You are invited to attend

A Grand Opening Gala
of
The Curio Shelf
and
Falconer Designs
Date: Friday, May 29th, 2009

From: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. SLT
To be followed by an open house
Lasting until Sunday May 31st, 2009
at 8pm SLT

As many of you know from my last two posts I have been busy with setting up shop in Second Life to sell my best textures to builders inworld. This weekend my friend Pam Sargant aka Delaney Button inworld and I are having our grand opening of our businesses in Second Life. I will be running Falconer Designs where as I said I will be selling my best textures,hand created by me, to builders inworld. I will also be selling customized pieces to folks for their home or office wall.

Pam will be running The Curio Shelf and here is what she has to say about her inworld character and businees

The majority of my art is landscapes and is inspired by Bob Ross. It is mostly digital or what I call Sketchital which is a combination of sketch and digital art. I Also do some fantasy art. My first collectible teddybear was inspired by snowglobes actually, and commemorates my first grandchild. I continue to improve the original idea and find inspiration to enlarge the collection. My first life business is Delaney Design where I create original artwork for websites and blog customizations, as well as cover art and illustrations for children’s books. I also have on display one of my craft books which includes cartoons, coloring pages, songs, crafts, and games. I am a Canadian artist and mother of 6. The name of my business venture in SL is The Curio Shelf where I intend to use as an outlet for my imagination.

I thought I would mostly plug Pam aka Delaney in this post as she has been just absolutely wonderful in helping me with wardrobe and finding a great community on Second Life that is just great at positive reinforcement of goals and dreams of the creative soul.

Also watch out over on wildheartsworks.net I am going to be turning that blog into a Second Life blog soon.

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Well ok not an empire but in light of a conversation I had with a friend of mine in one of my Skype rooms I decided to get serious about my presence on Second Life. I have been busy the last month setting up shop, networking, learning how things work with regards to how to build things such as simple pieces of furniture. I thought the learning curve for Word Press was huge. There is an even bigger learning curve in Second Life for the serious resident. I could run a whole other blog about my experiences on Second Life this past month or so let me tell you. I found two great sites for the virtual community to network, one is Koinup.com and the other is Mymmorpgspace.com. Both offer support for the Second Life community as well as World of Warcraft, which I also play regularly. I would like to share with you a few of the screen shots I have taken of my avatars over in both worlds.

This is the signage that hangs in my shop. Yes those are wings I am sporting. When I chose my nic on Second Life Falconer seemed the only thing that remotely went with Wilde and so I sport either the blue wings in the pic or black wings in the same style. When I think of Falconer I think of birds of prey more precisely the falcon. So it just felt natural to go with a winged avatar.

This signage hangs above the door to my shop.

This was me trying to find a decent pose in a deserted shop. I had to adjust the brightness and contrast a little on this as the shop was a little on the dark side lighting wise.

I saved the best for last, this is my troll hunter character Wyledravin on WoW. Gotta love reaching level 40. I am finally able to wear mail so I don’t get my butt kicked so badly when I am out questing.

One thing that Second Life offers that many virtual communities don’t or that I am not directly aware of at this point is the ability to convert your Linden money in world to real money off world via the Linden exchange. You punch in how many Linden you want to sell and then they tell you what you will get back. I wouldn’t suggest doing this until you have built up a comfortable nest egg on Second Life other wise your bargaining for peanuts really. It also offers the option of converting in most of the major world currencies as well.

So yeah even if I am not blogging I am always busy somewhere else on the internet offworld or many other functions and events in world.

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I was catching up on my Entrecard housekeeping yesterday and the blog Oh Fer Cryin’ Out Loud dropped on me. As it appeared to be a new drop I checked out the blog and I came to this powerful poem on depression . I don’t think I have mentioned it here, but I suffer from chronic depression and myofascial pain syndrome so when I read this poem I had to blink back tears because I wish that I had someone in my corner to understand what depression looks like from my eyes in my life. Depression is a real illness, one that you just don’t “snap out of”. I really wish that people could get this. There are neurotransmitters in the brain that are damaged in a depressed person. Once those connections are gone they are gone and you can’t rebuild them which is why there are people on depression meds such as Zoloft-which is what I am on. This particular medicine regenerates serotonin levels in the brain that have been depleted in light of the damage done to the natural serotonin levels.

