New members, please introduce yourself here

Hi. I'm Dale and since I read the blog daily, I thought I'd give the forum a shot.

Michael.

Always kept up with CB, so why not.

Coleman,

likewise.

Hi, I'm Brad. I'm a regular reader of the blog, like most everybody else here :-)

welcome! thanks for taking the time to register. :D

Nothing to see here, move along.

I'm Jim, by the way, and I'm not really here.

Hi, I'm Eric from PhotoshopSupport.com

Happy to have joined. If anyone has any Photoshop-specific news, tips, I'll be happy to post them on the Photoshop Blog I'm running.

Trying to post as a real member! This is a just a test.

Eric wrote:

Hi, I'm Eric from PhotoshopSupport.com

Happy to have joined. If anyone has any Photoshop-specific news, tips, I'll be happy to post them on the Photoshop Blog I'm running.

i can certainly recomend it, very good read, check it out!

Nice new forum :)

drjohn checking in. Just an old guy trying to get up to speed (any speed will do) with the digital world. :wink:

sPECtre on board. Hello, eric! I'm your special agent from Belgium.

Hello everyone

I'm a Belgian photoshopaholic...

I'm often found posting and moderating at www.photoshoptechniques.com ,

soon at another place (it is not yet official) and in a French forum, www.photoshopmagazine.com where I also help for the translation of tutorials...

Very nice place to hang on!!!

And very good blog!!!

admin wrote:

Hello everybody. I'm Ivan and I'm the one who bores you with CreativeBits. :wink:

