Use Google SketchUp for 3D Drawings
I’ve never claimed to be an architect, but I love great tools that work well. Â One such tool belonging to that category is Google SketchUp. Â In the past, I’ve fiddled with 3D software before. Â I think that Blender is awesome…but it also has a steep learning curve. Â Almost a learning cliff. It honestly is just to much for my needs. Â Case in point, I wanted a quick floorplan diagram to post to the Studio Central forum for comments on my new home studio. Â Blender just isn’t the choice for that. Â Now, if I wanted to make a cool 3D animated cartoon over the next few years, that’s a different matter… [amazon-product]0470277394[/amazon-product] The image above was completed in about two hours total time....
Ice
MASSIVE ICE STORM! Here’s some...
Dude! I’ve got ALL her albums!!!
I simply can’t resist. I mean, it’s just there, you know?
Album Art
The following picture was taken by my wife’s youngest sister, and then photoshopped a bit by another sister. I thought it looked fantastic. For some reason, it looks like an album cover to me. Click to get the full-sized image.
F0t0rshop
I love image tools. Oddly, I don’t really have a favorite. Yeah, I like Photoshop–it’s a great package. But I also like Fireworks and Gimpshop. And who DOESN’T love Irfan? ALOT of my image work is done solely with Irfan. Alt-Print Screen, and Ctrl-V it right into IrfanView. Save it as a JPG or a PNG. Actually, I’m trying to get away from JPG now… I really need to stop and do some testing with filesizes and quality levels between the two formats. I’ll save that for a future blog post. Fireworks is the stepchild of Macromedia Flash and rarely gets any respect compared to the powerhouse Photoshop and the indie street-cred of the Gimp. But Fireworks is fast and easy, doesn’t have weirdo interface rules, and...
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