Yeah ok I hear the finger moving to the click off this page because this isn’t related to the purpose of the blog, but it really is because I have found solace in digital design. When I don’t feel like talking to anyone I open up my paint shop pro and I just zone out in making stuff and looking for things online to create with. I am passionate about Paint Shop Pro because it has given me a purpose in life that before I bought the program I didn’t really have. In becoming a person of authority in my niche I have created a way for myself to rise out of the ashes of my depression and give myself a meaning to my life.

Now without further adieu here is the poem.

You Have To Be His Brother To Understand

What is it like to feel anger, broken-heartedness, and love at the same time?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to watch your brother constantly hurt your mom,
And feel no remorse,
Because he hardly understands what he’s doing at the time?
what is it like to have to sit there, and remain silent,
All while you witness both people suffering?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to see someone close to you,
Having already flown as high as they can get
Or so it seems?
Professionals say he can’t go any further,
But you pray to God he can.
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to witness someone you love,
Hurt to the point of tears because he feels he can’t make it?
What is it like to feel so much pain your body, heart, and mind,
Can hardly take it because you see your own brother’s life in shambles?
What is it like to hear people call your brother stupid?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to be the privileged brother,
Yet you watch his life spiral downward,
All as teachers have given up on him,
Saying he won’t amount to anything in this world,
Because he has trouble reading?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to have many true friends,
But your brother has next to none,
So he feels alone, even though you share yours,
But he knows that, he knows they’re yours,
It kills you because it’s killing him?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to love your brother,
With such a sense of protecting him because of his delicacy,
That your friends call you wrong because, you get angered at the
Slightest thing anyone says about your brother, at the times when
People laugh at him, you want to punch people’s lights out?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to see him depressed as he’s cycling through meds,
And most psychiatrists can’t help him because
they refuse to push aside their pride,
and so you watch him suffer because of their idiotic mistakes,
and it makes you so sad to see this situation unfold before your eyes?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to have the desire to tell him he’ll be o.k.,
He’ll make it no matter what anyone tells him,
He’ll spread his wings and fly much higher than anyone ever anticipated,
He’s always loved and prayed for by many people,
Yet you can’t muster up the courage to tell him because you’re afraid he’ll reject this statement of love?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to feel anger, broken-heartedness, and love at the same time?
You have to be his brother to understand.

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I have been wanting to do this post for quite some time now. I come across so many wonderful sites that offer just amazing free design elements. Everything from free brushes, free textures, free plug ins and filters to tubes for paint shop pro is out there for the taking. Today I want to share with my readers my arsenal of sites that I have found, used and love to check in with every day or every week just to see what is new.

First off is Obsidian Dawn , this is ran by a gal named Stephanie who is mind boggling talented with Photoshop brushes. She offers free brush packs for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, GIMP, and Paint Shop Pro. There is also a Flickr group as well where users of her brush packs can share and show off what they create with her fabulous materials.

Then there is a new forum I joined last month or so called PSP Showdown . It has a small but active community full of wonderfully creative men and women. This forum offers masks challenges, tube challenges, has a safe tubes permission list for the newbie who doesn’t know what artists out there are safe to use and who isn’t. I think this is a must for every forum that is digital design related so there is less of a chance for copyright infringement. For myslelf I had to learn the hard way when I used an image for something and got a nasty email from a forum owner from the former MSN groups. That my friends was a good learning experience. PSP Showdown has already earned kudos in my book for fulfilling a personal request to have a set of masks emailed to me in a .zip folder because they weren’t saving correctly to my mask files in paint shop pro. Vivian emailed them to me post haste and by Monday evening of this week I had them and was off creating.

Torley Textures has a massive free texture pack offering. I was floored in drop jawed amazement when I saw the massive amounts of textures they were just giving away. Needless to say I was in snag mode as I immediately added these all to my texture files as well as my patterns files. They have unique abstract patterns which are vibrant and colorful as well as eye popping.

Lost and Taken has free textures as well. There are often texture packs that offer textures found in nature and the real world. I had to laugh softly when I saw there were even textures from the sides of garbage dumpsters. I like the rust textures the most tho. I think rust and grunge are just awesome. If you have ever looked at my site I mean really paid attention to the details in the sidebars and borders there is subtle hints of kind of a slight grunge effect. That is what attracted the theme that I use now to me.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Users Flickr Group has great discussions with users often contributing information on how to do things that you won’t find in the users manual when you open the box and install the software.

The Plug In Site offers free plug ins and filters. They also offer abstract and mutation packs at a reasonable price as well. I ordered them for less than a $10 bill. There are literally a thousand images with this pack. So yeah I got my money’s worth and then some. I really got these for a steal. Also Harrold Heim who runs the site offers great customer service. I had a question about how to upload this to my paint shop pro program and he was very timely getting back to me personally.