"Bore" Ivan?!? *ROTFL* Never!

~~~Hi Everyone,

I'm Thel, a semi-retired graphic artist, mom to the greatest 27-yr-old on the planet <--(totally unbiased opinion there, of course (-:), and Crazy MacHead Trekker. (The Trek part since around the Dawn of Creation and Mac user since '94.)

MacGizmo wrote:

Nothing to see here, move along.

Tehl <--[wuz planninge two tipe sumthing hear butt iz laphing too harrrd two fined write keez......

I know MacGizmo for years from the http://macminute.com/cafe. He's a very nice guy and a big joker. :wink: And, ... a very honest person. :) He's not the only one from the Macminute crowd around here btw.

greetz from Iceland.

hope to see this forum grow and grow... if it's half as fun as the blog it won't be a problem! :)

wow! you've got some pretty cool party picts on your web site! Iceland is a place I wanted to go visit since I read a book about it. It was a sort of horror story with lot of descriptions of the towns and places.

Hi all, Jeff from Canada here. Regular reader of CB. Hope to see this community grow and prosper. :)

admin wrote:

wow! you've got some pretty cool party picts on your web site! Iceland is a place I wanted to go visit since I read a book about it. It was a sort of horror story with lot of descriptions of the towns and places.

we do like our partys!! 8)

you just need to come and visit... i'll take you partying!

Rage wrote:

Hi all, Jeff from Canada here. Regular reader of CB. Hope to see this community grow and prosper. :)

thanks! i hope so too.

btw, i noticed your avatar is in png format. it won't display in IE, but I guess we don't care do we? :D it's really about time MS does something to Explorer...

Anonymous wrote:

admin wrote:

wow! you've got some pretty cool party picts on your web site! Iceland is a place I wanted to go visit since I read a book about it. It was a sort of horror story with lot of descriptions of the towns and places.

we do like our partys!! 8)

you just need to come and visit... i'll take you partying!

i hope i'll have the chance to take you at your word soon! :wink:

sPECtre wrote:

sPECtre on board. Hello, eric! I'm your special agent from Belgium.

sPECtre has always kept me honest! Nice to see him here...

I liked the Blog so much, I joined the Forum!

Hi everybody!

Im Balazs from Hungary and I am a regular reader the CB blog. Probably the oldest :)

cheers

admin wrote:

btw, i noticed your avatar is in png format. it won't display in IE, but I guess we don't care do we? :D it's really about time MS does something to Explorer...

Nah, we don't care about IE :lol:. Actually, I didn't even realize that I had saved it as a png. Maybe I'll fix that. :)

Rage wrote:

Nah, we don't care about IE :lol:.

I resaved my avatar before uploading it to my host as a png with alpha channel just for spite.

But in all seriousness don't many of you see web design opening WAAY up and getting crazy cool as soon as we don't have to support IE5/6 and have the ability to use pngs with alpha channel where ever we please. It boggles my mind.

Yes, but apparently MS is working on a new IE seriously as far as I heard. I think even they realised that the difference is becoming embarrasing. Just the fact that they still don't have tabs and they still don't support CSS fully blows my mind.

Hey there, love this forum already so I thaught I'd sign up. I probably know a bunch of the people on here already. I'm Stefan BTW.

Later,

Stefan

admin wrote:

Yes, but apparently MS is working on a new IE seriously as far as I heard. I think even they realised that the difference is becoming embarrasing. Just the fact that they still don't have tabs and they still don't support CSS fully blows my mind.

They are finally getting their asses in gear after recent netcraft stat showing mass migration away from IE to other win browsers like firefox. They may be releasing the new version before longhorn just so they can compete somehow. The day we will all know IE is beyond rediculously outdated is the day that Dell packages PCs with Mozilla. Lets hope it does not come to that.

What up all from North Carolina

Hi all,

I am Kiran a graphic designer working at a ad firm in Bahrain..very much interested in the www and i guess this is the right place to start...Hope it works out..

Kiran :)

my name is manish and live in Los Angeles. decided i'm not a good painter or guitar player and needed a way to express my creative part of my brain and designed websites is my way of expressing my creativity.

Also, after seeing some of the cool tricks on CB i want to redesign my site with CSS and would like some help if you guys have any links or book recommendations that would be awesome.

mrj

http://celestri.org

mrjain wrote:

Also, after seeing some of the cool tricks on CB i want to redesign my site with CSS and would like some help if you guys have any links or book recommendations that would be awesome.

Linkage my man, linkage...

http://www.blogdsgn.com/

http://www.delorie.com/web/

http://www.alistapart.com/ <-- all time favorite

http://www.bluerobot.com/

http://www.moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/

http://intensivstation.ch/css/template.php

http://www.9rules.com/cssvault/

http://www.csszengarden.com/ <-- amazing

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ <-- great, get his book

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

http://glish.com/css/

http://www.w3schools.com/ <-- quick reference

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once we get a separate forum for web design this post will be a sticky i'm afraid :)

hello hello. i'm mike...an art director just north of boston, ma. i've been browsing the site for a good length of time...great stuff! thanks Ivan!

Anonymous wrote:

hello hello. i'm mike...an art director just north of boston, ma. i've been browsing the site for a good length of time...great stuff! thanks Ivan!

welcome! thank you for joining us. you need to login, unfortunately it's not automatic after the registration, although since there is no email verification it could be.

admin wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

hello hello. i'm mike...an art director just north of boston, ma. i've been browsing the site for a good length of time...great stuff! thanks Ivan!

welcome! thank you for joining us. you need to login, unfortunately it's not automatic after the registration, although since there is no email verification it could be.

er...excuse me for that. :)

np thx :D

admin wrote:

once we get a separate forum for web design this post will be a sticky i'm afraid :)

All in a days work.

NitroPye, you're just 3 posts away from becoming a member! :)

Don't tempt me, I could so easily just:

Post: "1"

Post: "2"

Post: "3"

But this counts as one of those posts so I semi-beat the system Wooo.

There is a 3 sec limit on repeated post on this system. So, you can only post 20 posts a minute. So, theoretically you can become an Omnipotent (10000 posts) in less than 9 hours. :D

Cheers people! Nice site.

I recently got a G5 dual 1.8 with a flat screen. Need to learn a lot about OS X. :)

Recently got an iBook (a huge upgrade over my old eMachines desktop) so I'm new to OSX. Been reading CB for a while now, and now I've joined the forum.

congrats people on the new macs... it's a wonderful life!! :twisted:

i signed up on the strength of the excellent weblog, and irazl's visit to baseboard.

:) i'll visit you, you should visit us, too.

:D

thanks mick! :oops:

how about a link to baseboard?

my pleasure, ivan. :)

http://www.baseboard.net

baseboard is a mac design hub with many many talented members. heh.. we've been around long enough to have a few virtual fistfights (a mark of a longtime communty), so if you visit.. be prepared to find many odd things in the "off-topic" forum. guests can visit, but not post.. if you want to see some killer desktops, visit the galleries.

