- Plugs `N Pixels

October 2004
Clickable Canvas Collator
Creating Canvoramas
Real Terrain Generators
Third-party enhancements
Box art created in Canvas! Here’s how
Background scenic created with Planetside’s Terragen
In this seventeenth issue of The Canvangelist ezine we fill the entirety of 36 pages with a collection
of new and interesting creative inspiration! It takes a couple of months to put together a publication of this
magnitude, but the results are worth it – so long as you are inspired to fire up Canvas and stretch your
imagination and improve your graphic skills.
Speaking of which, you will soon see how I rose to a challenge and used Canvas as the main application to design
web, interface and print graphics for Jetsoft Development. The landscape orientation of this issue’s layout is
intended to compliment the artificially generated terrain illustrations featured here (the result of my exploring a new
kind of illustration technique I had not tried before. Now I’m hooked!). You can have a lot of fun making realistic
scenics in Canvas, then you can go above and beyond and explore the universe with dedicated terrain- and worldgeneration applications such as Terragen and MojoWorld.
It’s always enlightening to explore the latest in third-party creativity and productivity software that can enhance
your Canvas experience. Take advantage of the special offer from Auto FX and learn about new software titles from
other major developers. Then enjoy the wild and fun Photoshop training DVD from DesignsByMark.
Mike Bedford, the Canvangelist / mike@canvangelist.com / www.canvangelist.com
The Padre,
Canvas
Evangelist
3-7...Jetsoft Canvas designs
8...Creating Canvorama terrains
9-10...Pandromeda MojoWorld
11-12...Planetside Terragen
13...Art Parts
14...Canvangelist Collection Scenics
15-17...Auto FX Painter’s Edge bundle
18-19...Digital Anarchy Background Designer
20-21...Little Inkpot Software
22-24...Shortcut PhotoArtist/PhotoZoom
25-26...Reindeer Graphics Optipix 3
27...Picto iCorrect Edit Lab 4.5 Pro
28...Kodak Digital GEM Pro
29...Asiva JPEG Deblocker 1.0
30...Photoshop Roadmap papers
31-32...Extensis Portfolio 7
33-34...macXware Mac snacks
35...Mark’s 101 Photoshop Tips
36...Letters and comments
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Canvas played a large
role in the design of
Jetsoft’s website and
product packaging
(see pages 3-7).
ISSUE #17 FEATURES: Using Canvas for product design; creating landscapes in Canvas and dedicated terrain applications
www.scanhelp.com
The engineers at Jetsoft Development
commissioned me to design and produce
application icons for two software titles they
were planning. This was an entirely different
type of design than I was used to, but armed
with Canvas, I decided to accept this challenge.
After all, Canvas has enabled me to do
everything else I wanted to do thus far!
I’m happy to say the experiment worked and the
final results are now visible in the interfaces of
Collate (shown here) and in Art-Scan Pro 5 (p. 6).
I started my designs by creating the underlying
button backgrounds (including specular highlight)
with Alien Skin’s Eye Candy 4000 Glass filter,
adjusting them according to the final desired size. I
replicated the buttons into groups of four as
needed to represent the different states for each
icon. This was the easy part...
The next step was to come up with iconic symbols
that represented the functionality of each button.
As I visualized each concept, it was easy to draw it
out in Canvas using combinations of basic shapes.
The illustrations at right and on page 6 show a
number of these symbols enlarged for detail.
The finished designs were rendered in Canvas,
saved as TIFFs and resaved as Windows bitmap
files from Photoshop for maximum compatibility.
I also used Canvas to create splash screen and
packaging designs for Jetsoft products. See the
next few pages for examples of this work, which
makes use of both vector and bitmap objects.
Canvas’ vector capabilities were utilized
to produce functional button icons for
Jetsoft Development’s Collate application.
The Collator
comes alive
in Canvas!
I use Canvas to
create marketing
artwork for Jetsoft
Development’s
“Collate”
Along with the task of
creating the interface
buttons for Collate (see
previous page), I was also
commissioned to provide
the box design from scratch!
Again, Canvas made this
work flexible and easy.
Jetsoft Collate is designed to enable the user to edit multi-page PDF and
TIFF documents, including provision for adding, removing, splitting,
merging and re-arranging pages. The package design needed to reflect
this. So I fired up Canvas and came up with different collator concepts.
