1. Resume
(About/All About Me)

... and to challenge myself. My passion for the arts is wide with creative interests and accomplishments in photography, advertising design, branding, writing and web design and development.   Education: ...

2. Flash: Making Life Easier for Yourself and Others
(Blog/Tips)

... total rebuilds or content replacement. Its just a fact of the business of design for others. If you come to a project with no edits and published on first review, take this as a moment of bliss and enjoy ...

3. Classic Dayton Architecture
(Blog/New Photoblog Posts)

SyntheticTone posted a photo: A look at the lot of a well kept classic designed home on a nice fall day in Dayton, Ohio. read full article  ...

4. Now Reading: Photography: foundations for art & design
(Blog/Personal Rants)

I don't usually read a lot of books. Don't have a lot of time for fiction and non-fiction books are usually dated info but from time-to-time I will get a 'how to' book on computer programs ...

5. Why Twitter?
(Blog/Personal Rants)

... that were website owners with topics I find interesting and useful like design blogs, technology blogs, Apple websites and blogs, and etc. Then I started adding photographers that I find inspiring, web ...

6. Review: Sony MDR-EX36V Headphones
(Blog/Technology Reviews)

... when shopping for new headphones, I was quick to dismiss the "gummies" and the "skullcandy" headphones as anything worthy of audiophile sound. Having worked in the audio design field in my younger years ...

7. Downloads: Free Social+ Icons
(Blog/Design Tips)

... icon offerings with some really nice designs but always ran into problem of either style didn't work for my site or not enough icons to cover my needs which included photo sharing sites. So, I started ...

8. New Look Coming... Now
(Blog/Personal Rants)

... which could use a serious revamp to make user interaction a smoother and easier by taking tips from the newer portal and forum designers. So, my thoughts are to utilize Flickr to the max and simplify ...

9. How Could I Not?
(Blog/Personal Rants)

... and on my last excursion, I drove past a modern building that really caught my eye. The building was a nice design utilizing right angles and mirrored windows along with a deep bark brown exterior that ...

10. Tech Review: iPhone 3GS 16GB
(Blog/Technology Reviews)

... years and I liked the compact and sleek flip phone design for portability. It was time however, to move on to bigger, smarter and cooler phones... like the iPhone. I ended up traveling to the Apple ...

11. Photography Tip #3: GIF Format Vs. JPEG
(Blog/Photography Tips)

Ok, this tip comes after I have been noticing many people using the ".gif" format for their digital images they post to the internet. What is wrong with using ".gif" format? Absolutely nothing... if you ...

12. Illustrator Tutorial: Power of Appearance
(Tutorials/Illustrator Tutorials)

... for me and was just a more suitable program for working with logos since it wasn't resolution dependent. I still relied on using Photoshop for most of my creative ad layouts and designs. Well, back in ...

13. Website Review: Big Huge Labs
(Blog/Website Reviews)

... of your sets. There is also a neat tool for designers and artists called Palette Generator, that will select and display harmonious color palettes from a photo. This is handy if you are trying to match ...

14. Website Designs
(Portfolio/Online Media)

... lots of features and I was eager to please. The website boasts a photo gallery, a blog in which owner can use to post current projects, newsletter, rotating banner display, liquid design template, advanced ...

15. New Tutorials To Come
(Blog/Personal Rants)

... Illustrator, Flash, Lightroom, design and more. One of the new additions I am working on is a tutorial for Adobe Illustrator called "Power of Appearance". This is a great foundation to many of the ...

16. New Transportation
(Blog/Personal Rants)

... another web design job. Only time will tell. ford, escape, focus, rental, crash, accident, insurance, holiday Powered by ScribeFire.  ...

17. Flyers / Inserts
(Portfolio/Print Media)

18. Photoshop Tip #2: Turn Chrome To Gold
(Blog/Application Tips)

... this Photoshop tip. If you have any questions... feel free to post in comments or contact me. Stop back for more tips and other graphic design/photography talk.  ...

19. Design Tip #1: Working Large
(Blog/Design Tips)

One of the the things I have learned over the past while working in any graphics program is to work larger than the final output. If my final image is to be 800x600px... I am sure to be working at 1024x768 ...

20. Flash 300x600 Banners
(Portfolio/Online Media)