Membership is currently free! However, this may change in the future if enough members decide that they would like to add features that cost money.

Please leave a comment including your contact information and a link to some of your work samples on this page. I will review the information and get back to you about being listed.

Adobe has combined Web Premium and Design Premium into a single package. The other packages are “Design Standard”, “Production Premium”, “Master Collection”, and Adobe’s new subscription service “Creative Cloud”. … Although the new price for the Web & Design Premium suite is about $100 more than what I paid for Web Premium last time, I am very happy to see that they have combined these two similar packages. No more having to choose between those last few programs.

Flash Catalyst and Contribute have been dropped from the CS6 lineup. I personally never found either of these programs very useful. But if you rely heavily on them, you should probably hold on to your older versions. Be sure to make a backup copy that includes the updates Adobe has released.

Yearly upgrades got cheaper! Upgrading less often got more expensive. It no longer makes sense to try to save money by waiting 2 or 3 years between upgrades. – Upgrading every other year only saves you a few cents per month (which could easily be eat up by credit card interest if you charge it.) Waiting 3 or more years for about a $5/month difference runs the risk that they will no longer offer upgrades for your old version. (In which case, you could still buy a “full” version and sell your old one to get some of your money back.)

Versions

Creative Suite 6 comes in 5 different collections. Initially, unless you have a student discount or a recent version to upgrade, getting started with anything other than a Cloud subscription can be quite expensive.

• Save Money – If you have not mastered the programs included in smaller packages and you don’t need everything that is included in the more expensive packages, why waste your money? I personally would love to get into the video editing side of things, but overall I can save over $15/month by sticking with Web&Design Premium upgrades. So I will save some money while I spend the next year improving my understanding of Illustrator and Photoshop and improving my skills as a programmer.
• Yours to keep, even if you run into financial difficulties. -

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I would like to point out the very true comment below from Scraped Media. … I was going to contact and inform them that somebody was using their name for bad, but they beet me to it. In response, I would like to say that I think it is very sad that somebody would try to hurt their reputation by sending out such rude messages. And I hope that they did not succeed.

A note to visitors:

Please forgive me for posting such language on my site. Normally I would edit out bad grammar and non rated G words. But I wanted  you to be able to find me.

I spoke with Hostgator and PayPal about this issue. I will also be looking up the registrar, host, and owners for the domain names in question and make sure they realize that someone is using them for bad.

Hostgator has been giving me great service for 6 years, but there didn’t seem to be much they could do about this particular issue at this time. They did, however, give me some good advice. Make sure my WordPress is up to date and secure, and block the IP of the sender. I would like to add that it is always a good idea to make regular backups of your work. Keep records going back a few weeks or months – it would be a shame to realize that there is a problem with your site AFTER overwriting your good backup with a messed up one.

It was difficult to get a real person on the phone from PayPal. But they did seem to take the issue seriously.

I will keep an eye on this website and let you know if I notice any major attacks.

A note to my threatener:

I am not sure what results you expected by posting such a message on my website. But you will not get any money from me.

I wonder, do you put much time into thinking about who your threats are affecting, who you are trying to take money from? What happens if the person does not have a PayPal account?

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While I wait on my dragon to get here I am trying out Windows 7′s built in speech recognition. Although it is pretty buggy, Microsoft’s speech recognition on Windows 7 works better than I originally and expected. After a short training session, it is working well enough that I am able to write this post in notepad and transfer it to my blog using my voice.

I am running a Dell studio 15 laptop with 4GB of RAM and an Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz. What I have found so far:

• It works well enough for me to write emails in Microsoft Outlook and yahoo web mail in Internet explorer.  -With a little luck I was even able to figure out how to navigate these mail clients without looking up the directions.
• I am able to do some navigation of my WordPress blog’s backend to submit this post.
• It helps to speak swiftly but clearly (especially when giving commands).
• Does not work as well in browser as in some other applications.
• I can not enter passwords into my browser using win seven speech recognition.
• Firefox does not respond well when windows seven speech recognition is running. – Even if I am trying to type instead of using my voice, Firefox keeps “Not Responding” and going slow.
• Extra sounds, such as the heater running, pet birds chirping, or a kid playing in the next room can cause a lot of errors. But it does know to record nothing about 2/3 of the time when I cough or sneeze.