Using simple vector shapes filled with gradients, the machine took on an
almost realistic metal sheen. I easily added image objects and
transparency effects as needed. Two unused versions are shown above.
A collection of
vector shapes add
together to form a
3D metallic sheen
collator machine!
Here is the final version of the Canvas Collator.
The tools in Canvas provided the complete
solution to creating this artwork, from vector
shapes with gradients, soft drop shadows, text,
Easy Shapes with transparency to image editing
capability. Another Canvas success story!
See more of my
made-in-Canvas
designs for
Jetsoft on the
following pages.
The blue borders, text and art for
the package design were created
in Canvas as a flat layout, rendered
at 600 ppi, then brought into
Photoshop for the final skewing
onto an existing 3D box template.
www.scanhelp.com
The newly released Jetsoft Art-Scan Pro 5
scanner driver offers professional level options
for preparing and editing your scans. Of interest
to Canvas users is the fact that the small image at
the upper left of the interface as well as the
functional button icons (and product packaging)
were all created in Canvas! The flower bouquet
was created in the free Microsoft Expression app.
Made-in-Canvas button
icons shown at actual
design size. A total of
four button states were
prepared for each.
In addition to the box artwork (see issue #16) and button icons (previous pages), Art-Scan Pro 5 uses my made-inCanvas composite images for its installer/splash screens and GUI. The final designs were laid out and rendered
right in Canvas. Finally, the scanhelp.com website header (above) was also designed in–you guessed it!–Canvas.
In addition to
Canvas, I had a
little help from
the following:
Auto FX Photo
Graphic Edges
(film strips),
Alien Skin Splat
(picture frame),
MS Expression
(flower bouquet).
As we enter the exciting world of artificial
terrain generation, let’s take a look at how Canvas
can be used for this type of work. The cover
illustration was created in Canvas using only
vectors with solid fills, gradients and SpriteEffects
(for the background, mountains and wispy clouds).
The water gradient fill was treated with several
imaging filters to create the ripples; the
uppermost clouds were created with Terragen
(page 11) and added to the scene later. For the
snow covered mountains below I also started with
vector shapes, traced over a photo of the actual
mountain range (from The Canvangelist Collection
DVD stock photos) with the Polygon tool. The
snow-like and rocky fills come from
TheCanvasWizards Canvas add-ons collection of
paper textures. I duplicated each mountain shape,
filled them with different paper textures, and
blended them together using the Directional
Transparency tool before rendering.
Simple vector shapes,
interesting texture fills and a
gradient mask are all you
need to create realistic
Canvoramas!
www.pandromeda.com
My Mojo-craft banks silently
over the alien waterfront as I
explore the odd features of this
mysterious planet. I pause midf l i g h t t o ge n e rat e a h i - re s
image render of the scene
stretched out below me.
As I resume my flight, I can choose
to descend for an even closer view,
or retreat to the safety of a high
altitude orbit – all the while
maintaining a depth of mathematical
fractal detail in the results that must
be seen to be believed. The vehicle
that makes this level of exploration
possible is the incredible MojoWorld
Generator 2.0 from Pandromeda.
MojoWorld, based on the fractal
geometry of Benoit Mandelbrot and
refined by Dr. F. Kenton “Doc Mojo”
Musgrave, has been discovered by
Hollywood and has been used for
major movie effects such as those in
Twentieth Century Fox’s recent
movie, “The Day After Tomorrow”.
Because of its reliance on fractal
mathematics, MojoWorld is able to
render a landscape or an entire
p l a n e t a r y s y s t e m i n a m a z i n g,
never-ending detail. The images on
this page illustrate how incredible
this is: The planet at upper left was
created and rendered from the
viewpoint of planetary orbit. I then
went back into the original file,
then zoomed in until I was close
enough to the planet’s surface to
make out details in the land and
seas. The lo-res screenshots below
illustrate this progressive concept
even more dramatically.
You can experience this miracle
that is MojoWorld by downloading
the free MojoWorld Transporter
from the Pandromeda website and
immediately begin exploring the
unique wonders of parametric
hyperspace. When you’re ready to
create your own planet, the
MojoWorld Generator will take you
where you want to go.
