Photoshop Tips and Tricks #3: Multiplicity

Photoshop Tips and Tricks #3: Multiplicity

Shortly after I wrote my first Photoshop tutorial, Broch sent me an e-mail with one line: “Quick question, exactly HOW do you do this in Photoshop???” The answer was simple enough. All you need is a tripod and, well, a camera. Silly me. I don’t have a camera. I couldn’t very well show him how to do that, now can I? Of course I can. I have a digital crapera, which is just as good. So I asked my friend…

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Too Many Hobbies, Not Enough Time

Too Many Hobbies, Not Enough Time

I’ve got a stack of cover CDs on my desk that I haven’t browsed. They arrive one by one with each issue of a couple of magazines to which I subscribe—3D World and Computer Arts. There was a time I would pop these CDs in as soon as I got them, install whatever free applications were burned onto them, and experiment. Since I’ve started “blogging” regularly, though, I haven’t really had a chance to play with new software. Next month…

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The Novelist

The Novelist

The sun set in the Land Beyond, and as the desert dust hung thickly, the sky became a fiery red. That was going to be the first line of my first published novel, written at 16. I was an aspiring writer back then, and all I wanted to do was write novels, nothing but novels. I was going to have a string of them, one right after the other, sequels to sequels and prequels galore, part ones and twos, then…

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Bad [Contest Entry] From My Writing Past #9: Use All Ten Words

Bad [Contest Entry] From My Writing Past #9: Use All Ten Words

Brendan finally claimed June’s egg tonight, and I’ve just happily sent off his prize. For some reason, the act of my sending the print to Brendan reminded me of a contest I entered last year. The assignment was to use a list of ten rather obscure words in one sentence. The prize? The winner’s face on one of Davezilla‘s Blogger Tarot Cards. For posterity’s sake, here’s my favorite of my four entries, with the ten words in bold font: Quite…

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