What does this client do to my resource usage?

CPU usage:
• 15% while speech recognition not open.
• 15% while speech recognition opened but not running.
• 32% while speech recognition in use.

Ram usage:
• 2.05 GB when speech recognition not open.
• 2.16 GB when speech recognition open but not running.
• 2.20 GB when speech recognition in use.

How well does it work as a pet language interpreter?

Here is what I got when I let two our cheerful parakeets to do the talking:

“It’s it’s it’s it’s it’s”

At this Point I decided to join their conversation. All it record for me was “cheap”.

Then my boyfriend brought out some cooked spaghetti noodles – one of their favorites. The birds had a lot to say about that. ” it’s eats Its its its trying out a string it next thing and Ching Tseng “.

I guess I will get a lot more experience with this this speech recognition stuff over the next few weeks, months, and maybe even years. I think the windows seven version will be good for a lot of people who casually use the computer. (although I am not sure how would it work for someone with an accent) But since my job depends on my ability to use the computer efficiently, I need something that makes less mistakes. I can’t wait to see her dragon compares!

Pros:
1. Takes pretty sharp 12MP images in good light, that can comfortably be printed out at 8?x10?, even after a bit of cropping.
2. I paid $59+s&h for it (Excellent price! I didn’t know you could get a good camera that cheap.)
3. Has an ISO priority option over the full ISO range of ISO80-3200
4. Has a manual “cue-card” type white balance setting, which yields excellent color fidelity, WHEN I REMEMBER TO SET IT…lol
5. I can zoom in on photos in review mode, all the way to a 1×1 crop, great for checking to be sure exactly how well that shot will turn out on your computer (and know if you need to re-adjust a few settings and try it again)
6. There is the option to retouch (3 levels), apply Nikon’s “D-lighting” effect, or crop pictures in-camera after you’ve taken them
7. Good wide-angle view at 4.9mm (actual focal distance, sorry I’m not sure what the 35mm equiv. on this one is) max wide-angle setting
8. The battery/SD card door is far enough away from the tripod mount that I can still access them w/out removing the cam from my tripod (I LOVE when camera manufacturers do this!)
9. Multi-zone (I think 16 or 20 points) manual autofocus area select option.
10. On the 12*MP setting (yes, that’s 12[star]) it actually takes some very well NOT compressed pics (avg about 3.4MB filesize) with pretty much 0 noticeable JPEG compression noise in the output.

Cons:
1. Proprietary USB connector that’s shaped enough like Kodak’s proprietary connector that I almost broke it when trying to install the wrong USB cable (OOPS!) (Yikes! … I have given up on keeping my proprietary USB cables straight. I just use my computer’s card reader.)
2. Autofocus doesn’t seem to like me a lot of times…the red AF assist light is BRIGHT!! and washes out the subject on low-light shots, resulting in an AF FAIL 95% of the time (rectifiable frequently by manually moving AF zone away from center, so the AF assist light doesn’t fire)
3. Fixed aperture, any DOF adjustments require skillful fiddling with the (rather limited) “4.9mm-19.6mm” (aka 4x) focal distance (aka zoom).
4. No manual focus option.
5. No RAW format capability (what do you expect from a $59 “snapshot” camera)
6. Auto ISO mode (3 settings: full auto[I think 80-3200ISO], auto range 1[80-400ISO], or auto range 2[80-800ISO]) likes selecting higher ISO settings than I normally prefer, resulting in a somewhat grainy image (though, with a fixed aperture, the only other option is often a 1/2second or more exposure time)
7. Auto white-balance is a little buggy at times (like every other digicam I’ve ever owned)
8. No filter threads for me to attach filters (or, more likely, macro/tele. conversion lenses) to in order to expand the functionality (and somewhat dismal focal range) of the camera
9. No “infinity” option for the AF, so moon shots (or any other celestial shots) are definitely out

Overall Impression:
This is a “snapshot” type camera that can be had (refurbished) for $59+s&h that performs WAY above my expectations for a camera of that class & price-range.

