: About Me

I am a Senior Multimedia/Web Developer by day and a a father, husband, aspiring writer, and self-publisher by night.

I have a BS in Communications with an advertising minor and an AS in Engineering Technology: Digital Design.

I am currently in the process of writing my own series of pocket guides to digital design. My family and I are starting our own independent publishing company called Six Bicks Press.

My passion is ...

Adobe Photoshop

I know too much about ...

Adobe Photoshop

My parents always told me ...

You spell together...to....get...her! Jeesh!

My childhood ambition ...

To be a pilot. Hah, thats a good one!

My favorite memory ...

Meeting my wife for the first time. In my own home. Weird.

Why I write ...

Sanity check.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Watching all my Tivo'd episodes of Futurama

My first job ...

Working in my Dad's sheet metal shop.

My best moment ...

Getting the big promotion at work

My inspiration ...

My wife and kids

Computers & Technology > Graphic Software Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks for beginners

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Photoshop can be a terrific tool for editing photos but can also be quite intimidating and complex to newer users. Often times, new users of Photoshop don't realize there are often several different techniques to accomplish the same result and more often then not resort to one of the pre-canned filters to achieve something that is better left to using a layers technique. My hope here is to give newer Photoshop users a quick introduction to some layers techniques to fix some of the most common photo problems. Too dark or too light? When you first pull up your photo in Photoshop, you often g...

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