i'm not a designer, but a learner who plays PST there. there are many other skills represented among the membership.

I piggy-backed my way to the blog and thought I would try something gutsy and different and just go ahead and register to the forum. What's different is I have very little knowlege of design, colors, graphics, etc... just about most of what's here, I also think I have another strike against me and that is I have and use a PC, not good?

I dont know how much I can contribute, I CAN be optimistic since I dont know most of what goes on, but I can tell you I will try to contribute and not just be a lurker.

So, Do I have a snowballs chance... :?:

Oh, and I like my Palm T3 and I dabble in programming.

Welcome PC guy! ;) You're not alone here. You will have to deal with us, mac fanatics. :)

What programming do you do?

Ivan wrote:

Welcome PC guy! ;) You're not alone here. You will have to deal with us, mac fanatics. :)

What programming do you do?

Thanks for the nice welcome. I guess the shoe is on the other foot because now I'm in the minority. That's ok, I might be able to catch what other people have been trying to turn me on to for awhile now. I've been closed to any possibility of defecting to the other side until a month or so ago, I've been disgusted with the whole thing.

I hope you're not expecting some computing wiz, because that I am not. I'm currently studying C and tinkering with programming for the Palm. It's more of an interest and something to keep me thinking. With the occasional help of a few nice people I've met on the Net, I'm really enjoying it. If it takes me a few years to get to where I want to be - I'll be a few years older anyway.

At any rate, I look forward to grasping what I can. BTW: This is the first time I've been mistaken for a guy, but again this is the Net. 8) (really- not a problem)

sorry mylady! :)

i also learned some programming here and there and always enjoyed it! it's the purest form of design some say.

Ivan wrote:

sorry mylady! :)

i also learned some programming here and there and always enjoyed it! it's the purest form of design some say.

I'm more of a math, logic, absolutes, etc. person. Creativity, abstract, arts, etc- that other side of the brain- hasn't been tapped into probably since I was taught to stay in the lines. Another reason to be here.

I had taken a little Fortran in College which this was the class I learned how some people are under pressure - very educational. I doubt Fortran is used much anymore.

I dont want to take up all of your "welcome" board on off-topic posting. I can say it's comfortable here. Much different than I had pictured. :) Thanks.

Hey folks !

i'm just looking to find a new discussion forum :-)

Welcome ketilla. I think you just succeeded. :) Where are you from?

Well, Hi all

Here is an italian old graphic designer, I started in this work before that computers and internet helps was in immagination of the first fool on the hill.

I like too much to have the possibility to interact with this community opened to the world.

sorry for the broken english

Graphite, your english is very good. welcome to CB!

Anyways, Angrish will one day become the universal language!

grafite: i'd like to join sPECtre in welcoming you. i wish we could all have a beer together to talk about the good old days of graphic design, which i never experienced. i hope to see you around regularly.

Hi, I'm a Graphic designer from Mexico. I read every day the blog and I think that is very usefull. Sorry but my english is very bad... I hope that someone can helpme if someday I need express an idea... =)

Hi and be welcomed! I think you're the only member from Mexico. It's great to have such a multicultural community.

We have members from all parts of the US (Massachusetts, Boston, Phoenix, New Orleans, Seattle, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Raleigh, NY, California, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Columbia, Alabama, Washington) Canada, UK, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Hungary, South Africa, Singapore, Guatemala, Bahrain etc.

I'm very excited to know that we can receive so many different views and opinions on a certain subject. Don't worry about your English. For many of the people on this forum, English is a second or third language, so you're not alone, so you might need to guess what I'm trying to say sometimes as well. My spelling sucks. :) Thanks god we do have some folks from native English speaking countries to help us out.

Hi everyone:

I've been following this forum for sometime now. I'm glad to be part of the most excellent, most awesome group. My background is in prepress for offset printing although I'm slowly venturing into freelance graphic production. I'm hoping I'll be able to add my 2 cents here and there.

Gloria

Welcome Gloria!

It looks like we've got many new members last few days.

I'm new. I signed up yesterday. Hello All.

Ivan wrote:

Hello everybody. I'm Ivan and I'm the one who bores you with CreativeBits. :wink:

Hi guys, I'm a friend of Ivan's from another forum. I came here because I enjoy the tips so much. One of Ivan's first tips for straightening the horizon, I use almost daily at work. I am always pleasantly surprised at the fresh tips he keeps finding. I work doing pre-press and design at a newspaper/commercial printing house. Currently we are keeping an eye on Mount St. Helens which is a scant 40 miles south of us. We lived 20 miles from it when it erupted in 1980 and it seems to be less dangerous this time. It's nice to see such a diverse mix of people from all areas of the globe. :)
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Hello iRock! Nice to see you here! :D

Thanks for the nice welcome. :o

BE AWARE guys! She is dangerous :) Did you bring your whip?

Only if there is begging. :wink:

iRock wrote:

Only if there is begging. :wink:

Pretty please. :lol:

My name is Kevin. I just started reading the blog and it is throughly enjoyable :)

Be welcomed! :D Judging from your location you must be a web designer?

Hi! I'm Ana, from the MacMinute forums. Glad to see you here too, boys.

Very useful website, thanks.

Hello Krasni! I'm so happy to see you :D

Ahhhh... Krasni, great to see you here too.

Hi I'm Craig from Oklahoma. I enjoy the blog so much that I decided to join the forum. Looks like a really great community here.

Craig!

Be welcomed. I hope you will feel comfortable here.

What do you do?

Hi Ana! :D

did you know guys that you can select an avatar from the gallery? the very last option in your profile.
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Ivan wrote:

Craig!

Be welcomed. I hope you will feel comfortable here.

What do you do?

I do graphic design and video editing. I also have my own business as a dealer for home and business A/V solutions (plasma displays and the like).

OK, I'll be using this one for now. (Hi, Shelli!)

been reading CB for a while now (a month? not sure..) thought i'd sign up for the board.

Welcome aboard j0hnheck, glad to have you here.

Heyah

I'm Greg from Vancouver.

I'm into Vector Art, Photography, and neato Gadgets.

I just found out about this site, ive been doing alot of reading and thought i'd sign up.

here i am!

Hi guys... Just signed up yesterday..!

Originally from Jordan (speak Arabic, French and English), I recently moved to San Francisco after studying Computer Science at the University of Arkansas for four years.

Interests include music (mainly ambient, rock and electro), graphic design, and travel.

welcome to the cbforum guys! i hope you will feel good around here. :)

Hey guys

I just stumbled onto this cool site. :)

I am Calvin from Los Angeles. Creative Director of my own design studio.

Welcome! I like your logos! :)

Thanks, I am glad you like them. :)

I need to update my portflio section with my latest projects. I have been so busy lately, I haven't had time. Promoting a business & working on projects seem to take a lot of my time.