An entire online community has
arisen around MojoWorld which
you can access from within the
application itself. Come join in!
Explore the endless dimensions of Parametric Hyperspace!
I’m new to terrain modeling – can’t you tell from looking at these images?
www.planetside.co.uk
Cloud cover, atmospheric haze effects and lighting
intensity and direction can also be edited
separately. When you wish to see some immediate
results from your settings, use the Rendering
Control window’s Render Preview button to
generate a small thumbnail in adjustable quality
(see screenshot at far right).
The 3D Preview window (immediate right) is a lores means of navigating your scene in real time by
clicking and dragging. If you adjust your camera’s
position using the drag points in the Rendering
Control dialog, the 3D view will reflect your travels.
For your final render, adjust the Render Settings,
render to file, come back later to see the results!
No, you can’t, because Terragen from Planetside Software makes it so easy to
generate photo-realistic terrains from scratch. Quickly! The sample images on
these pages were produced within several hours of launching Terragen for the
first time. Practiced users can have final results ready to render in minutes.
The process is simple: Begin by clicking on the Landscape button to specify and
generate a random terrain (or import a real one via geological data images).
Specify the size and radius of the terrain, glaciation and canyonization, add
surface maps (snow, desert, etc.), even combine with additional terrains. Further
edit your landscape by scultping with the paint brush.
If you have water in the scene, you can easily edit the parameters of waves,
reflections, the sub-surface and shoreline.
The screenshots on this page demonstrate the high
level of creative control Terragen offers its users. At
immediate right is the Water dialog; next to it is an
enlarged view of the Landscape onto which you can
paint terrain changes. The Landscape dialog is
where you actually generate or load your terrain,
while also choosing a camera angle and adding
surface maps, terrain effects and managing plug-ins.
Finally, the Lighting Conditions dialog accepts input
to adjust the Sun’s direction and angle, as well as
background light and atmospheric conditions.
Once your Terragen terrain is finished
rendering, you can apply various imaging
effects to the scene to create different moods.
From top to bottom, I used buZZ Simplifier,
Lucis Art, Alien Skin Xenofex Lightning and
Plugin Galaxy Sunshine.
Since I was already making terrain images for this issue and to celebrate the release of a new Art Parts collection, I
thought I’d try making an entire landscape from Art Parts clip art (colorized in Canvas). It worked! The goofy illustrative
offerings from Ron and Joe are perfect for adding a unique sense of humor to your designs. Check out the new
Art Parts CD-Ron 6 at www.ronandjoe.com (see page 31 for thumbnail examples of the new illustrations).
From the clouds above to the dirt below...
royalty-free stock photographs.
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Fans of natural media effects know that Corel Painter is the standard for this type
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after an art session in Painter! The screenshots at right show some of the many
capabilities Painter offers for both direct painting and filtered adjustment of
photographs (woodcut, sketch, distress, screen, etc.). Choose freely from among
and combine any of over 30 traditional art brushes and techniques, including
airbrushes, charcoal, felt pens, oils, pastels and water color. The power of Painter
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Photographic Edges 6, the other half of this special bundle. PGE draws from 2 CDs
full of edge and frame effects to present you with almost endless choices to
enhance your images and artwork. Preset styles help you get started quickly, and
all effects are completely editable (see screenshot above).
My daughter Rachel, age 9, is the
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up with this scene all by herself,
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www.digitalanarchy.com
Photographers spend a lot of money on paper roll
and muslin backgrounds. This approach is centuries
old! If you’ve already got a computer, there’s no
good reason to be carrying that expense.
D i g i t a l A n a rc h y r e c e n t l y r e l e a s e d
Backdrop Designer, the perfect answer to
fulfilling your background needs.
Original
It‘s easy to get started with the supplied
presets (top). Combine them with shadow
and bump maps for realistic backdrops.
You’ll recall from a previous issue
of The Canvangelist that Digital
Anarchy also markets Primatte
Chromakeyer 2.0, a plug-in that
creates masked images for
bluescreen effects (screenshot
above). When used together with
Backdrop Designer, the two are a
powerful imaging combination.