It gives me enough faith that digital photography has finally matured enough that I can be more comfortable shelling out $200+ on a “bridge” camera, or entry-level DSLR and not wish immediately to have my 35mm film camera back. (Which is actually saying QUITE a lot, since I haven’t yet bought a “serious” digital camera for just that reason. Nothing under about $1.5K produced images that could BEGIN to rival 35mm film.)

Unfortunately, this is NOT a “bridge” camera, so I’ll never be truly satisfied with it as my “good” camera. But it is quite impressive as my “don’t have to cry if/when I break it” camera.

Here is my real-life Google AdSense story

2006
In October 2006 I signed up for Google AdSense and added it to SnugharborProductions.com , a low-traffic website selling family-specific genealogy CDs and handmade clocks. At this point I knew very little about the AdSense program. I just wanted some sort of residual income to help pay for my new life as an independent, self sufficient single mom. Maybe I would even get my first check before Christmas

… It didn’t take long for me to realize that my little website, averaging less than 10 page views per day, was not the traffic-rich advertising goldmine I thought it was.

In those first few months, I:

• Learned the importance of actually tracking your traffic levels instead of just assuming that making a few sales and being listed in a few newsletters meant my website was popular.
• Decided that I need to learn more about SEO (search engine optimization) and website promotion
• Earned 37 cents from AdSense
• And realized that my website that was already successfully selling stuff was not the best #1 choice for AdSense.

2007
In 2007 I removed AdSense from SnugHarborProductions.com and placed it on two of my hobby websites, TexasCarnivals.com and MyBlueCrayon.com . I knew that AdSense wasn’t going to be a big money maker on any of my current websites, but it did at least have the potential to stop me from loosing so much money on my “for fun” and “practice” websites.

2007 was a busy year. Most of my time was spent putting in overtime at the office and taking care of my little girl. I didn’t have much time for improving my hobby websites, but they still managed to bring in $5 for the year.

2008
2008 was filled with its own drama in my personal life. But I did accomplish the following:

• Learned more about optimization and promotion
• Cleaned up my existing webpages – giving them a cleaner, faster loading, more uniform look for future visitors.
• Sign up for Google Analytics so I could start collecting a detailed history about my visitors.
• Tripled my traffic and earned about $17.50 for my efforts.

2009
2008 was spent getting ready. And 2009 was when I really got to work, adding content and finding places to properly promote my websites. I:

• Researched, researched, researched and wrote informative articles about the topics that interest me.
• Found appropriate forums where I could participate in conversations and post a link back to my relevant webpage(s).
• Created sitemaps to help major search engines find my pages.
• Looked at my Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools to find out where my visitors were coming from and what they were interested in.
• Wrote more articles based on common interests. (things that I and my visitors were interested in)
• Started noticing trends where the ads for some topics perform MUCH better than others.
• More than tripled my traffic and earned about $45.

2010
2010 was a VERY exciting year in my AdSense career. The efforts implemented in 2009 continued to pay off and I received my first payment in May 2010! My second $100 payment threshold was reached in December 2010. I got that payment in January 2011.

In 2010 I also:

• Added Google AdSense to my other websites
• Made sure I had appropriate privacy policies on all of my websites
• Encouraged visitor interaction by adding a comment box to many of my pages
• Continued finding relevant places to talk about my websites
• And continued adding fresh content as I found the time to show that my websites are “alive”.
• Earned $168 for my efforts

2011
2011 is getting off to an excellent start So far I am consistently earning $25-$40 per month.

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Many people have called me crazy for all of the hard work I put into my websites for such a small AdSense return. But I don’t do this just for the adsense money.

I admit, the money is a very helpful bonus. The payment I received in January 2011 paid for my daughter’s glasses. But there is something rewarding about being in charge of my own content and seeing that people appreciate my work enough to come look and tell their friends.

I make websites because I want to.

