matter of fact, they serve them every single day, these days! After lots of thinking and discussing with my colleagues, we’ve come to a conclusion. It’s because of the bread. Yes, that’s right! Because of the bread. You wonder how pancakes have to do with bread? Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention. Recently, the kitchen seems to have run out of bread, because there’s no more bread for us at any of the meals. And I guess they must be thinking that pancakes make a good substitution for bread. After all, they use flower and stuff for both bread and pancakes. So, now it’s waffles and pancakes for breakfast every day. Unless, of course, you prefer fried potatoes and fried something elses.

Enable Me: The Coffeeshop Blog

Published by Sula H.

If you’re anything like me than you’ll always like a good set of actions to edit your photos. On the www there’s a ton of stuff out, some of it useful, some of it not! Recently, however, I came across a blog that has a ton of free downloadable actions, a lot of which I find very useful. It’s The Coffeeshop Blog. If you’ve never heard of it before, you might want to check out that site, because it doesn’t only come with actions for photo editing, but also actions to create storyboards and a lot more! Curious? Go check it out.

Showers – At Your Service

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My bathroom has turned into a shower service these days. Every day one of my friends is coming around asking for permission to take a shower in my bathroom. The reason? For days the hot water in our buildings has been turned off, and if people want to take a shower, it would have to be an ugly cold shower, and who wants that? Now, the reason circumstances for me are different, and the reason why people ask to take a shower in my place isn’t because my shower is prettier than theirs. I owe that simply to the fact that I’m blessed to have a hot water heater. A nice, big fat water heater that keeps things warm and cozy for me. Unless, of course, someone gets to take a shower before me. Then (like today) I have to wait for hours for the water to be hot again, so that I’m not the one ending up with a cold shower. Brrrr!

Behind the Scenes: Broken Glass Brushes

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Using a broken glass effect on a scrapbook layout can have a very dramatic effect. Take a look at this layout which I created last year:     I only used a free set of broken glass brushes I found on the internet (you can download them HERE), and added a style to give it the effect of shattered glass.   Here’s How It Works … Once you downloaded and installed the brush set in photoshop, create a layer with the broken glass brush. For my page above, I found that the following settings worked best:                         First, add your shadows as usual, and then make sure to adjust the following settings: Inner Glow Blend Mode: Screen Opacity: 100% Color: white (you may want to try different colors depending on your background, though) Technique: Precise Source: Edge Range: 8 Check Anti-aliased As usual, you may want to experiment a bit to see how things look on your page. These values are what worked well …