Author Archives: Crys

Images

Images In addition to creating user interfaces, many of my photographs were featured in template headers and in the Image Library that was available to users. Here are a few of them:

Seelund’s Winning Entry to the Cataclysm Beta Guild Contest

Blizzard had an essay contest to select guilds to participate in the Cataclysm Beta. Rules were, guild leaders only, less that 250 words, tell them why our guild deserves a spot in the beta. Simple enough. And my essay won! … Continue reading

Color Wheels with only CSS3 and Primary Colors

There are no images above, nothing but css (half of it vendor propriety, sadly), and this was entirely created with primary colors: Red Yellow and Blue. Why? Because I wanted to see how well you could create other colors using … Continue reading

Milwaukee City Hall

Milwaukee’s City Hall On A Stormy Day Digital manipulation based on a photo I took of Milwaukee’s City Hall in Sept. 2009. I used the same original image as the basis for my Photoshop tutorial on Vignetting/Depth of Field with … Continue reading

Vignetting/Depth of Field with Smart Objects CS4/CS5

Here’s my original image: Now, assume for a moment I wanted to focus attention strictly on the tower, up around the clock, to show off some of the great architectural detail on the Milwaukee City Hall. One way to do … Continue reading