I also point out to those who think I am crazy that although I may not be getting a flat $10 per hour for the work I do on my AdSense-using websites, a well written article can pay very well. My 3 most popular pages took a combined total of 3 or 4 hours to write. Over the last 2 years, those 3 pages have brought me a combine total of over $100. And they are still going strong!

There is another set of pages that I have spent about 8 hours researching and perfecting. I expect its popularity to be high but short lived. It has brought me about $9 in its first few weeks. Only time will tell if it takes off in May like I expect. But that’s the fun of this project!

My Windows 7 pro laptop was running slow, as it often does after a week or so of me running several notepads, browser windows , word documents, excel sheets,  graphics programs and files, FTP connections, bat files , dreamweaver, notepad++ , messenger clients, a webserver, etc … (In other words, I use my computer’s resources heavily. It has every right to feel bogged down after a week or so of use.) My computer was clearly in need of a reboot.

Tonight was a particularly slow shutdown experience. Windows only needed to do 3 updates, but they were taking  forever. I went out for a while. When I returned home, I decided I better boot up tonight – just in case it needed to do more updates before being usable at the office tomorrow.

That was when things got worrisome! …

I pressed the power button and got my regular login screen. But when I selected my admin account I was taken to a screen that was almost all black – except for an Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 window. – It was not minimized. It opened the files I was previously working on as usual, but it also opened LMIR0001.tmp.bat.js located at C:\Users\Michelle\AppData\Local\Temp\LMIR0001.tmp.bat.js .

After I closed dreamweaver, my regular Windows 7 desktop loaded … Then Dreamweaver opened again with a second copy of the same file! By this point I was getting pretty worried. I did not think I had a virus. But did dreamweaver release a faulty update? I turned to my favorite search engine for answers.

Between the information contained in search results, knowing what ‘out of the ordinary’ things I have done over the past week, and my own ability to wade through code (and my ability to ask a more advanced programmer friend for help), here is what I concluded:

• LMIR0001 stands for a Log Me In Rescue.
• LogMeIn Rescue is a remote connection that allows tech support departments to use your computer while they troubleshoot or debug your problem(s).
• I must have gotten this file a few days ago when I downloaded and installed Support-LogMeInRescue.exe from http://www.brother-usa.com/remote . ( I was having problems with a Brother HL 2170w printer. )
• LMIR0001.tmp.bat.js was actually supposed to use Windows scripting host ( Wscript ) to run a javascript batch file.
• Apparently the reason this didn’t run quite as planned was because I have Dreamweaver set as the default program to open .js files. – This is intentional since as a programmer, I spend more time editing the .js files stored on my computer than running them.

So what do the involved files look like? And what exactly are they supposed to do?

LMIR0001.tmp.bat.js

First, the file that was opened in my Dreamweaver looked something like this:

function DeleteCleanup() {
var fso = new ActiveXObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”);
var scriptFile = WScript.ScriptFullName;
while(fso.FileExists(scriptFile)) {try { fso.DeleteFile(scriptFile, true); } catch (e) {}}
var batchFile = “\”C:/Users/MyUsername/AppData/Local/Temp/LMIR0001.tmp.bat\”";
while(fso.FileExists(batchFile)) {
try { fso.DeleteFile(batchFile, true); } catch (e) {}
}
}
try {
var so = new ActiveXObject(“Wscript.Shell”);
so.Run(“\”C:/Users/MyUsername/AppData/Local/Temp/LMIR0001.tmp.bat\”", 0);
DeleteCleanup();
} catch (e) {
}

The above code’s main job is to run LMIR0001.tmp.bat , if it exists.

LMIR0001.tmp.bat

The batch file looks something like this:

@echo off
:RemoveFiles
if not exist “C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Local\Temp\LMIR0001.tmp\” goto :end
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >NUL
del “C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Local\Temp\LMIR0001.tmp\*.*” /f /q > nul
rmdir “C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Local\Temp\LMIR0001.tmp\” > nul
goto :RemoveFiles
:end
del “C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Local\Temp\LMIR0001.tmp.bat”

This file’s jobs appear to be to:

• Delete the files that were created when you ran ” Support-LogMeInRescue.exe “
• Delete the directory that was created when you ran ” Support-LogMeInRescue.exe “
• Delete itself. – After it has successfully ran, there is really no reason for you to keep it.

