Flickr Friday: MOO-liciousness on Flickr

I’ve been on a Moo kick all week. So I’ll just continue it through Flickr Friday. Like I’ve said before, I give full credit to Flickr for introducing me to Moo. (I also send Flickr my gratitude for showing me the wondrousness of Blurb.) But I’m definitely not the only one to feel that way. Thousands of people have shown their Moo love on the Moo Flickr group, of which I’m a part. Read More SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Flickr Friday: MOO-liciousness... Read More

CREATIVE MiniCards

I love getting packages in the mail. Especially when the package is a box full of Moo MiniCards! If you don’t know it, I’m a Moo fanatic. Their product is absolutely awesome, and the service is amazing. [For more raving about Moo MiniCards, visit my "MOOs Rock!" post from this January.] I thought it would be a good idea to create a business card for my independent work. I really didn’t want to spend very much, and I knew there wasn’t a need to print more... Read More

Flickr Friday: Tilt-Shift Photography

This week on Flickr, I’ve been browsing photographers’ tilt-shift images (I think the “fake miniature” effect is really neat). And above is my first attempt at trying to create a tilt-shift image using Adobe Photoshop and a few simple steps (which I’ll explain below). What is tilt-shift photography? Tilt-shift photography is exactly that. It’s the technique of tilting the lens relative to the camera to create interesting focal points (“sweet... Read More

Flickr Friday: Picnik, anyone?

One of the neat things about Flickr is that not only do you have a great place to share your photos, but Flickr also offers you ways to do neat things with your images. Flickr has partnered with several great companies to deliver amazing photo products, and recently, Flickr has teamed up with Picnik—a free online photo editor. (You can pay for a premium version of Picnik, which costs $24.99 a year. The premium version is ad-free and offers a lot of funky image-editing tools... Read More

Cross Processing for Vintage Views

I love the look of vintage photographs, even if they’re really new photos that have just been processed to have that retro feel. I’ve been wanting to edit some images to give them that classic, antiqued look—but I didn’t know where to start. Lucky for me, a friend forwarded me a link to a recent tutorial on “Curvy Cross Processing” from Layers Magazine. “Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3″ is a tutorial by Mark Fleming (who’s... Read More

Flickr Friday: Fortunes!

For yesterday’s Project 365 photo, I photographed this crazy fortune cookie that I got at work. It’s a fortune cookie covered with white chocolate and sprinkles—and it’s a marketing piece for a public relations management company. Clever. Because inside the cookie was not a fortune, but an ad. But anyway… The cookie itself tasted pretty darn good, and the company can keep sending these to sell their services if they want (no objection from me!). And... Read More

Announcement: I’m a BlurbNation Custom Bookmaker!

So much for Flickr Friday this week—I have an announcement to make. I’ve moved up in the world of Blurb. Not only am I a Blurbarian, but I’m now one of the newest BlurbNation custom bookmakers out there. Yahoo!!! I’m currently one of just a handful of bookmakers in the nation! (Cue the fireworks and cymbal crashes!) This is a very exciting moment for me. I made my first Blurb book in the fall of 2007, and after publishing my first one, I fell in love. I just... Read More