My buddy, Collin, brought it to my attention last night that there was something weird about the StudioRhoad.com “Coming Soon” page. He said that Google saw my site as an “attack site”. In complete denial, I checked it out for myself and wouldn’t you know…. (see pic below)
For years Ive wanted to migrate to the MAC platform, but never really had the extra money to do so. Well, the time has come! This bad boy was waiting on me when I returned from Atlanta this weekend.
I’ll post in more detail once I get everything setup.
I finally got to step out of the box with my designs at work. However, I use that term loosely. Because projects at work are so “blah”, being able to step out of the box there is really the equivalent to my normal design outside of work.
Well… after 6 years of dedicated and untiring devotion, my old Toshiba laptop finally kicked the bucket. The ‘ol girl has been on live support for a number of years now with countless hard drive reformats and a slew of transplants. She was loved by many and adorned by all. Lets take a moment of silence to reflect.
Very rarely do I get the chance to take a design in any direction I want while at work. However, I was able to do just that last week. The objective was to create a shirt for the upcoming SRS Kids Day. The shirt would be worn not only by the kids but the employees as well. To be honest, I feel like I could have taken this design up a notch, but I was so excited about having full reign of its direction, that I just slapped 2 different concepts to my bosses and let them choose. Its currently going up through the ranks for approval. Hopefully by this time next month they’ll be a bunch of these little XS shirts running around the complex terrorizing everyone. 
Ive been trying to broaden my Photoshop knowledge lately and the best way to do that is hands on experimenting. These are just a few “chops” that I through together. They still have a long way before they’re finished or before Im happy with them…. but its a start.
Female Racing News (FRN) in 3D - Version 1
Female Racing News (FRN) in 3D - Version 2
Lighting Effects - Amanda
We were stoked when Leah contacted us last week through our Driver Profile Website Special page. If you don’t know who this young lady is, then this image is worth a thousand words 
Her new site should be launched within the week, so all you drag race fans, keep your eyes peeled.
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Ive been meaning to post these for a while now. Amanda (aka DrifterMama) and I did a small photoshoot a couple of weeks ago which I thought I would share. We don’t exactly have fancy exquipment or a full blown studio, but we made due with our descent Point-And-Shoot camera, a shop light and a desk lamp. Here’s a few of our favorites.
In 2005 I worked for a company out of Atlanta which did an enormous amount of work in Microsoft Visio. I enjoyed it at first. Its ability to print large format graphs and charts and its ease of use made a good universal tool. But I ultimately grew to hate it. You know how it when you use and do the same thing over and over again. Plus compared to the software I was accustomed to using (ie Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, etc), Visio was nothing short of lame. However, now the company Im working for does most of their projects in PowerPoint!! Ugh! And yes, its terrible. When you think of PowerPoint you think of presentations on a projector, right? Wrong. I can count on one hand how many times they use PowerPoint for projector presentations. So, another words, PP is more of an elaborate Microsoft Word.
Reaching my wits end, I told them about Visio and its features. One month later, bam, here it is. One copy for me and the second copy for a co-worker. I knew what I was getting myself into by making this recommendation per my previous experience, but at this point (no pun intended) I’ll do anything to get away from PowerPoint.
So let the large format, anti PowerPoint, graph and chart building chaos begin!