hello! like the site, so i thought i would drop on by.. :)

hello jason! be welcomed! :)

is it still raining in London? the last two times I was there it was. ;)

hello, I like the blog Ivan. Nice work so far. And this seems like a nice forum, good signal/noise ration

francisco wrote:

hello, I like the blog Ivan. Nice work so far. And this seems like a nice forum, good signal/noise ration

Thanks for the compliments, we're working hard with Jim to have good content daily. ;)

Thanks for joining! You'll see that we have a bunch of talented, experienced and helpful members. Hope you'll feel at home here.

Welcome aboard Francisco. We look forward to any contributions you have to our little corner of the creative (cyber)world! :D

Hello, my name is jamEs and I'm a designer from Canada. I happened upon CreativeBits awhile ago and think it's a great. And now I'm giving the forum a shot. Feel free to check out my portfolio site below and tell me what you think.

Hello James. Welcome! Nice sites. Another blogger user? :) It's a pity you don't have the logos up yet on your site. That's what I dig the most.

Only 2 things I don't like about some of your work, otherwise it was very nice!

1) The web site that blew my eardrums out with some looped music that was poorly edited and had no way to shut it off that I could find. Music on a web site is just plain bad.

2) Your work, where is it? What I mean is that I came to your site to see your work. By doing so, I know that I will be viewing .jpg images. What I didn't expect was to be seeing tiny little preview images, with full size images that weren't much larger. You should be proud of your work (from what little I could read and see, it looked very nice), so you should SHOW IT OFF!!! Focus less on the presentation of the work, and more on the work. As a perspective client or agency, I don't really care about the fancy graphics and animation, etc. on the site as much as I want to see what you can do! (I'm speaking of course of the print work)

MacGizmo wrote:

Only 2 things I don't like about some of your work, otherwise it was very nice!

1) The web site that blew my eardrums out with some looped music that was poorly edited and had no way to shut it off that I could find. Music on a web site is just plain bad.

2) Your work, where is it? What I mean is that I came to your site to see your work. By doing so, I know that I will be viewing .jpg images. What I didn't expect was to be seeing tiny little preview images, with full size images that weren't much larger. You should be proud of your work (from what little I could read and see, it looked very nice), so you should SHOW IT OFF!!! Focus less on the presentation of the work, and more on the work. As a perspective client or agency, I don't really care about the fancy graphics and animation, etc. on the site as much as I want to see what you can do! (I'm speaking of course of the print work)

I appreciate the feedback. Some of the flash stuff was done awhile ago, so it's a little primitive. I'm just finishing up a course on flash animation, so my portfolio site kinda bi-product of what I've learned.

I'll have to size up the previews when I overhaul the site again. I'm planning on redoing it in CSS, so I'll make the previews bigger.

HI all! Nice to be here...

MJ wrote:

HI all! Nice to be here...

Hi MJ! Welcome to the forums!

Is that your eye?

What up MJ... welcome to our little pile of bricks. Um, did you bring any beer? :lol:

Hello everybody,

I'm Waleed and I'm the fattest person here :D

Worked for 17 years as an IT consultant and have recently jumped to professional photography. I thought if I can earn a living from my 27 year old hobby, I would be happy..

Glad to be around here.. 8)

Welcome Waleed! I'm so happy to see you here. Guys! Check out Waleed's cool photography forum.

Hi Waleed! Nice to see you around here too.

Thanks for the welcome and the invitation Ivan :)

Krasni, so nice to see you here too.. And thank you for the welcome, molto gentile di voi :)

:twisted: Just another southern devil!

later fellers!

hello and welcome! it's getting hot in here. :twisted:

Hi. I'm Charlie. I read the blog every day.

hello charlie! welcome to the forums. who stepped on that poor bear? :)

his wee-wee is hanging out :p

i hope that it's a weewee, not something else...

Hey all! Tony from Chicago here. Just found the CreativeBits blog a few days ago & just discovered this forum too! Nice!

hi and be welcomed. make youreself comforatable. :)

Hi, i like computers says jel3.

Welcome jel3!!

Hello jel3! Welcome to the forums. Now, I know what you like, now tell me what is it you don't like. Just don't say "stupid questions". :)

Hi, I'm Georg. I was hoping to be able to contribute to this nice web site by entering the forum. See you all around!

Hi everyone, this site looks like a great place for me to get my questions answered. My name is Zach, I'm a graphic designer. I work in a University print shop. The stuff I do is not cutting edge design, more traditional looking stuff, but I am always trying to refine my Photoshop/Design skills.

Several of you already know me from other forums, hopefully that's a good thing. :)

Welcome Zach... nice to see you over here. I do hope you didn't drag Akula with you! :wink: :roll:

welcome Georg! welcome zwei!

Hi Zach!

MacGizmo wrote:

Welcome Zach... nice to see you over here. I do hope you didn't drag Akula with you! :wink: :roll:

Yeah, wouldn't you like me then! :lol:

zwei wrote:

MacGizmo wrote:

Welcome Zach... nice to see you over here. I do hope you didn't drag Akula with you! :wink: :roll:

Yeah, wouldn't you like me then! :lol:

Well um, no, not really! :wink:

Ah whattheheck... Hello.

This site is an excellent resource. Thanks Ivan.

Here's a tip: It's likely been mentioned before, but in PShop if you want to quickly adjust incremental opacity to any layer by 10% amounts, just have the content tool selected and hit any number 1-0 on your keyboard.

Hey guys, I finally joined the forum after gleaning so many good Ps tips from here.

I'll try to post a LOT... :D

welcome guys! mi casa es tu casa!

grayware, your avatar is scary! :O

thanks for the compliments!

Hello. I'm Billy(theboliep) and I have been an avid viewer of creativebits for over a year, so I thought i'd jump in all the way. I love the site and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Hi I'm Martin from Sweden!

Happy to have join the forum after daily watching the blog, really interesting, keep up the good work! I'm Running a portfolio site called Tigerstorm (right now just only in Swedish) I'm doing webdesign mostly and have worked in Photoshop since 3.0 (then on a pc, now on a Powermac G5)

Cheers!

welcome guys! thanks for the intro and the nice words. i hope we can be of use for you and you will find it comfortable around here.

Ivan wrote:

welcome guys! thanks for the intro and the nice words. i hope we can be of use for you and you will find it comfortable around here.

As a switcher I've got many useful tips from the blog, I must say!

Carry on!

Btw. Thanks for the welcome :D

Hi, I'm Dóri. Thanks for your greatly useful tips on InDesign, keep up the good work.

welcome aboard Dori. I hope to be adding more InDesign tips soon – I've had quite a bit going on in my life right now and haven't had the time to put toward CB, but hopefully that has passed and I can get back to posting tips more often.

In the meantime, Ivan has posted quite a few interesting tips & commentary!

hello Dóri. Welcome aboard.

your name is written the same way as it is in Hungarian. even the accent on the o. it's Dorothy in English, right?

Hello! I recently discovered creativebits, and am somewhat envious. :-) I'm a budding blogger on just about exactly the same topics, but don't think I'll reach coolness levels to match this site any time soon. Great stuff here, I love finding out about new tricks, keyboard shortcuts etc.!

