I am like ...

At one time or another, I have been told, based on results of various personality tests, that I am like (in chronological order):

1. a college professor
2. a scientific researcher
3. a physicist
4. a musician
5. an architect

I made a bubble brush!

Here's my result from making a bubble brush. It's not exactly the same as the result shown on the tutorial page. I didn't try to make it exactly the same. The cool part is that, if you have a pen and tablet, the bubbles automatically trail off into the distance. You can also make single bubbles with a single click, the pressure dictating how big the bubble becomes.

If you decide to follow this tutorial there is one step that was left out. When you do the gradient overlay adjustment layer, you have to tweak the gradient by dragging the center of the blend to the upper left side of the circle. You do this by dragging the cursor around until it looks like the example. I didn't know this and had to look it up in the Photoshop help.

Anyway, I got some fun bubbles out of it and four new brushes. Yay! Remember to save your brush, even after you "define new brush" otherwise you'll have to readjust it every time you use it.

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Still working on trying to get WordPress to do what I know it can do. Or, rather, to get my head to understand plugins. If that fails, then to get head to understand coding. Ack!

Obviously I'm not a coder. I am putting in this time so that I can reap the rewards of hard labor by being able to easily upload and add new content for the foreseeable future. I'm going down the list of WordPress gallery plugins hoping for one that will work as a portfolio viewer.

I click on a link in the list to a page about the gallery plugin hoping to see first and foremost to see a demo of the plugin and then maybe some explanatory text. What mostly happens is I end up on a page full of text with links to stuff I don't understand like alpha and beta versions, open coding sources, and, oh, incidentally, here's link to the actual plug in itself. Most frustrating was a plugin site that linked to screenshots of the plugin demo sites. After much digging I did discover links to the actual sites, most of which are obsolete.

The best bet so far is Grand Flash Album Gallery which offers this happy little 14 minute video to show you how easy it is to use.
GRAND FlAGallery WordPress plugin tutorial from pasyuk on Vimeo.
Am I the only one who's first interest is NOT in what the latest news is from the developer?

Current Fads
Listening. Marketing Mentor Podcast and Genius Mixes (Brit-Pop & Rock Mix: based on U2, Coldplay, Radiohead and others); hungry birds
Watching. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Activity. keeping warm
Gadget. WordPress
News Source. Google News
Reading. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein; The Designer's Guide to Marketing and Pricing - Ilise Benun and Peleg Top; Story - Robert McKee
Writing. marketing plan