Tutorials
How to Draw a Jack-o’-Lantern
Friday, October 31st, 2008Happy Halloween! For today, I’m doing a little How-to for drawing the most common symbol of this holiday. I hope you enjoy!
Step 1
Usually, when we draw a pumpkin, we think “round”, so we might start out with a circle.
Step 2
This is a pretty good start, and people usually get what we’re drawing. It’s not wrong, since every pumpkin is [...]
How to Simulate Shipboard Life at Home
Monday, July 28th, 2008First off: I did not write this little list. When I was in the Navy, this was one of those things that floated around the ship for who knows how long. The copy I saw was set on a typewriter and photocopied (poorly) so many times it was barely readable. In order to preserve its [...]
Preparing a Photo for Press in Black and White Using Photoshop
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Intro Notes
I love using Photoshop. It offers so many tools and doohickeys that no other imaging software currently can. But, not many people can afford the $650 for it. A more economical alternative is Photoshop Elements ($99). Then, there are the open source Gimp, Paint.net, and a variety of others. But none of them offer all [...]