Yay... more icelandic people...

--

Hæ Dóri. Hvað segirðu um að taka yfir hérna og breyta þessu í nýja INT?

you guys planning to take over? ;) pls accept our warmest welcome! you need that up there. ;)

i'm so funny today. :roll:

ps.: Travholt: cool blog! Excellent tutorial on masking!

Thanks! :-) It's something I've been wanting to share for quite a while now, so it feels good to get it out there. And it makes me want to write more.

Hi there. I am an unemployed mediocre graphic designer currently working part-time as a cake decorator.

cake decorator? be welcomed pokie! hope you'll find things you can benefit from at our corner of the web.

Thanks Ivan. I should also say my husband recommended that I come here to learn some stuff. And I'm making a freelance website I could use some advice on ;)

she's my wife ...I'm helping her with our new site ..hopefully we'll have something to critique shortly ;)

the best way to learn is to do stuff and post it for opinions. also, show it to people who's opinion you respect even non-designers and talk to them about what they think. seriously, that's the fastest way! do a lot of stuff! start here. :)

pokie wrote:

Hi there. I am an unemployed mediocre graphic designer currently working part-time as a cake decorator.

Hi, pokie!!! :D

zwei wrote:

she's my wife ...I'm helping her with our new site ..hopefully we'll have something to critique shortly ;)

cool! when is it going to be ready?

pokie wrote:

Hi there. I am an unemployed mediocre graphic designer currently working part-time as a cake decorator.

Welcome Pokie!!

Ivan wrote:

zwei wrote:

she's my wife ...I'm helping her with our new site ..hopefully we'll have something to critique shortly ;)

cool! when is it going to be ready?

the way she procrastinates, It'll be a while ;)

I may post a screenshot of the header to get ideas for a work in progress

Well. I must say, this site rocks. It's as if someone decided to make a website tailored to my specific interests... simply amazing. :D

Oh, I'm Darkhart btw. And this should be made a sticky of some description.

hi, i'm attila gabor talpai {pronounced like: aa-tea-laa gha-bor tall-paa-ee}.

i'm a senior at the University of Szeged, fac. of communication and media.

i'm a regular reader of creati...

no: I'M A CREATIVE BITS ADDICT

because:

1. i'm a switcher, and i've found several useful hints on the blog

2. i've been into graphic (make up, layout design, tipography) and web design, and when i found CB, several techniques made my life much more easier

thanks, indeed!

ati

pls receive my warmest welcome guys. thank you so much for your kind words! i hope we can live up to your expectations in the future as well.

hey im Reuben, new here.. just checking out all the cool stuff in here.

keep up the posting :idea:

Hi Reuben! From the Fiji Islands? That's furthest on the planet you can be from Bahrain! :D Welcome!

*ahem*

This thread deserves to be stickied.

Alexander from norway here!

Alexander wrote:

Alexander from norway here!

Welcome to Creative Bits..

We're beginning to be a bunch of nordics now..

Myself I'm from Sweden, larusson is from Iceland and we have a danish guy as well..

Quote:

We're beginning to be a bunch of nordics now..

For Slavic counterbalance :) :

Hi, I'm Bartek from Poland. I have been reading CB daily for a really long time and I decided to disclose eventually.

Welcome Bartek! :)

I was like that too, a regular visiter but then joined after a month or two. After I joined, I left for a while (didn't post), and now I'm back here to say.

CreativeBits can be addictive I tell 'ya'.

(I'm Abdul from England by the way. 18 years of age and first year in art school doing my graphic design diploma.)

Welcome aboard to all our newest members, we're happy to have you!

Alexander and Bartek nice to see you join th forum. I saw you visiting in the stats regularly. Of course I didn't know who is behind those returning IPs.

hey everyone ... my name is emma and i'm from missouri

chaka42 wrote:

hey everyone ... my name is emma and i'm from missouri

Welcome Emma to Creative Bits..

Hi,

I’m Niels, living in The Hague, Netherlands. I have a history in graphic design and prepress but nowadays I’m working for people with a mental retardation. Still busy with computers though, my Mac at home with the graphic apps like InDesign, FreeHand, Photoshop and Freeway.

I’ve also taken care of a bunch of old Macs, mainly 5500’s, for my clients that I managed for free via internet. I’m giving courses, our place will have internet access soon so we will have our own web site in the future.

Newest challenge is my web server in combination with Pivot which I run on it. Not that new with HTML but with CSS I have to get to play with the basics...

Hello everybody.

I have been visiting creative bits for rather some time now but now i have decided to become a member:)

So here it comes.

I am a graphic design student and a freelancer from the Netherlands, actually from ex-Yugoslavia but now living in The Hague for 12 years.

I mostly do web-design but I also do print (Flyers and posters), video(VJ'ing) and 3D.

I really like creative bits, keep up the good job!

Looking over this thread and realised I buggered up never posted an introduction....How terribly rude.

From Ireland and have been doing this design lark for about 7 years. Hopped between disciplines like a rabid bunny before landing the current work doing freelance interface and icon design.

I'm part of the new breed of people without an office or permananet home as I've been wandering the earth for the past two years working from coffee shops and leafy parks. (Currently in Melbourne)

Amazing once you realise it's a tangible career even though most people are perplexed when you try and explain what you actually do. The only downside is the lack of a good stationery cupboard. :wink:

Came to Creative Bits from Jim's link on another forum and have never looked back. Doesn't take itself too seriously, great design tips, nice mix of people in the forums.

Thank you for the compliements guys and i hope you will feel at home at CB. Let me know if you need any help with anything around here and please accept my warmest welcome!

Btw. if you haven't already read the interview with afterglow you can find it here:

2005/03/cb-interview-cian-walsh.html

afterglow wrote:

(Currently in Melbourne)

Bah! Jump west a bit more, to the best city in Australia - Adelaide! :P

I'm not "really" new. I don't have access to the e-mail address for my old user name any more, so i couldn't change the password. So Joshua has become jSchwa.

I think I'll stick with jSchwa, there's no reason to bother with looking back.

Hi, I'm joecab, longtime graphic designer / production / whatever, still clinging tightly to Mac OS 9 for work even though I use OS X for everything else. Oh, Quark, when didst thou foresake me? (Oh yeah when you dragged your ass on coming out with the OS X version ... and I still remember when you didn't support Apple's switch to PowerPC chips way back when!)

Hi All,

I saw a blurb on MacMinute, and though I would check out the site... very nice.

_________________________________________________
portfolio - www.paulburddesign.com
weblog - www.onedigitallife.com

Hi I'm Ron. From the great white north - London, Canada. Love the site and the forums have a good supportive feel to them so here I am!

i've been lurking here for a long time; this site is on my short list.

Hey there! I just found this site a few weeks ago when I was looking for Illustrator easter eggs and found lots to enjoy, so I signed up today.

http://www.davidpcrawford.com - http://www.vomit76.com

Hi, I'm chelu8869 from the beautiful Island of GUAM. Great site Ivan. I'm just one of those wannabe PSCS enthusist.....

