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Happy new year! Hope 2010 is off to a good start for you. I took some time earlier this week to get back to good old fashioned pencil-to-paper drawing, culling inspiration from one of my personal favorite sources, “Star Wars.” Uploaded to the Illustrations section of my portfolio, the new piece is a stylized interpretation of what Admiral Ackbar would look like in his “true” form: (very) fresh calamari!

In the interest of learning more about how to stretch the limitations of image resolution and my camera’s capabilities, I shot three more sets of landscape photos to be stitched into panoramas in post. These were all taken with my trusty Canon SD1000, without a tripod, from the the balconies of the 5th floor rental of Flores Ocean Suites in Cape Canaveral / Cocoa Beach, Florida. All were then stitched together with Adobe Photoshop CS4′s Photomerge automation, using the “automatic” setting with Blend, Vignette Removal, and Gemotric Distortion Correction enabled.

DIY: How I Made My Hidden Design Lampshade

I took the first half of this Labor Day weekend to make good on at least one art project, and by Saturday night it was done. The idea was to take a contemporary standing lamp and make it feel a little less utilitarian and a little more personal.

I just got an e-mail from eLance stating that they’d implemented a new “Groups” system, and that I had been automatically added to “Photoshop Experts” based upon my Top-5% score on their Adobe Photoshop knowledge examinations.