I am so thrilled to discover something that I just had to share it with someone. I discovered the magic of working with and adjusting levels in Photoshop. Yes, levels. I know, I know… well duh to me. Seriously, I had 2 pieces of scanned artwork that I had to merge together, and the colors didn’t match up. Well I just whipped out that level adjustment, messed around for a bit, and Voila! I got them to match! I am so excited. :)
Want to know about something else? A couple of weeks ago I bought a brand new, in the box, Krup’s Mini Espresso/Cappuccino maker I found on Craig’s list – for $10 – and it is soooo yummy. Easy to make and froth up my milk… mm-mm-good.
A-n-ddd, last but certainly not least, my LR is almost done! In fact, it would have been done had our contractor not calculated incorrectly and had one more piece of oak for the ceiling beams… so now he’ll have to finish it on Monday. poo. It looks really cool. Can’t wait to show you.
So, that’s my happy news for the week. HappyHappyHappy!
**OH, know what’s not so happy? The party is over at iStock photo. Yup, the big boys have wrecked a good thing, it was only a matter of time before Getty hiked up the prices. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
I actually felt like the party was over, a long time ago. I guess when they sold to Getty, maybe? The files I had were nixed for being too small, which is ok – but they had been pretty popular, it seemed, so it was kind of a bummer to see that happen. I understand, they wanted to switch to larger vector formats – no big. But then the money I had made from people downloading my stuff disappeared, then reappeared, but in a much smaller amount, and I couldn’t just convert it to photo credits like I used to. Following that, the price of each photo/file went up. But, how could we complain, when comparatively, the prices were still uber uber cheap? Things just seem to have gone downhill in increments for the last few years. I’m sad to see this happen. (well, for obvious reasons: stock photos are expensive to buy elsewhere; but for this long-harbored, dinosaur feeling that once upon a time, there were things on the web that just were for the sake of being, and not everything had to be a commercial venture, and sometimes, there could just be communities of designers, artists, illustrators, photographers, who got along peachily and shared what they had to share and didn’t complain about not getting lots of money in royalties…)
ya, sucks… and you’re speaking from a “vendors” view point.
Actually, it’s ok in a way that I’ve been seeing many of the same designs/illustrations around the web… probably because I know so many of them by heart!
Know what? Looking at my download page in my account, I have 847 downloads (since 2003). geesh.
Except when I first started it was like a playground and I got stuff I probably never used, ya know?
:)