Hello there! Thanks for joining and for the short intros. Just let me know if you need any help with anything: eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%63%72%65%61%74%69%76%65%62%69%74%73%40%67%6d%61%69%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%22%3e%63%72%65%61%74%69%76%65%62%69%74%73%40%67%6d%61%69%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))

I'm Thomas (Designer, Bremen, Germany). Even if I am a PC user i visit this site daily for getting the best tips on the web - thanks a lot iraszl/ivan

I've already posted a bit on the forum and commented in some articles so I thought you might all like to know who the hell I am.... I'm nobody really..

I'm a 25 year old graphic designer currently working at a screen printing shop in Canada and freelancing a bit on the side. Trying to gain some decent experience/capital so I can eventually start up my own graphics and web design studio.

I've been "playing" with photoshop since version 3.1 or so and been working professionally as a designer for about 3 years. I went to a local design school a few years ago but am finding that school is no substitute for practical experience.

I'm also a part time musician and write horrible noisy music. I want to be a famous rock star one day but have no illusions about the practicality/possiblity of that.. especially since my married life may cut into my "groupie" time. (getting married in June)

Yeah.. nice to meet you!

How are all you fine people doing? I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. I am new to CB and am loving the things I see on here.

I work for a firm based in Lincoln, NE. We do Interactive development for different companies and clients for touch screen stations(kiosks).

We have developed our own proprietary software called Nanopoint that handles ALL media you can think of. Feel free to ask me any questions you might be curious about.

~Gody

Hello!

I've been reading your blog here for a couple months now and when I realized I was checking your blog daily, I finally decided to join. I'm a graphic design student in college, so your site makes for a great place to learn new tips and tricks and to learn what the industry is really like. Bravo!

Gabriel from Tallahassee, FL checking in.
Im a web developer with the state (i love being paid peanuts) and a part time student. Been around the industry for a while and often work on my freelance intiative, GdR Productions.

Just thought I would introduce myself, thanks
-GdR

Hi guys, Im from Indonesia greet u all ^^

Hello Everyone,

I've been watching CB and enjoying it for a while now. I want a 12" Powerbook but currently have a 4 year old HP Tower (PC obvously, it's too ugly and slow to be a Mac.) :c( Anyway, I figured I'd post here because you guys probably want me to.

:c)

In Christ,
Greg

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -Jesus Christ

Hi im Albs,
Im a web designer in the Uk,
I can remember how I came across this site but its fantastic and have been reading it daily, I find the people on here friendly and so ive come to post.

I love the tips on here, ive recently got a second hand 12" ibook and so far I love it to bits...it comes in handy x-browser checking and being so easy to use.

Hello folks, my name is Mitch, and I work & live in West London.

Love the forum, been browsing as a guest for a while now, can't wait to start posting.

What evoked me to join, was the fact that it seems to have a real balance in peoples views, which are neither pretentious or pampering like some 'other' forums out there.

Cracking work Ivan.

The only bad thing is I have even less time now!!!! ;)

i am working as a graphics designer

Hey People, sorry I have´nt Introduced myself, and did´nt saw this forum before, for common logic this would have to be the first place to stop by, usually I surf over here when I´m in between tasks or before and after jobs.... so sometimes I have a lot of time and sometimes I just breeze through... Well here is my oficial introduccion, My name is Claudia and I´m from Fraijanes, Guatemala, one of starbucks coffe flavors comes from here try it you may love it as I do, I love graphic desing, and all the things related to Corporate Imge and Corporate Id, Branding... I graduated in 1993 from SC Greenville Tech with a Visual Communications Degree, and later I Thought it was´nt enough so went back to get a Graphic Desing BA and now I´m going into my third year in a Social Communications Mayor here in Guate, at Galileo U, and I´ ll geta masters in something, I want to teach at school and work independly, Work at a Communications firm as an intern, here I run a G5 but I love my mac,I have an emac g4 hahah! her name is Rita, as in compuradorita, but its good for school purposes and my dream is to have a power book, what ever kind it is, so hello To everyone and To Carlos the other Guy from Guate, and to any other person who wants to ask me about marketing or any Communication thing you are must welcome, and need my hand for anything and would love to be around as much as posible creativebits is on my safari web bar next to my gmail, So Besos from Guate and Sorry to be so rude posting and not introducing myself...
Later Caya, ahh Caya is my nickname....

PS. sorry for the third world spelling hahaha! Love old movies and love to eat all day...

Well always have Paris! Humphrey Bogart

I have been a member for a while, but I have been extremely busy so I don't get to come here alot....I am an RSS person and not too much has been coming to my newsreader from here lately....I understand Ivan is a busy man too....Ivan really is THE MAN....I don't see how he does it...personal responses to each person....I have been impressed with Ivan and this site since the first day I visited.

But a little about me....I am all about creative resources...if you want to know where to find some good free stock photos, photoshop brushes, fonts, photoshop custom shapes, or a specific tutorial, etc... just ask me and I will be happy to share my secrets. The internet is full of resources that, if taken advantage of, can give any creative an edge. Creativebits is full of that kind of info as well. And one of these days I might finish building my own website...

Just one more note before I leave....this community is amazing because I don't recall seeing any real ugly disagreements...everyone gets along great and is here to just help each other out...it is an amazing community composed of some of the brightest creatives in the world...I consider myself privileged to be a part of it...

take care...

Hello, I`m Julia, 21.
I`m a photographer and a video editor.
And also I`m interested in everything

Hello, I'm Jonathan and I'll be your waiter tonight ;-)

I try to be mad, but the sanity stops me.

Hello I'm Gene from NJ. Great site I found it yesterday and when I came back today and your content actually compelled enough to join, which is soomething I rarely do. I write and illustrate manuals, as well as product testing, for an automotive aftermarket company. I also do packaging, product photography sometimes. My backround is in printing, I was a fine art lithograpgher for 15 Yrs and commercial printer for 10 Yrs. The commercial part was litho, letterpress, diecutting, foil stamping and embossing.

Hi there, from Guadalajara, i registered after months just reading the front page articles etc. Nice site here, Ill be a pest on posting!, ive been in the design field for 10 years or so i dont consider myself a freak at any program but im sure ill be able to help many ppl. Working on some tutorials (for a year) hope i get em done soon.

Im the owner of my own agency (since last year) and soon I will be asking for some critique on our new identity etc.

Im here to help, GL, share de love.

Mak

Welcome guys and girls. Thanks for bringing back this thread from the dead!

An (amateur?) norwegian jack of all trades. (Mostly analog, but just enough digital to justify being a member here.) Started by reading the blog, then just winged it and joined in ...