The first two jobs worked nicely even though I saw the .js file that calls this bat file open in Dreamweaver. … I guess it somehow still ran in the background? … Like it opened in the right place in addition to dreamweaver? Not sure.

The part where it is supposed to delete itself did not work automatically. It did, however, work when I ran the bat file again after it had already deleted the files and directory. I did read on one website that the bat file is only supposed to run once. Perhaps this is why it didn’t get to the “if not exist “C:\Users\Michelle\AppData\Local\Temp\LMIR0001.tmp\” goto :end” part.

What about next time you restart your computer?

I am happy to report that when I restarted my computer again, all was well. LMIR0001.tmp.bat.js was apparently set to run just once, so that it could do its job of cleaning up the files LogMeIn left behind.

I was hoping that restarting would run the bat files mentioned above just 1 more time so that they could get rid of themselves. It did not work out this way, and that is why I had to run LMIR0001.tmp.bat myself the second time. … I also tried running LMIR0001.tmp.bat in a cmd window. It did not appear to do anything. Guess I will have to delete this file the old fashioned way.

This may sound easy to those of you who have never tried or to those of you who have only taken a picture of the moon in a pretty daytime blue or evening blue sky. But if you have tried to take a picture of the moon in a dark night time sky, I am sure your results looked something like this:

Night-time moon pic taken with camera's auto settings

I started out, like I am sure many people have, trying to shoot the moon with my camera’s auto settings.  Then I moved on to scene settings such as fireworks and night time landscape. Every attempt resulted in blown out bright blobs on an otherwise black (other than an occasional star or planet) background.

After trying every auto setting my camera had to offer, I realized that this is a job for those rarely used [by me] PASM marks on my dial.

After some unsuccessful trial and error, I turned to the major search engines to tell me what numbers I should be setting my apeture (f-stop), ISO, and shutter speed to. I saw some amazing images. But they were captured with more advanced cameras than mine. – What is a person without an f/16 or even f/11 capable camera to do?

I got a rough idea of what the ratios should be from the websites. Finally, a good starting point for where to set my camera! Below are some of the pictures I have taken and the settings I used. Scroll to the bottom of the pics for tips and tools.

12x zoom, Landscape scene. - Notice that the camera's auto settings can capture a nice moon pic when there is the right amount of contrast between the brightness of the moon and the bluness of the sky.

Another daytime picture taken with 12x zoom and landscape setting

Full moon shot with f/4.8 , speed 1/160 sec. , ISO-200

Full moon shot with f/4.8 , speed 1/160 sec. , ISO-100

Full moon shot with f/4.8 , speed 1/200 sec. , ISO-200

Full moon shot with f/4.8 , speed 1/200 sec. , ISO-64

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Tips:

First tip. The one that has caused me much frustration – The “perfect” settings that you find one night won’t necessarily work the next. Remember, the moon is constantly moving and changing brightness levels. (More specificallly, the earth’s atmosphere and shadow affect how much light the moon sends us.) You will have to make some minor adjustments to your setting almost every time you go a few days, or even hours between pictures.

Zoom

The moon is a huge object. But it appears far away and small in the night time sky. If you don’t have your camera hooked up to a telescope, try to use a camera with at least 10x optical zoom to capture more detail.

Also, when you are using a lot of zoom and/or a slow shutter speed, a small shake of the hand can make a big difference. Many photographers will need a tripod.

Focussing

There is a good chance you will have to explore your camera’s manual focus settings when shooting the moon.

The moon is not “to infinity and beyond”, so don’t be surprised if setting the manual focus on “infinity” does not work.

And remember what I said about how the settings you use one night probably won’t work the next? This is true when using manual focus too. One of my above pictures was achieved by setting the focus range about 3/4 of the way between close-up and infinity. A few nights later, I was about 9/10 of the way to infinity. I huge jump in my opinion!

