Friday, January 22, 2010

Photoshop, Nannerpuss, and World Domination

I just recently got another working copy of Photoshop and have been going nuts ever since. Through extensive online tutorials and just playing around I learned how to use the program and have been enjoying photo manipulation ever since. One of my hobbies, in addition to everything else under the sun, is to chop and edit photos for my own sinister purposes.

It all started when I used to play an old school TSR card game called "Spellfire". It's a D&D based card game that is really fast paced and can be played by LOTS of people at the same time. Anyway, one of the things I noticed on the forums is that people were making their own cards and submitting them as "online expansions" and TSR was actually endorsing these player made sets at tournaments!
So I figured, what the heck let's give it a whirl. Mine weren't as flashy as some of the other expansions but, it got me going with Photoshop. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced the flash drive that had all of that information on it so, instead, here's a picture of a potato that looks like Cthulhu! RAWR!!!


Anyway, I though that I would go ahead and personalize this home for my inane blathering. As you can see, I changed the main display banner and in honor of my URL, I've created what will be the first in a line of "Nanner Banners". So look for them periodically for a quick giggle. Here's the first one just as a kick off. I plan on doing sort of like an "Adventures of Nannerpuss" comic at some point but, that's another idea for another time. For those of you who don't know who Nannerpuss is, check out the below video. Yes, it all started as a Denny's commercial but, my wife watched it about 10 times a day for a month and finally I just got fed up with it and made her a stuffed Nannerpuss to laugh at. It pretty much did the trick and now it stands in the baby's room waiting for the little guy to be old enough to play with him.



So now that I've shared the fact that I'm a techno geek and a Susie homemaker, I feel it only fair to warn you that since I'm maintaining a blog now, you'll probably see LOTS of posts about really silly things that involve fleece, yarn, and in some cases other sculpting mediums. By the way, I'm learning how to crochet now so, that should prove to be really interesting. Jesus, this post makes me realize how bad the movie, "Daredevil" must have felt when I made fun of it for having no cohesion...

1 comment:

  1. Mr. Magoo, you are one crazy guy! I love your photo shop ideas. I would really like to do that as well. Then...then later down the road, I'd like to play with animation software. Not cartoon stuff, but avatar creations. But that's a long term goal. Right now, I'd just like to make pictures like you said. I'd like to put pet heads on the humans and vice-versa with my family members.

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