Hello, I figured I check out this site enough, that I might as well take part and maybe share some knowledge or design...

Hi guys, I am George and I'm a Graphic Designer for the last 18 years.
I use to work in big advertising agency's as Creative Director and since last year I work on my own design studio.
Its a great community here. I like that.

Hey! Glad to see as many people as posible here you are going to trip here, really learning and sharing and making friends....
Later,

Caya

We´ll always have Paris! Humphrey Bogart

oops - see below

Hey everyone I'm Kyle and I've been reading CB for quite some time now. I finally decided to become an active member. Keep your eyes!

I read about CreativeBits in the July/August issue of Layers magazine. Scott Kelby contends that CreativeBits is one of "Ten Cool Sites You Need To Know About." I visited the site and registered.

I thought I'd done this, but I can't find me any where. :-(

I teach middle school computers (including photo editing) in Las Vegas and I'm attempting to get some photography work going on the side.

By the way, did you know your trip to Las Vegas could be tax deductible?

I'm Richard I live in South Africa and I'm actually a Linux guy but I think Macs are cool too.

Im glad to hear from you and you are very wellcome to see you around...
And the happiest one..

Later

Caya

We´ll always have Paris! Humphrey Bogart

Well hi there,
My name is Callan i am 16 and new to macs. But have been into web design for a couple of years now. I am currently dealing with not having photoshop on my mac and having to switch between my PC and Macbook.
My site used to have content and a blog but i got annoyed with wordpress and deleted everything, now for the moment it's preety much nothing, a blank page with a few pieces of my work.

Ya ya ya I know some of you wouldnot have got what "namaste" means... well let me give you a clue... I'm from India! Got it? Ok let me not over do it... Namaste means a warm "Hello",

Hi Guys, I'm Rushab... you can call me Raj. I'm a GraphicDesigner from India, Chennai. I work for a compnay calledOfficeTiger (the head office is in NewYork). I'm basically into YellowPages Ad designs right now... and I'm in here to gain loads and loads of knowledge from all you pros here. I hope my stay at creative bits will be of huge help.

whody to all im goran im macedonian.. nice blog thanks ivan

Hi all,
Just joined a few days ago! I'm a graphic designer based in Bangalore, India who specializes in ebook and POD cover design, web graphics, cartoons, comics, illustration and logos. I was actually trained as an architect...but doing cartoons and graphics is more fun...though not as remunerative (sigh!) I freelance from home and have been doing so for quite a few years now. I mostly work in Photoshop and use Xara X for vector work...though I like doodling around with programs in general.

I'm now exploring the possibilities of using cartoons and comics strips in corporate communications. The possibilities seem interesting, if one has a good HR team to supply inputs.

Happy to be here!
Cheers
Manoj
www.marketingedgedesigns.com

Hey everyone.

I am a graphic designer / web developer based in Washington State. I have 7 years of industry experience.

I have gotten a ton of help from the forum over the years, so I though it is time to start contributing. I am looking forward to lending some insight in the design/logo/packaging industry.

Hi my names greg, I am an aspiring graphic designer from south africa currently living in N. Ireland, I've done a little of it in the past at college (simple logo design) but dropped out because I was going too be the best bodyboarder in the world, that didn't work out so now it's time too start a career. I've been cruising the net for info and stumbled across this site which I immediately liked. I've learn't loads already just following the critique page. Can someone tell me the best way too go about learning how too make web pages. I've found many tutorials explaining how too make simple html websites using notepad, would this be a good start? Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Long time lurker, first time poster. I feel like I know so many of you already :D

Its new years eve and I am painting our kitchen, this should give you the insight to my fantastical life.

here is my new / old house, http://www.megamojo.com/hoose.jpg

it needs work

Hi all,

Am I first in for New Year's 2007? Recently returned to macs after (too many) PC years. Culture shock or what? But very glad to be back in creative space.

Based in Hong Kong, active all over - look forward to grwoing with my 17inch MacBook Pro (yes, I hate the name too).

KMadvisor

Name's Francois. I discovered CB by Googling for tips on charges.

Found this awesome article by Ivan ... http://creativebits.org/2004/11/lesson-clients-need-to-learn.html ... Made a huge difference to my approach. Thanks Ivan.. I've been hanging around since. A repost would be great, I think many (especially young designers) struggle with exactly that issue.

Will 2007 bring the new CreativeBits GUI - CBV3.0? We've all been looking forward to it since the forum post : http://creativebits.org/sneak_peek_at_new_creativebits

Peace and prosperity for 2007!

well i'm a graphic designer and am interested in any advice i can get from any of you and am happy to share my thoughts to all of you!:D ill keep u up to date with my projects
If any of yo have any idea of a new arabic calligrapher please let me know !

Hi everyone! I'm new here, from Malaysia.

Well My name defines my characteristic that is "Hi There" attitude.

I'm Graphic Designer by profession & a Bachelor of Computer Sciences by qualification. My Interests and fortune brought me into it and I'm lovin it "until I'm doing/learning something new" it gets boring when I have to work on same client again and again.

I don't believe that someone out-there on the net actually have time to read this all crap..

But this site "creativebits.org" is such an impressive work/use of internet tech. I congrats to those who made this available for us and to those who contribute in it as of there users. you guys are very helpfull

Bless you all
RebelDesigner

wow this is a long list, My name is Jonathan, and I do all sorts of graphic design. by trade I do Prepress, with a bit of graphic arts and construction on the side. I'll be posting some things for you to critique soon, I'm currently working on a business card for a man who does custom wood-working.

a good site to take the navigation style from is http://www.Prepressforums.com

I've been a member for a little while now but I've just recently decided to check this place out again.

Anyway, my names Jay and I'm a freelance web designer.

Hello all :-)

Hi everyone!

I've been reading the site for awhile now and decided to join today. I'm the lead designer for a canadian Fast Food Restaurant and I work out of Belleville Ontario.

Thanks for having me!

Hi friends! just singed up today and started reading some short cut for Mac in Photoshop. Wow, it's helpful! Thanks really... :D

Hello folks! I'm Maria!:))

Been a lurker for a while and decided to start posting.

I live and work in London doing a variety of design work, I prefer print based design personally but am not adverse to doing screen based media.

hi there. I recently received my Master of Arts in Graphic Design and want to make sure I keep current and keep learning...what better way that keeping connected with other artists?

check out my portfolio http://eideltime.com

Lately we've been posting blogs rather infrequently, but hopefully I will find more time in the future.

Just found you guys. Wish I had a long resume to put down here BUT don't. I am a mom who works from home. I started my business about a year ago and just now seeing it take off. I can fly around Photoshop but just now learning InDesign. Have used Quark in past. Looking forward to checking out everything!