In the examples here, I used
Primatte to select and remove the
green screen background from
the portrait. In backdrop
Designer, I reviewed and chose
from among the large quantity of
presets (in this case, I used
Corroded Wall from the Stone
collection). The masked image
was combined with the digital
backdrop, and a new composite
was born! Now there’s no more
justification for expensive and
exotic location photography...
Here’s a wonderful plug-in from Little Ink Pot Software that is
dedicated to turning your images into very realistic sketches. For
Windows only, Sketcher offers seven levels of effect application and a
choice from among several pencil sketch styes, along with blending.
I applied Sketcher to an image of a folding camera
and got a charming classic effect which was the
perfect companion for the paper background from
The Photoshop Roadmap (see page 30).
www.littleinkpot.co.uk
www.littleinkpot.co.uk
In addition to the Sketcher
plugin, Little Ink Pot also markets
the Thredgeholder Pro and Photo Grey plug-ins, as well as a few
freebies. Thredgeholder (shown at left) concerns itself with edge
detection and supports the processing of individual RGB, IUV and
LAB channels. Threshold and contrast is adjustable for each
channel. My photo of the fallen David statue
(the result of an earthquake) was rendered
in outline form with almost no effort.
PhotoGrey, which comes included with the
full version of Sketcher, can be used to
convert color images to grayscale using
selective color filtering (choose any color as
the filter to emulate different film types and
color sensitivities).
Apply PhotoGrey to color images as well,
choosing from blue or red filters, alone or in
combination, along with a gradient effect.
www.trulyphotomagic.com
Your kids (or
the kid in
you) will love
this one!
Out of The Netherlands come a couple
of Truly Photo Magic imaging applications by
Shortcut. The first is PhotoArtist, and it’s
about as easy to use as can be.
With your image opened in PhotoArtist you
can choose from a pulldown menu of effects.
For each effect you choose, you will be
presented with one or more preset choices.
Select a brush size and transfer mode, and
begin painting the effect onto your photo. Or
apply the effect immediately to the entire
image. It’s that easy–your kids will love it!
In the examples at right I combined effects,
painting a little of each onto the orginal.
PhotoArtist brings out the art in
your images and the artist in you
Those of you who like to go people watching at the beach may want to
check out Shortcut PhotoZoom Pro. An update of the powerful S-Spline image
interpolation technology, PhotoZoom gives incredible results when a small area
of an image needs to be upscaled, or an entire image made into a poster.
My sample photo (background) was taken from the Santa Monica, California pier
looking toward the crowded beach with a 4-megapixel Minolta S-404. I selected
the little girl in the white hat and dress for my test subject (see oval). I cropped
the girl while keeping the image at actual size (no resampling). Next, I used
PhotoZoom to enlarge her to approximately 8x10 at 300ppi. You can see the
degree of cleanup taking place in the PhotoZoom dialog (below left)!
On the next page I compare PhotoZoom to similar products. Judge for yourself!
PhotoZoom
wipes clean
the rough
pixelation of
digital
images
The original unretouched, cropped digital camera image is shown at left at
actual size (100%). Below are crops at 100% from the interpolated images
after being treated with PhotoZoom and its competitors, as well as Canvas
9. Final image target size was approximately 8x10 at 300 ppi.
It’s interesting to see how each resampling plug-in handles image
upscaling. While each has its own style and technique, PhotoZoom seems
to provide the most natural upscaling appearance overall.
PhotoZoom is invaluable when you are faced with making a large image
out of a small one, such as when the client asks for a poster-sized blowup
of a standard digital file. Download the free trial version and see how it can
help you with your image interpolation needs.
PhotoZoom
SmartScale
Optipix 3
Gen. Fractals
Canvas 9.0.4
Reindeer Graphics has recently
updated their Optipix suite of
image correction plug-ins to
version 3, adding 5 all-new
plug-ins and improving
performance of the existing
ones. Among the new features
is Refocus (right), intended for
correcting focus and blurring
problems in your images.
Reindeer Graphics’ Optipix is back with five new functions and
substantial improvements to the speed, consistency and usability
of all the dialogs in the suite. Here are some examples:
Optipix 3 offers a
new Interactive
Interpolation dialog
for upscaling your
small images for
larger output.
Adjust Sharpness,
Edge Strength and
Grain.
