One year at Santa Barbara News-Press

Well, it's officially been 1 full year at the Santa Barbara News-Press. I started as an administrative assitant and now have my second position. I am now the Onlines Sales and Web Developement Representative for them and am enjoying my job. I am getting to establish a stronger online presence for my company and are getting the chance to work with Adobe Web Design CS3. It's awesome. The only thing that is a little weird is that I am doing both sales AND application/web development. It's hard because I am my own little team. I find the clients, make the mock-ups, make the presentation, do the paperwor, get the sales, make the actual creative, and do all the billing. That is all usually done by at least two people.

I am excited about getting married though. But then again, my current salary is still the same salary for an administrative assistant and NOT for a designer. A designer makes $10 more dollars per hor on AVERAGE! That gets me frustrated. AAAAAND, a programmer, which I have been doing, gets AT LEAST $15 per hour more! When I got a job (even though I didn't take it) at the county as a network engineer at the beginning level they offered me $20 per hour which is 133% of what I am making now! MAN!!! So, needles to say estoy tratando de moverme pa-riba! Le hable a un muchacho y parece que me en mayo voy a poder irme a ser un disenador de paginas web y de aplicaciones.

Anyways... we'll c... God's got it all in control.

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Custom Photoshop Image - Chroma Waves

just a little project during my spare time :) [CLICK TO ENLARGE]

Mac Style PhotoFlip Gallery

1. Gradient background

In Photoshop, create a new document, 950 x 620px. Select black foreground color and dark grey (#384b55) background. Use Gradient tool and drag from lower-middle to the bottom of the document.

2. Thumbnail grid

Collect some sample photos and create a thumbnail grid as shown below:

Then duplicate the thumbnail grid and apply flip vertical transform (Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical). We will need this duplicated grid to create the reflection effect.

3. Warp transform

Select the top layer grid and go to Edit > Transform > Warp. Now you should see the Warp transform grid:

Drag the four corner anchor points and the two middle vertical lines slight upward to create the bent effect.

Repeat previous step for the reflected grid. While you are dragging the anchor points, try to keep the reflected grid align to the top layer.

Set the top layer opacity to 30% and bottom layer to 50%. Then apply a gradient layer mask to the bottom layer.

4. Glow

Make a oval selection and fill it with a sky blue color. Apply 50px Gaussian Blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur). Condense it a little so it looks like a spot light.

5. Flash

In Flash, create a new document exact same size as the Photoshop image. Copy & paste entire image in the first layer.

6. Flash component

If you have the photoFlow component installed, simply drag the component onto the stage. If you don’t have the component, get one from Flashloaded or enter our Free photoFlow Component Giveaways contest.

Now open the Component Inspector palette and you will see all available parameters. Here you can customize the component setting such as: XML path, autoflip, image dimensions, reflection, zoom effects… For more information on how to use photoFlow, please read the user guide.

6. Updating the gallery

Since the gallery is loaded from an external XML file, you can simply update the XML file to add or remove photos.

PhotoFlow component used in this tutorial is provided by Flashloaded.

Thanks to webdesignerwall.com for this great tutorial!!

Simple Obedience

I think that this is literally as simple as you can get! Simple obedience comes before anyone is being tempted. Simple obedience comes before you are in the mix! Simple obedience comes when you have the choice of going somewhere were you will be tempted and obeying the Holy Spirit's voice when He tells you to not go. Simple...