There will be times you’re laying out a file for a client, that will need several repetitive changes throughout the project. The file might be several charts of figures with perfectly spaced-out columns in the Word, but when you import the file, the formatting is all...
Recreate hand drawn font instructions
Sometimes there's the need for a client to create a font based on some poster, document where the words were hand drawn and they would like to use again for a retro look. These are mostly working notes the top will have the high-level steps then below will have how I...
My Town Commercial – Video Practice
Test file to practice in Photoshop and most After Effects; to bring motion to a photo. https://youtu.be/w1nDVUtuigc The aspect ratio is different than a normal video; changing it to the proper aspect ratio would have cut off some items at the bottom that I wanted to...
Video: Din-Din with Augy
Starting to learn how to do video editing, and to help focus the learning I needed to create some kind of project. I decided that Augy, a betta fish, would be my star, because of his star quality and he’s right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHNwRkvYngs Keeping...
Website Contact form using AWS
For the next iteration of the HTML form was to set it up to send an email to the web owner using AWS. The purpose behind this is, if you have a HTML site and don’t want to purchase a monthly plan or build and maintain server software. Using AWS for this functionality...
HTML with JavaScript contact form
Link to the form: https://www.lynnamacher.com/pdf/contactForm_V1.html This is created to be basic test for an AWS contact form test. The full form when filled out will send an email through AWS to the site owner. Instead of creating the normal test form I try to...
Save Illustrator for SVG to use in HTML page
When working with the AWS contact form, I had created a graphic in Illustrator. You can see the post here. With this test form I wanted to have everything in one HTML file this way it’s just one file to upload and update when needed without making sure the other files...
Classic Toy Logo
How I made the ‘Classic Toys & Collectibles’ logo for the web form test. In Illustrator I created a document bigger than would be used. I think added the main title ‘Classic’ to the file. I picked a font that would look a bit kiddish and fun. Made the text a solid...
Sometimes the low-tech approach is the best way
Have a family member looking to get me some family videos they had digitized, in one big file, about 80GB (they may not have optimized or know how). The need: The family member’s internet connection isn’t the best and could get disconnected at times, when this happens...
AWS HTML Forms email and database working notes
Over the last weekend I worked to get a basic working version of 2 features for a HTML website forms to process through AWS. Those are proof of concepts (POC) to make sure that I can make them and write down the basic instructions for myself and notes of what to look...