The GrainMaker
plug-in (above) is
one of the five new
features in Optipix
3.0. Choose from
three levels of
grain scale (Fine,
Medium and
Broad) while
adjusting the
Grain Strength as
needed. I added a
full dose of Broad
grain to the image
at lower left,
creating an artsy
paper-like effect in
the early evening
sunset scene.
The new JPEG
Cleaner was used
on the image of
the ceramic face
to reduce the
effects of JPEG
compression
blocking.
www.reindeergraphics.com
Optipix 3's Auto Contrast plug-in uses exposure
values to help balance the tones in your difficult
images. In the example above, the shadow areas of
the sunset image were opened, with the details in
those areas made easily discernable.
PictoColor Corporation recently released the new
iCorrect EditLab Pro 4.5 plug-in and standalone
version. I find using iCorrect Editlab one of the
easiest and quickest ways of getting the best color
out of my images, whether scanned or digital source.
The image of the office building in Universal City,
California (below), scanned from the original negative,
suffered from a weird blue haze in the hills and on the
building. Literally one click on a neutral area of the
image shifted the colors back to an accurate range.
My digital camera shot of the mountain scene was a
bit gray and muddy, but after taking a few neutral samples in
iCorrect, the scene was much improved. The screenshot at right
shows the simple interface. Note the grayscale strip with the
original color cast in the middle of the squares. It’s an easy way to
see how much correction is being applied as you make samples.
The iCorrect Editlab 4.5 standalone version offers “Process QT,” a
batch color correction feature, where you apply a single
correction style or ICC input profile to an entire folder of images.
www.picto.com
www.asf.com
Images by nature are dirty, like a big sooty city,
whether they originate from a traditional film source or
are produced digitally. Either you’re dealing with grain or
pixels, which interfere with the clarity of your images.
Kodak’s digital GEM Pro addresses this grimy reality by
allowing you to deal with noise and grain problems
separately (there’s an option to view the noise or grain by
itself as you work for the most effective editing).
My image of the Chrysler Building in New York City was
scanned from a 35mm negative, and it shows. But once
the digital GEM plug-in was applied, the grain was easily
brought under control (see comparison at right).
The JPEG image format is so popular that
sometimes it becomes a liability in our efforts
to improve our images. If you try to make
enhancements on a JPEG, you will end up
with unwanted and exaggerated artifacts.
JPEG Deblocker addresses this problem.
Using the power of
Asiva technology in
the familiar Asiva
interface, you can
prepare your JPEG
for further editing by
the process of
deblocking in either
the HSV or YUV color
space. After this
treatment in JPEG
Deblocker, you can
more safely and
successfully make
color corrections
without having to
worry about
interference from
underlying JPEG
compression
artifacts. This is a
wiser approach than
further editing
JPEGs without this
preparation and
protection.
www.asiva.com
www.photoshoproadmap.com
While we do our designs on the computer,
there’s no reason they need to look sterile. If
you still need the appearance of real paper,
here is your answer from The Photoshop
Roadmap informational resource website.
Their Paper Backgrounds are a collection of
25 unique paper textures in high resolution
(1181 x 1654 pixels) image files, available for
online purchase and download.
A sampling of the complete set is shown here.
Imagine using these as background textures for
invitations, online resumes, creative image
composites and more!
While you’re at the Photoshop Roadmap
website, read up on the latest in Photoshop
plugins, check out the many
tutorials and take advantage of
the ongoing special offers.
If you’re like me and you create, collect and store thousands of digital files,
you need some powerful solution for managing them. Extensis Portfolio 7
continues the Extensis tradition of offering professional level digital asset
cataloging with ease-of-use. End your image management chaos now!
Portfolio 7 enables you to search for specific images on your system using
keywords, browse stock photo catalogs without needing the original CD, create
image slideshows, build image collection websites, burn images directly to CD
or DVD, extract and embed metadata and much more.
Art Parts recently released CD-RON 6 of their unique wacky and wonderful illustrations. Portfolio 7 made it very easy to scan the
entire CD in one shot, after adding the images to a Portfolio catalog (as shown above). The preview window enlarges a selected
image file for closer examination. To create the Art Parts scenic on page 13, I simply dragged-and-dropped thumbnails from the
Portfolio 7 catalog window into Canvas, placing the actual artwork directly onto the page (bypassing the native Canvas methods).