Tools

I have not had the chance to explore this tool in depth yet. But I would like to share the calculator I found at http://www.adidap.com/2006/12/06/moon-exposure-calculator/ .

This calculator isn’t too intuitive, but maybe you can figure it out. And the numbers it gives may not match your camera’s exact capabilities. But they should help you find an approximate starting point.

I have been a fan of High Dynamic Range photography for years. I just didn’t know what to call it until recently. Perhaps you too have an appreciation for this style but, like me, have a hard time laying your finger on what it is that makes it “pop”.

HDR photos are created by combining two or more pictures of the same scene. Each picture is exposed for a different part of the scene. One photo may capture more detail in the shadowed areas, but bright skies will be too washed out to see what’s going on with the clouds. Another picture may beautifully capture the detail of the sky, but the shadows will be too dark to tell what is lurking inside.

The job of the “HDR-izing” process is to find a nice balance in brightness, contrast, and color saturation to show more detail than what could be seen in any of the original images.

Below is a quick overview of different ways to create HDR photos, including one that will let you give an HDR-effect to single pictures. Keep in mind that all HDR software I have tried does create some “noise”. The severity varies by image and by program. Take advantage of trials when available to make sure you will be happy with the results.

Photoshop CS5 Merge to HDR Pro

This is a built-in part of Photoshop CS5

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/

Owners of Adobe Photoshop creative suite version 5 (and I am assuming later versions) will be happy to see that it comes with built a built in HDR process!

Simply open photoshop and click on File > Automate > Merce to HDR Pro…

From there you can select the files you want to merge. Make sure “Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images” is selected and click OK. It will take several seconds for Merge to HDR Pro to work its magic.

There will be several settings you can adjust to further improve your image. If you select to “Remove Ghosts”, the program will remove inconsistencies, such as a bird that was flying by as you took the picture.

Here is my first picture with Merge to HDR Pro:

Photomatix

$39 – $119 depending on version chosen version
www.hdrsoft.com

Photomatix is one of the more popular HDR programs. Versions range from plugins to stand-alone applications. The pro version (priced at $99) can even do “Selective deghosting”! Example: Say your pictures include a dog running across a field. You can select which dog image(s) you want to keep. The rest of the “ghosts” will be removed as usual.

Here is my first attempt at using Photomatix Pro:

Dynamic Photo HDR

$54

http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html

Dynamic Photo HDR is a stand alone application that can be used for 1 image or multiple images. I personally think it overdoes the HDR processing a bit, giving files an “unreal” look. Like the other programs I have reviewed, Dynamic Photo HDR’s end results can be adjusted if you prefer a different look.

ReDynamix (Photoshop Plugin)

$16 – Works with Photoshop Elements! (Photoshop Elements – $79)

http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/redynamix.html

ReDynamix is very similar to Dynamic Photo HDR. The main differences? It is a Photoshop plugin – you must have photoshop to use it. It only works on 1 file at a time (meaning you cannot merge multiple files … they will not be true HDR). It doesn’t have as many auto-options. And, it is the cheapest easy to use HDR-like software I know of.

Original image

ReDynamix version

I like how ReDynamix was able to bring out the detail in this picture I took of a cactus at Zilker Botanical Garden, right next to Zilker Park in Austin, TX. But I think this plugin went a bit overboard on the rocks.

Built-in to your camera

From what I have seen, the built in HDR option started popping up in high-end cameras around late 2008. This trend is slowly spreading. Currently you can start finding cameras with built-in HDR around the $300 mark. Check out the picture I took with my Kodak EasyShare z990!

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Most digital cameras at least have something called autobracket. Autobracket can take 3 pictures in a row with different exposures to help you create an HDR image. – Check out your user manual to figure out how to turn this feature on.

DIY – Do it yourself in the photo editing program of your choice.

This option is the most time consuming and requires a higher mastery of photo manipulation. But it can be done for no additional charge through many photo editing softwares. Simply stack your pictures into different layers, do any necessary color editing, then mask and fade out the non-optimized parts of the different layers.