Zombie Preparedness Month Animation 2012

So I finally get to post about this guy.   I did animation in my spare time and had fun with.  Hand drawn with flash using my Wacom tablet.  Made to look sloppy and messy on purpose.  I like using flash, just need to get a better understanding of it.  My next project will look cleaner than this hopefully.  Lynda.com is really where I have been learning about flash and other multimedia projects.  I highly recommend it

The Count, Counting.

So recently a t shirt company had a contest to design a Sesame Street themed shirt.  I took this opportunity to use this a test for multiple things.  Find an idea, Use captivate for the first time and have my design actually accepted.  I succeeded on two of those.  I got the idea from a friend, while we were working a long weekend. I promised we would split the pot 50/50 if any money came from it.  I used Adobe Captivate for the first time and only messed up a little.   My design though was not accepted, it was considered adult themed for the contest.  I had a fun time with this design because it was just a good idea.  I also love using my wacom cintiq 12wx, which I highly recommend to anybody who likes the feel of really drawing.  It has a built in screen and once you get it set up it is very accurate.  I used Adobe Illustrator for this project.  I mostly use illustrator for the Blob Brush Tool.  It create as an outline stroke object, which allows for more control over the design.  So here are the results and feel free to ask questions. I also posted a speed up video to give you a good idea how illustrator works. I attached pictures of what I submitted so enjoy and I hope you get a good laugh.

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Abusing Adobe Lightroom

So adobe came out with a great product.  A product that can take any pictures you have and make them look good.  I work as a military photographer and have been using this product to increase my photo's qualities.

Here is the original photo.

Our studio is small.  We did not have enough room or lights to light all three people.  From the orange square you can tell that our photo studio, is only a one person studio. 

Now here is the edited version.

As you can tell a drastic change from the original.  The lighting looks better everything just looks better.  This is all thanks to Light room.

Now for what the photo is used for.  Here is the poster that brought the photo on.  Thanks to Adobe Photoshop I could cut them out and do some changes.  I had to shift the woman on the right over to make them fit in the purple square.

Thank you for listening to my rant about how great Lightroom is.  I highly recommended it.  Here are the products I used to create this poster.