Have a great one
Tam

i'm Anthony, I'm more a musician than a visual artist, but I like to draw and whatnot, I'd like to design covers for future albums if the coast guard gives me time to crank one out.

I have worked in the design field for over 15 years so far and counting. Started off with offset-litho printing, did some cutting and pasting for real but now can't keep away from my Mac! Just to reiterate this is a great site, still learning lots from you guys and posting some constructive critism when I can.

I'm Flo. i like animation and movie.

I'm a Sr AD / Interactive Designer at an ad agency in Austin, Texas. Been in the biz for about 16 years now and still like it all.

Guitarist (instrumentalist mainly) for about 24 years and a Magic Castle Magician member for about 2.

Put all that together and I'm pretty good at parties :-`

Glad to have found the forum

All right! welcome to all the newbies to your new house in the internet....
Cheers from Guatemala...

Caya

We´ll always have Paris! Humphrey Bogart

Hi all, I'm Peter from Hungary.

I Worship Creativity. I am really interested in all kind of BTL work still in learning process !!!

.

Hi everyone, I'm Phalkun majoring in programming and interested in graphic and web stuff. I've a been a member of cb for 1 year something and reading cb's blog every now and then. Just now I wanted to write a post but can't seem to post one. Do I need to make a request via http://creativebits.org/feedback .

hi i am keya and i am a complete idiot who constantly needs advice for my mac and suggestions for my work!!!

Hi Baskar from India...
I'm expert in Prepress and Design

Hi guys! I am John from the Philippines. Me and my friends have a small graphics design and public relations group and have come here and joined to learn more about graphics and some other related stuff. I also look forward to dropping my 2cents in various topics that spring around the forum.

I stumbled upon this blog while searching for other Mac graphic designer users!!!

Best regards to all.

Hi, this is Rey from Canberra Australia.

Have been doing graphic design through Macs for ages but this is the first time I bought my personal imac for home-use so I can exercise more creative freedom at home. I have special interest in typography, print publication, visual arts and travel.

I'm excited for my new membership at CB. Thanks...:) /rey

Hello all,

This is TJ reporting in from Texas. I'm a rebel PC user (I know bad bad), but not to worry, we're switching to macs at work soon. I work as a graphic designer at a company that licenses and distributes anime and I illustrate on my own time. I'm a bit late in introducing myself seeing as how I found the critiques forum first!

Hopefully I'll have some work to show you guys and gals soon.

Oh and my site is being redesigned so excuse the mess...

I've been reading this blog and lurking through the critqiues (which are usually quite good and helpful) for awhile now. I saw this post and figured i should finally sign up :)

My work is here http://www.nfxdesign.com. Please be nice or my mom will get mad :(

Found this site via an article on About.com. Oh joy! Yes! Another place where I can ask questions and learn stuff. I'm a student in the Graphic Design BFA program at IADT Seattle (actually in Tukwila). It's a 4-years-in-3 program, 11 week quarters with 2 weeks between. I'm in my 7th quarter. And I'm an "older" student. Already have a BA in English Lit, it's more than 30 years old. Always had some interest in graphic design, finally decided to do something about it. So. I use a Mac by preference, although I also have a PC. Very much still learning, trying to figure things out. Use Illustrator and Photoshop semi-competently; also InDesign. Right now taking the one digital video class I have to take, learning Final Cut Pro.

Will be checking out the critiques because I know they will be useful. At some point will post some art.
Thanks!

Hi everybody! I was reading and hangin' here for more than 7months, just to know how you're breathing :D joke

I'm 24 year old designer, originally from Croatia, EU, but I live and work in México. I will try to be more active with comments and post my work for critique.

that's all for now.
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Thanks for having me here. I've learned a lot so far.

Am darkprint from mauritius.young designer in progress.
since am on this website i cant stop coming again and again

Found this forum while searching out an InDesign query... hopefully I'll come back more often!

Hello to all!

Hey guys, loving the set-up here, My name's Pete from Toronto originally from Montreal, can't wait to have my stuff critiqued by you guys, as well as contributing my own opinions and tips for some of you! I'm a Photoshop and Illustrator maniac, adding to that some Flash work I'm picking up now as well!
Cheers!

Hey guys, loving the set-up here, My name's Pete from Toronto originally from Montreal, can't wait to have my stuff critiqued by you guys, as well as contributing my own opinions and tips for some of you! I'm a Photoshop and Illustrator maniac, adding to that some Flash work I'm picking up now as well!
Cheers!

Hello, zagadka here, from NYC. I do everything a bit, multimedia/graphic design/illustration. Glad to have found this website.

I'm Natalie - I'm sort of new.

Hai!

I'm a pre-press / graphic designer for a small print company. I enjoy long walks on the beach, the color orange and uh....save tree.

My name's Rick. In addition to being a full time Mass Comm. student (specializing in Communication Design), I am also a small business owner working with predominately collaborative and social media.

That being said, design is my second love.

I'm looking forward to learning from everyone's collective knowledge.

CREATIVE TYPE|ENGAGING PEOPLE

Hey all, I found this site while searching for Freelance contracts. There is a ton of good info here, and seems to be a cool place, so, why not join, EH?

I've been checking CB for about a year now and finally made the jump in. I'm hoping to get info as well as contribute as much as I can.

Thanks

hi i am ruli, 23 years old from indonesia

Hey everyone :) I found this site a few months ago and finally chose to sign up and take advantage of the information here ^^ I'm a soph. at SCAD (well finishing it in a week haha) interested in packaging design mostly

Luz Ma

hi every1, am ariston, a frequent visitor of CB since 2007 (weird, but just only now that i have an urged to register) :) not to mentioned that am also a big fan of adsoftheworld :D

hope to learn more about design stuff... cool community!

Im a student of Nutrition Science. I currently have a blog and only want to create "business" cards to advertise my blog and maybe add my email on there. I have a logo, but just looking of a unique, cool, fun way of promoting health!

Hello, I'm Dan, a young web dev/designer. I'm mostly an XHTML/CSS guy, but I also develop WP themes (now over 100 and counting!) and do the occasional jQuery effect or two on a site. I've stumbled across this site a few times the past month or two and figured I might as well join and make some new friends. :)

I am currently working on my self promotion. :( ugh. I know bare basic little bit of Dream weaver. I am working on my website- The portfolio page menu and top graphics only show up when the page is refreshed.

Anyone know why?

Also, any feedback on the site? I need constructive criticism please!

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lowerart

Thanks!

hi guys, I'm Dommee from Clearwater, Fl. I'm a newbie here :- )

Miklad here - posted a couple of times already but read the forum daily and have found it quite handy/useful.

Just thought I'd give a big 'hello' to all of you creative bods.

Oi, sou lala maciel!, do Brasil. Louca por direção de arte.
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