Carl’s Jr. has a great Orange Cream shake right now, and their Orange Cream Shakes & Malts posters are even more appealing. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create yummy Orange Cream shake text in Photoshop, inspired by Carls’ Jr.
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I hope you like the new home page design. Since I am freelancing full time now, I want to feature my business more on my home page. The new design keeps several elements from the blog but makes it secondary to my marketing messages. The path to my services, contact, pricing, and portfolio pages should be very clear now. In addition, my latest work panels are nice and large now. Yes, I’m still a blogger. You can find the blog stuff lower on the page. On the interior blog pages, the article content is still high on the page.
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My full-time high school career now ended, I am fully open for business as Blue Lobster Art and Design. Please contact me for a free initial consultation if you need any of the following services (or check out my Pricing page.) Thanks!
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Photoshop uses light rather than paint to create color. Because of this, mixing colors of light is a slightly different animal from mixing paint. However in many cases, we get something similar to mixed paint when mixing two colors of light. In other cases, we get something a bit…off. I’m going to show you a technique for experimenting with color mixing in Photoshop. I’ll also show you the results of my color mixing experiments.
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I’m winding down my high school teaching career this week. My final day of teaching high school classes, perhaps for good, is this Friday. I taught high school full time for the past three years. If you want to know why I am deciding to leave this glamorous and rewarding career, check out my latest posts at dawnsbrain.com.
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