Free 6-month online Photoshop Course

There is a free 6-month online Photoshop course if you're interested. One is broadcasting live right now (classes are every Thursday), but you can join in anytime.

Upgrading to CS4

I need to upgrade my software at some point to CS4 (I'm running CS2). What blows is I would need both Photoshop AND Illustrator (and not so much the other stuff, including InDesign) but the price for a bundle is $500—which is quite a bundle itself. I know it'll be tax deductible because it's software for my freelance business, but eesh. Perhaps I should wait until it becomes an issue and someone actually requests I work in CS4?



Right now, an external hard drive is more important, especially since I'm flooding my poor laptop's hard drive with photos and illustrations. Oh, if only I had more money...or really, any at all....

Fun with Flowers and Textures

I've been playing with my pictures, instead of saving them as lo res images for uploading to Flickr. Bad, bad Chris! But I had some fun. I'm new at this so the results are perhaps not the greatest, but they please me to no end. See the tulips here. And I promise I'll be posting pix of the rest of the flowers soon.

A fond and heartfelt thanks to Char for imparting her texturizing wisdom to me.

UPDATE: See all the finished flowers in square here.