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Month: April 2007

Photoshop Tips and Tricks #5: Turning Photos into Line Art

Photoshop Tips and Tricks #5: Turning Photos into Line Art

Want to look like a pen and ink wizard of an artist? Okay, this one’s for you. Here is our “Before” shot, a photo I took at some landscaping shop: First, we will duplicate the image to another layer above it, like so: Make sure you’re working on the top layer before proceeding, and make sure you have the foreground and background colors set to the default black and white (hit the D key if they aren’t). We’ll be using…

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Yet More Items in My Bedroom

Yet More Items in My Bedroom

Meet the bunny… …the bear… …and the love monster. These are just three of the stuffed toys in my bedroom. One of these I got for my birthday. Another I got for Valentine’s Day. Another was for just because. One sings. Two are on my bed, one on top of the other, probably doing it. And one is not really quite the color portrayed. Jen, who is one year younger than Ted, is two years older than Mike, who is…

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Feeling Lucky?

Feeling Lucky?

It’s Friday the 13th. I didn’t realize that until the day was almost over. Anyway, if you’re feeling lucky and you’d like $50 for books, you might want to mosey on down to Annie Dean’s blog—she has a contest celebrating the release of her book. All you have to do is suggest a caption in her comments for the following photo: …or you can blog about it, like I am here, and you’ll be entered in the drawing. Doesn’t the…

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Latest Work, 2007 Week 15

Latest Work, 2007 Week 15

I was hoping to have one more cover to show this week, but it’s still in draft hell these past three or four weeks. The feedback e-mail on it always seems to travel by Pony Express, not just from one end of the country to the other, but from some other galaxy to this one. Fitting, I suppose, since the book is science fiction and all, but still… So really, the first two covers you see here are the only…

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