An exciting capability of Portfolio 7 is Portfolio NetPublish.
Now you can dynamically publish your Portfolio catalog to
a server, where multiple users can access the image
collection via the internet, and download image files as
needed. There’s no need for your staff to understand web
programming–Portfolio provides all the tools and templates.
Write DVDs and CDs right from Portfolio!
www.extensis.com
You might consider macXware’s Mac applications as healthy
snacks for your Mac! They offer several small OS-X applications
to help you with your daily productivity needs.
At right is MacBurn, a
low cost, full-featured
CD/DVD burning
application. Erase CDRW discs and make
disc images too!
At far right is
AppSwitch, part of the
MacPac, a handy way
to switch among
running applications
from the menu bar.
www.macxware.com
RadicalSqueeze (above) takes your
files and folders and makes
compressed Zip, Tar and GZip files
out of them. Great for saving
bandwidth when emailing or space
when archiving your work.
MacCabinet (right) solves the
common problem of stray files all
over your desktop. Simply drag files
and folders into the customizable
window, and your desktop is clean!
For basic image enhancements and adjustments,
RadicalPhoto (left) does the trick, with settings for
Levels, Hue/Saturation, Ef fects, Motion Blur and
Rotate/Flip. The interface is so simple young children
can even learn the tricks of image editing with it.
RadicalPhoto can read and write the JPEG 2000
format, along with BMP, JPEG, MacPaint, Photoshop,
PICT, PNG, SGI, TGA and TIFF.
FontManager (bottom left) can locate and preview
fonts in your collection. Once you find the appropriate font,
you can activate or install it. Preview the font’s appearance
by typing a custom text sample in the preview window. The
fonts shown here are from the MoreMacFonts collections.
If you have a need for a quick logo or letterhead, The
LogoCreator is the simplest means! Select from
a m o n g m a n y i n cl u d e d t e m p l at e s a n d a r t i s t i c
elements (or import your own), combine with custom
text, export as PDF or an image file.
The new LogoCreator
Expansion Pack (samples shown
below) increase the available
number of artistic elements.
macXware:
Snacks for
your Mac!
www.designsbymark.com
It’s great to be able to watch training videos
for your favorite software, but you run the risk of falling
asleep with your head on the keyboard. That’s NOT going to
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It’s obvious Mark knows his stuff, as evidenced by the
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Very cool -- thanks man
Andrew Welch, el Presidente, Ambrosia Software,
Inc.
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seen this pub. Sweet zine you have there! I’m kinda
partial to bright colored material with lots of things
going on. You‘re singing my tune. =)
Sam Crutsinger, Media Kingpin, TackyShirt
Great job on #16, it looks great as usual! Thank you
for your continued support of our products, I love the
way that you present the Canvangelist, and you
always do a great job reporting on our filters.
Josh Haftel, Product Manager, nik multimedia, Inc.
I appreciated visiting your site and your work. You
deserved that coverage! I really like Canvas...it
always cheers me up to see Canvas thriving in the
digital world.
Cesar Alsina, www.graphicbiz.biz
Thanks for the nice reviews. If you are interested, I
added a new page on my website that talks about
skin color in a little more detail.
Kirk Lyford, www.phototune.com/skintune_tech.html
Thanks Mike, I really enjoy the Canvangelist. Thank
you for your continued support.
Jason Zazzi, Marketing Manager, Andromeda
Software, Inc.
New from you software is You Control
Fonts, a great way to preview your many
fonts in their original typefaces and
organize them by families, favorites and
sizes. Here I am previewing part of the
macXware MoreMacFonts collection.
www.yousoftware.com
Thanks for the reviews, it‘s greatly appreciated.
Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchy
I was looking at the latest Canvangelist just today and
thinking what a great piece of work it looked. BTW:
Love the graphic styling of the website!! I‘ve always
felt, with the possibilities of the web, it a shame that
sites look so mundane and uniform.
David Coombes, Little Ink Pot Software
Well, you’ve gone and done it. Are you an overachiever or something? Everything sparkles with
cleanness–and lots of fun to go through some of the
stuff. Really informative. Thanks for letting us in on it.
Darlene Gilligan
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Night ocean scene
created with
Digital Element’s
Aurora 2.0