BittBox well for me is for those who are way more talented than I an armchair designer could ever hope to be. I think these folks who participate in the users group on Flickr must have some formal design training that I don’t posses yet.

I hope that you enjoyed this post and I encourage you to check these wonderful resources out. In parting I want to share with you a design I finished this week courtesy the materials I found at The Plug In Site and PSP Showdown.

• PhotoFX Plug In Link Information.

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This is a little late in the day as I didn’t realize I had to upgrade my NextGEN gallery before I could post images again after I upgraded to WP version 2.7.1. Anywho I just wanted to wish everyone out there a HAPPY EASTER. I had fun with tubes on this one, did a lot of resizing and rotating.LOL.

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Ok so I really struggled with this one I tried it twice and well the second attempt is closer to what the tutorial writer achieved. I kind of felt that the tutorial was a little confusing as there were minimal screen shots throughout the tutorial.

Here is the first attempt:

Here is the second attempt:

One really good thing that came from this is that it challenged me to try to figure out how to layer and blend two masks using a gradient. Another great thing is that I wouldn’t have given myself this learning opportunity if I hadn’t accepted an invite to join PSP Showdown.

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I made this tile today because I was inspired by the two previous designs I used musical elements in. The Face Behind the Music and Love is Endless pieces found below. I was a bit remiss in the fact that I did not save the information for the elements I used so I couldn’t locate where I found the gold music score from but my friend Tricia Smith aka flaminglacer sent me this link from Linkware Graphics that had close to what I was looking for. You are free to use this please keep my copyright in tact.

The Face Behind the Music

Love is Endless

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I found a great free filter set from Harry’s Filters called PhotoFx Photo Freebies. With this filter set I was able to bring out my sons facial features more as the original picture made the eye area too dark and you couldn’t see even the creases of his eyes with all the shadows. First I went in and sharpened the image three times, then applied digital camera noise removal, next I took the B&W effect from PhotoFx and the Sepia effect. I also brightened the image a little before applying the filters so that it would bring out the face better.

This filter set is compatible with JASC Paint Shop Pro version 4.12 and higher and Corel Paint Shop Pro version 10 and higher. If you don’t have it you can get an older version cheap at Amazon.

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Basically what anti aliasing does is it removes or smooths out the jagged edges in text and vector graphics. You see when you are trying to convert text to a digital grid it comes out looking well digitized as is shown at Photography Education and Training.In order to smooth it out you need to apply anti aliasing so that the jagged edges blend together by using varying degrees of light and dark colors at the edges of text. Here is an example I put together quickly to illustrate how anti aliasing improves an image.

Depending on what version of paint shop pro you are using you might not have all three levels. In paint shop pro 7 it only allows you to check a box to turn on this feature. I have paint shop pro version 9 and it allows for off, sharp and smooth as seen in the illustration above. I was also informed in my Flickr group Corel Paint Shop Pro that the current version 12 has this as well. So when you are creating text and using vector graphics I recommend using the smooth anti aliasing feature to make your work look as professional as possible.

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In light of the election of Barrack Obama I wanted to celebrate Kansas Day this week here on Wildheart’s Work’s as his mother was from El Dorado Kansas and our governor Kathleen Sebelius endorsed his candidacy. We also had a mounted infantry division from Kansas in the inaugural proceedings. So we had a very strong Kansas connection in this election. Dwight D Eisnhower was the last president to have a Kansas connection, he was from Abilene Kansas.

I am proud to be a Kansan, yes it is cold here for about 6 months out of the year, yes to some it is no mans land in the middle of the country, however, I love the wide open spaces I can find after about a 30 min drive in either direction of my home city and the capital Topeka Kansas. We have a long standing proud rivalry between KU and KSU of course I am the KU fan in this rivalry. Both colleges excel in their own right. KU has a long standing tradition of being one of the best teams in the NCAA Basketball while KSU more often than not is a major hitter in the NCAA Football standings. Last year tho KU took both the championship in basketball and football. 2008 we took the crown in The Orange Bowl and just a few months later we took the crown in the basketball big dance know as The Road to the Final Four.

I love how when you can find just the right spot to look out on you can see for miles in either direction. I love how folks here generally are more friendly than in other parts of the country. I love the clean air we have here and yes I cherish the smells of the farm land I drive through when going to other towns in the state.

We have a lot to be proud of here in the heartland.

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