iamrockandroll13

wow, microsoft is pusing the look of the new Xbox more towards the desktop computer tower look huh...it reminds me of those dell desktops...surprises me, I would have thought that microsoft would want to differentiate the new x-box from pc's as much as possible as far as the look goes.

I started on photoshop and had been working with it for about 2 years before I found out PSP existed...I tryed using PSP but it was kind of like the times I've tryed using mac's, I was confused and never really gave it a proper chance...I started on photoshop 5.0 in high school, now I use CS.

Ok so this my first attempt at creating anything seriously in Illustrator, so if it looks like I'm a little heavy handed and clumsy, I am right now...let me know what you all think though... the original photograph I worked with was similar to this one, just a different crop and no filters. Also, if anyone knows of any good Illustrator tutorials that they'd like to share, I would appreciate it...I've already found that a pen and a tablet are two of my best friends when it comes to Illustrator...

actually, you're spot on with that call, I actually didn't display the version that was a poster that I made for a friend containing lyrics to the song "Rockin' the Suburbs" by Ben Folds. This is the 'clean' version...

personally, if had done those photos that way I would have made the edges a lot smoother, but I do like both of those pics.

nice pictures! I know a guy spins fire and lights, so that's pretty impressive to me, I tryed it with lights and it was mad hard.

I'm learning regular photography, haha, it's just, well, new to me. maybe someday I'll be good enough with a camera to effects like that without a computer!

oh I have no illusions on the life of someone who seriously does that sort of thing :-D...but as a comp sci major, I think it could be a fun way to practice problem solving in the environment I expect to work in...I don't want to find out how to break into nasa's computers or anything, I just would like to know some basic things. I went to that Learn to Hack website someone linked to and while it was cool, I found that the challenges seemed like they required me to know a lot more than I did, and I was only on level 4!

in more polite and helpful terms, what he's trying to say is that SP2 has a history of REALLY messing up pc's in some situations. if your computer still works with it installed, thats great, but just know that you gambled and won. I have quite a few friends who just installed it with out thinking or reading about it and it caused them to have to reformat their harddrives and do a new windows install.

I had a vx2 infection on my computer and it didn't really do what you are saying this is doing, I'd say say check for vx2 using the adaware plug in and if doesn't work, get HijackThis! and google the results it gives you. hopefully someone else has already had and fixed this problem themselves and left a step by step set of instructions on how to remove it. Just a warning on HijackThis!, it can be sort of confusing at first and it doesn't remove or fix anything, at least I'm pretty sure of that. It just tells you what your computer is doing so you can figure out what exactly is wrong. when you actually remove it, you'll be most likely editing your registry along with deleting files and killing processes so make sure you know what you are doing.

Ok, so I'm ready to read, anyone have any good suggestions of what exactly to read? websites, books, anything? I really find this stuff interesting and potentially very useful to me.

I bet they would be too...I think I'm going to go get my free copy, ebay it, and get some of that money back haha.

if you wanted the player interface to disappear, and not be all ugly and up in the viewer's grill, you just need to set height and width to 0. the downside is that they can't stop it...

wow, thats pretty cool, for your fourth try I'd say it's at least 1000 kinds of awesome.I'm interested now, was that really time consuming to make?

probably not smaller than 12pt...it just seems like all my fonts don't like being small in Photoshop CS, they seem to work fine in illustrator...I was thinking maybe it was a setting or something I needed to play with. it's alright though, I'm just being lazy, it's not that hard to do it in illustrator and bring it into photoshop.I have another question though...anyone know where to get some good ps brushes that are cigarette/smoking related? I'm having a rough time finding any...